Hays: Talent Mobility Can Tackle IT’s Skills Gap

Tokyo, Apr 16, 2012 – (ACN Newswire) – The mobility of talent across Asia Pacific can ease the IT skills shortage, says Hays Information Technology. But according to Hays, while employers may be slowly embracing this solution, it is far from universally accepted.

Hasson Associates Uses Staffing Agency Software to Build its Growing Recruitment System Around Bond Adapt

WORTHING, England, April 16, 2012 –/PRNewswire/ — Hasson Associates bases entire recruitment infrastructure around recruitment agency software, Bond Adapt -

Hasson Associates, a market research recruitment specialist, has enjoyed ongoing success and a strong professional relationship with Bond International Software, the global provider of recruitment agency software & human capital management software & services, since deploying Bond Adapt staffing agency software in July 2008.

SHRM Conference to Explore Attracting and Keeping Top Employees

Alexandria, Va., April 16, 2012 — As the economy improves and the “war for talent” heats up, more than 900 HR and business leaders will gather April 30-May 2 in suburban Washington, D.C., to discuss how to recruit and retain talented employees.

Leading Employers Flock To New Social Media Recruiting Site

A new social media platform launches today, focused exclusively on aiding career discussions between candidates and recruiters. Social-Hire.com has been beta-tested during the first months of 2012, with early adopters including recruiters from Twitter and a host of other leading employers such as Accenture, Argos, Audi, Avanade, Betfair, Britvic, Columbia Sportswear, CSC, Deloitte, General Motors, McAfee, Philips Healthcare, Volkswagen and Wipro.

The new platform has been created by digital entrepreneur Tony Restell, who established Top- Consultant.com as the leading niche careers site for the management consultancy sector and served as an executive at Jobsite following their acquisition of that business.

Are You Overwhelmed by Email? 8 Tips to Handle Email Overload

Barbara Bruno, President, Good as Gold Training, HRSearch Inc.

The amount of email in your inbox is probably increasing each month. Have you ever tracked how much time you’re spending answering email? Are your unanswered emails costing you frustration and stress?

Your challenge is to read, sort, organize and assimilate the massive amounts of data you’re exposed to daily. It’s easy to understand how you can become overwhelmed.

Social Media Dominates As Best Tool To Find Promising Job Candidates, According To Infographic from OnlineDegrees.com

Foster City, Calif. (PRWEB) April 10, 2012 — OnlineDegrees.com, a leading education site since 2003, recently launched “The Social Job Search,” an infographic exploring the new trend of social recruiting. More recruiters are using social media powerhouses like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to fill their job openings. Individuals may be scouted independently and active job seekers can also use their profiles to get noticed without even applying for the job.

SHRM-AARP Poll Shows Organizations are Concerned about Boomer Retirements and Skills Gaps

Alexandria, Va. – April 9, 2012 – A joint poll released today by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and AARP shows that U.S. employers are ramping up skills training and employee benefits aimed at closing skills gaps left when Baby Boomers retire, and at retaining and recruiting older workers. (BITLY: bit.ly/HDHcdr)

Build Talent Networks With New Talemetry Release

The ability to create talent networks directly from an organization’s recruiting system is the newest addition to Talemetry. Recruiters can now search for and capture candidate information found in multiple external sources, including job boards and social networks. Candidates can also opt-in to join through a career site, or be manually added by a recruiter in the case of referrals. Once in the network, candidates can be organized into specific groups and communicated to through one-to-one emails or broader email campaigns.

New College Graduate Hiring Up 10.2 Percent Over Last Year

March 29, 2012 — BETHLEHEM, PA—Employers expect to hire 10.2 percent more new college graduates from the college Class of 2012 than they did from the Class of 2011, according to a new study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

That’s up from the 9.5 percent hiring increase they projected for the Class of 2012 when polled in September.

Senior Leadership Key to Improving Dismal U.S. Employee Engagement

MINNEAPOLIS — March 30, 2012 — Modern Survey, a human capital measurement and analysis company, is pleased to announce the release of its Spring 2012 National Norms Survey on employee engagement levels in the U.S. workforce. Register to receive your free copy of the full report.

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