Category: Survey Results
When it Comes to their own Benefits, Many Employees are Missing the Boat
Nov 20, 2008
As it’s open enrollment season for U.S. businesses, millions of employees from Seattle to Baton Rouge are making important decisions about health care and benefits that will affect them and their families in 2009. However, surprisingly, millions of employees still aren’t participating in these decisions.
If your employees knew they were throwing money away, would they change their course? A newly released CareerBuilder.com survey reveals that nearly a quarter of workers (23 percent) do not take advantage of the new and potentially cost-saving measures being offered by their respective companies.
- Comments 0 Comments
- Categories Employee Engagement, Survey Results
Every Day Should Be Veterans Day at the Office
Nov 11, 2008
Today is Veterans Day. Yesterday, CareerBuilder.com released the results from its annual Veterans Day survey, wherein nearly one in five U.S. Veterans say it took them six months or longer to find a job after getting out of military service.
Considering all the reasons to hire veterans, including their extensive training and work ethic, this news is disappointing. But then, about 20 percent of the 6,842 U.S. workers surveyed believe the biggest obstacle to getting hired for a civilian position is employers’ inability to understand how military skills can fulfill qualifications for civilian positions.
- Comments 0 Comments
- Categories Employee Attraction, Survey Results
How Many of Your Workers Plan to Vote in Tomorrow’s Election? CareerBuilder.com Survey Results
Nov 3, 2008
How many of your employees are voting in the presidential election tomorrow (or have already, thanks to early voting)? How many are voting for the first time?
This presidential race has been the most exciting in my life thus far, and some are saying it very well may be the most important election of many of our lifetimes. So amid the scrambling to register or re-register, find your polling location, obsess over political news sites, and stock up on your favorite Obama/Biden monogrammed blanket or McCain/Palin dish set, have you taken notice of how many people in your own office are voting in the 2008 election?
- Comments 0 Comments
- Categories Employee Engagement, Survey Results
No, Really, Your Excuse is Totally Believable! (Cough, Cough) - 2008’s Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work
Oct 22, 2008
Oh, come on - don’t get your I-love-staying-home-to-watch-Seinfeld-reruns-on-my-couch pajamas in a bunch. If you’ve called into work before when you’ve been feeling perfectly healthy, you’re in solid company with the 33 percent of workers who have done so this year, according to a newly released CareerBuilder.com survey on absenteeism. And if you haven’t fibbed (e.g., faked a cold while eating a pint of Chubby Hubby and alphabetizing your DVD collection), chances are one of your subordinates has.
Here are the highlights of the Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work This Year:
- Thanksgiving karma | Employee hit a turkey (yes, a turkey) while riding a bike.
Author’s Note: Animals - turkeys in particular - seem to be a hot topic this year. See our “Unusual Jobs” survey results for more on this phenomenon. - Near-death experiences | Employee said he had a heart attack that morning, but that he was “all better now.”
- Just can’t find a thing to wear | Employee’s wife burned all his clothes and he had nothing to wear to work.
- They don’t have rifles, so… | Employee got kicked by a deer
- Paging Dionne Warwick | Employee’s psychic told her to stay home.
- Lightweight | Employee’s toe was injured when a soda can fell out of the refrigerator.
- Driving the dog to drink | Employee’s dog was stressed out after a family reunion
- Kissed and unfortunately told | Employee contracted mono after kissing a mailroom intern at the company’s holiday party - and suggested the company post some sort of notice to warn others who may have kissed him.
- Comments 40 Comments
- Categories Employee Retention, Survey Results
- Comments 3 Comments
- Categories Employee Engagement, Survey Results
- Candidate advertised on a billboard.
- Candidate carried around a sign that said, “Will work for paying bills.”
- Candidate brought a broom to the interview to “clean up the waste and corruption in the office.”
- Candidate wore a shirt to the interview that said, “Please hire me.”
- Candidate showed up with breakfast for the employer every day until hired.
- Candidate approached the hiring manager in a restroom.
- Candidate sent a giant cookie with “Hire Skip” written in frosting on it.
- Candidate parked outside of the office building with a sign that said, “Seeking employment.”
- Candidate wrote a poem about why she wanted the job in her cover letter.
- Candidate promised to give the employer a foot massage if hired.
- Candidate noticed the employer wrote a blog about a particular restaurant. She persuaded the restaurant to put her name on the menu so the employer would see it the next time he ate there.
- Candidate created an electronic resume with flash animation and musical score.
- Comments 1 Comment
- Categories Employee Attraction, Survey Results
Well, I suppose that’s considerate, anyway. Grab your own pint of Ben and Jerry’s and read the full list of unusual excuses here.
Does Your Office Have a Regis and Kelly?
Oct 15, 2008
Have you seen these employees? The ones who always sit next to each other at meetings, take frequent lunches together and display the good-natured bickering reminiscent of overly caffeinated morning TV co-hosts?
Today, CareerBuilder.com released the results of a survey on “work spouses” and listed the top 12 celebrity work couples favored by participants. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa topped the list; followed by David Letterman and Paul Shaffer; Jay Leno and Kevin Eubanks; and Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer. Howard Stern and Robin Quivers rounded out the top five. (What? No love for Nina Garcia and Michael Kors? Recount!)
Are Billboards the New Cover Letters?
Oct 9, 2008
Because that would be cool.
Yesterday, CareerBuilder.com released a survey on unusual antics job seekers have used this past year to capture the attention of hiring managers. Twelve percent of the 3,388 hiring managers surveyed reported seeing an increase in more creative job seeker techniques than in previous years, which makes sense, given the more competitive job market. Below is the list of most memorable tactics those surveyed identified:
Loading ...