Happy Friday! Take a look at the latest recruiting news that popped on our newsfeed this week:
5 Benefits of Paperless Electronic Onboarding: #1 Automate Candidate Communications
All throughout the month of May we’ll be looking at the benefits of electronic onboarding. Electronic Onboarding with iConnect allows you to take control of the mountain of new hire paperwork and manage it online in your secure iRecruit database. Automate Communication with new hires.
WOTC Questions: Is it 28 days from hire or from their first day? (Read @ WOTC Blog)
CMS Says: This question refers to WOTC’s 28 Day Rule. The 28 days begins from the first date the new employee begins working for you, earning a wage. It does not include any unpaid training time. CMS recommends that you file your WOTC “paperwork” with us on a daily or weekly basis in order to make sure you do not miss out on any potential tax credits.
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates (Read @ ERE)
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting help-wanted signs on the Internet is a recipe for ice-cold capitalism, but Monster is rolling out changes it thinks will make the job search process a littler warmer-and-fuzzier.
6 Quick Things You Can Do to Take Your Glassdoor Presence to the Next Level (Read @ Glassdoor)
Ask any savvy recruiter, and they’ll tell you: We’re in the middle of a job seeker’s market. Between consistently declining unemployment rates, a healthy economy and nearly six million open jobs, today’s top candidates have the luxury of getting choosy with where they decide to work. Their destination for researching companies and then applying to jobs? Glassdoor.
Report: How Can Small Businesses Find Big Talent? (Read @ Indeed)
In the US, entrepreneurship and opportunity go hand in hand. Not only do entrepreneurs get to be their own bosses, but they also create jobs for others. And there are countless stories of people who arrived on these shores with very little, only to acquire their own piece of the American dream by opening their own small businesses.