In my recent posts, I talked about how leading companies are simplifying their job application process to promote a positive candidate experience. However, candidates are expecting a bit more than the traditional practice of resume submission for a job opening.

Epstein Becker Green’s Employment Law This Week® monthly rundown features a recap of the most important labor, employment, and workforce management news from November 2018.

Temporary job site HatarActive.jp, which is owned by Leverages Inc., has started doing business from its new branch office in Yokohama, a Japanese city south of Tokyo, bringing its total number of offices to seven.  The post HatarActive.jp opens 7th branch appeared first on AIM Group.

Let me make this perfectly clear, I never forced anyone to hug me! I did for 30 straight days once make one of my sons give me a kiss goodnight, or he wasn’t allowed to buy an airsoft gun. That was different, I only did that because I felt, as his parent, he needed to […]

Ariana Grande proclaimed “God is a Woman,” Keith Urban sang about “Female,” and Jesse J begged girls to feel elevated and say “I am a Queen.” Fearless Girl is on the move to the NY Stock Exchange; Sheryl Sandberg focused headlines read “Fall from Grace” for her part in Facebook’s mishaps, and a new study […]

IBM launched IBM Talent & Transformation, which provides skills training to help companies “drive the transformation necessary to use AI.”

With less than 20 percent of Google for Jobs posts coming directly from companies, Jobiak’s utility quickly verifies if job posts appear on Google for Jobs WOBURN, Mass. – Dec. 4, 2018 – Jobiak, provider of the industry’s first AI-based recruitment marketing platform specifically for Google for Jobs, today announced the launch of Google Job Check, […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29, 2018 — Beamery today announced the launch of Beamery 5, the biggest update to its leading Talent Engagement Platform since the company’s inception. The new release introduces a vastly upgraded CRM experience and the industry’s most precise automation suite to date. his new iteration offers talent acquisition teams richer candidate profiles, smarter filters and enhanced […]

Leading Japanese crowdsourcing firm Crowd Works (TSE: 3900) reported a 127 percent jump in sales to 6.6 billion yen ($58.2 million U.S.) for the financial year ended September. The company registered ¥2.9 billion ($25.6 million U.S.) in sales during the previous financial year.  This article is only available to AIM Group clients. Please subscribe now or […]

Japanese online billing agency service for freelancers Feecle.Works, which is owned and operated by the leading crowdsourcing firm Crowd Work Inc. (TSE: 3900), has joined forces with payment settlement tool Mfkessai to improve freelance compensation guarantees and support small and medium enterprises.  This article is only available to AIM Group clients. Please subscribe now or log […]

Can you think of a more universal goal among corporate recruiters than to be recognized as a strategic recruiter? Where being classified as strategic means having a longer-term impact on corporate strategic business goals by going beyond simply meeting your monthly recruiting targets? Although there’s nothing wrong with being a tactical recruiter, being recognized as a […]

One of the very first movies I loved as a young adolescent was the movie Boiler Room. This movie tells the tale of a 1990s stock trader loosely based on Jordan Belfort featuring a young Vin Diesel and the lead played by Giovanni Ribisi. We follow Ribisi’s rise from an entry-level broker to a multi-million […]

 The following are selections from the Humetrics blog.

Note: The following story about Robbie Romance is fictitious, told to illustrate the potential problems caused by a rush to hire and the lack of any background checking.