Zoho and Jobaline Announce a Revolutionary Job Advertising Service

Fremont, CA and Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 — Zoho and Jobaline announce today the immediate availability of a revolutionary job advertising service in Zoho Recruit (http://www.zoho.com/recruit/). The new service is powered by Jobaline’s Pay-per-Pick online recruiting platform and fueled by the Job.com Network with over 33M registered job seekers. For the first time in the recruiting industry, recruiters and small businesses will be able to reach unique candidates risk free and pay only for applications and resumes they hand pick.

Economic Turnaround and Increase in Enterprise Numbers to Foster Growth in the Employment Services Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 — The global employment services market continues to cope with increasingly complex challenges emerging from the volatile economic climate. Basic demographic, economic and social trends generate unique issues that add to the plethora of challenges in this industry. The recruitment scene in developed countries remains unsteady as the economic volatility takes on the confidence of businesses to hire new candidates. Organizations are being more cautious and selective in their hiring activity and are choosing temporary workers over permanent full-time staff. This trend is being witnessed across major industries particularly for positions that are critical to the daily functioning of the business such as administrative assistants, production or assembly line workers, receptionists, accounting clerks and general labor. With clients seeking to achieve more with less resources and highly skilled staff in shorter time frame, recruitment companies are focusing on redesigning their business models, redefining value propositions, and innovating social systems to compete and survive.

Job Cuts Rise Slightly in April

CHICAGO, May 3, 2012 – The pace of downsizing remained virtually unchanged in April, as U.S.-based employers announced planned job cuts totaling 40,559 during the month. That is a 7.1 percent increase from 37,880 job cuts announced in March, according to the latest job-cut report released Thursday by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

Is Social Media Beneficial to the Recruiting Process?

A study from Allied HR IQ, an initiative funded by Allied Van Lines, finds recruiting is set to move into high gear in 2012. Yet many companies lack confidence in their recruitment and relocation programs; and, even more important, the overall rate of recruiting success for many companies is not as high as it could be.

According to the report, 80% of HR professionals are planning for extensive or moderate recruiting activity (in companies smaller than 10,000 employees) – with one-third indicating they have no recruitment plan or limited plans for recruiting in 2012. Among respondents, 52% say their programs are only “somewhat successful” – and among those who indicate that their programs are highly successful, nearly 20% lost top candidates during their process; more than one-quarter secured 50% of top candidates; and almost all respondents say their companies could do more to improve recruiting prospects. Almost all respondents also indicate that not all recruiters are using all the recruiting tools they could, including social media.

Survey Reveals Corporate Recruiters Have Big Appetite for What Pre-Hire Assessments Can Deliver in College Recruiting Efforts

ATLANTA, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — SHL, the global leader in talent measurement solutions, today released the findings from a custom college recruiting survey conducted by The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Approximately 900 HR professionals were polled on their use of (and perspectives on) pre-employment assessments as part of their company’s college recruitment efforts. Survey respondents represented a variety of industries and hailed from large corporations such as Amazon, DuPont, and Starbucks, as well as small to mid-sized enterprises. The most significant finding: Retention rates were cited as the greatest challenge facing college recruiters today, but despite evidence and perceptions that pre-hire assessments can dramatically improve employee retention and quality of hire, only a fraction of respondents (just 29 percent) indicated they actually use assessments to inform their college recruiting decisions.

Recruitment Sourcing Magic: What’s in a Title?

When you are sourcing candidates, do you source by title, skills, or both? When recruiters tell me they search by titles only, they may be attempting to recruit the wrong candidates. Why? In the US we sometimes seem too concerned about titles and not enough about the work to be accomplished. Therefore, janitors become maintenance engineers. Then maintenance engineers in LEED Certified buildings become Directors of Green Facilities (I made that title up – I think!). Sales professionals become Business Developers, Account Representatives, Account Managers, etc. At Microsoft, recruiters become Staffing Consultants.

The Business Impact of Talent Intelligence

Companies spend a lot on their people – up to 70 percent of their overall expenses. Optimizing that investment requires insight into the skills, strengths and performance of their people. But, the alarming truth is that many organizations lack reliable access to such talent intelligence data as you can see in the infographic below, “The Business Impact of Talent Intelligence” by Taleo, recently acquired by Oracle.

Two-Thirds of U.S. Companies Planning Significant Recruiting in 2012, Survey Says; HR Professionals Identify Areas for Improvement in Recruiting and Relocation, Opportunities for Differentiation

CHICAGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Corporate recruiting is moving into high gear, with two-thirds of HR professionals reporting that they have “extensive” or “moderate” plans for hiring in 2012, according to the 2012 Allied Workforce Mobility Survey.

Larger companies – with more than 10,000 employees – are more bullish, with 80 percent planning for “extensive” or “moderate” recruiting.

SHRM Launches Free Military-Veteran Hiring Toolkit for Employers

Alexandria, Va. – April 30, 2012 – A free military-veteran hiring toolkit designed to guide civilian employers in recruiting veterans launched today during the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) talent management conference being held just outside of Washington, D.C. at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. (BITLY: bit.ly/ICrXFC)

Big Data: The Trend Beneath the Buzzword

The subject of Big Data is on everyone’s short list. The trend beneath the buzzword is so important that is as hard to imagine as the web was in 1993. It’s driven by smart tools, cloud architectures, cheap processing, cheap storage, broadening access to data and the search for new ways to gain productivity.

The idea is big enough to support an array of conflicting notions. A scan through the search results finds topics that range from analytics to large scale data integrations to novel correlations. The Big Data tent includes all of these somewhat contradictory ideas.