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• How Long Should Your Resume Be?

  09-02-2016 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The question of how long a resume should be has been a subject of debate among professionals for a many years, but the fact is that relevance and substance are the keys to determining the proper length of any resume. Additionally, your years of experience, key achievements, number of employers, audience, industry, and career goals should be factored into the decision as well.Helping You DecideIf you are a recent college graduate, changing careers, have less than 10 years ...
  
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• 8 Reasons Why Your Employee Referral Program Is Failing

  09-02-2016 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Employee referrals are easily one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways of attracting talent to organizations. You can count on new hires referred by current employees to be fully immersed within your company culture in a matter of weeks.But sometimes employee referral programs don't bring desired effects and result in few, if any, quality hires. Here are some key reasons why your employee referral program might be failing and some tips to ...
  
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• 5 Ways to Make Your Job Ad Stand Out

  09-02-2016 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, 83 percent of respondents in MRINetwork's "Recruiter Sentiment Study" said the job market was predominately candidate-driven. As a result of this candidate domination, organizations have to compete harder and harder with one another to attract top talent.And that, in turn, means traditional job ads aren't going to cut it. You have to find new ways to capture top talent's ...
  
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• Are You an Expert at Job Hunting?

  09-02-2016 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How many things have you truly mastered?For example, you must know how to cook to survive day to day. But does your food meet the quality of a professional chef's dishes?Similarly, you might like to travel – domestically and maybe even internationally. But how good are you at booking these trips? Good enough to book trips for others and charge for your services?In both of these examples, chances are good you would much prefer to be the
  
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• More Americans quitting jobs as labor market strengthens - Reuters

  09-02-2016 19:37 via
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  More Americans quitting jobs as labor market strengthens
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  WASHINGTON U.S. job openings surged in December and the number of Americans voluntarily quitting work hit a nine-year high, pointing to labor market strength despite a slowdown in economic growth. The signs of a robust jobs market could ease ...
  A Stronger Jobs Outlook at Builders and Factories Alleviates U.S. Recession FearsBloomberg
  More Americans quit their jobs in December than at any time in nine yearsMarketWatch
  

• 5 Tips to Help You Survive a Merger, Acquisition, or Restructure

  09-02-2016 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to Deloitte, more than $4 trillion worth of mergers and acquisitions deals took place in 2015, making it the highest year for MA deal values since 2007.This makes sense, given that firms need to be increasingly faster to market in order to succeed in today's economy. Organic, step-by-step growth is not enough ...
  
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• 7 Essential Onboarding Best Practices

  09-02-2016 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Onboarding is as essential to the hiring process as your sourcing, application, and interview processes are. In fact, in some ways, onboarding is more important: Many companies can hire the best person in the candidate pool, but if they can't figure out how to make that person fit their job, it doesn't matter how good the candidate is or how quickly the candidate was hired.After your candidate has accepted the job ...
  
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• A 'Foolish' Guide to Employee Engagement

  09-02-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most companies with hourly employees know that employee engagement is absolutely critical but largely lacking in many workplaces today.During the recent TDn2K Global Best Practices Conference, Tom Gardner, the CEO and cofounder of The Motley Fool reminded the audience that the average Gallup employee engagement score is 30 percent. Even if you're lucky enough to have an engagement score of 80 percent, ...
  
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• 3 Must-Have Tech Services for Every Growing Business

  09-02-2016 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Starting a business used to require a lot of time and effort. All the paperwork needed to be filled out manually and submitted via snail mail. If you were lucky, you could go down to some clerk's office and submit the forms in person, but you knew it would be weeks before anyone looked at them. You cringed at the thought of your papers sitting in a wire basket on the end of someone's desk, waiting to be processed....
  
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