How is the candidate experience at your company? Leslie Stevens writes on ERE about improving it. CareerBuilder.com Launches WorkInRetail.com to Connect Retail Employers and Job Seekers, after a recent survey showed more than one-third (36 percent) of retail employers say they have open positions for which they cannot find qualified talent. View the press release […]
Social networking sites are banned by nearly a quarter of all companies, many of which see them as a drain on productivity and a haven for idleness, according to a new survey. The survey also said that 8 percent of firms encourage the sites, which can help employees network, market their products and reach colleagues. […]
By Jason Buss. As we move through the summer students are on vacation, but most college recruiters are busy putting the finishing touches on their fall college recruiting strategy and plans. After writing an article on a successful approach to college recruiting and building partnerships on Campus, I recently caught up with Amod Damle to […]
By Jason Buss. After posting a few HR blog links and reporting on The HR Metrics Center, I received a confirmation e-mail (1 1/2 hours) after registering. I logged on, and while only trying the free service, here are some observations: Unless you have free time to waste, there was little value in the service […]
By Jason Buss. The HR Metrics Center just launched a new on-line business service for human resource professionals. The web site provides an on-line capability for human resource professionals to build HR or human capital metrics for their organizations. The HR Metrics Center includes a dynamic on-line survey providing the ability for member organizations to […]
By Jason Buss. Diversity, Inc. revealed top companies for African Americans. While revenue may being growing in the RPO arena, reducing costs by 40% while increasing quality has to be an extreme example from the most broken recruiting function a RPO provider could find. As a follow-up to my post on AllianceQ, I came across […]
By Jason Buss. Nearly every reputable business is talking about “going green” right now and trying to find ways to green up their operations as a selling point to their customers. Not just a passing fad, the green movement is a trend that will be around for quite some time, and more and more customers […]
By Jason Buss – a.k.a. @jjbuss Social Media and Social Networking are phrases that have monopolized online communities worldwide the past couple of years. New sites, communities, and tools are being created just as quickly in response to the growing demand and use of many popular sites. Twitter, which has been praised and beaten over […]
Doug Berg, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of jobs2web writes about the 100+ million job related searches on google last month. I also recently shared some great successes with capitalizing on this opportunity – and the results after implementing the product. Internet entrepreneur Darren Bahnsen has announced the launch of College Jobs Network, a FREE […]
AllianceQ set to revolutionize the $58 billion recruitment industry by creating a free supply of job candidates for Fortune 500 companies. A group of industry-leading Fortune 500 companies today launched AllianceQ, an organization created to build a free, exclusive and perpetually growing pool of job candidates to drive down its members’ cost of recruiting. Founding […]
By Jason Buss. All of these people are all waiting patiently to be recruited – and to apply for a job at your company. They would apply, except the process takes too long and 99% of the time it results in an auto generated response and nothing else. OK, maybe they are watching a football […]
National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of the 2008 Best Companies for Blacks In Technology. HSBC North America, Merck and Company, Monsanto, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint and Wells Fargo Bank are among the winners. Contract hiring is under scrutiny in Michigan after a report by the Interagency Task Force on Worker Misclassification, issued last week, […]