Can You Look Past a Candidate#8217;s Poor Grammar

Can You Look Past a Candidate8217s Poor Grammar Can You Look Past a Candidates Poor Grammar Truth is it does. Job seekers are looking for employment, and in order to get anyjob, they have to impress the recruiter and/or hiring manager first. Now, if they met withthese people in person first, maybe it wouldntbe a problem.However, most job seekers dont meet their potential employers in person first they meet them on paper 90 percent of top companies use an applicant tracking ordnungsprinzip to find their candidates. This is why grammar issues on a resume cause a problem. Poorly edited resumes translate as poor communication skills, inattention to detail, and a lackluster desire for the job in the first place.Inadequate Communication SkillsUnfortunately, many new job seekers lack aproper education in written communication. Gen-X and gen-Y candidates are all too familiar with texting shorthand, which hinders their ability tocommunicate professionally. This is a common beliefamong empl oyers, although some hiring professionals feel that inadequate higher education is to blame for the lack of effective communication skills. The American Association of Colleges and Universities elended that more than 75 percent of employers want more emphasis on five key areas, which includeswritten and oral communication skills. Garry Cosnett, head of global equity communications at T. Rowe Price, saysIts amazing, the frequent disconnect. These people who all did the very best at the best schools, probably since preschool, but they really have elend developed their writing skills to the degree that they would have to to succeed in this organization You can be the smartest person here, but if you cant convince the portfolio managers to buy what youre selling, you wont be successful.Its All in the DetalesYes, those typos were on purpose, and I bet they caught your attention. Seeing these mistakes on a resume would catch your attention, too and not in a good way.Although being detai l oriented is not currently a favorite requirement among hiring professionals, its still an important attribute to have. Regardless of the terms current worth, a candidate who cant attend to the details in their own resume surely cant pay attention to the minute features ofa corporate project at least, thats the beliefthat resume mistakesspark. Troy Harrison (Salesnuggets), president ofSalesForce Solutions, saysYou will receive resumes with misspellings, grammatical errors, and other detail mistakes that indicate a lack of attention to detail on the part of the candidate. If you see these, dont make the hire in fact, dont interview. For a sales candidate, the most important sale they will ever make is the sale that comes with a hiring offer if the candidate cant be detail oriented here, why would they be when dealing with your customers?They Applied for the Job However Imagine this A resume comes across your desk, and you begin to scan it forqualifications. Inthis detailed work his tory, you find several typos. One of the first questions that comes to mind is probably, Do they really want to work here? Peter Vogt, senior contributing writer at Monster, says to job seekersYour resume needs to be grammatically perfect. If it isnt, employers will read between the lines and draw not-so-flattering conclusions about you, like This person cant write, or This person obviously doesnt care.The degree thatgrammatical errors on a resume affect a job offer should be directly dependent upon the position itself. For example if a candidate with some resume mistakes is applying for a biomedical position, those mistakes may not be so crucial on the other hand, a job seeker applying for a content or marketing position with grammatical problems in their resume should raisea red flag with the potential employer.How does your organization view grammatical errors on resumes? Will they prevent a hiring manager from offering a candidate the job if they are otherwise qualified?Master t he art of closing deals and making placements. Take our Recruiter Certification Program today. Were SHRM certified. Learn at your own pace during this 12-week program. Access over 20 courses. Great for those who want to break into recruiting, or recruiters who want to further their career.

Interning at a Small Company

Interning at a Small CompanyInterning at a Small CompanyWhen summer internship season hits, many young candidates have to decide what size company they want to work fora start-up, a mid-sized company, or a large firm. Although internships tend to have certain similarities regardless of company size, your role, experiences, and opportunities may vary as you move from a larger company to a smaller one. Not knowing the difference can be stressful when youre trying to decide which internship is right for you. When you land an internship, regardless of whether the company is big or small, youll get great hands-on experience, a resume builder, networking opportunities, and an opportunity to really decide if you want to pursue that field after graduation. Brand Name Recognition Some people gain internship experience at large companies such as Fox or NBC, for example. A large, brand-name company internship on your resume can help you land a job at a peer company after graduation. Big nam es matter even more in fields such as law, and when human resources personnel scan resumes, prominent company names stand out. If youre studying marketing, youll add a lot more clout to your resume if you intern for Disney, rather than a boutique firm. A mid-sized Public Relations firm can offer a great experience in different ways and may have name recognition locally, which can help your post-college prospects. Small companies have their own benefits, but you wont get the name-recognition benefits. You might also have a harder time finding big-name mentors within smaller companies and have less access to industry veterans whove been through the grind and lived to tell about it. In a perfect world, you would have the benefit of experiencing several different-sized businesses and the perks that go along with each specific type of internship. At the larger companies, actually securing the internship can be a much more in-depth process. You would likely meet with the Human Resources d epartment first to find out about specific application deadlines, start dates, and end dates. You might also be given corporate promotional merchandise, such as portfolios, pens, and other goodies that carry the companys logo. Depending on the size of the company and how established their internship program is, the firm might treat interns to free lunches, executive lunch series speakers, intern mingling events, and more. At the larger companies, there were more people around but you may not necessarily have the opportunity to meet with them. Gaining Work Experience When you intern with smaller- and mid-sized companies, you will probably be able to forge stronger relationships with the people you work under, because there are fewer of them and fewer interns. You may also have more real opportunities to help others on various projects. The typical tasks youll perform as an internadministrative work, research, taking notes, and observing meetings, arent necessarily different from the work you would do at large companies. The only difference is that youll have more opportunities to take on more responsibility and a wider variety of tasks. If you are considering an internship with a company that does interesting things but no one has heard of them, thats okay. Do the internship, make a lasting impression, do your best to get involved in meaningful work, network, and help with as many different tasks as possible. At a larger company, you may totenstill get great experience, but you could also end up playing computer games at an empty desk all day. The Environment You might find that interning for a larger company feels like a generic, impersonal experience in some ways. Smaller companies have a much easier time creating a personal feel, and because the staff wont be as large, you can truly bond and get to know your work colleagues. In smaller companies, youll likely have access to employees who are fairly high up in the company, which can expose you to more interesting work and more influential contacts. Conversely, interns at larger companies may find themselves making copies and grabbing coffee for lower level employees. These days, most students will intern with multiple companies over the course of their college career. Once youve completed your internship with a smaller company, pursue an internship with a recognizable brand-name firm. Your earlier intern experience should help you land a pretty big name. Having both of these opportunities will balance out your resume and give you useful experience at two different-sized companies. Hopefully, by the end of your internships, youll have a better feel for the size and type of company youd like to work in after college.

Future Engineers Challenge Winner Honored Again

Future Engineers Challenge Winner Honored Again Future Engineers Challenge Winner Honored Again Future Engineers Challenge Winner Honored AgainJune 17, 2016 Sydney Vernon, one of the winners of the inaugural Future Engineers Challenge, with her winning entry, the VEG-01 system. Vernons essay about the device, The Veggie One Giant Leap, took third place in the sixth- to eighth-grade category in the 2016 EngineerGirl Responsible Engineering Essay Contest. (Photo courtesy of NASA) Sydney Vernon, one of the young winners of the inaugural Future Engineers Challenge, has been honored once again. Vernon, a seventh-grade student from Open Window School in Bellevue, Wash., was a recent prize winner in the 2016 EngineerGirl Responsible Engineering Essay Contest, which was sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering.Vernon took third place in the national competitions category for sixth- to eighth-grade students with her essay titled The Veggie One Giant Leap. The paper detailed t he benefits of the Veg-01 system, or the Veggie, the device she designed to enable astronauts to grow vegetables in microgravity. Red romaine lettuce was recently grown using the device. After sampling the lettuce, which was grown in the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted, It was one small bite for man, one giant leap for NASAVEGGIE. Vernon won $100 for placing third in her category.Vernon took first place in the juniorin category of the Future Engineer 3D Printing in Space Challenge last year with her Veg-01 system, a two-section, water-conserving planter that would allow astronauts to grow plants on the ISS. At the time she was a sixth-grader at Open Window School. Her prizes included a 3D printer, which was donated directly to her school. The Future Engineer Space Challenge program was developed in collaboration with NASA and the ASME Foundation in 2014 to help teach young people about 3D printing and engineering design. To read Vernons award- winning essay, visit www.engineergirl.org/GetThere/Contest/Winners/2016Winners/29414.aspx. To view the entire list of 2016 EngineerGirl Responsible Engineering Essay Contest winners, visit www.nae.edu/Projects/MediaRoom/20095/149240/153457.aspx. For more information on the Future Engineers program, visit www.futureengineers.org. For details on ASMEs K-12 engineering education initiatives, contact Patti Jo Snyder, Programs Philanthropy, at snyderpasme.org.

Ten technologies developing countries are using now to adapt to climate change

Ten technologies developing countries are using now to adapt to climate change Ten technologies developing countries are using now to adapt to climate change Ten technologies developing countries are using now to adapt to climate changeAuthored by Rob Goodier, engineeringforchange.orgDisaster hits hardest against the poor, and people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change. Rising sea levels and increasingly powerful storms flood coasts. New weather patterns, heavy rains and droughts kill crops, erode soil, trigger landslides and contaminate drinking water.Around the world, however, communities are rising to the challenge. Within the confines of small budgets, creative engineering has blossomed. These are ten low-cost and low-tech ways that communities are adapting to the slow boil right now.Photo by NLEBuildings that float The sea level has risen roughly 20cm (nearly 8in) since 1870 and the rate of rise is accelerating. By 2100, the sea is projected to rise as much as 50cm to 2m (22 to 79in), according to aliterature reviewby the US National Research Council.The rising water and intensifying storms flood coastal cities, but there may be ways to adapt, such asthis floating school. The school is a prototype for architecture among rising coastal waters, built by the waterfront community of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a three-level A-frame atop a floating platform built from discarded plastic barrels. The building is powered with renewable energy and harvests rainwater.Indigenous architecture has a similar solution to changing water levels. The upper Amazon river in Peru rises and falls with the season and houses built on log platforms in Belen, a riverside community in the city of Iquitos, float with it. See examples at thisGoogle imagesearch.Photo by shankar s. / FlickrDesign for flooding The coast floods in Buli Sim Sim, a Malaysian fishing village, so construction crews there have propped homes up on stilts. They may not know it, but the architects of this common solution are employing an example of resilience planning, meaning simply that they have designed with flooding in mind. Other examples include permeable streetsand parking lots and green spaces that can flood and absorb water.Impoverished residents of Da Nang, Vietnam, are putting resilience planning into practice. Theyqualify for loansand train to retrofit their homes for flood and storm resistance.Screen capture from DIY Home Water Distiller / YouTubeWater Desalination / Freshwater treatment Small islands and arid climates anywhere in the world can offset the climates threat to their drinking water by treating seawater or contaminated water with a solar still. A state-of-the-art desalination plant like the one in Victoria, Australia, can churn out 400 to 500 megaliters per day and costs US $1 billion or more. But small-scale and do-it-yourself models may make sense for households in small communities. Themost basic solar stillis simply a plastic s heet over a bucket in a pit in the ground, but slightly more upscale versions can produce several liters of potable water per day under a sunny sky and you dont have to dig holes in the yard. These can supplement rainwater harvesting and household water treatment methods.Photo courtesy of Sonam WangchukArtificial glaciers Glaciers are shrinking in the mountains above Ladakh, a high-altitude desert in the Indian Himalayas, and the loss of meltwater is drying up farms right at the start of the planting season. An experiment underway would solve the problem with artificial glaciers built close by the farms during the winter. Sonam Wangchuk and students at the SECMOL school made aprototype of an ice stupa,so-called because they resemble the religious shrines common to Ladakh and Tibet. To form it, the team piped water from upstream using gravity to deliver it to the top of the stupa as it froze and grew. Their two-story stupa contains an estimated 150,000 liters of water. More such stup as could fix their looming water crisis before it strikes.Photo courtesy of Sonam WangchukA Composting latrine for flood-prone areas A flooded latrine is a disgusting clean-up job and its also a health hazard. Microbes in human waste escape into the groundwater to spread diarrhea and gut parasites. Increasingly powerful and unpredictable floods afflict coastal and riverside communities as the weather changes around the world, so designs likePractical Actions flood-resistant composting latrinecould be a good idea. The latrine sits above ground to avoid contaminating the water. It diverts fecal waste to a sealed composting chamber and urine and rinse water to a separate evaporative bed filled with plants.Photo courtesy of Sonam WangchukBetter ways to farm Weird, new weather patterns, droughts and soil-eroding deluges are forcing farmers to look for better ways to grow crops. Terracing the land along topographical lines can level slopes and reduce erosion. And greenhouses allow farmers to grow crops year round in two-thirds of the time using only two-thirds of the water, and they can expect to see 20 percent better yields.Thismodular and low-cost designmakes greenhouses affordable to farmers in developing countries. Its a project by Khanjan Mehta, an engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University and a contributing editor at E4C, and his team.For variations on the theme, try astraw bale greenhousein our Solutions Library, or aseawater greenhousethat irrigates crops with treated seawater. And heres arepository of greenhouse construction guidesand research on viable crops.Photo by DripTechBetter irrigation Irrigating a farm can double the amount of food it produces and buffer against dry growing seasons in a changing climate. In spite of that potential only 20 percent of farmland worldwide is irrigated,saysthe UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Low-cost pumps and efficient irrigation methods coming online now are making a difference in developing countri es. Drip irrigation like the tube pictured conserves water and energy. For pumps have a look at a well-testedtreadle pumpdesign, newsolar pump prototypesand this riverwater wheelidea.For more see our guideTen low-tech ways to irrigate crops.Photo courtesy of the grenzberschreitend Rice Research InstituteResistant crops New and improved seeds that resist the conditions brought on by climate change are feeding the hungry. Genetically modified organisms are bad words in some circles, for better or worse. But here were talking about improving seeds through breeding, not gene injection.Better-known examples includesalt-tolerant riceand drought-resistant ricedeveloped by the International Rice Research Institute,and BioCassava Plus is working on amore nutritious cassavafor sub-Saharan Africa.Also in development, asalt-resistant potatothat can thrive in high-salinity soils in Pakistan, and a salt-tolerantvariety of quinoafor farms in China, Vietnam and Chile, among others.Photos courtesy o f Sam McNeillCrop processing and storage Machines that process crops and facilities to store foods can buffer farms against lean years and add value to the produce. As much as 10 to 40 percent of crops rot after the harvest when theyre not stored properly, says Sam McNeill at the University of Kentucky. He and his colleagues have developedimproved grain storage facilities, each tailored to the regions where they serve.The picture to the left shows examples of good and bad storage facilities. The mud silos in the bottom row are ideal for storing dried maizes in dry climates, and they are better at preventing losses to insects and theft than the bins in the upper row.There may be at least one low-cost food processing machine for every type of crop and new ones come online often. Some that have caught our attention are thissolar dryer, thismechanical grinder for baobab fruit, thesesisal twine manufacturing machinesand thissorghum press.The research team tests their landslide sensors in the lab. Photo courtesy of the University of the PhilippinesLandslide detectors Landslides can bury and kill whole communities with no warning, but their element of surprise might be a thing of the past. Joel Marciano and a team at the University of the Philippines is developing a landslide sensor and warning system. The devices are tubes up to one meter long stuffed with a tri-axial accelerometer to detect land movement and with a moisture sensor to report on the soil conditions. The tubes are buried into boreholes on suspicious-looking slopes and they are powered either through the grid or through solar panels on site. They report out over a cellphone network to warn authorities that a landslide could be imminent.Permission granted by Engineers 4 Change to reprint

The Resumes Microsoft Word Cover Up

The Resumes Microsoft stimmt genau Cover Up Utilizing a questionnaire to learn more regarding your clients or other stakeholders, as a company or organization, is vital to adequate audience research. If you would like to gather unique and strong info about an audience, a survey will be able to help you tailor your questions and gauge their reactions accordingly. Essentially, the sort of survey or questionnaire you opt for will be tailored to your undertaking. A questionnaire schablone is simply like the questions youre asking. To begin, you might try out another, better word processor. No user abilities or resources required. You fail miserably in the event that you search your email for attachments each time you need to turn in an application for a position. By showing you the appropriate content from across all Office 365 Delve makes it simpler for you to keep track of what is occuring in your organization. Word consists of rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most popular word processing program on the industry. It will then try to recover the lost document. It helps you organize and write your documents more efficiently. Microsoft Word has come to be the defacto document writer and editor, no matter the area of work. Its obvious that its going to be converted to PDF. Templates are the quickest way to earn a great looking Word document. Excel will offer automatic insights. Whatever They Told You About Resumes Microsoft Word Is Dead Wrong...And Heres Why So far as word processors go, Microsoft Word remains the king. You may also download a free Microsoft Word timeline template and we are going to show you the way to customize it to fulfill your requirements. When you type in Microsoft Word, you dont need to press a key to move to a different line. Even in case youve never used Microsoft Word before, learning how to use Word 2010 is going to be a breeze. Microsoft has plenty of customer support, tutorials and useful info o n its site, and there are various community-made tutorials and guides to help you learn to use the computer software. You are able to buy Microsoft Office for home usage. Access to OSU computing and Internet resources must be utilized in a responsible method. If your operating system has an issue and you are not able to install Microsoft Office but you want to utilize Microsoft Office Word, there ought to not be a problem since you may use the on-line variant of the application. Whispered Resumes Microsoft Word Secrets Theoretically, theres a chance to collaborate on a document in a couple of people at the exact same time. Nevertheless, it does permit you to work with others on the exact same document at the very same time. Well, lets say, as an example, Ted is a little small business owner that sells upscale, designed umbrellas on his web page. It is possible to also turn about and use Excel for something as easy as listing whos bringing what to the next family reunion. Di scover how to add, delete and adjust the job of the buttons you use the most. Some time ago Microsoft released Delve a dashboard that will help you keep in the know. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions and explanations to show you the way to create a presentation from beginning to finish employing the tools PowerPoint has available. The Basics of Resumes Microsoft Word The ribbon in Word online supplies a variety of commands you can use to manipulate your document. There are many reasons why a word file might have been damaged. In desktop Word you are able to make your own style. The decent old Excel is perceived as a highly effective tool for working with complex data, and thats the standard that cant be lowered. With a PDF document, you arent confined to the software and hardware you are able to use as it can stand by itself. So, once you are uploading any file to the internet you should be sure you are contemplating the conditions we warned you here. If you w ant you can upload many photos and documents and combine all them in 1 photo album, you can acquire full collection of your files or youre able to delete any of your documents immediately or later once you want. In addition, there are websites which perform OCR functions for smaller files.

The Importance of Sample Resume Objectives

The Importance of Sample Resume Objectives A great objective statement can highly boost your odds of finding the job. So resume objectives will differ depending on the sector in which you are searching for employment. My purpose is to find the job. Entry-level objectives can be particularly hard to write since you likely dont have loads of work experience, but you do want to solidify that you know the kind of career youre searching for. The Number One Question You Must Ask for Sample Resume Objectives An individual can come across several sample resume objectives online in order to obtain an idea on how best to begin writing one. Unlike profiles, there isnt any need to find fancy once you are writing an objective. You need to decide on the sample resume objective which is fit for the form of job youre applying for. Resume objective samples are easily obtainable. Sample Resume Objectives - What Is It? Although resume objective statements can be quite helpful in drawing the employers attention to what you need to offer, there are a number of situations where they may not qualify as the very best way to advertise yourself. In the end, when you have decided to incorporate a resume objective statement, look at developing more than 1 version, tailored to the different varieties of roles or organisations youre targeting. Your objective statement needs to be clear and concise. An effective statement for objective gives the employer an idea about what things the applicant is conscious of with respect to the work opening he or she has applied for. The Sample Resume Objectives Game You may also have RELEVANT coursework, dependent on the role to which youre applying. Since prospective employers will likely call and speak to your references, choose only outstanding and respectable individuals. The sample resume objective you should use is dependent on the location where youre applying for the job together with the post youre applying for. A short, well-w ritten objective should tell the employer what youre seeking to gain from the particular position youre applying for. Sample resume objectives should be utilized as references, dependent on which you can make your own resumes. TheResume Objective Examples are used by people who are interested in finding jobs. Objectives are fakultativ, but if used in the correct way, will tell the employer that you recognize precisely what you desire. They should be job-specific. The Sample Resume Objectives Game You need to have five objective statements. Its optional to state the objective for a resume, it ought to be stated if one is quite clear in regards to the goals of that work position. Hence, its crucial to thoroughly write your resume objective. The objective should not exceed more than a couple of lines.

The Pain of Example Cover Letter for Resume

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Theres not even a requirement to be extremely skilled. While it might appear tedious, you always ought to customize each letter to fit the particular job for which youre applying. Explain what youve done or think can be done to deal with the matter. Task aspirants have to take note of a resume template instead of a programs vitae template. Writing a strong application is a difficult procedure and we would like to make it simpler. The benefits of employing a software are that youre able to receive a professional cover letter in minutes. The templates are created in a way that they make the resume be noticeable. All About Example Cover Letter for Resume As salespeople and company proprietors very few folks will have the exact same weekly, face-to-face opportunity as Marshall to make our clients feel valued and appreciated. Describe how youll result in the company from Day One. Companies desire a strong individual. 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Without a signature at the conclusion of your email cover letter, you might be passing up incredible possible job opportunities. Have a look at our sample to find out what a good construction resume looks like. Working in construction usually entails having the ability to use a wide number of tools and equipment whilst also having knowledge numerous construction procedures. Youve got to connect to that because that is what youre designing around. Fortunately, within the field of design, your work isnt represented by only a resume.

Tips to Speed Up the Hiring Process

Tips to Speed Up the Hiring ProcessTips to Speed Up the Hiring ProcessIn any job market but perhaps never more than in todays workforce - top talent can come and go in the blink of an eye. Based on the pace needed to secure these top performers, you could make the assumption that the majority of companies are nimble and poised to react quickly and efficiently to ensure they get available top talent. But this isnt always the case not all organizations wish to speed up hiring. Some organizations believe that a longer hiring process is helpful because it ensures that a company has adequate time to compare candidates and ensure that they are hiring the best person for the position. While there is some merit to this argument, it overlooks an important fact hiring must be equally viewed as both a people decision and a business decision. Hiring happens when a person is needed to fill a business requirement or gap. When hiring an employee makes sense for the business, then it will happen. I f not, then it wont. When examining the make-up of a company, its not only important to examine all of the components that make a business successful and profitable but to also understand how top talent is an integral part of that equation - a core part of its DNA. The Need for Speed in Hiring Is Increasing Today, employees who were once reluctant to leave a job for fear of losing security are now more likely to make a move. Furthermore, that swimming-pool of highly-qualified talent that was rendered jobless is more eager than ever to get back into the workforce. Now that opportunities are available - particularly in sectors like healthcare and professional services where hiring is taking place, people are job searching. If you look at data issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a significant difference in unemployment rates between those without a high school diploma and those with a bachelors degree or higher. Job searchers with a higher education face substantia lly lower unemployment rates than the national average. As a result, there is a premium for these candidates and companies need to move quickly to ensure that the best of the best are working for you. What all of this means is that just as there is a business reason to fill a position, there is a business benefit to filling that position quickly. A drawn-out hiring and onboarding process costs time and money that is too valuable to waste. For every day a company has not filled a position that solves a business problem, that company is losing money. And, every minute spent on hiring employees costs money that could be better spent in other areas. How to Speed Up Hiring Here are six ways which your organization can implement to speed up the hiring process Utilize Your Internal Network?Your first step in the hiring process is to notify existing employees of the open position. It may seem obvious, but sometimes its a step that happens after the job has already been posted publicly.I nternal job postings give employees who may want to make a lateral move or change jobs within the company a chance to apply. They are also encouraged to look at their own professional networks for possible candidates.Write a Clear Job Description for the Open Position?It may seem like common sense. But, you would not believe how many times a candidate search goes awry because the hiring manager has not specified clearly enough the skills needed for the position. Creating a thorough job description that helps Human Resources identify candidates in the first round will ultimately lead to better candidates - and a faster hiring process.Be More Selective About the Candidates You Bring in for an Interview?The most time-consuming part of the bewerberinterview process is often the first-round interviews. Though many companies have a fairly rigorous screening process, including phone screens, too many bring in anywhere from five to 10 people for an interview when they may only be impressed by three to five of them from their resumes.Trust your gut in the resume review round to eliminate hours of potentially wasted time for you and the hiring team. Think Ahead and Eliminate Steps That Add Time to Your Hiring Process?For example, many companies only ask for references once theyve decided to offer a position to a candidate. If it takes a day or two for the prospective employee to get the references to you and then another day or two to contact those references, this can add up to a week to your hiring process.It can cost your company money in lost wages and administrative time. Request references from candidates at the time of the first round of interviews. Check the references for those candidates who make it to the second interviews before you think about extending a job offer. Create a Long-Term Talent Plan??Most of the time spent during the hiring process is a result of seeking out qualified candidates to interview. Typically, the search begins when an organization has an open position. It means that your open position will take at least a month to fill.To cut down time, hold informational interviews with prospective candidates for different areas within the company in advance of a job opening. It helps to build a pipeline of talent and can even eliminate the first-round HR screening process that adds days and weeks to the hiring process. Ask for Help or Outsource Portions of Your Hiring Process?Whether youre a smaller company with a limited HR staff or a large international organization working on hiring multiple positions, the reason for a delayed hiring process is probably largely out of your control.Bringing in a staffing company as a consultant to help with the hiring and onboarding process will cost money but save both time and administrative costs. You can also expect a quality screening and hiring process from an outside consultant because you are paying for it. The most significant benefit, when you speed up the hiring and onboardin g process, is that the time saved allows HR departments to pay attention to the initiatives and activities that will help you retain employees. Its easy to forget that retention and ?talent management are such an important part of the HR function because recruiting can take up so much time.?? As the skilled talent pool shrinks, companies must keep their eye on the prize. Ensuring that top talent is satisfied and engaged, so you dont risk losing your most valuable people, is imperative. Its often said that the most valuable asset a company has is its people - and I couldnt agree more. Getting high performing people hired and ready to work as quickly as possible is an important contributor to any companys success - and a key to winning the talent game.

The Best Places to Work in Finance

The Best Places to Work in FinanceThe Best Places to Work in FinanceThese select financial services firms get frequent mention in surveys as being among the best employers in the finance sector. Of course, one mans heaven is another womans hell, so keep in mind that this list may be at least somewhat subjective. That said, heres a compilation of those who have consistently received good marks. Big 4 Public Accounting Firms These firms often receive high marks today, yet they have long histories of being high-turnover work environments where staff has been treated as disposable. In any case, they can offer an excellent experience that can enhance a resume. Depending on opinion, theyre generally said to include Deloitte LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst Young, and KPMG. Northwestern Mutual Northwestern Mutual reportedly highly cultivates a loyal sales staff with a particular focus on developing lifetime employees. They have a reputation for hiring recent college graduates. P rudential This is another insurance company that turns up high on surveys of the best places to work. Like many of its peers, Prudential is a highly bureaucratic organization so it might not appeal to everyone for this reason. Chubb Chubb is a leading insurer that also regularly gets a favorable mention for its workplace policies and employee relations. Goldman skramasax Goldman Sachs remains the fruchtwein respected name on Wall Street, and its noteworthy for a high degree of employee loyalty and morale. Of course, Goldman Sachs is also a firm that expects much of its employees, but it reciprocates with generous pay plans. Women should take note that Forbes magazine once reported that Goldman Sachs was the only leading Wall Street firm to respond to its request for statistics on female officers. It reported in 2009 that womens numbers had grown significantly in the past three years. Female vice presidents, including executive directors, were up by 21 percent at that time and female managing directors were up by 45 percent. From all reports, this trend has continued. Raymond James This firm operates under a business model that maximizes financial advisor autonomy. Banco Popular Banco Popular is the largest Hispanic-oriented financial institution in the United States. Wells Fargo Although its been the subject of a few scandalous rumors in recent years, Wells Fargo remains among the strongest of the large national banks. It also regularly receives strong marks for its employee development and retention programs. Some Other Input J.D. Power and Associates surveyedthe best places to work for financial advisorsbased on a variety of factors, includingcompensation, job duties, problem resolution, and support. Edward Jones, Raymond James, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia Securities, Citigroup Global Markets and UBS Financial Services made this list. FORTUNE Magazine also offers an annual list of the best companies to work for, many of which are in the financial services industry or have a need for financial talent. Some that made the most recent list include Credit Acceptance, Prime Lending, Acuity Insurance, True Wealth, Veterans United Home Loans, Edward Jones which also made the J.D. Powers list and Quicken Loans. Wall Street jobs.