Swift Worldwide Resources ‘Goes Live’ with Bullhorn

04 October 2011, London – A leading UK recruiter has implemented Bullhorn’s on-demand, cloud-based recruitment agency software, to support global operations and refresh existing technology. Swift Worldwide Resources is the leading specialist supplier of manpower resources to the global oil and gas industry and operates in 30 countries across the world; the online recruitment software will help support its global network of offices, without the need for investment in new IT infrastructure.

Moving the Needle: Recruiting Metrics with IMPACT

There is a recording of this webinar available.

Recruiting metrics are still a mystery! How can the C-suite ignore the positive contributions of the recruiting organization to the company’s top and bottom line?

The answer is relatively easy – numbers do tell a story…. so what do yours say?

Many metrics simply show activity to justify costs, and executives do not like cost. So what if you applied an analytical lens to the same data and questioned each measurement as to why you are using them and what you can do with the information? – what if?

Debunking International Background Screening Myths

As global hiring and international business needs increase, so does the need for international background screening. The changing composition of the United States workforce, the use of workforces overseas and the expansion of global corporations challenge many human resource professionals and employers. This is due to the many common misconceptions about international background screening.

New Benchmark Research Will Examine Use of Social Media to Identify and Source Talent

AN RAMON, CA, July 20, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ — In the face of the mainstreaming of social media, companies have begun to explore the use of these channels as a way to access pools of talent. LinkedIn and Facebook alone have a combined estimated membership of more than 800 million users, and the social media wave doesn’t stop there: Twitter has moved to the forefront as a way to hold 140 character “conversations,” and Google+ is emerging as a player. As these and other emerging channels gain users, businesses will find it increasingly challenging to efficiently seek out information about potential candidates for recruiting purposes.

iHispano.com Revolutionizes the Art of the Job Search for Latino Professionals Nationwide

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iHispano.com, an online job site focusing on the career aspirations of Latino professionals nationwide, is redefining the modern-day job search with a host of state-of-the-art career tools and business networking resources.

Mercer and SMITH Magazine Invite Workers to Submit “Six Words About Work” to Contest and Book

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mercer, a leading provider of consulting, outsourcing and investments, and SMITH Magazine, a leader in personal, passionate user-generated content, today announced a partnership that will launch an online contest called “Six Words About Work” and publish a book that will capture the best contest submissions.

The free contest, a new edition to SMITH’s Six-Word Memoir® series, is open to the general public and will be conducted in four phases beginning June 29 and ending in late August. Each two-week phase will feature one work-related submission topic for contest submissions.

JobSpeek App Makes Mobile Recruiting a Reality

TRUMBULL, CT – The app revolution has finally hit the world of online recruiting. JobSpeek is a new application that re-imagines the traditional job listing and brings mobile recruiting to anyone with an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad2. Employers, recruiters and small business owners can post a job from their device, add audio and pictures to it, then distribute it to the major job search engines for free.

Economy Negatively Impacted Employee Benefits More in 2011

LAS VEGAS, June 26, 2011 — The economy negatively affected the employee benefits offered by more than three-quarters of organizations, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey report released today at its 63rd Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.

Seventy-seven percent of surveyed HR professionals said in 2011 that the economy negatively affected benefits to some or to a large extent, an increase from 72 percent in 2010, SHRM’s 2011 Employee Benefits Research Report showed.

In addition, the national survey found that more employers offered benefits that put responsibility on employees for managing retirement savings, leave and health care costs.

SmartPost Expands Healthcare Vertical by Adding New Sourcing Channels

NEW YORK CITY, NY— JUNE 23, 2011 — SmartPost, the innovative online job posting and sourcing product from Bernard Hodes Group, further extends its premiere position in jobs distribution and optimization by continuing to focus its e-media library expansion on markets where talent needs remain strong.

The demand for healthcare recruiting has stayed relatively consistent during this economic downturn while other industries have fallen flat. However, many healthcare organizations still struggle to find the “right” talent and experience to fill key openings. With so many individuals still unemployed, healthcare employers are looking for ways to maximize any job advertising they do in the most succinct way so not to inundate their recruiters with unqualified applicants—and who have the desired healthcare skillsets they need for mission critical job vacancies.

7 Myths of Executive Compensation

STANFORD, Calif. –(BUSINESS WIRE)– “Executive compensation may be the lightning rod for shareholders in the wake of the financial crisis, but the truth about how pay should be structured is clouded by a lot of popular myths,” says David Larcker, who is James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting and Director of the Corporate Governance Research Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is coauthor of the new book Corporate Governance Matters (FT Press).

“Boards have been put on the defensive when it comes to comp, but the problems that critics are offering solutions to aren’t that cut and dried,” explains Brian Tayan, Larcker’s coauthor and a researcher at Stanford GSB.