"10 Megatrends Impacting Corporate Recruiting: A Strategic Perspective" summarizes the 10 major trends that are reshaping the global landscape of corporate recruiting, highlights key strategies for responding to these trends, and presents three case studies focusing on talent acquisition best practices. view article »

Employers need to be creative and compelling in their communications to attract the best job candidates, supporting it with an interactive career site that include such social elements as blogs, videos and an application process that is candidate-centric.

So says recruitment nowHIRE in a new whitepaper called Social Networking and Your Career Site: Innovating for a Better Applicant Experience. Click this link to get a free copy.

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Misconceptions about using assessments abound, says PsyMax Solutions, which addresses the most common in a new whitepaper entitled Assessment Misconceptions: A Journey Out of Traditional Thinking Towards Better and Faster Talent Management Decisions. Get the paper here. view article »

nowHIRE.com has a new white paper outlining the benefits of a paperless recruiting, hiring and onboarding process. The white paper is titled Going Paperless, Going Green: Recruiting Practices to Sustain the Environment and Your Competitive Advantage.

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Want to know how referrals and cold calls can make a difference to your business? Then check out Bullhorn's white paper, "Top 6 Sourcing Best Practices: How Referrals and Cold Calls Can Keep You Ahead of Your Competition."

This new report focuses on sourcing best practices from the fastest growing firms and reveals what tools and techniques are most effective to source and place candidates faster than the competition. Some key findings include never deleting candidate information from your database, online networks prove to be more effective for finding passive candidates and job boards offer a significant advantage over other sourcing methods by listing candidates' salary requirements.

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Bullhorn has a new report offering recruiters advice on what they should be doing now.

"How Danny Sees It: Danny Cahill's Four Big Ideas for Today's Economy"  is an interview with the industry "guru" and president of Hobson Associates, Cahill Consulting, and AccordingToDanny.com.

Get it here.

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Companies that rush to enact layoffs may be doing themselves long-term harm, says a new special report from TalentQuest. an integrated human resources consulting and software solutions firm

The report, "Layoff Advice: If You Have To Do It, Do It Right," offers guidance for managing layoffs in a way that preserves current productivity, prioritizes employee consideration and communication, focuses on financial stability, and ensures that companies have the knowledge, skills and resources needed to succeed in the long-term. 

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New research shows that an increasing number of organizations are informally experimenting with Web 2.0 tools for business purposes. A study conducted by think tank Human Capital Institute (HCI) and talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. says more than half of the companies surveyed use communities of practice/groups and chat/instant messaging (IM), with other popular applications including corporate social networks (49 percent) and blogs and/or wikis (39 percent).

To get a copy of "Leveraging Social Networking & Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools in Enterprises" you must be a member of the HCI. Membership is free.

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New research from SHL, a provider of talent assessment solutions, says only a quarter of workers report their manager motivational all or some of the time.

While that may not be much of a surprise, the SHL research finds men more likely to be de-motivated by poor senior management (38 percent) and poor line management (29 percent) than women. On the other hand 17 percent of women are more affected by  criticism and poor relationships with colleagues (19 percent) than their male counterparts. Age also can have an impact on motivation, with young employees (aged 18 to 34) more likely to be de-motivated by uninteresting work (37 percent) than those over age 35 (26 percent). Young workers also are more motivated by company culture and their work environment than older colleagues.

The complete report is not on the SHL website.

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Organizations can save millions, boost sales and improve productivity by using pre-employment assessments in the talent acquisition process.

Those are some of the findings in PreVisor's 2009 Business Outcomes Study Report. The 3rd annual report released today summarizes 33 business outcomes studies. The rerport found that assessments had a strong and measurable impact on most or all of the firms’ performance metrics.

Register here to get a copy of the report.

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Danny Cahill, industry “guru” and president of Hobson Associates, Cahill Consulting, presents ideas on how to succeed during a recession for today’s staffing and recruiting firms.

Some key advice includes closing deals aggressively, building demand for your services and candidates and increasing sales calls to outwork the market.  The full report, “How Danny Sees It: Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Times,” is available for free download here.

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Company web sites have become the leading source of sales leads—yet many sites in the human capital marketplace offer little more than online “brochures.” A new article from HRmarketer.com explains how vendors can use search-optimized web sites and marketing activities to attract and engage customers.

The first in a three part series, the article is titled “SEO and Marketing Web Sites: Internet Best Practices for Human Resource Vendors.” It’s now available from HRmarketer.com.

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Beyond.com says businesses with fewer than 50 employees accounted for more than half the hiring in Q2 2009.

The finding is part of Beyond's Second Quarter 2009 Career Trend Analysis and Industry Outlook Report, released today.

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According to a recent white paper published by Berkshire Associates, Web 2.0 is quickly changing the HR landscape, and for the better.

Berkshire’s latest white paper discusses how HR professionals can take advantage of Web 2.0 technology and move their processes into the next era of on-demand platforms. This free resource shares expert information on everything from the principles of Web 2.0 and wikis, to the intranet and twitter.Get it here.

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Las Vegas' The Venetian Resort and Casino, along with its sister property, The Palazzo, attained a 38 percent reduction in employee turnover by using the PeopleAnswers pre-employment solution.

Read the case study on how it was done.

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With the economy on the verge of a rebound, Brightmove and many industry analysts predict a game changing shift in the recruitment space.

"Social media offers direct personal interaction for our customers. It allows recruiters to reach out to a target audience with relevant career options. Gone are the days of blind recruitment calls," says CEO David Webb.

Get "Are you dead in the water leading into the next hiring boom? The New Breed of Recruiter and Web 2.0" here.

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 "The Four A's of Recruitment Advertising," is a guide to help recruiters track results and make the most of their recruitment advertising.

From job search engine Indeed.com, the whitepaper says that determining your recruitment ROI is not hard if you: Assign someone to the task; Automate the data collection; Analyze the data, and: Adjust your spend. Download the paper here.

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Ultimate Software is offering a free copy of a special recruiting report put together by Business & Legal Reports.

"Win the Recruiting War!" is an outline for employers looking ahead to the worker shortages of the next decades. The report has both broad general guidance for assesing a company's current needs, predicting the number and type of workers that will have to be recruited in the future, and how to find and hire them. Get a copy here.

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Arbita, provider of recruitment marketing technology, media planning and consulting services, has teamed up with TalentSpring, a provider of semantic search technology products for the recruiting industry, to create the white paper, “Semantic Search: Sourcing Success Beyond Boolean Search,”  that is available to download now.

Two of the leaders in online search today, Shally Steckerl of Arbita and Bryan Starbuck of TalentSpring, have teamed up to author this paper and explain to recruiters how these search techniques can improve quality and reduce time-to-fill and cost.

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Phony academic degrees and the shady companies who peddle them online are the focus of a new article by EmployeeScreenIQ, a global leader in employment background screening services.

The article is titled "Smoke, Mirrors and Resumes: The Growing Threat of Diploma Mills." It's available here at no charge from EmployeeScreenIQ.

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“The Next-Generation GUI: A Truly Personalized Workspace to Leverage the Power of Enterprise Computing, " is a new whitepaper free from MrTed that explains how a GUI (graphical user interface) that leverages open architecture, cloud computing and portable applications modules (apps) can offer a personalized, on-demand experience for the user.

Get the free paper here.

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Need a little help getting your social media recruiting underway? ATS provider BrightMove is offering what it's calling "A Recruiter's Field Guide" to social media recruiting.

The free guide will help avoid some of the missteps companies make in their social media recruiting. Written in partnership with veteran recruiter and writer Nanci Lamborn the guide includes:

• 10 steps to get you moving in the right direction;
• Quick reference for searching passive candidates through Google and other engines;
• Access to a list of sites, tools and resources.

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Kenexa is recognized as a market leader in the recently released Talent Management Systems 2010: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Solution Provider Profiles.

The study, conducted by Bersin & Associates, the only research and advisory firm focused solely on enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition, is a comprehensive market review and buyers' guide for talent management software systems. Out of 24 companies profiled, Kenexa ranked No. 4 in market share by revenue and by number of enterprise customers. 

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In an effort to help employers to improve their job listing visibility and more effectively recruit qualified candidates online, Simply Hired, one of the largest job search engines and recruitment advertising networks, announced today at the ERE Social Recruiting Summit a new employer resources portal on its site.

SEO and Social Media Guide is designed to optimize the visibility of employer job postings on sites across the Web, from search engines to today's most popular social media sites.

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A new study found companies with the strongest emphasis on learning and development for front-line and mid-level managers improved employee performance by a 2-to-1 margin over all other organizations and improved customer satisfaction by almost 3-to-1.

A free copy of the Aberdeen Group study, sponsored in part by SilkRoad technology, inc., is available here.

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A new talent management report from the Aberdeen Group says companies that have integrated at least two distinct talent management processes report superior performance gains over organizations that have not. "Integrated Talent Management: Improving Business Results Through Visibility and Alignment" describes the key factors for organic organizational growth in 2010, focusing on the alignment & integration of talent management processes.

For a complimentary copy of the report, which was sponsored by iCIMS, click here. 

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A report by PreVisor and ADP says performance management and career development are among the top talent priorities for companies in 2010. The Global Assessment Trends report also says that retention is a worry for most companies.

Get a free copy of the report here.

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Cytiva’s free new white paper, “Performance Management in a Recovering Economy,” advises organizations to take a year off from writing performance evaluations and discusses how the talent needs of many organizations have changed in the face of a completely altered business landscape.

“Performance Management in a Recovering Economy” is available free by clicking here. 

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Arbita, provider of recruitment marketing technology, media planning and consulting services, has launched the third major survey in its long-term project to successfully decode the DNA of successful recruiting.

The Recruitment Genome Project is launching a major initiative to illuminate the use of social networks for recruiting and recruitment business development.

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When it comes to social networking, knowing too much can be a dangerous thing for recruiting professionals and potential employers.

That's the premise of a new white paper from EmployeeScreenIQ that examines the risks of judging job candidates by their profiles on Facebook and similar sites. Titled "Recruiting with Social Networking Sites: What You DO Know can Hurt You," it's available for immediate download from the background screening company.

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