Here’s quick snapshot of news around the industry!
Around the Staffing Industry:
- 3 ways recruiters make a bad name for themselves and how to stop it. [FOT]
- Are video job requisitions the wave of the future? Here’s how to adopt this soon to be popular recruiting tool. [ERE]
- Speaking of the future, it seems that texting vs. emailing candidates is on the rise in the recruiting world. [Recruiter.com]
- Monster is adopting a new job aggregating and “pay for performance” strategy which will make them direct competitors of companies like Indeed. [ERE]
- Recruitifi is aiming at changing the recruiting business through gamification. [TechRepublic]
- Dice Holdings shares data that suggest it is taking longer for companies to fill vacancies. The current rate to date is 22.5 days. [Wall Street Journal]
- With 78% of recruiters claiming that they made a hire through social media, it’s important to adopt some of the latest tools. [ERE]
- Bullhorn and LinkedIn partner up to provide a more simplified solution for recruiters. [Recruiter]
Talent Management:
- How to find your company’s own Sheryl Sandberg. [Fast Company]
- When interviewing talent, it’s more important to ask them about their failures than their successes. [Forbes]
- Hershey uses “immersion technology” as a tool to successfully engage candidates at hiring events. [ERE]
Around the Government:
- Career Spark, a “first-of-its-kind” tool built by military spouses for military spouses is getting a lot of attention. It helps to connect employers with this special type of candidate through special hiring events and a resume branding engine. [Forbes]
- EEOC is looking for public comment on how to better retain and recruit candidates with disabilities. [Gov Exec]
- Even though more pregnant workers are filing discrimination lawsuits, they are losing due to unclear federal regulations. [AZ Star Net]
- The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) reflected a 9% decrease in the number of clearances being processed due to a more stringent review process and lower budgets. [Clearance Jobs]
Around IT:
- As mobile computing continues to expand and change the way business work, it is becoming clear that companies need to start hiring Chief Mobile Officers (CMOs). [Dice]
- While IT executives are confident in business growth, they are still unsure about being able to recruit talent. [Dice]
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