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Technology and Recruiting

November 3, 2016 by ces

The use of technology has made the task of recruiting new employees much less cumbersome. In some ways, though, it has made the process much more impersonal. Either way, the tools available today to HR personnel are making a tough job a little easier.

Before we started backing up to the cloud, using sharing mobile apps, dropbox, HR was the home of paperwork. But with the evolution of HR technology recruitment has become incredibly simplified.

Jerome Gouvernel, Vice President for ADP’s Product Incubation Group explains how HR technology has grown from the dawn of the internet to today and gives us a look into the future.

“There was no single place where you could transmit information about a new hire. There were multiple systems or a mishmash of stuff. Usually, there wouldn’t even be anything recorded into the computer until the information hit payroll.”

Major company recruiters spend hours sifting through hundreds of candidates to find the elusive “perfect fit” – that precious needle in the talent haystack. The job takes tons of time and draws on expertise ranging from compensation to compliance. Well, scouting for talent just got easier, faster, more secure and more accurate now that ADP and LinkedIn® have integrated their recruiting solutions.

What used to be a paper intensive process now has linked itself to technology and the access to talent has taken on a new life. Screening, research and verification are now working hand in hand with the explosion of technology.

If you are preparing to expand your business in 2017, we have access to tools and information that can help your HR department, or you can hire us to serve as your HR Department.

Jennifer Comer

Complete Employee Solutions of Vero Beach

Hiring Trends 2016

October 26, 2016 by ces

Here in Vero Beach companies are growing and new companies are moving into town. Our people at the Chamber of Commerce and city managers are actively recruiting light industry, heading to Atlanta and Chicago to tell small to medium sized companies what a great city Vero Beach is. We are optimistic by this time next year we will still be growing and the hiring trends will continue. In our downtown area, which had begun to look a little neglected, restaurants are re-vamping their look and menu, new, eateries are moving in, new shops are opening. It’s exciting to watch.

For a long time most of our jobs have been related to the tourist trade. We are still a tourist destination, but with new companies moving in, that means more new people, which creates revenue and the need for support services for all the new households. Our friends at White Glove Moving and Storage have had one of their busiest years ever! So, is it just something that we are experienceing here in the Treasure Coast, or is this uptick in employment happening every where? And if it is, what types of jobs are companies looking to fill?

Ivy Exec.com had some great insights as to where the biggest hiring surges will be for the rest of this year:

“Current U.S. employees—especially those looking to switch jobs—can expect a raise in 2016. A WorldatWork study found U.S. workers can expect an average base salary raise of 3.1 percent next year, but top performers can expect higher-than-average merit-based salary increases. New research from The Conference Board found that labor markets have tightened faster than expected, and that could mean employers will have to start raising wages faster than they have been. And research from SHRM and Rutgers University shows that the newly hired are seeing increased pay—which reflects the need for businesses to raise wages in order to attract new talent.

For those doing the hiring, employee retention will be a top priority in the new year. In fact, LinkedIn’s 2016 Global Recruiting Trends report found that nearly 60 percent of companies are investing more in their brand in an effort to keep current employees happy and recruit new, well-qualified talent.

Some of the job market and hiring trends to keep in mind as we head into the new year:

Hiring isn’t limited to technology and healthcare.

Sure, those sectors are growing, but there are plenty of opportunities for new jobs and long-term, thriving careers in areas like marketing, sales, finance and transportation. Recent studies have found that among the top ten fastest growing occupations are nurses, software developers and network and computer system administrators, marketing managers, sales managers, industrial engineers, construction professionals and financial managers.

However, if you are a software developer, it’s going to be a great year.

There’s no question software developers are still in high demand. Nearly one in every 20 open job postings in the U.S. is related to software development and/or engineering. Also in demand, is expertise with data analytics –now one of the most in-demand skills in the U.S.

Marketing manager becomes a tech job.

Some of the highest growth tech companies, like Amazon and Facebook, have a great need for marketing managers. In fact, it’s the highest volume job opening after software developer/engineer. But the requirements are changing, because of the rapid growth of digital consumer advertising. The job increasingly requires the use of analytics to navigate new marketing channels and ways of acquiring customers.

Millennials take the reins.

We’ll see a lot more Millennials in management positions in 2016. A new study from Upwork reports that nearly 30 percent of managers today are Millennials, with five percent seniors managers and two percent in executive positions. The study found that within ten years nearly half of Millennials are aiming to be senior managers; seven percent want to be executives and 15 percent want to be business owners. The global consultancy EY (Ernst & Young) is a good example of this leadership transition underway–about 60 percent of its managers are Millennials, as well as 18 percent of its senior managers.

Video will become an even more important recruiting tool.

The use of video to attract and recruit talent is increasing because of its high impact—it’s an engaging way to show the culture of a company, as well as the excitement and passion around the the company’s mission, products and services. Expect to see more employee videos shot on cell phones, to give a more authentic peek inside a company, as well as personalized recruiting videos, video job descriptions and, yes, even video job offers.

Recruiting will be more data-driven.

The technology available to recruiters today is better than it’s ever been, allowing them to optimize the entire recruiting and hiring process, from job descriptions to the process of nurturing and interviewing candidates, to developing and setting compensation. Letting data guide the hand of recruiters will most likely make the experience better for job candidates, allowing companies to better establish and nurture relationships with both current and potential candidates.

The Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern U.S. will see the most hiring.

According to the Collegiate Employment Research Institute, states in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southcentral, as well as the Central Midwest will see the greatest uptick in hiring, as much as a 40 percent increase from last year. In fact, regional employers will be increasing their hiring by the greatest percentage next year, nearly 20 percent over 2015. U.S. employers, the Institute’s new trend report says, “are entering the recruiting season with very high expectations for hiring.”

Keep Complete Employee Solutions in mind when your company starts to take off. We know how to handle Payroll, HR, and Employee Leasing.

Jennifer Comer

Complete Employee Solutions Hints

October 5, 2016 by ces

Vero Beach HR help, human resources for small businesses, Complete cmployee solutions provides human resources services for Indian River County companies, HR services Sebastian, HR services Johns Island, HR services beach side — Colleagues working on a computer in an office.

At Complete Employee Solutions we offer Payroll Services and Employee Leasing, but we also offer Human Resources services as well. Human Resources is usually the department which sets the rules for how Employees dress at work. Here in Florida, because our weather is usually pretty warm, we tend to dress more casually than people would in other parts of the country.

In the past, work dress was at minimum a pair of dress pants or chinos for men. A collared shirt and close toed shoes were also the standard dress. For women, close toed shoes, dress slacks, skirts or dresses with some sort of sleeve were pretty much the standard. [Read more…]

Balancing Work and Personal Life

September 19, 2016 by ces

The rest of the civilized world takes a couple of months off each year. Here in America, some of us are proud of the fact that we take an entire weekend off. While that may seem like a good thing, all of this dedication to work, what is it doing to us personally?

If we take more time for ourselves can we still be competitive? When our phones notify us every time we get a new email, is it okay to ignore those once we are home? And what happens to our relationships when all we ever do is work, or get stressed because of work? How can we have a relaxing and healthy relationship with our partner, our children, our family? Does doing well at our careers mean we can’t have a good personal life?

Chris Boyce published a post on EBN addressing this issue and I like some of what what he is saying:

“…The great news is we can have it both ways. The key to achieving a more fulfilling existence personally and professionally requires an acceptance that work and personal life will continue to blur, that finding gratification in a busy job and a rich personal life is not about creating walls between them, but proactively, productively and successfully allowing them to integrate.
We’re all in the process of adjusting the way we work. The economic downturn, combined with the rapid evolution of workplace, personal and social technology, creates jobs that are more demanding, require near-constant attention, and lie quite literally in the palm of our hand; our to-do list is never further than our cell phone.
Of course employees are stressed out, but instead of viewing this new level of accessibility as an interference with extracurricular life, employees and employers need to view it as a new pathway, one that works both ways. For successful work-life integration we simply can’t bring work into the home. We also need to also carry personal goals, challenges, passions and priorities into the workplace.”

It is important to understand that personal relationships play a vital role in our overall mental health, and the two need not be mutually exclusive. A person who has a relatively happy and satisfying personal life will probably do better at work. Just as more companies are offering fitness programs and incentives, healthier meals and other benefits, so should they emphasize the importance of taking time to rest and renew.

Jennifer Comer

New Rules for Overtime Pay

August 30, 2016 by ces

You are a growing company, in the past your salaried employees were used to working all kinds of hours, but getting paid the same amount each month. In some instances that took their average hourly pay to down below minimum wage. While that may have simply been the symptoms of a growing business for some companies, for others, who should have been compensating their employees for all of those extra hours, they got away with something that perhaps they shouldn’t have. [Read more…]