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  The U.S. Senate is ready to approve the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which is aimed at increasing jobs by giving employers a "payroll tax holiday." Under the HIRE Act, employers would not have to pay the employer's share of Social Security tax for new employees hired ... Read More

This is the second in a two-part column dealing with the importance of a person’s character in recruiting.  The first column entitled Up in the Air is available at www.weddles.com/recruiternews. We recruiters are constantly attending conferences and Webinars, training programs and tutorials on the ... Read More

According to the American Payroll Association’s 2009 Survey of Salaries and the Payroll Profession, those in payroll positions with the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation earn, on average, 15.5% higher salaries than those without the CPP designation. I’m sure the same trend holds true ... Read More

Your employment brand has a dramatic effect on the employees you hire and the success of your organization.  It starts with recruitment advertising and goes all the way to retirement.  Top notch employers monitor their brand image while shaping it to attract employees who best fit the model.  ... Read More

1.  Follow companies that you are interested in and pay attention to their jobs, their values, and their accomplishments.  Re-tweet and respond when appropriate (For example re-tweet news of a great accomplishment or milestone and be sure to congratulate them).  2.  Share your search with ... Read More

Recently a job seeker asked me - "it has been 6 months, what am I doing wrong - why haven't I been hired?".  Sound familiar?  Here is the good and the bad news: Unfortunately, the length of this person's job search is normal for today's economy. According to the BLS, the average job search ... Read More

Keywords are a central feature of our business day.  We use them to search our resume databases and to parse through the profiles and resumes posted on job boards and social networking sites.  The problem, of course, is that we pesky humans have a bad habit of using different words to express the ... Read More