Watching employment statistics has become quite a spectator sport in the past few years. The truly brave jump in and identify trends and start making predictions.
One observation bandied about over the past week or so is that employers are hiring more temporary workers.
A sign of recovery? Perhaps. More likely, the new reality of temp work is a sign of the times.
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In the hiring timeline, checking references is often the last step before making an offer. The temptation to skip this part of the process is understandable – sometimes just reaching the other person on the phone can take days of dialing back and forth – but it’s too important to let slide.
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The resume you just received is fantastic. The applicant not only has great experience, but her energy and enthusiasm–exactly what your company needs right now–jump right off your computer screen. She’s smart and savvy and would fit in wonderfully with your company culture.
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Pity the graduating class of 2010. They have it pretty rough — graduating to a sagging job market, mired in debt, and saddled with the reputation of being over-indulged by their parents. Every generation seems to love complaining about the younger set, and lately hand-wringing over the millenials has reached a fever pitch.
And are they really so bad?
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If you’re old enough to remember the Mary Tyler Moore Show – the one where Murray Slaughter wrote the news and Ted Baxter read it on the air – then you might remember that Mary Richards was known for throwing lousy parties. No matter how hard she tried, or whom she invited, the celebration always went horribly (and comically) wrong.
Are you Mary Richards when it comes to hiring? Try as you might, do you always pick the flop? At this point your lousy track record may be the topic of good-natured workplace ribbing, or it may be a serious business problem. Either way, you could use a new approach.
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Today we released a MASSIVE expansion to the list of optional fields for your job postings. You can now collect personal, education, social, and work preference information from applicants. Think of all the common questions employers ask in job applications, and we hope we’ve covered everything you think of. We know that some of you have been begging for custom fields. We’ve only resisted because we are trying to keep The Resumator very simple, and if we can cover 90% of the fields employers need, we hope this satisfies everyone.
The next thing we are working on now is a powerful filtering system for all this data, enabling you to filter down applicants quickly based on criteria. We needed to push out all these updated fields before we could work on the advanced search feature. Advanced search is going to be awesome, and we appreciate your patience.
Unpaid summer internships can be a great deal for you and the intern. From the intern’s point of view, it’s a real-world learning experience that can boost job prospects down the road. You get to practice your recruiting and interviewing skills. And who knows? If all goes well, you just might hire this person permanently after graduation.
Provided everybody follows the rules, that is. If you want an extra person around without the added expense of a paycheck, you have to be aware of guidelines put forth by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Even if you have an otherwise bad memory, you probably can remember the most embarrassing moment of your life. Or the worst date you ever went on. Or the most uncomfortable airplane ride. Somehow life’s extremes–especially the unpleasant ones–stay with us.
And so it is with interview questions. Start asking around about the dumbest interview question of all time, and one keeps turning up on everyone’s list: Where do you see yourself five years from now?
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Hiring ought to be a streamlined and speedy process. Accept resumes for two weeks. Take a week to review submissions. Spend another week on interviews, make up your mind and Voila! A new person on board within a month.
Somehow in the real world it never works that way. Other projects get in the way, a week turns into three, scheduling is a hassle and before you know it, a few months have gone by. Ugh. You don’t want it to take this long, and your applicants don’t feel like waiting.
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“Un” can be a pretty interesting prefix. Perhaps you’re old enough to remember when 7-UP was the un-cola. In more recent times, unschooling is challenging the ideas of homeschooling and conventional schools.
Then there’s unorganization–usually spelled unorganisation due to its British origins. Although championed by Yanks such as Tom Peters, the term was coined by Simon Buckingham, the British-born founder and CEO of Mobile Streams and Zoombak.
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4 days ago
@JofArnold Let us think about this one.
5 days ago
@JofArnold We're trying to find more sources of traffic for UK customers. The job boards we syndicate to are more U.S. based.
2 weeks ago
Grasshopper spoof on Jay-Z's "New York" - "New Dork" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI @grasshopper
3 weeks ago
Spoiler free movie reviews! Reel Marla - http://bit.ly/bHkJhV
3 weeks ago
New Feature: Massive Expansion of Optional Fields - http://bit.ly/a8Gnbu
