SkillSurvey

SkillSurvey | October 24, 2016

One of the most important things that recruiters can do is maintain valuable networks. Social media websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter can be great places to source candidates for these networks, but many recruiters aren’t going far enough. Instead of just spamming the Internet with jobs and hoping somebody qualified bites, what if you had an interested candidate pool ready and waiting for your next job opening? Trawling social media in search of candidates is effective if yo...

SkillSurvey | October 01, 2016

Not long ago, HR professionals phoned or faxed applicant information to their company’s screening vendor, which returned a report by mail weeks later. Verifying past employment and education in the analog era was even more time-consuming. Web-based access and integrations with HR systems changed the game, enabling background checks to be completed much more quickly and conveniently. When screening functions are linked to an applicant tracking system (ATS), candidate data flows directly to ...

SkillSurvey | July 29, 2020

SkillSurvey, the leading provider of cloud-based reference-checking, sourcing and career readiness solutions announced the launch of SkillSurvey Post-HireTM to help organizations gain critical insights at every stage of the employee lifecycle and improve employee engagement and retention. By automating confidential feedback collected from both employees and their managers, organizations can quickly gain actionable insights to improve their hiring and onboarding processes and ensure engagement an...

HR Dive | January 14, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has limited joint employer liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in final regulations published Jan. 12. The rule, slated to be published in the Federal Register Jan. 16, spells out the circumstances under which more than one business can be held liable for FLSA violations. It largely adopts the "four-factor balancing test" from DOL's proposed version of the rule while also clarifying that an employee's "economic dependence&...