Chiropractic is gaining popularity among pet owners, as a way to treat animals suffering from arthritis, sprains, joint pain and other ailments.
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At the Chiropractor, Well-Adjusted Pets
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
At the Chiropractor, Well-Adjusted Pets
At the Chiropractor, Well-Adjusted Pets
Study Ties Poor Oral Hygiene to Cancer-Causing Virus
Researchers report a greater risk of the human papillomavirus, HPV, but other experts questioned the study.
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Study Ties Poor Oral Hygiene to Cancer-Causing Virus
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
How Exercise Can Help Us Sleep Better
If you habitually experience insomnia, exercise can help you sleep better, a new study found. But it can take up to four months before you see results, and you may sleep worse on days you exercise.
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How Exercise Can Help Us Sleep Better
College Prep, This Time for Health
As recent high school graduates set off for college, the responsibility for their health shifts, and both parents and students should prepare for the change.
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College Prep, This Time for Health
IT Recruiters: Offer Clarity and Cut Through Acronym Jungles
In the recruiting industry, it often seems like IT jobs are unique from every other job in the world. The technical aspects of IT positions and the fact that IT departments are often cultural enclaves within companies with their own distinct policies and attitudes can be intimidating to hiring managers who are unequipped to understand the technical requirements of jobs and therefore find analysing resumes a difficult task. This helps to explain that despite the fact that among IT professionals’ job boards and Internet sites are incredibly popular ways to search for job opportunities, nearly 60% of IT professionals still rely primarily on Recruitment Agencies to find their next job. The value that IT Recruiters offer hiring managers is in the way they can simplify and clarify IT requirements and handle the due diligence of resume sorting. Since hiring managers rely on recruiters, so do the IT pros they’re looking for.
IT Recruiters Offer Clarity
IT often has job requirements that are not immediately clear to people who have not been trained in information technology. It’s a rapidly-evolving industry where knowledge acquired a few years ago can already be considered obsolete, making a deep understanding almost impossible for people who are not working within the industry already – like your typical IT recruiters.
Additionally, IT departments in companies often customise the technologies used, sometimes very heavily. This means that even if a hiring manager has some familiarity with the IT field they may still not have the specific technical knowledge to be able to fairly judge job experience and certifications listed on a typical IT resume.
First Class IT Recruiters help to clarify all the acronyms and certifications with industry-specific knowledge that can quickly sort resumes, identifying the ones that have relevant, up-to-date experience that will match the company goals and culture. We always pride ourselves in having the know-how to identify qualified candidates for every department in your company.
The Importance of Culture
IT professionals often have individual styles and backgrounds, and it’s vital that a match be made not just between the job requirements in terms of things like programming languages, hardware deployment, and systems management, but also between the culture of the specific IT department and the personalities of potential employees.
This is where the best IT Recruiters shine. One of the most effective ways to judge whether an employee who has all the qualifications on paper is also a good match for the existing group and style is through an interview – but when there are a large number of qualified candidates interviews can be too unwieldy. We’ve seen huge success with our online interviews, which use either generic questions or questions supplied by our clients to ‘pre-interview’ applicants. These interviews can be viewed over the Internet, allowing hiring managers and departmental heads to quickly see the applicants responding to queries, allowing them to make an informed decision on the applicant’s suitability. This is part of what sets us apart from other recruiters.
Cutting through Acronym Jungles
IT Recruiters know that IT professionals are prone to littering their resumes and applications with technical terms, acronyms, and achievements that are either standard or extremely easy to be certified in, sometimes with the idea that non-IT professionals reviewing the resume won’t know any better.
As recruiters, it’s our job to know how to cut through these terms and see their true value. We can spot a padded resume from miles away, and we can tell at a glance if an applicant is truly the right technical fit. That combined with our extensive other services gives you all the tools you need to pick the ideal candidate from
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IT Recruiters: Offer Clarity and Cut Through Acronym Jungles
Monday, August 19, 2013
Really? Yawning Is Contagious Between Dogs and Their Owners
Researchers have confirmed what many pet owners have long suspected: Dogs, too, are contagious yawners.
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Really? Yawning Is Contagious Between Dogs and Their Owners
A Salmonella Warning for Vegetarians
Scientists have traced a large outbreak of salmonella to an unusual source: tempeh, the popular meat substitute.
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A Salmonella Warning for Vegetarians
Hiring To Fit Your Corporate Culture: HR Proceedures
The culture of a company has been recognized as an integral part of day to day business. This makes hiring to fit your corporate culture extremely important to ensure that you hire the right candidate who will work well in the environment and reduce the rate of staff turnover.
Why Corporate Culture is Important
Corporate culture has always been in every company, but it has now become more prominent. Many employers now seek to actively mould their culture rather than allow it to progressively develop without structure. A well-defined corporate culture can actively promote great business performance and can result in a much higher rate of staff retention. The most effective examples of corporate culture have been guided and set carefully to be based on shared goals and beliefs between employees and management. It can inadvertently define the perceptions on actions and consequences, for example promoting feedback and responsiveness to ideas. If members of staff feel they may be punished or have ideas received negatively, then they may not come forward even when asked.
The corporate culture is related to almost every aspect of the business including processes, values, environment, goals and structure of the management team. This makes it essential that the new recruit will complement the existing culture, adapting easily to the etiquette involved in work flow and be willing and able to conform to the routines or rituals which make up the culture.
The corporate culture encompasses the package of work routines, environment, values, branding, structure of management and the objectives and goals of the company. This makes it imperative that recruitment takes into account how the applicant will complement the corporate culture, how they will adopt the work flow etiquette and conform to the rituals and routines which contribute to the overall culture. This means that hiring to fit your corporate culture is a must.
HR Procedures which Aid Hiring to Fit Your Corporate Culture
In the past the only way to fully assess whether a candidate would be a good fit into the corporate culture was a face to face interview. Obviously this is extremely slow and an inefficient use of time. However, there are a number of tools now readily available which can make this process quicker and more efficient.
Although it is impractical to attempt to interview all candidates, many applications can be pre-screened. This allows obviously unqualified or unsuitable candidates to be eliminated. This ensures that any applicants who proceed further into the recruiting process have the basic skills or qualifications needed to fulfil the role.
Another suitable procedure to adopt is video applications. Standard written applications can tend to be cold and can fail to showcase the personality of the applicant. Conducting video applications which can be easily viewed again and by multiple recruiters can allow the recruitment panel to view the genuine knowledge of the candidate and by the use of tailored and specific questions, judge whether their personality would be a good fit within the corporate culture. For example if casual Fridays are an integral part of your company culture, the recruiter can judge the candidates suitability based on their reactions on the video application. A candidate who shows enthusiasm for this is far more likely to be a better fit in the culture.
Failing to adapt HR procedures to allow hiring to fit your corporate culture can have a huge impact on your business. Where an unsuitable recruit can impede productivity and lower staff morale, the recruit best suited to the corporate culture will not only increase productivity but will actively increase staff morale and provide a boost to the whole company.
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Hiring To Fit Your Corporate Culture: HR Proceedures
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Improvements to Oil and Gas Recruiting
With advancements in technology, the oil and gas industry is one of the most progressive sectors in the world. However, the techniques for recruiting have fallen woefully short of this high standard. This is largely caused by the oil and gas recruiters lacking the expertise in the technical details to recruit candidates with the nuanced and complex skills and qualities required for the roles. This can be a problem throughout the whole human resources recruitment process, which fails to provide enough of a pool of qualified and suitable candidates to proceed to interview.
Expert Oil and Gas Recruiters
Engaging expert oil and gas recruiters can resolve this problem to a large degree. Having the recruiting process be expert led can allow a greater flow of more accurate information throughout recruitment and produce a larger pool of better quality candidates for the role.
Candidates can be pre-screened for suitability, which can save time and make the whole process more efficient. Pre-screening the applications for skills and experience needed for the role, can ensure that all candidates for interview have the all the prerequisites and are able to fulfill the role. It then allows the interview panel to select the candidate best suited to the role, rather than the most convenient applicant. It also ensures that all attractive and qualified candidates proceed through the recruitment process, rather than be missed due to the time pressure of scanning large numbers of unsuitable applicants.
Expertise in the field of recruiting is also beneficial for offering feedback. Candidates in today’s recruiting market have come to expect feedback in the form of questions, observations or general information. If this can be delivered by an expert recruiter, it will not only keep qualified and suitable candidates interested while a decision is being reached, but will actively improve the effectiveness of the recruitment search.
Promote the Correct Value Proposition
For decades, the brand reputation and equity linked to a company’s name was enough to draw interest and attract the best candidates; the best example of this is the company IBM during the 80’s and 90’s. However, in the last few years this dynamic has changed and many companies are increasingly finding that they need to compete for talent amid the diverse motivations of the women or men that they would pursue. Some candidates are looking for an aggressive career path while others are looking to balance home life and work more equally. So, while a weak economy can provide an advantage to hiring managers, in that they will have more candidates vying for the position, the best and most talented candidates will always maintain an advantage and be in demand.
The companies of today including those with big names in traditional sectors or industries are now finding themselves in competition with niche and start-up companies for the top or best candidates. A company which can identify, define and promote the correct value proposition will be in a position to attract the best skilled and top candidates. In real terms, this means that the position, brand and company should be marketed in the same way as a service or product to convince the top candidates to choose the hiring company.
Creating a Sense of Urgency
Simply because the best candidate for the role may be in great demand, it is important that the recruitment process has a sense of urgency. Obviously this does not mean rushing through recruitment and potentially making a mistake, but taking advantage of all the developments in modern technology to streamline the recruitment process.
Pre-screening plays a role in this, but it is important to use all available resources to ensure time efficiency. Methods such as video interviewing can assist with candidates who live outside the area. This allows for all the benefits of a face to face interview without the inconvenience of long distance travel. These interviews can also be kept on file and reviewed again by different members of an interviewing panel to assess the suitability of a candidate before committing to a formal interview.
The ability to effectively recruit and retain top performing candidates is imperative to the accomplishments and success of any company. This places oil and gas recruiters under considerable pressure to hire the best suited candidate for the role. The most effective way to achieve this is by using a recruiter who has a full understanding of the industry and the specific challenges and requirements. Not using this approach can be counterproductive and become quite costly in the long term.
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Improvements to Oil and Gas Recruiting
Saturday, August 17, 2013
The Calculus of Primary Care
Primary care doctors must sometimes disown a patient to give the best care possible, but patients may resist being handed off to specialists.
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The Calculus of Primary Care
A Powerful Tool in the Doctor’s Toolkit
How caregivers present and administer treatments has a powerful effect on clinical outcomes.
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A Powerful Tool in the Doctor’s Toolkit
[INFOGRAPHIC] A Sneak Peek at The HR Initiatives Survey Results
For the past three years, HealthcareSource has conducted the HR Initiatives Survey in conjunction with the American Society of Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) to determine what the top HR initiatives are to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction and safety. Throughout the month of July, over 400 healthcare HR professionals responded to the web-based survey and were subsequently entered to win one of five ASHHRA memberships. On September 4, 2013, we will be hosting 1-hour webinar to reveal the results and to show you how they compare to last year’s findings. For a sneak peak of the survey results, check out our infographic below!
The results are in! Register for the HealthcareSource & ASHHRA HR Initiatives Survey Webinar, taking place on 9/4 at 1:00p.m. Eastern, to learn what your peers think are the biggest trends in healthcare talent management this year.
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Hiring and Performance Strategies for Healthcare
[INFOGRAPHIC] A Sneak Peek at The HR Initiatives Survey Results
Friday, August 16, 2013
Hot Days, Cold Noodles
Cold Asian noodles can make a light but satisfying meal during the last days of summer Martha Rose Shulman writes in this week’s Recipes for Health.
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Hot Days, Cold Noodles
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