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How to Develop Strategic Succession & Employee Development Plans

Companies spend an awful lot of time, money, and energy engaging prospective job seekers. So logic tells us that companies should spend equal or more amounts of time, money, and energy planning, developing, and engaging their current employees. And yet 60 percent of employees said they had not received feedback from their boss in the [...]

January 11, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

GRATEFUL LEADERSHIP: A Little Praise Goes A Long Way

by shannonsmedstad

I am Grateful in Life & Leadership In a recent episode of Modern Family, DeDe (Shelley Long) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez) are sitting on the couch talking, when DeDe says, “Thank you for your letters.” To which Manny replies, “It’s a lost art, no one puts pen to paper anymore.” And, in a nutshell, that’s [...]

November 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Future of Work is Reputation Capital

by Mike Haberman

What is the Future of Work? The other day I bought a book on impulse. The book is The 2020 Workplace by Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd and I am very happy I picked it up. As I was flipping through the book I came across the chapter on predictions. The first one caught [...]

November 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Avoid the Black Hole HR Time Suck with Efficient Onboarding

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

When it comes to HRIS and systems integration and more importantly system communication is a challenge working in HR. Working in corporate HR, most days it seemed like I wasting time processing termination forms, searching for position numbers, and moving soon to be hired candidates through the ATS instead of onboarding, engaging employees, and building [...]

November 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Female Bullies at Work. How to Work & Live with Mean Girls

by Jamie

When Workplace Bullies are Women Working with a mean girl transforms what is supposed to be an adult environment of professionalism to the cattiness and backstabbing once relegated to the junior high halls. When your female office relations turn sinister, you have experienced a mean girl. Behavior can be as subtle as an up-and-down judging [...]

November 9, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Crowdsourcing the Employee Performance Review

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Blogging4Jobs readers can receive a free copy of The Crowd Sourced Performance Review by leaving a comment at the end of this blog. I’ll email you your copy. The new majority workforce, Generation Y thrives working in collaborative and team environments. Companies have begun to adapt to this new management model. Employees have begun [...]

November 7, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Source Qualified Candidates on Social Media in Half the Time

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Internet Sourcing in Half the Time For most recruiting departments, social media plays an important part of any hiring, recruiting, and employment branding process. Except that for most organizations, building a hiring channel and jobs feed to share and distribute your job postings is no longer enough. Qualified job seekers applying for jobs are [...]

November 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Gain Human Resources Knowledge in an Instant

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

HR Resources That Make Sense The internet is hard to navigate and takes time to search when it comes to finding certain human resources knowledge and insights quickly. This problem is one of the reasons we write at Blogging4Jobs each day focused on the corporate leader and human resource practitioner point of view. There [...]

September 28, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Manage Email Overload at Work with Unroll.me

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Manage Your Email. Manage Your Life If there is anyone that knows about email overload and online communication fatigue, it’s me. I average 600 emails a day. Some of these are email newsletters, subscriptions services, and aggregated content that helps keep me in the know. A large number of messages are from blog readers, clients, [...]

September 7, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Developing & Executing a Recruitment Strategy with SmashFly

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

How to Develop a Recruitment Marketing Strategy The problem is finding qualified job seekers and candidates to apply for positions. We have so many options from job boards, to social networks, referral relationships, and other networking activities. When it comes to developing a recruitment marketing strategy, where does one begin? Albert Einstein once said, [...]

August 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Design a Creative Infographic Resume

by theguestblogger

Over the last few years, many tech companies have popped up to help the average, everyday person get a nice-looking online presence. I’ve watched this evolve from a simple online résumé, visualcv.com, to a simple landing page, about.me. There has been a lot of buzz about creating personalized infographics resumes with many aggregated LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Many [...]

August 10, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Skinny on My HR Technology and Product Reviews

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

In 2012, I started offering human resource technology and product reviews as part of the blog’s offerings in sponsorship and advertising services. We’ve had a lot of interest, as well as questions about what these product reviews and articles offer. This blog and I, myself, have always been committed to being transparent, which is why [...]

July 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Lower Recruitment Costs and Time to Hire with Broadbean

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Saving Money and Less Recruiting Time to Hire In my last role as a Corporate HR Director I juggled more than a few balls. Responsible for the recruiting function of our sales division as well as the human resources and employee relations side of the business, myself and my team had a lot to do. [...]

July 13, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Matching + Employment Video = MyNextGig.com

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Hiring the Best Employees is Good for Bottom Line Video interviews and hiring with video is a trend that’s growing in popularity as companies look to cut travel and recruitment costs while still maintaining candidate quality and keeping employee turnover low. This is especially challenging in specific segments of business including retail, hospitality, restaurant, [...]

June 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Hire Right with Bright

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Hiring and Recruitment Process Made Simple One of the most frustrating and complicated pieces of the hiring and recruitment process is the pre-candidate selection and pre-screen. As recruiters, we spend time creating and customizing the job posting to the hiring manager’s specifications even optimizing it for SEO long before the interview or actual screening begins. [...]

June 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How to Recruit on Facebook with TweetMyJobs

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

I mentioned this week that in the US, we spend a collective 100,000 years a month on Facebook where we connect with friends, share stories, connect with our favorite products and brands, and even look for a job. And yet only 23% US Recruiters use Facebook as a recruiting and candidate source. Facebook as a [...]

June 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Talent Circles: Talent Networks Done Right

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Talent Network vs. Online Social Network My philosophy on building any type of community and relationships online is simple, “Go where the people are,” which is why I’m an advocate of online social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to engage a target audience. For the marketing department, recruiter or HR, any interaction online influences [...]

April 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

iCims: Integrating the Candidate Experience Into Your Hiring Solutions

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Marrying Internet Hiring with Applicant Management The process of hiring and onboarding is often a point of contention for candidates as well as hiring managers and HR professionals. This beginning process sets the tone for the new employee’s impression and experience at the new organization where they work. iCIMS is a talent acquisition software [...]