By Toby Shapshak, To celebrate its 10th anniversary of investing in African tech startups, the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced seven companies who will receive $700,000 in funding. MEST was one of the earliest tech incubators in Africa, having started an entrepreneurial school in Accra, Ghana, in 2008. MEST is part of […]

By Rachel Montanez An August 29, 2018 survey by The Conference Board showed that happiness at work is continuing to improve with 51% of U.S. employees saying they feel satisfied and engaged. The study covered a snapshot of the national workforce where approximately 1,500 employees discussed 23 job satisfaction components. Despite the trends in satisfaction, […]

It’s a regular Wednesday afternoon. A seemingly distressed employee stands lost in his new workplace when he is suddenly greeted by a telepresence robot. The robot, equipped with a built-in screen instantly scans his face and having recognized him as a new recruit, rightly guides him to the orientation boardroom. A few feet away from […]

By Anne Vandermey The headline numbers from last month’s U.S. jobs report were good: 201,000 jobs added, unemployment under 4 percent and long-stagnant wages up a bit more than expected. For the time being, at least, American workers are being spared the much-feared job losses from automation. In fact, the fastest-growing category from the federal […]

By Serenity Gibbons For the past decade, Google has been on job seekers’ lips. The company is one of only a handful to boast being named one of Glassdoor’s top places to work year after year. And it’s not its size that makes Google such a worker’s utopia; it’s the value the corporation places on […]

By Dorie Clark We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder. But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. These days, the culprit preventing many professionals from identifying a clear career path at their company is […]

By By Frederick Daso For college students looking for summer internships or starting their careers, job searching a tedious, arduous process. Fortunately, Kevin Wu, 23, and Derrick Mar, 24, founded Pathrise to address career management issues for college students. Pathrise is a career accelerator that helps students get their ideal job, with the students paying […]

By Lewis koch Google Jobs was first released in June 2017 in the USA and has since gone live in Canada, India, Spain, and parts of Africa. The functionality launched in the UK on the 17th of July 2018. Now it is live, it is important that your recruitment company adapts to the shift in […]

By by Emily Douglas Good planning without good working is nothing. Or so Benjamin Franklin would have us believe. But how exactly do you plan for something that’s unforeseeable? As the world of work begins to shift. It seems to have fallen on HR’s shoulders to come up with the answers. Decision makers worry over […]

In an effort to help soldiers transition from the battlefield to the boardroom, Google is launching a new search tool specifically to help service members get civilian jobs. In a blog post on Monday, Google Cloud Program Manager Matthew Hudson, himself a former civil engineer for the Air Force, laid out the details for the […]

Twice as many professionals believe that enjoying their jobs (83.6%) is a better measure of career success, than having a high salary (42.4%). Despite this, over one in four (28.4%) believe that their career success is defined by how others see their achievements. That’s according to the latest research from CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent […]

By Dawn Graham Being in a job search can be anxiety-provoking, especially if you’re making a significant career change. Waiting for responses that never come, getting rejected before having the opportunity to present your case to a hiring manager, and feeling excited that you’ve found the perfect job only to lose out to a traditional […]

In order to bridge the demand and supply gap in skilling industry, the National Skill Development Corporation has joined hands with BetterPlace to come up with a digital platform for addressing the problem of demand aggregation, sourcing, training, certification and placement for the blue collars skilled workforce in the country. The platform, SkillConnect, will work […]

By Steve Odland and Rebecca L. Ray, As we head into Labor Day to honor our nation’s workers, a key question becomes timely: How satisfied are we as a workforce? According to The Conference Board’s new survey of over 1,500 workers, overall job satisfaction increased for the seventh year in a row. Survey participants weighed […]

US workers report highest job satisfaction since 2005 https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/08/31/us-workers-report-highest-job-satisfaction-since-2005.html

By Sébastien Thibault The financial services industry is at a crossroads. It is eager to ensure its longevity by enticing the next generation of bright, young recruits taking their first steps in the world of work, but hamstrung by negative stereotypes perpetuated amongst graduates and school leavers about working hours and company culture. Traditionally, many […]

By Simon Oldham President, QJumpers In today’s hyper-competitive war for talent, a quick hiring process benefits all parties. Find out how by focusing on collaboration, putting friction-free processes in place and using technology, you can significantly shorten your time-to-hire A consistent theme in the world of talent acquisition is that it takes too much time […]

By Anand Srinivasan In his article about the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face, Entrepreneur.com contributor Larry Alton lists “team building” as one of the most significant hurdles. He points out that picking the right team for a startup is quite stressful, even for those with considerable management experience. This is all the more challenging when you […]

By Peter Linas, EVP Corporate Development & International at Bullhorn In today’s competitive recruitment market, a candidate redeployment strategy is essential. Recruitment professionals continue to cite the global talent shortages as a key obstacle, and with talent at an all-time premium, the pressure is on to meet client demands as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. […]

By Jack Kelly There may be a time in your job search when you feel you’ve exhausted all avenues. Months have passed since you drafted, edited, changed and rewrote your résumé again for the 32nd time. Your LinkedIn profile has been tweaked so many times that it’s back to where you originally started. Hundreds of […]

By Marissa Peretz When You Go After A “Halo Hire,” You Need The Right Game Plan When the Los Angeles Lakers signed LeBron James as a free agent, the entire sports world gasped. It was “the road back to greatness” said the Los Angeles Times. From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Snoop Dogg, celebrities rushed to Twitter […]

By Kyle Wiggers Omer Molad thinks the job hiring process is broken. Luckily, he’s in a position to fix it. Molad is the cofounder and CEO of Vervoe, an Australia-based startup that today announced the launch of an artificially intelligent platform that evaluates applicants’ on-the-job skills and automatically recommends top scorers to hiring managers. The […]

By Joe Dysart While the wonders of artificial intelligence often are hyped beyond recognition, AI-powered recruitment software actually is offering real advantages to trucking companies. Across many industries, scores of firms are using AI-driven recruitment software to automatically crawl the web for the kind of job candidates that companies want, auto-­interview them via text chat […]

by: Barney Cotton We all know the statistics show that lots of start-ups fail. Even the relatively optimistic Small Business Association puts the figure at 30% in the first year. Consider these fatal flaws for recruitment start ups. They’re the ‘ins’ to leave out of your planning. Inadequate funding It’s not just about not having […]

The month of July opened with news from Oracle and Future Workplace announcing, based on survey of 1320 US based HR leaders and employees, 93% were ready to trust orders from robots but organizations seem to be doing too little in this area. This survey indicates a large gap between what people are using at […]

Harrogate-based Next-Up, which helps people use their skills when they leave corporate life, has launched a job board with a difference. It showcases interesting projects that charities and businesses need help with, as well as trustee and non-executive director roles and wider ideas to use skills such as e-mentoring start-up businesses through Prince’s Trust. An […]

Jobs platform SEEK has led a $10 million funding round in local training program marketplace GO1, which has grown to more than 1 million users in only three years. The deal follows on from the companies forming a partnership in June, which connected job seekers directly to short courses on GO1 that they needed to […]

By Nick Bradley New research from HR consultants AdviserPlus has revealed that 76 percent of HR professionals believe there is a shortage of digital talent within the industry. Contributor Nick Bradley, CEO, – AdviserPlus. The survey, which asked 200 HR professionals their opinions about the concept of digital HR, found there was an apparent skill […]

By Kaya Ismail Recruiting the right talent can help your company thrive, and data shows that the cost of a bad hire can cost your company big. That’s why over 75 percent of multinationals use applicant tracking software (ATS) to help streamline their recruitment process. But with a plethora of ATS options to choose from, […]

When Mumbai-based technology company Directi was looking to hire 25 staff proficient in Node.js, a computer program, it turned to a startup called Belong in Bangalore. Belong was able to field 99 candidates for the role, eventually filling all 25 posts thanks to a software program using artificial intelligence that found the best candidates from […]

For the fourth consecutive year, the technology sector boasted the highest-paying jobs in the U.S., according to an annual report from Glassdoor. Thirteen of the 25 highest-paying jobs this year were in tech, up from 11 in 2017, according to the report, which was released on Wednesday. Within the industry, enterprise architects, software development managers, […]

By Steve Brooks As the summer reaches its peak in the northern hemisphere software vendors seems to be hot amongst investors. Both SugarCRM and iCIMS are about to receive further investment from private equity sources to help with their growth. Neither firm revealed the size of the investment but both are looking to use these […]

By Lydia Belanger Several trends are converging, making it more important than ever for business leaders to establish policies to make their workplaces safer and more hospitable. One is the proliferation of social media and online review sites, which make it easier for job candidates to have a clearer sense of what it’s like to […]

The recruitment industry is vast and fast-moving. Find out how to decide on a recruitment agency business model and what recruiting laws and regulations you’ll have to contend with In layman’s terms a recruitment business, or recruitment agency, is an organization which matches employees to employers and this can be for full-time, part-time, permanent and […]

From recruiting for new jobs to employing staff to manage and control the new technology, here are three ways tech has changed the recruitment sector. Whether it’s developing cloud-based innovations or putting operating systems in place to automate basic roles, there is no doubt that technology has a massive impact on the workplace. From recruiting […]

By Tom Taulli According to data from the National Federation of Independent Business, there is a record number of unfilled job openings for small businesses. And things are likely to get even worse, as more employers plan to increase their hiring. So in this environment, there needs to be creative strategies for recruiting, such as […]

Symplicity Corporation, the global leader of student employability solutions and an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, has announced the acquisition of Contratanet, the largest integrated network of career portals for jobs and internships in Brazil. With the acquisition, Symplicity strengthens its operations in the country, offering local support and services and a more expansive employer network […]

Spark Hire (https://www.sparkhire.com), the world’s leading video interview platform, has launched an integration with Crelate (https://www.crelate.com), an all-in-one recruiting customer relationship manager and applicant tracking system for staffing and recruiting agencies. Spark Hire helps hundreds of staffing and recruiting firms to place more candidates in less time. The Spark Hire video interviewing platform allows these […]

By Tonya Riley As an analog of the newspaper classified section, online job boards like Indeed and Monster have long sold themselves as a one-stop shop for job seekers. Yet in the past decade, they’ve become synonymous with poor search functions, black hole–like résumé portals and expired job posts. The boom of AI technology in […]

By Rachel Premack Your résumé is a recruiter’s first impression of you during the job search. Celeste Joy Diaz, a recruiting manager at Amazon, said not explaining your job accomplishments clearly is one key way to alienate recruiters from the outset. Instead, use hard numbers to demonstrate how you succeeded in previous roles. Celeste Joy […]

By Marianne Garvey In a competitive job market, people are proving their skills instead of just listing them. This guy wants to work at Spotify — so he’s spent 100 hours and $700 on a personal campaign telling them so. John Jaxheimer, 42, was worried that his resume was destined for the recycle bin if […]

Like every year, the People Matters TechHR Startup Program this year is also showcasing many innovative early-stage startups in the HR technology space. The startups are chosen on the basis of factors such as a sharp vision for the product and a deep understanding of the talent problem it is solving. In the previous articles, […]

By Bernardo Arnaud Over the past few years, the HR tech landscape has been shifting to a more automated and customer-centric approach. A new wave of HR related startups focused on combining AI, HR, process automation, human consulting, referrals, anonymity and matchmaking emerged across Europe. Some of these fast-growing HR startups have realistic chances of […]

Content is king. There are millions of jobs for job seekers to go through and attain potential recruits and if you do not pique their interest from the beginning, there is a high risk of them moving on to next job. Content is king with regards to recruitment advertising as well. Like all marketing activities, […]

Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced that it has acquired Invenias, a UK-headquartered provider of cloud-based software for executive search firms. The transaction closed on July 24, 2018; terms will not be disclosed. Invenias will continue to deliver high levels of service to their customer […]

By Kelly Siegel Artificial intelligence has become a part of how people operate on a daily basis. More than two-thirds of consumers use AI today without even really noticing — usually in the form of navigation, virtual assistants and that annoying yet entertaining feature on your smartphone that auto-fills your text messages. The benefits of […]

By Nick Murphy Companies like Google — which receive an average of three million job applications yearly — and Amazon — which once received 20,000 applications in a single day — use a whole suite of tools, including AI and advanced recruiting software, to narrow down their applicant pool and sift out top talent. But […]

A new recruitment company that aims to “revolutionise” the hiring process by using artificial intelligence (AI) has opened in Newcastle. The firm, called Detail, will use AI to speed up the recruitment process as the software will learn which traits and characteristics employers are searching for when they hire staff. Detail has been launched by […]

By Marisa Sanfilippo According to Hollywood, we are all just one short step away from living in a world run by computers. Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly into territory that was previously in the realm of science fiction. Some see this future as a welcome utopia while others live in fear of life with […]

By Jon Bischke – CEO of Entelo, the leader in recruiting automation The foundation of a high-impact workforce relies on the quality of its employees, but we can’t build successful teams with antiquated recruiting processes. As the demand for talented individuals goes up and pressures on recruiting teams simmer, talent acquisition professionals are constantly in […]