Archive for May, 2009

New Recruiting Software Partnership

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Recently there has been a large number of recruiting software providers announcing partnerships in order to offer their clients better services. One of the things that many have hoped to offer is seamless integration of a variety of different features. Now, according to a recent press release, TalentDrive and Visibility Software will be entering into such partnership.

TalentDrive, which created the SaaS recruitment technology TalentFilter, and Visibility Software, creators of Cyber Recruiter, hope that this will give their clients several different additional benefits that their individual products could not provide alone. According the press release, this will give users of both company’s HR software options “seamlessly integrated, comprehensive recruitment process solution.” This will also add the ability for advanced resume sourcing and matching.

This partnership will give those who use Talent Drive’s software solution to ability to line up this product with Cyber Recruiter, which is a web-based recruitment tool. Now the clients of these company’s will have the ability to enter the job descriptions for positions they are trying to fill in a single location. After the information has been entered into the data field the program will then automatically search through more than 11,000 job boards, social media sites, and niche career search engines where resumes are posted.

By integrating the two different products users will now be able to go through the entire hiring process without having to use more than one piece of technology. According to the press release, both software providers feel this will help recruiters to hire new workers more quickly and efficiently, which will help to reduce the amount of time they spend going through and looking for resumes.

Those who have been using only Cyber Recruiter will also benefit. These users will find that the process will now be more efficiently, due to having a full service recruitment solution.

“TalentDrive is excited about Visibility Software’s experience and proven track record in selling and supporting a multi-vendor environment. Visibility has a strong lineage of working in concert with partners and allows for a seamless integration with our product TalentFilter℠, a compelling value proposition for us. We are aligned with Visibility Software, both offering cost-effective, high-quality recruitment technologies and are excited by the opportunity this combined product offering presents,” said TalentDrive’s CEO Sean Bisceglia in the release.

Visibility Software’s CIO Michael Warden also seems enthusiastic about the partnership

“The opportunity to add the advanced searching capabilities of TalentFilter to our recruitment technology allows Visibility Software to continue offering our users the most innovative, all inclusive technology on the market. Cyber Recruiter seeks to provide a product that streamlines the recruitment process for our clients so the addition of a strong sourcing tool is a logical move for us to make, and one we are excited to be a part of,” said Warden.

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Job Listings Statistics For Florida

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people having to conduct a job search in Florida rose in March. Data shows that the state’s unemployment rate went from 9.6 percent to 9.7 percent during the month. Although this may seem like a negative thing for Floridians, but The Conference Board believes that the job situation in the state is actually improving.

In the Conference Board’s most recent Help Wanted Online Data Series (HWOL) the nonprofit announced found that the state lost 6,300 jobs posted online last month. Despite this Florida’s job listings have actually increased by 5,000 during the course of the last three months. According to a press release form the Conference Board, jobs online are actually up in all of Florida’s metro areas.

“Given the past three months of data, Florida’s labor demand will have to be watched to see if the recent short-term trend is signaling a bottoming in the decline in labor demand and a possible sign of recovery,” said The Conference Board’s Vice President June Shelp in the release.

Despite this, The Conference Board’s report shows that labor demand had fallen a third since 2008 for certain positions in the following areas of employment: business and financial, computer and mathematical, architecture and engineering and legal.

Of the job vacancies announced online, the ones that had the most positions listed were for healthcare practitioners and technical positions, and sales and related jobs. According to the Conference Board, the first accounts for 18 percent and the latter for 16 percent of all the jobs posted online in the state. The areas for the highest demand for healthcare workers and technical jobs are Miami and Tampa.

As far as the nation goes, there were 3,117,300 job vacancies announced online. This was a decline of 131,000 during the month of April, which was higher than the previous months decrease of 100,000 positions. In the last six months job listings on the web dropped by 1,321,100 positions.

The Conference Board’s job listing report for May will be released on Monday, June 1st.

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Results of Job Search Study on Marketing Professionals

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

With unemployment rising across the nation, many professionals now have to conduct a job search. The problem with doing this often is knowing where to start. With so many different career search engine, not to mention all of the more traditional methods of finding work, the options can be overwhelming. Although the best place to start often depends on the position the individual is looking for, according to a recent press release for marketing executives the best thing to do is concentrate on networking.

The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) released the results of a study conducted by Aline Strategies that investigated various job lead generation tools and other ways that professionals in the marketing industry have used to find a new job during the course of the last three years.

Out of the different possible avenues for finding employment, the study found that networking is the most successful of the available options used by marketing professionals. The survey found that, instead of networking with personal acquaintances in hopes of finding out about jobs, marketing executives should focus their attention on networking through their professional acquaintances.

“MENG commissioned this survey to better understand if new technology and social media channels were disrupting the traditional executive search process and, more importantly, where we can advise our members to focus their time, energy and resources to secure their next, executive-level job opportunity,” said MENG’s Chairman and Founder of Demand Marketing Richard Sellers in the press release.

“We were pleased to learn in the study that more MENG members found their next marketing opportunity through our members-only job board than any other job lead site,” Sellers added. “Since our inception in 1995, our organization has always known the power of networking. It’s why networking is in our name and why we continually advocate to our members the importance of building and maintaining your professional network, especially when you’re gainfully employed.”

The study found that second most effective way that members of MENG went about finding work was through recruiters. High-profile, fee-based job search sites were found to be relatively unsuccessful, despite the cost of use. Another interesting thing found by the study was that it is taking women in the industry approximately one month longer to find their next job than it is taking men.

“While most people understand the value of professional networking during the job search process, the study revealed some misperceptions about what works. For example, most participants overvalue networking among friends, family, and acquaintances, and undervalue the role of recruiters. In addition, fee-based job search websites only yielded results for 2% of the participants, yet 88% subscribed to at least one,” said Aline Strategies Principal Diane Warren in the release. “At a time when macro-economic forces are generally working against senior-level individuals in transition, it’s critically important to understand what works and what doesn’t when it comes to finding your next career opportunity.”

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Jobs in Boston

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Those looking for jobs in Boston were granted a small bit of relief in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While many areas were experiencing rising unemployment rates, the city’s jobless percentage remained steady at 7.4 percent.

Despite this good news, Boston jobs are not as easy to come by as they were a year ago. During the same month in 2008 only 4.3 percent of residents were without jobs and collecting unemployment insurance.

This may be discouraging to those trying to conduct a job search, but keep in mind that the national jobless rate was 8.5 percent. This means that locating Boston jobs still remains somewhat easier than finding employment in much of the rest of the country.

Although the data shows that joblessness leveled out in March, many industries in the city reported that the number of jobs they provide are down for the last six months. According to the Bureau, only healthcare and educational services and government jobs were up in the area during the month.

The Bureau also found that the industry to see the largest decline over the last six months in Boston was construction. This comes as no surprise considering the fact that the housing market is currently suffering. Since fewer people can afford to buy new house there is little need for new construction projects. Another industry to see a large decline in the number of jobs it provided during the month of March was mining and logging.

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Jobs in Baltimore Downtown Area

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Over the course of the last year finding jobs in Baltimore has become more difficult. During the month of March approximately 7.4 percent of the city’s population was without work. Although this was a small decline of 0.2 percent from the previous month’s 7.6 percent, it was significantly higher when compared to that of March 2008. Only a year prior all but 3.8 percent of the residents had jobs.

Like most of the country, Baltimore’s job market has obviously seen the effects of the economic recession, which is apparent in the rising unemployment rate. Despite this the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore says the area isn’t suffering as badly as many other city centers have been for the last year.

According to the Partnerships State of Downtown Report, Baltimore’s downtown area only lost somewhere around 1,000 for the entire year of 2008. Currently there are 4,231 employers in the area providing 113,500 Baltimore jobs. Last year there were 4,288 employers in the down town area and 114,500 jobs.

The Partnership also found that several sectors in the area have continued to create new jobs in the downtown Baltimore area. Surprisingly the retail sector generated enough positions to be considered one of the faster growing areas of employment. This is shocking considering that the retail industries in most cities are suffering greatly due to the fact that people have less money to spend on unnecessary consumer goods. Other employers that created new jobs included those in the hotel businesses, restaurant owners and construction companies, the last of which is one of the businesses that have done away with the most jobs across the country. Also generating new positions were the professional services industry and accounting and engineering firms.

Industries where employment saw a decrease in the area included financial companies and publisher. The Partnership said that the latter was especially true for newspaper publishers. With the rise of the Internet, many people have begun using it to get their news. Because of this, newspapers have seen a decline in both their readerships and interested advertisers. Also falling were educational positions, which the Partnership says is due to a hiring freeze.

Although the majority of the report spoke of good news for jobs in downtown Baltimore, the Partnership admitted that they do expect positions to continue to decline for the remainder of 2009. Considering the fact that many experts don’t expect the recession to end for sometime now.

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Illinois Jobs Lost at Hospital

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Although there continues to be plenty of healthcare jobs, some hospitals across country have found it necessary to let go of workers. . Recently the U.S. saw the first overall decline in hospital jobs to be experienced in a long time. Since budgets are tight, doing away with positions is one way to counter act the problems caused by the economic recession. Now one medical system has announced that it will cut doing away with Illinois jobs at its teaching hospitals.

Loyola University Health System announced earlier this week that it will be cutting 443 positions in Maywood Illinois. The reason the Jesuit ran University cited behind doing away with these jobs was the increasing number of patients that are unable to pay their bills.

During a time of economic struggle, rising unemployment causes a ripple effect that hurts even more stable areas of the job market. Just because those who have been laid off by their place of employment now lack health benefits and are unable to pay medical bills, this does not keep these individuals from having issues that must be attended to by doctors. After such medical care is received, the bills of those who lack the funds to pay are left for the hospital to absorb. When the economy is in a good condition, the debts are not usually a problem because the ratio of patients that can pay for themselves is much higher.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times the hospitals unpaid bills increased 28 percent since last year. This translates to $38.4 million. On top of this, the healthcare systems charity care costs rose 30 percent during the first three quarters of this fiscal years, which is $31.3 million.

Loyola will be doing away with a total of 372 full-time jobs. Of these, 69 positions will be cut that are already vacant. Another 71, seven of which are currently open, will be done away with at Loyola University’s Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The newspaper went on to say that 35 of those affected were managers and that another 31 were nurses. Altogether the job cuts represent 8 percent of Loyola University Health System total work force.

Those affected will likely be able to find other jobs in the healthcare industry, even if they have to relocate. This is especially true for the nurses who lost their jobs with Loyola.

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Jobs in Atlanta Created by Delta

Friday, May 8th, 2009

For the first time in 20 months, Atlanta’s unemployment rate dropped last month. According to the Georgia Department of Labor the metro’s jobless rate dropped only slightly, going from 9.2 percent in February to 9.1 percent in March. Still, despite the small decline, any new jobs in Atlanta are a sign of hope to the part of the population that is without work.

Recently Delta Air Lines announced that it will be creating as many as 500 jobs in Atlanta. These positions will be a result of Delta’s merger with Northwest Airlines. Some of these jobs will be taken by employees relocating from Northwest’s Minnesota’s headquarters.

“We have a big recruiting effort underway,” said Richard Anderson, Delta chief executive, to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “We’re getting amazing resumes both locally and from around the United States.”
According to him, the company is already looking to hire 60 “MBA-types” for the Atlanta jobs. Individuals specializing in finance, economics, math and operations research will be needed to work in pricing.

There is also a plan in the work for Delta to expand its operation control center located in Atlanta. Many of the individuals who will fill these positions will be coming from the company’s Minneapolis. According the Anderson speaking to the Constitution, Delta has already become receiving resumes for unfilled positions from people from Atlanta and the rest of the country. Those interested in working for Delta should begin revamping their resumes so that they can start the application process

Despite creating jobs in the Atlanta area, Delta’s merger with Northwest will likely cause the loss of somewhere around 1,000 positions located elsewhere in the country. The cuts will come about as the two airlines have to create one administrative staff. When companies merger it is very common for positions to be done away due to being redundant.

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