Recruiter News Line

It is no longer theoretical. The Employee Free Choice Act, commonly known as EFCA, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate on March 10, 2009. EFCA had been introduced last year, but never gained enough support to bring it before then-President George Bush, who had promised to veto EFCA.

The tides have now turned, and current President Barack Obama has pledged that he will sign EFCA if it comes across his desk. Recently, President Obama told AFL-CIO leaders that, “[t]o me, and to my administration, labor unions are a big part of the solution. We need to level the playing field for workers and for unions that represent their interests – because we cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement… And as we confront this [economic] crisis and work to… pass [EFCA], I want you to know that you will always have a seat at the table.”

A vote on EFCA could come as early as late spring or early summer. However, there is presently a great deal of speculation as to whether or not EFCA will pass in the Senate. Some Senators who supported EFCA last year are now, particularly given the current economic crisis, wavering in their support of the legislation. Accordingly, it remains to be seen if President Obama will have the opportunity to sign the Act into law.

If EFCA were to pass in its current form, which is the same form as presented last year, it would represent the most dramatic change in labor law over the past 30-plus years. EFCA would essentially eliminate secret ballot elections, which are currently used to establish a union, and replace them with a card check process. Further, EFCA would require that all the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement be determined by a federal arbitrator (or panel) if the parties cannot reach agreement within 120 days of negotiations. The contract imposed by the arbitrator would be in place for two years. Finally, EFCA provides for greater penalties than current law if employers engage in certain unfair labor practices during a union organizing drive or during contract negotiations.

Employers should act quickly to prepare for the possible passage of EFCA. ELI®’s Strengthening Employee Relations™ course addresses managerial responsibilities for maintaining positive employee relations in order to appropriately recognize and respond to signs of union organization. For more information, visit www.eliinc.com.

OptimalResume.com, an innovator in online career services used at more than 600 career centers nationwide, is now offering its private label virtual career platform to the human resources community to help streamline corporate outplacement efforts. At a time when companies and HR departments are facing unprecedented challenges, the need for cost-effective outplacement services for transitioned employees is essential.

Optimal Resume is a customized, scalable solution that can provide transitioned employees at all levels with 24-hour access to a complete suite of self-directed career tools for creating resumes, cover letters, ePortfolios, video introductions and professional networking websites. Job seekers can practice interviews with a state-of-the art virtual job interview practice module, as well as conduct career research and assess their marketable skills.

“Optimal Resume fills the gap between traditional severance and outplacement services,” said David McNasby, COO of Optimal Resume.com. “We can help organizations that are facing significant layoffs reduce their overall outplacement liability while maximizing the delivery of outplacement services.”

Optimal Resume helps job seekers create a compelling presentation of their skills and abilities, facilitating rapid workforce reentry and promoting more efficient and useful interactions between job seekers and outplacement professionals. Through this service, employers can maintain connections with transitioning personnel in a rapidly changing business environment.

“Our solution empowers displaced employees by providing them with vital tools to make the best impression possible,” McNasby said. “Offering Optimal Resume to exiting employees of all levels is a clear demonstration of corporate goodwill that has a tremendously positive brand impact.”

CKR Interactive has released ExCELLerate™

, its complete, mobile recruitment marketing solution. ExCELLerate provides several customized campaign options, allowing for enhanced mobile marketing versatility, to enable employers to target, attract and maintain ongoing communications with prospective candidates. This innovative solution brings together CKR Interactive’s recruitment advertising expertise and CellForce’s tried-and-true mobile marketing capabilities, bringing the power of mobile marketing to clients’ recruitment efforts to help employers attract the top talent they need.

The Mobile Marketing Association and MediaPost have reported these recent mobile use trends:
• Approximately 4 billion cell phones worldwide by the end of 2008
• 53% of US cell phone subscriber base (or 138 million people) use text messaging
• More than 76% of consumers aged 18-24 communicate via this medium
• The average response rate to a mobile call to action is 12%, versus 2% for traditional media, open rates are three times that of email (over 90% of text messages are read by the recipient), click through rates can be up to 25 times higher than email, and the average time to open a mobile marketing message is 30 minutes while email’s average is 24 hours.

ExCELLerate enables instant message delivery to motivated prospects who are interested in your company, and makes it easier to attract both active and passive candidates. This solution is scalable for companies of all sizes and is very well suited to global companies or organizations with multiple locations.

“As mobile use will continue to rise for the foreseeable future, marketing to mobile customers provides an outstanding opportunity for employers to reach and attract the top talent they need with ease,” notes CKR Interactive President/CEO Curtis Rogers.  “We’re very excited about our partnership with CellForce and being able to offer such an exciting interactive recruitment marketing solution to our clients.”

“As mobile consumer reach continues to grow, we find it critical, for the successful utilization of CellForce’s technology, to focus on specific market segments” said Noam Samson, CEO of CellForce. “Our strategic partnership with CKR Interactive brings two dominant players in their respective fields to focus on recruitment marketing and to offer one of the most robust mobile marketing solutions in the industry”.

Industry-Space announced earlier this week that they are finalizing the renaming of their staffing and recruiting company. They will now officially be known as Real Life Recruiting and all of their media/Internet locations will switch along with them to their respective addresses; http://www.realliferecruiting.com/. When Frank and his co-partner Davis decided to split ways, Frank wanted to make Davis’ idea his own. “Plus, there was a lot of misconception as to what service Industry-Space provided.”

They played around with the name for a few months and, “feel the alliteration will work wonders in promoting the company.” Frank Viarra, president, says jokingly. “Hopefully the increased commotion will allow us to help a lot more people find what they are looking for when it comes to employment.”

Real Life Recruiting is a staffing and recruiting agency that helps people find great jobs and businesses find the employees they need to succeed. They pride themselves on being real people while providing first-rate services to others. Their approach is to extensively interview both sides in order to narrow down exactly what each is looking for in the other. In this way, possible matches can happen.

“Industry-Space just didn’t have the draw we needed to be successful.” Frank said of the decision to rename, “Real Life Recruiting is more descriptive of who we are as well as what we do.”

Real Life Recruiting is located in Las Vegas, NV and concentrates primarily in that area, with a few accounts in other cities across the U.S. Staying local allows them to be a leader in their field and gives them access to quality relationships with the local businesses. Even though they’ve changed their name, they’ve used the same proven process since their start in 2003.

ResumeFinders.com is a brand new service offering a unique concept in the world of human resources.  You list your job openings with us, we place the ads, review the resumes and send you the best candidates.  You do the interviewing just like you would anyway.  We have a flat fee that is very reasonable per job opening that you list with us.  Your organization will save time and money and never have to use a recruiting firm again.  We accept job listings from almost every industry for almost every position.

Not every recruiter is proficient in using Boolean strings, searching the social media sites, and finding new job orders.   There are a lot of sites to keep track of, and a lot of technology to keep up with, and it takes a lot of productive time to keep looking at a Boolean cheat sheet and trying to type in your search strings in order to find valuable candidates and get your job orders filled quickly.

Recruiting Rocket has launched a new tool that makes it easy to find candidates with resume’s posted online adfadasdf, as well as in popular social media sites such as Linkedin, Plaxo, andCraigslist.   The software is a free add on to Internet Explorer that installs as a toolbar and is always available from within your web browser.

John Kaufman, developer of the software said “As an active full time recruiter, I am always looking for easy ways to accomplish more in less time.  I felt like there should be a free tool that allowed recruiters to be more effective in our daily activities, and make recruiting fun”.  Kaufman also said that even as a long time sourcing expert, use of Booleans in searching for resume’s and social media profiles can be a time consuming and inconsistent chore.

Additional features of the software allow recruiters to search multiple job boards, meta job search engines, local time search, and even do phone number lookups to find candidate’s home phone numbers.  The software can be downloaded for free at:  http://recruitingrocket.com/recruiter’s-toolbar.html

Contact John Kaufman for more insights into this topic.  Direct line: (440) 497-4304 Email: jkaufman@recruitingrocket.com Other helpful information regarding the this product or service can be found at: http://www.RecruitingRocket.com.

RecruitingRocket.com is a Recruiting Network where recruiters can post jobs and candidates in order to connect with other recruiters and make more placements.

www.SeminarInformation.com, the largest database of seminars on the Internet, offers visitors to the website a number seminars designed to help HR professionals cope with the current economic difficulties facing today’s business world.

Complete course outlines are provided so that potential attendees can find just the right seminar. Find a workable date and location and then enroll right on the website or by phone at 877-SEM-INFO.

Some of the courses aimed specifically at the HR professional include:

Today’s HR: Designs for Strategic Partnerships (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbvcg/todays-hr-desig …) by Linkage
In this program, participants will examine case studies on how HR departments have transformed and redesigned their resources by employing business and OD skills to become a true business partner.

Strategic Human Resources Planning (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqaquj/strategic-human …) by Cornell University
This two-day workshop introduces the participant to the elements of strategic Human Resources planning and provides a hands-on opportunity to begin the development of a Human Resources strategic plan for their organization, one that links to their corporate business plan.

Human Resources Measurement and Metrics (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbtgm/human-resources …) by the American Management Association.
Establish HR as a strategic partner, not an expense center — and propel HR success!

Essentials of Human Resources Management (http://www.seminarinformation.com/

qqacrl/essentials-of-human-resources-management) by the American Management Association

Human Resources and the Law (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbcxm/human-resources-and-the-law) by Padgett Thompson

Human Resources For Professionals who’ve Recently Assumed HR Responsibilities (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbshl/human-resources-for-professionals-whove-recently-assumed) by National Seminars

The Basics of HR Law (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqblnt/the-basics-of-hr-law) by Padgett Thompson

The Role of Human Resources in Organization Development (http://www.seminarinformation.com/qqbqpr/the-role-of-human-resources-in-organization-development)
by Cornell University

There are over 600 seminar sponsors who list their training programs on the SeminarInformation.com (http://www.seminarinformation.com/) website on a variety of topics. Some of the other sponsors include Skillpath, Fred Pryor, Linkage, UCLA, Boston University, Federal Publications, Cross Country Education, American Trainco, HOTT, Global Knowledge and MRA.

Find seminars on general management, finance and accounting, technical and engineering, manufacturing, data management, the latest software, time and stress to name just a few of the seminar topics found on the website.

Seminar consultants are available at 877-736-4636 to assist with registrations, answer questions and make recommendations.

Verified Credentials, Inc., the leader in background screening since 1984, announced today the nationwide availability of their web-based Electronic I-9 Verification solution, enabling employers to verify the work eligibility of newly hired employees through the U.S. government’s E-Verify system.

E-Verify is an online system that provides access to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) databases to registered participants. As a Certified Designated Agent for E-Verify, Verified Credentials can now submit queries to DHS and SSA government databases and compare the information with an employee’s I-9 form, including Social Security number, work visa authorization, I-94 arrival and departure numbers, and immigration “A” number.

Verified Credentials’

new Electronic I-9 Verification provides employers with an easier, more efficient way to electronically administer post-hire employment eligibility verifications within Verified Credentials’ proprietary, web-based background screening solution.

Verified Credentials simplifies I-9 management for employers through:
– An easy, streamlined online submission process.
– Email notices and instructions when follow-up action is required by the employer.
– Paperless storage of results and communications.
– Real-time status updates for fast turnaround.

“The new Electronic I-9 Verification expands Verified Credentials’ services beyond employment background screening to help employers consolidate human resources processes and records,” said Kevin Spang, CEO of Verified Credentials. “As state and federal regulations continue to expand, the process we have defined for our new Electronic I-9 Verification will not only help employers meet these E-Verify regulations, but also streamline and simplify the process with the same outstanding customer service, quality and accuracy Verified Credentials has always provided.”

Recruiting firm executives Eugenia Kaneshige and Joseph Norwood have announced the formation of career counseling firm Norwood Career Advisors.

“As the employment market has rapidly changed from a candidate driven market to a company driven one, we’re excited to share our relationship development skills with many more people than we can as executive recruiters,” says Joseph Norwood, managing partner at Norwood Career Advisors.

Adds managing partner Eugenia Kaneshige, “Getting a job is all about selling yourself to a potential employer, and I’m very excited about teaching people how to do that.”

With the current unemployment rate at 8.9%, Charlotte ranks in the bottom 10% of the fifty most populous cities in the U.S.

For many years, the economic sun shone brightly on Charlotte—allowing it to bask in one of the highest growth rates in the country. One of the chief engines of that growth came from the bankers who sought to build Charlotte into a major financial center. Now, however, most Charlotteans would be surprised to learn that if they are among the ranks of the unemployed, their chances of finding a new job are statistically better in the Rust Belt than here in the Queen City.

The very personal devastation that the job losses were inflicting on their friends and neighbors provided the impetus for the formation of Norwood Career Advisors. Transplants themselves, Eugenia Kaneshige describes what had brought so many people to Charlotte, “the hope of retiring in one of the most beautiful cities in the country.”

Norwood Career Advisors is a Charlotte, NC-based career counseling firm that gives job seekers a competitive edge against the rising tide of qualified candidates that surface for every job opening. Norwood Career Advisors’ consultants are all former senior executives who also have experience as executive recruiters. They are intimately aware of the hiring trends and the processes that hiring managers employ, instilling confidence in their clients and shaving precious time off the job search process.

Las Vegas, NV – A local leader in the employment and staffing industry is throwing caution to the wind and opening their doors on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009 to sign up job seekers and businesses alike for a one-month free trial of their services.

“It’s hard enough right now for both sides of the employment crisis, and we feel compelled to help with a jumpstart.” Said Frank Viarra, Founder and President of Real Life Recruiting, “Plus, it doesn’t hurt that in this industry, word of mouth is everything.”

A one-month trial is being offered to the first thirty people or businesses that sign up for the company’s recruiting services. “We match the kind of employees a business needs to people that are qualified to do the work, and we work to connect people to the kind of companies they aspire to work for.” Viarra explained about how Real Life Recruiting works. “It’s a waste of time for everyone to hire the wrong person.”

Real Life Recruiting works differently than the typical recruiting agency, as it provides thorough tests and interviews in order to narrow down the exact needs and abilities of both job seekers and businesses. They aim not to just put workers into jobs but to place – and keep – people into positions in which they will love and thrive.

“That’s the beauty of having placement specialists - they uncover hidden talents for people that open doors into businesses they may never have thought to explore.” Real Life Recruiting boasts an unheard of 97% satisfaction rate of both employees and businesses. And 9 out of 10 people that were placed since conception are not only still employed but exceeding in the company.

The company is based out of Las Vegas, NV and is locally connected with a majority of the businesses in the area. They have the connections you want and need when looking for a good job or employee.