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2008 Recruiting Trends: Most Companies Foresee Increased Recruiting and Staffing
Activity in 2008, Despite Economic Concerns
Jobfox Poll Finds Employers Looking in New Places for Top Candidates
Corporate recruiters foresee increased staffing activities in 2008, despite hold-the-line company budgets coupled with recession warnings from many economists, according to a new Jobfox (www.jobfox.com) poll.
"Recruiting activities must continue to expand because top candidates – those with high-level skills – are instrumental to creating sustainable competitive advantages," said Rob McGovern, the CEO of Jobfox. "Top talent is even more critical in a down economy."
While 56 percent of recruiters and human resource managers surveyed from the Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco Bay and Washington, D.C., regions said recruiting and staffing activity will increase in 2008, 50 percent said recruiting budgets will remain at 2007 levels in 2008. Only 7 percent said budgets will decrease.
The exit of the Baby Boomers from the workplace continues to put pressure on companies to rethink recruiting strategies for 2008 and beyond, said McGovern, the creator of CareerBuilder and now the founder of Jobfox. Jobfox combines precision skills matching and professional branding to more efficiently link already-employed candidates with new job opportunities. "Employers are seeking more intelligent ways to source high achievers."
Traditional recruiting channels – aiming mostly at active seekers – aren't getting the job done, according to more than 250 recruiters from a wide range of industries who participated in the Jobfox poll. More than two-thirds (69 percent) said that 90 percent or more of the resumes they reviewed – from traditional online sources such as CareerBuilder, Monster and Craigslist – are not qualified enough to pursue further.
In addition to turning to new sites such as Jobfox to better reach already-employed professionals, known by recruiters as "passive seekers," recruiters are exploring groups such as retirees and stay-at-home parents as new hires.
To help fill positions, 37 percent of the corporate hiring representatives polled are now sourcing retirees or plan to target retirees in 2008. Stay-at-home moms and dads are also on the radar screen for 22 percent of the recruiters polled.
"The advanced professional – especially if they have proven management and communication skills – will remain in the driver's seat in 2008," McGovern said.
About Jobfox
Jobfox is the Web's first personal-branding site that puts candidates in control of career-advancement opportunities. As a candidate-focused site, where professionals showcase their unique career strengths and goals, Jobfox intelligently matches and alerts professionals – in real time – to new career opportunities from talent-hungry companies. Visit www.jobfox.com today.
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Deep Release: Team Building – Impact Achievement Group's Breakthrough Approach using the Harrison Assessment® System
A popular assessment tool can revolutionize team building, says Impact Achievement Group
Team building has long been touted as a panacea for myriad corporate ills – such as low employee productivity, disloyalty and substandard group outcomes – driving many organizations to invest in workshops, seminars and retreats. Yet, a new application of a popular assessment tool can revolutionize team building, according to Impact Achievement Group.
In a breakthrough approach, Impact Achievement group leverages the Harrison Assessment® System to provide an accurate prediction of team performance, recognizing that self-management is the foundation for management and leadership development.
Most organizations resort to team building exercises to improve performance or remedy a dysfunctional team. Rather than traditional "feel good" activities, there is much more leverage in understanding the underlying team member traits and preferences. This allows team members to become self-aware and self-manage, continuously improving team performance in present, and future, situations. An ideal tool to achieve tangible results is found in workshops that integrate the Harrison Assessment® team application, according to Impact Achievement Group.
"When teams come to understand the underlying nature of the individual relationships within their team, they can take responsibility for continuous improvement for team performance," said Lee Klepinger, president of Impact Achievement Group. "In this way, teams become more proficient at self-management and adopt a process for resolving conflicts and disputes, in addition to taking advantage of diverse points of view and leadership traits."
The Harrison Assessment® System is a highly validated instrument that is effectively used for selection, developmental coaching, succession planning, and team development. According to Klepinger, Harrison's exhaustive research and unique Paradox Theory reveals team dynamics in a way that has never before been possible, enabling individual team members to easily identify how their behaviors contribute or obstruct the team objectives. It provides a step-by-step plan in which each team member can make adjustments to facilitate optimal team performance.
The Harrison Assessment® System helps team members identify paradoxical traits of their own behavior and how their behavioral patterns interact with the patterns of other team members. Through case studies, challenging activities, and guided discussion, Impact Achievement Group helps members assess the team behavior patterns against templates for communication, decision making, innovation, risk taking, motivation, power, leadership, accountability, strategy and organization. Teams can then focus individual member strengths in more productive ways, and leverage their specific individual talents to reach team goals.
About Impact Achievement Group
Impact Achievement Group is a training and performance management consulting company that provides assessments, coaching, story-based interactive workshops, and simulations for managers at all levels of organizations worldwide. Impact Achievement Group helps companies dramatically improve management and leadership competency for bottom-line results. Company experts Rick Tate and Julie White, Ph.D. are internationally recognized authorities in leadership development, human performance, customer-focused business strategies and workplace communications.
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