So you think social media is nice and all, but it’s not really a big deal in the competitive world of recruiting? Maybe you should think again.
According to MarketWatch.com, social media is a really big deal, especially since they suggest that 60% of employed professionals interested in a job change don’t even bother to put their resumes on job boards these days. These professionals are, however, present and active on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social media sites. Being able to strategically use all available Internet hiring resources is what it takes to find individuals who have the skills and talent you are looking for, but who aren’t necessarily actively looking for a job.
There’s a lot of advice out there for applicants and job seekers on how to present yourself during the hiring process. In this post, we’d like to take a moment to talk about how employers and their hiring staff ought to come across during these encounters. Sure, you are offering a new career opportunity for the lucky applicant who gets your offer. But, if you want to reel in a prize catch, it would help to lure them in if you presented your best behavior during the hiring process.
Cold, dreary, damp. That’s what weather we have here in Allentown, PA—and on Friday the 13th no less! We are ever the optimists, however, and so we’ve decided to make today’s poll about something positive that everyone enjoys: vacations.
What would you do if you could drop everything and take a vacation right now? Beach it? Hit the slopes? Spa pampering? Tell us!
Happy Friday, everyone!
(FYI: Your participation in this poll is completely confidential and does not auto-subscribe you to anything. Just have some fun!)
Need help with managing your pre-hiring process or with getting the most out of your company’s talent? hireVision’s Hiring Process Management Services and HR Partnering Services can help. Contact us today for a frank discussion about your unique human resources needs.
We here at hireVision love social media. Its possibilities and potential are endless. Still, social media moves at a frenetic pace, and it can take just one false move or brief mistake in judgment for a negative backlash to go viral, then hit your company like a virtual tsunami. Even a non-viral negative social media issue can be problematic, with a possible aftermath of decreased revenues, legal problems, bad publicity and/or a damaged reputation. The worst case scenarios are frightening to think about.
Luckily, there are things you can do to protect yourself now, and in the future, as you and your company move forward and take advantage of all the tremendous things social media has to offer in the digital age. From Read the rest of this entry »
Want to whittle away workplace whining…or just say the first half of this sentence 10 times fast?
Well, we can’t help you with the tongue twister, but we can recommend a great blog post about how to deal with employees who complain and moan a lot. It’s over at Julie Kay’s Developing Leaders Online, and both the article and the conversation in the comment section are enlightening. Kay suggests that managers take the “coaching approach” instead of jumping in to resolve every issue for their employees. This may be more time consuming on the front end, but instead of developing a workplace culture where whenever there’s a mild conflict your staff instinctively runs to you to solve it, they will instead use their own conflict resolution skills to take care of the issues themselves. Our favorite tip:
Ask quality questions rather than providing suggestions and solutions. This will show them you are listening, help them to think things through, and keep responsibility with them.
“Listening and leading your workers towards finding their own solutions pays off in the long run in productivity, workplace satisfaction and reduced stress for everyone,” says Tina Hamilton, PHR, hireVision’s president and CEO. “Besides all that, Read the rest of this entry »
New Year’s Eve is just a couple of days away. It felt like the last twelve months just flew by for us here at hireVision. Did it feel that way for you, too?
If you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to let us know what is on your human resources radar for 2012 by filling out the short poll below. Your answer will be anonymous and no personal data will be collected about you. Your input will help us continue to generate interesting and useful blog and social media content.
Thank you for your input!
Need help with managing your pre-hiring process or with getting the most out of your company’s talent? hireVision’s Hiring Process Management Services and HR Partnering Services can help. Contact us today for a frank discussion about your unique human resources needs.
We know what’s running through your mind: “You people think this is fun?” But, please, hear us out.
How often do we get to collectively weigh in on the effects of holiday indulging, let alone the reporting on this subject? (Besides, we are still in shock that “Frosty the Snowman” has, at the time of this posting, only received one lousy vote on last week’s “Favorite Holiday Made-for-TV Special” poll. It’s hard to be overly cheerful when faced with these cold, hard facts.)
In any event, please take our one-question poll below. And have a wonderful Christmas weekend!
Who, me a micromanager? Ha, ha, ha…that’s a laugh. I just take a hands-on approach to overseeing my team. That’s all. Right down to the type of font they use on their monthly reports. Helvetica, 12-point. Looks great with a 1-inch boarder all around the page. And no hyphens. Hate the hyphens…
No, seriously. My employees love getting a little unsolicited extra help from me. All the time. On everything. No need for them to problem solve or create. Or think too much about stuff on their own. Seriously. No worries…
I’m all about the team. My team. Doing things my way, because we all like it. It gives us predictable results. We love it. Really, we do…
We’d like to interrupt these managerial daydreams with a reality check: Micromanaging can hurt your workforce in more ways than you think. If control issues are hampering productivity and employee satisfaction, it may be time to rethink your management style.
According to a great blog post over at Harvard Business Review called “You’re Probably a Micromanager”, by Ron Ashkenas, managers can sometimes be driven to exercising too much control over a project or people because of anxiety and insecurity, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge about the subject matter, inadequate training, or insufficient experience. Oftentimes, these well-meaning bosses are not even aware of how controlling they’ve become. Managers may also fail to Read the rest of this entry »
Why, yes, it is! That means, among other great things, it’s time for a new hireVision holiday poll. Last Friday’s poll asking which is your favorite holiday movie has closed, and here are the top results:
Favorite Holiday Movie Poll Results 1st Place:“Elf” (26% of votes)2nd Place:“A Christmas Story” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” (19% each)3rd Place: “Miracle on 34th Street” (10%)Honorable Mentions:“The Polar Express” (6%), “A Christmas Carol” (5%) and “White Christmas” (5%)
Ah, ha! Even the forward-thinking, creative, ultra-hip, wonder wizards at Apple have laid out clear social media guidelines for their employees. That makes us human resources policy geeks a bit more cool by association, right?
OK. Maybe we are pushing it. But, a recent story on the Apple guidelines over at PC World did give us the opportunity for a teachable moment here on our blog. You see, Apple had put in place specific guidelines prior to an incident where an employee posted negative comments about the company on Facebook. The comments were reported to managers, and then the worker took the matter to an employment tribunal. The tribunal upheld Apple’s decision to fire the worker. They sited Read the rest of this entry »
So you think social media is nice and all, but it’s not really a big deal in the competitive world of recruiting? Maybe you should think again.
Cold, dreary, damp. That’s what weather we have here in Allentown, PA—and on Friday the 13th no less! We are ever the optimists, however, and so we’ve decided to make today’s poll about something positive that everyone enjoys:
We here at hireVision love social media. Its possibilities and potential are endless. Still, social media moves at a frenetic pace, and it can take just one false move or brief mistake in judgment for a negative backlash to go viral, then hit your company like a virtual tsunami. Even a non-viral negative social media issue can be problematic, with a possible aftermath of decreased revenues, legal problems, bad publicity and/or a damaged reputation. The worst case scenarios are frightening to think about.
