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Social media becomes recruiting ‘game-changer’

09/28/2015
According to a recent survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, 65% of employers have hired an employee who was sourced through such sites as LinkedIn and Facebook.

Texas places second in U.S. for private-sector job growth

09/09/2015
July was a good month for job creation in Texas, according to the ADP Regional Employment Report.

Pittsburgh makes list of top 25 cities for jobs

09/01/2015
Pittsburgh snuck in just under the wire, snagging the 24th spot on Glassdoor.com’s list of the top 25 metropolitan areas in the country for jobs. The employment website based its annual rankings on hiring opportunity, affordability and job satisfaction.

Got an ideal age range for jobs? Scrap it now

08/29/2015
Remind your hiring managers that qualifications, not age, is the only way to judge applicants. Never set age ranges for a job.

Résumé ridiculousness: Ixnay on the ornpay inkslay

08/28/2015
Every spring, CareerBuilder surveys hiring managers about the state of the résumés they receive and also asks them to forward the best résumé blunders they have seen. Here we go …

Two California metros make Glassdoor’s top cities list

08/26/2015
California cities fared well in a recent Glassdoor.com study of the top 25 metropolitan areas in the country for jobs.

It took 50 years: Percentage of female execs, managers quadruples

08/25/2015
In the mid-1960s, when the EEOC was born, women held fewer than 10% of all executive, senior management and middle management jobs. Now it’s up to almost 40%.

Electronic trouble: Subscription-based hiring software carries defamation risk

08/13/2015
Do you use software for hiring employees that shares candidates’ basic information with other employer-subscribers? If that software also allows you to mark candidates or former employees as not eligible for hire, be aware that doing so may subject you to defamation claims. That’s what one major bank just learned.

Is your online job ad in good working order?

08/13/2015

No doubt you fuss over the content in your job ads in hopes of luring the top candidates. Although good content in a job ad is critical, technical issues are more often the culprit behind workers dropping off from applying to a job.

4 reasons to write job descriptions

08/05/2015
Here are four benefits you get if you write detailed job descriptions for each position on your team.