Stephanie Gaspary
Blog entries by Stephanie Gaspary
CareerBuilder.com is a Hitwise Number 1 Award Winner
Oct 23, 2008
It was announced today that CareerBuilder.com ranked No. 1 based on market share of visits among all US websites in the Hitwise Business and Finance - Employment and Training industry for the quarter ending July - September 2008. To give you some background, the Hitwise No. 1 Award recognizes websites from over 160 industries that are leaders in their industry.
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- Categories Awards, Employee Attraction
The Smartest Investment You’ll Make in This Economy
Oct 21, 2008
from OPEN Forum:
The smartest investment you’ll make in this economy is your investment in your employees. Companies that plan to survive, even thrive, in this economy should increase their investments in their employees. That’s right. Companies should invest more in their employees during this challenging economic period.
Forget those CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) or CDSs (collateralized debt swaps) and Wall Street banks hoping for a comeback or those secret Santa Claus-like portfolios of sub-prime home loans you’ve heard are all the rage. Forget about green energy technologies like wind or solar or geothermal. The smartest investment you’ll make in this or any economy is your investments in your employees.
Now’s the time to not only maintain your current investment program of salary and benefits (You do offer benefits, don’t you?), but find ways to increase that investment. Here’s why: Employees are your company’s number one asset. Oh sure, we’ve all heard that cliche bandied about. Peter Drucker, the legendary management expert, coined that phrase decades ago. It stuck. It stuck because it’s true.
Who makes your company’s products and services? Who talks to your customers? Whose efforts make them love your company and tolerate your mistakes to their credit cards and bank accounts that ruin their day and waste their time? And, who comes up with the systemic solutions to those problems?
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- Categories Branding, Economy, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employer Advice, Events
Unintentional Results of Implementing a Hiring Freeze
Oct 13, 2008
Today I came across an article by Dr. John Sullivan on ERE.net that was so well written and to the point that I felt it was worth passing on verbatim. Plus, for me to say hiring freezes are inherently bad for a business seems a little self-serving. In the article, Dr. Sullivan discusses how The Economic Downturn Means That Hiring Freezes Will Soon Decimate Recruiting.
His statements, however, extend beyond the world of the recruiter, and flow into overall company operations. He suggests that although a hiring freeze may free up some company funds in the short term, ultimately the company ends up spending more due to the costs of outsourcing and overtime. And this doesn’t even start to gauge the unmeasured costs of employee burnout, the missed opportunity to grab up top players from the competition or the inability to add new innovative thinking to an organization - just to name a few.
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- Categories Economy, Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employer Advice
CareerBuilder.com study reveals fifty-seven percent of employers do not have an employment brand - workers offer insights on what attracts them to employers
Aug 4, 2008
While the economy and job market may have slowed, many organizations are still challenged with finding top talent. In fact, a recent CareerBuilder.com survey of more than 2,700 hiring managers found that nearly 40 percent of employers have positions for which they can’t find qualified talent. Employment branding has emerged as an important way to distinguish employment opportunities and attract the best candidates, yet nearly three-in-five (57 percent) of employers say they don’t have an employment brand.
A lot of employers currently rely solely on their consumer brand to attract talented candidates but that appears to be changing. Nearly one-third (31 percent) of employers do not think their company or employment brand is enough to attract qualified workers.
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- Categories Branding, Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Webinar
CareerBuilder.com Customers ROCK!
Jul 23, 2008
We love our customers for oh so many reasons, one being that they aren’t afraid to have fun. Don’t believe us? Check out the following video clips of CB customers rocking out at our karaoke booth during SHRM 2008 in Chicago.
Creating a Successful Corporate Culture
Jul 21, 2008
Our mission CareerBuilder.com is to connect job seekers with employers. But don’t forget that we also have to put significant effort into recruiting and retaining our own employees as well.
Hear Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com, explain how a strong set of company values can guide your firm through staff turnover and mergers.
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- Categories Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention
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