Softscape Introduces New Job Distribution Service

Softscape recently announced the Softscape Job Distribution Service that utilizes social networking sites and enables customers to reach a considerably greater candidate pool with each job posting. The service is offered as part of the Hiring & Recruiting Suite within Softscape's complete talent management software platform. The Softscape Job Distribution Service taps into social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Job Losses to Decrease in Early 2010?

Well, it looks like things are starting to look up!  The trend of employment in the U.S. strengthened for the second consecutive month, according to a report released Monday.

The Conference Board said that its October employment trends index rose to 89.3 from a revised 88.7 in September, which was originally reported as 88.5. The October reading was the highest since March 2009, but it was down 13.2% from a year ago.

"The historical relationship between the index and employment suggests that job losses will end in early 2010," by a source at the Conference Board. "While layoffs have certainly declined in recent months, we still expect to see employers adding hours to their existing workforce before hiring will strongly increase."

In October, the improving indicators were jobless claims, the number of temporary employees, industrial production and real manufacturing and trade sales.

Last Friday's government report on October employment showed that the U.S. labor markets are improving, but only slowly, and there are far more jobseekers than jobs available. That report showed payrolls fell by 190,000 last month and the layoffs in August and September were revised down. But the jobless rate jumped to 10.2% from 9.8% in September.  

4 Reasons to Re-Read Resumes of Current Employees

The companies we work for are often so blinded by what we can do for them today, that they forget what we have done before.  With the understanding that each of us is hired to help a company achieve their goals (not our own), I still believe that forgetting the past and only looking towards the future is a mistake.

The solution is simple.  Re-read employees resumes every six months.

This exercise helps managers paint a more complete picture of the employees working for them.  If organizations ignore the past, I propose that it creates several problems which can be detrimental to the employee-employer relationship.

Here's why...

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