Much like CDs, landlines and dining room tables, desktop computers are starting to become obsolete.… Continue reading
Despite the lightning-fast speed by which the mobile job search is growing, the vast majority of companies still do not have mobile-optimized career sites.
A recent CareerBuilder survey of the Fortune 500 reveals that only 99 of them had career sites with a mobile-optimized process to search for jobs. Continue reading
Is it high time for employers to stop being polite and start being real blaming a skills gap for their hiring struggles? For several months now, companies have been complaining about how they can’t find the right candidates to fill their open positions, blaming a labor market shortage of qualified applicants and skilled talent. Continue reading
It’s every employer’s nightmare: losing brand credibility – and potential business – virtually overnight, thanks to just one employee’s thoughtless social media post. Unfortunately- as evidenced by the latest social media snafu involving Taco Bell - it’s a very real risk in today’s social media-driven world. Continue reading
“Having technology around you, on you, inside you, 24/7 is going to become totally commonplace.” –Becky Stern, Adafruit
We’ve been wearing technology, in a sense, since the birth of the wristwatch — and we’ve seen wearable technology advance to become more and more integrated with our bodies and movements in inventions like Google Glass and Nike Fuelband, and even our smartphones. Continue reading
If Kermit the Frog thinks being green is hard, he should try being a hiring manager (amirite???). Faced with the challenge of finding qualified candidates in a labor market where the demand often outweighs the supply, hiring managers don’t have it easy these days. Continue reading
According to the Law School Admissions Council, applications to law school were down 20 percent in 2012 compared to 2011, and down 38 percent if we take 2010 as the reference year. This is a very dramatic drop, and according to a recent New York Times article, this is likely to lead to the smallest graduating class since 1977. Continue reading
Is your organization ready to compete in this new era of talent management, or are you being held back by outdated or erroneous beliefs about what it takes to hire the right people?
CareerBuilder recently partnered with the Human Capital Institute to uncover common misconceptions around both job seeker behavior and the ways in which employers attract and hire top performers, based on a 44-item survey of 358 HR professionals nationwide and follow-up interviews. Continue reading
If you’re still lamenting the end of the 2013 HCI Human Capital Summit, you can dry those eyes and slowly take down your #hcsummitshrine: We’ve rounded up our favorite tips, quotes and ideas from the conference below:
Nearly half of employers (47 percent) say they usually or always hire candidates who have held the same job title as the position they’re hiring for, according to recent CareerBuilder study. While this approach may work well for employers looking to fill positions with worker surpluses, pursuing alternative talent pools may be the answer for in-demand roles. Continue reading
Are candidates saying “whatever” to your job postings? Fear not, because if coming-of-age teen films like The Breakfast Club, She’s All That or Clueless have taught the world anything, it’s that sometimes the smallest adjustments can have the most jaw-dropping, “can-you-believe-this-it’s-not-butter?” effects. Continue reading
