Archive for July, 2011

Social Recruiting Rules of Engagement

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

 A recent survey revealed 89% of companies plan to use social recruiting this year (Jobvite). Utilizing social networking from a recruiting perspective is a tricky task. As a recruiter I had been leery of using social networking to market my positions. I didn’t want to have to inundate my friends and colleagues with available jobs [...]

‘Embedded’ workers less likely to quit

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

TEXAS A&M (US) — To get ahead of turnover—and prevent valuable employees from leaving—employers need to know how “embedded” workers are in the job. “Are they satisfied, embedded, on the fence?” says Wendy Boswell, a business professor at Texas A&M University. “Are they flight risks? If so, and if they are top employees, you might be wise [...]

Should Twitter be banned or required?

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

While many companies have struggled to limit or ban the access of twitter and other social media, People Science is requiring it. For the last two months, each employee at People Science chose a day to tweet about their personal impressions on our twitter account @People_Science. Our goal is to show what the inner workings [...]

You are what you measure.