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Talent acquisition and engaging critical talent are top challenges for organizations Banking and financial services along with the manufacturing sector doled out higher salary hikes compared with other sectors in 2011, according to a Compensation Trend Study from Deloitte.
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Source: The Economic Times
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Both versions of the Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011 would make it illegal for an employer to: refuse to consider for employment or refuse to offer employment to an individual because of the individual’s status as unemployed; publish in print, on the Internet or in any other media, an advertisement or announcement for any job that includes any provision stating or indicating that an individual’s status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for a job (“must be currently employed”); and direct or request that an employment agency take an individual’s status as unemployed into account in screening or referring applicants for employment.
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Source: Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
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It is all too easy for sourcers, recruiters, HR professionals, and hiring managers/teams to develop a skewed, distorted, and decidedly one-way view of the world. Perhaps spending 99% of the time on only one side of the recruiting process is to blame.
Regardless of the cause, it is absolutely critical to regularly take the time and think about, understand, and appreciate the recruiting life cycle from the candidate’s side – the job seeker, the passive candidate, the non-job seeker, and the elusive “A+ player.”
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Source: Boolean Black Belt-Sourcing/Recruiting
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Recently, former LA Mayor Richard Riordan outlined the priorities. “Let’s look at the future. Whatever solution we have for our economy, the basic thing is jobs, jobs, jobs.”
One of the bright spots – by almost universal acclaim – is the prospect for clean energy jobs. But what does that exactly mean for you?
In yesterday’s special Biofuels Digest Report on Jobs, we look at actual hiring data from the Biofuels Digest job board, plus BIO’s authoritative report on the projected economic impact of the expansion of advanced biofuels.
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Source: Renewable Energy World
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Greater Boston ranks in the top 10 among the nation’s largest metropolitan areas for employment in the alternative energy industry, boosted by state policies that require utilities to purchase electricity generated by solar, wind, and other nonpolluting power sources, according to a new study.
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Source: boston.com
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A couple of months ago, my wife’s administrative assistant received a call from a woman who identified herself to be calling from the office of the CEO of a local Fortune 100 company. The CEO was a member of my wife’s company’s Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee she works with on a regular basis. The woman on the phone stated that this Board member had some questions about their programs and was therefore requesting a list of the names, phone numbers and email addresses of all the people in my wife’s Compensation and Benefits Department.
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Source: women of hr
According to a report from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and Ashridge Business School released today (Thursday 14 July), more than half (57%) of new graduate recruits plan to leave their current role within two years, with two-fifths (40%) hoping to find a new job within the year. Almost one in five (16%) wants to move into a new role as soon as possible, despite huge competition for graduate jobs. Over 1,900 graduates and managers were surveyed for the report, Managing New Graduates.
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Source: HR Magazine
The health care sector is an economic mainstay, providing stability and even growth during times of recession. Health care has added an average of 24,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. Hospital care is an important component of the health care sector. Hospitals:
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Source: American Hospital Association
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Providers receiving on-call compensation are more likely to be compensated daily or annually than in previous years, according to Medical Group Management Association’s Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Study: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data.
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Eric Ryan, the cofounder of cleaning-product company Method, discusses his tried-and-true screening process.
The surest way to thwart a fast-growing company is to let the wrong employees on the bus, as Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, would say.
During Method’s explosive growth years, we would hear things like “I just need a warm body to fill the seat” — code for “We are about to compromise the talent level.” No matter how you may rationalize it at the time, simply finding a warm body to fill the seat is never okay.
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Source: Fast Co Design
