I have a suggestion for you . . . dedicate your summer to re-building your employee referral program. Now is an ideal time to invest in program design and rejuvenation, as in most cases, chaos surrounding the new year and year end is a fading memory and distant nightmare. It’s also a great time because economic growth is just starting to ramp up, and with the growth of social networks and an unbelievable... (more...)
The U.S. economy added 83,000 private sector jobs in June, on the low end of what economists had been expecting, but evidence, nonetheless, that payrolls are continuing to grow. The news was tempered by the loss of 225,000 temporary census jobs, and continuing cuts to state and local government payrolls, which resulted in a net loss of 125,000 jobs in June. Even the decline in the unemployment rate... (more...)
We’re now working on a major survey with LinkedIn on determining the percent of its 70mm+ network that is active, passive, or somewhere in between. Recent data from the Recruiting Leadership Council (CLC Recruiting — Building Talent Pipelines Survey) indicates that for a broad sample of the U.S. workforce, 15-20% are very active and around 20% passive, with the remaining 60% showing a mix... (more...)
Influencing candidates to join your company will require a segmented and targeted recruitment communications approach — that’s the key take-away from our Employer Brand International’s global research study to identify the key ‘Influencers of Employment Choice.’ The global study surveyed more than 400 employees to determine what influences their employment choice. The survey found... (more...)
Our friend (and yours!) Jerry Albright made a brazen announcement yesterday that he is quitting Twitter, and that as of June 30th his account would be gone. On his blog, he states: “It was pretty easy to feel “OK” about being on Twitter during most of 2009. Everyone was there – and more were joining every day. It was “interesting” to feel like one of the first rather than one of the... (more...)
Did anybody else read this most recently emailed NAPS Legal Update for June? If you haven’t, you should. Doesn’t matter if you are an owner or a producer on a desk, this could be a game changer, and for much more than just LinkedIn messages and contacts. In this email which NAPS Legal Counsel Bob Styles typically sends out on a monthly basis, tucked between two... (more...)
If you want to try your hand at blogging or if you have been blogging but want to reach a wider audience, July might be the month to give it a try. You can win yourself a pretty great prize for the effort. If you blog on the ERE community in the month of July, you’ll have an opportunity to win your very own iPad touch or one of two Amazon gift cards for the runners-up. What do you have to blog... (more...)
One of the things I like about Jobvite is that the company keeps at it. Now no one in this sector can rest on their laurels. The competition is just too keen and the market too volatile for any vendor to take a day off. But Jobvite watches the trends and thinks out to what parts it can add value. For sure, there are plenty of others doing the same in their own corner of the recruiting business. Jobvite... (more...)
The ADP tea leaves are being read today as a warning that the June jobs report, due Friday, isn’t going to be rosy. No one expects that it will come anywhere close to the 431,000 jobs that were added to the U.S. economy in May. That growth was fueled almost entirely by the hiring of temporary census workers. Remove them from the count and May saw about 20,000 new, private sector jobs. In fact,... (more...)
We talk about “top” talent and “top” performers, but how do you know you’ve reached the “top”? Is there some kind of altitude marker? A sign that reads “Welcome to the Top”? Unfortunately, no. But of all the recruiting metrics in your talent capital toolbox, one indicates a recruiting job-well-done above the rest: Quality of Hire. Every CEO, manager, and corporate investor knows that... (more...)
