Archive for May, 2008

What is Employment Branding?

May 30, 2008

Does your company have an employment brand that attracts top talent?

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• Posted By Stephanie Gaspary
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• Categories Branding, Employee Attraction, Podcasts

Is Tolerance for Bad Bosses Trending Downward?

May 29, 2008

Boss/employee relationships are of great significance across all kinds of industries and geographic locations – from Scottish footballer Christophe Berra’s hope for an ideal boss to an explosion of media controversy after Scott McClellan’s former boss-bashing.

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• Posted By Amy Chulik
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• Categories Employee Retention, Leadership Development

Businesses Make Social Networking Work for Them

May 28, 2008

Were you blogging in 2005? Because that’s when BusinessWeek published an article predicting that blogs - with their innovative ability to turn news into a “conversation” - would change the way companies did business. Since, at the time, no one saw the oncoming explosion of MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and countless other interactive sites that allow users more content control than ever, BusinessWeek recently updated its original article to discuss how thoroughly various companies have embraced social media. IBM, for example, has started its own social networking site for employees, and it’s not unusual for company executives to maintain their own Facebook accounts.

While many companies may still be wary of employees using this new technology for job searching or even publicizing sensitive company information, if used right, social networking’s benefits can far outweigh its downfalls. It enables professionals to exchange ideas, create partnerships and open dialogues with industry bigwigs.

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• Posted By Mary Lorenz
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• Categories Employee Attraction, Generational Hiring, Social Media

Social Technologies and Recruiting - How to Extend the Reach of Your Employment Brand

May 28, 2008

Social technologies are the wave of the future. These trends and new mediums will continue to grow with or without you. But what if you could harness the power of social media for your company and its recruitment and retention efforts instead of becoming obsolete in a changing world or losing control to the power of crowds?

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• Posted By Stephanie Gaspary
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• Categories Branding, Employee Attraction, Employer Advice, Social Media

Generational hiring - is your recruiting coming of age?

May 27, 2008

How you speak to candidates could be the difference between attracting top talent and watching it go to your competition. And speaking to candidates requires understanding the generations that make up today’s labor force. Even language differs greatly between one generation and the next. When a candidate from Generation Y refers to something as “sick,” they mean that it’s cool. When a Baby Boomer calls something “sick,” they mean that it’s gross.

The key to attracting a specific candidate with your desired level of experience is in positioning your company effectively. How you communicate your employment brand plays the largest role in your recruiting efforts by informing candidates of your company culture, benefits, and opportunities before they ever apply to a position.

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• Posted By Stephanie Gaspary
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• Categories Employee Attraction, Employer Advice, Generational Hiring, Webinar

One in Four Workers Plan to Work While on Vacation, CareerBuilder.com’s Annual Survey Reveals

May 22, 2008

A quarter (25 percent) of workers, up from 20 percent in 2007, said they plan to stay in contact with work while on vacation, and close to one in ten (9 percent) said their bosses expect them to be working or at least checking voicemail/e-mail while on vacation, according to CareerBuilder.com’s annual vacation survey.