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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 13, 2012 – Jobscience, the award winning recruitment system on the salesforce.com platform, today announced the Jobscience Social Recruiting FastPass for Taleo Business Edition customers impacted by Oracle. This Jobscience program provides Taleo customers a transformative way to find social talent.
You probably wouldn’t ask someone to marry you after the first date because it is risky to jump into a long-term relationship without spending time learning all you can about a potential partner. Yet, that’s exactly what employers do when recruiting candidates for a position within their organization. After an initial round of interviews, a job seeker is either welcomed into the organization – or not. So, what are we really trying to learn about a candidate before hiring them into an organization?
According to research from ExecuNet, recruiter confidence is on the rise. ExecuNet finds 20% of executive recruiters plan to add executive-level positions and almost 60% will “trade-up” their management strength by recruiting replacements for existing roles over the next six months, while only 1% plan on eliminating executive positions during this same period. Although only a slight gain (2 points) from the December numbers, the job market itself shows that, not only in executive positions, recruiters are ready to increase their efforts or have already begun to find talent for their organizations.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Labor Department reports 1.6 million jobs gained in 2011, 200,000 of them just last month. And the unemployment rate continues to plummet, currently at 8.5 percent, a level last seen in February 2009.
While the recent adoption of all things social media is widely apparent across many business sectors, including the corporate recruitment space, surprisingly, only 1 percent of employers sited social media as the source of new hires; while an overwhelming 19 percent are placed from an online job board, matched only by internal transfers; even referrals came in lower at 16 percent according to HR consultants Bersin & Associates.
PHILADELPHIA, January 31, 2012 – Most employees say their job is unrewarding and saps their energy, according to a new survey by Right Management, the talent and career management experts within ManpowerGroup. Only one-in-five consider their job rewarding and gratifying…and the rest say they just want to enjoy their lives and that is why they work.
The survey was conducted in December and January and 438 North American workers responded to the question:
Which of the following best describes your present work situation?
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA – The U.S. economy is now producing about the same amount of goods and services as in 2007, the year before the recession hit. Unfortunately, it is doing so with 6.3 million fewer workers.
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), a nonprofit economic research organization, recently compared production and employment across various industries in 2007 and 2010 (the latest data available). Their findings are charted and explained below.
AIER FINDINGS:
While production totals are similar in 2010 as in 2007, the mix of goods and services is different. Underlying the country’s current economic expansion is a radically reallocated market.
The industries that are growing are not the ones that lost the most jobs during the recession.
Dwindling employment in nearly every industry signals that the economy has become more efficient in using labor. Nearly all industries need fewer workers to produce the same amount of goods and services.
Olathe, KS (PRWEB) January 23, 2012 — The new job posting technology does something that traditional job postings can’t do. It extends past the resume level and focuses on the actual job skill and experience level. Employers set their minimum job skill requirements, including years of experience, and all candidates are ranked from most qualified to least qualified. This takes the guesswork out of the results and allows employers to immediately zero in on the top qualified candidates.
TRUMBULL CT – 1/16/2012 – AllCountyJobs.com LLC, a regional job board network covering the Northeast from DC to Boston is for sale according to its CEO & Founder, Chris Russell.
The network includes 18 local job boards an 8 site green job network. The business also includes dozens of other job related domains and working blogs such as SecretsoftheJob Hunt.com.
Newport Beach 16 January 2012 – Broadbean Technology, the universal provider of recruiter-specific candidate sourcing technology, announces that Arbita OnePost’s clients will have the opportunity to migrate to the Broadbean job posting platform. Arbita is closing the OnePost platform and will help its clients move to the Broadbean posting system.
“Prior to reaching this decision, I reviewed the market and selected Broadbean to take over the seamless integration and smooth running and of Arbita’s clients. Broadbean has been in the job posting distribution market for over ten years and is known for its high quality customer service and innovative technology. On that basis, Arbita clients will be in safe hands,” stated Don Ramer, Arbita CEO and Founder.
Lebanon, NH (January 10, 2012) – A new job seeker survey from StartWire™, a game-changing Internet job search organizer, has found that leaving job candidates in the dark about their application could potentially damage a company’s reputation.
The survey, with more than 2000 respondents, found that 77 percent of job seekers think less of a company that doesn’t respond to a job application. Going further, 72 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to recommend companies’ products or services, and 58 percent would think twice about buying a product from a company that did not respond to their job application.