Via Scoop.it – personnel psychology
A new study shows that using the Internet to look for a job reduces the time spent unemployed by an average of 25 percent.   The discovery directly contradicts a 2004 study showing that using the Internet actually prolonged unemployment. «In 2004 the researchers came up with two scenarios for their findings — the Internet was not an effective tool or that people who looked on-line for jobs were not as qualified,» said Hani Mansour, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver who conducted the new study with Peter Kuhn, economics professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The sweep and depth of the Internet has also changed dramatically since the late 1990s, Mansour said. The share of young unemployed workers using the web to look for employment increased from 25 percent in1998/ 2000 to 74 percent in 2008/2009. Utilizing the Internet has a large impact on the duration of unemployment especially when used to contact friends and family. A decade ago, Mansour said, people who didn’t have personal contacts used the Internet for their job search to little effect. Now, those using personal contacts on-line have dramatically increased their chances of finding employment. Job sites themselves are better designed and far more specific and user friendly than in the past. «This hypothesis is certainly consistent with our findings that the Internet is highly effective when used to look at ads, to send out resumes and to fill applications,» the study said. «Simply because the Internet now connects each work to many more firms (and vice versa) in several new and low-cost ways it may be a more powerful tool in the job search process than it was a decade ago.» Mansour and Kuhn’s study drew on data collected from surveys of young job seekers, asked a series of questions about the methods they used to find employment. «What we don’t find is that online job search increases wages compared to the worker’s last job,» Mansour said. The findings, says Mansour, help solve the puzzling results of the 2004 study showing the Internet increased the time spent unemployed. «We speculate that significant improvements in technology over this period, ranging from better on-line job sites to network externalities associated with greater overall Internet penetration itself, might explain this change over time,» the study said.
Via www.sciencedaily.com

Via Scoop.it – Greek HR

Διοίκηση Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού στην Ευρώπη: Τάσεις και Προκλήσεις, Αθήνα 3 Μαΐου 2012.   Το Συνέδριο πραγματοποείται υπό την επιστημονική καθοδήγηση του Μεταπτυχιακού Προγράμματος Σπουδών στην Διοίκηση Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού του Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.   Κύροι ομιλητές του συνεδρίου θα είναι οι Prof. Arnold Bakker και Prof. David Guest.  
Via hrm2012.wordpress.com

Via Scoop.it – Greek HR

Money isn’t everything. But for measuring national success, it has long been pretty much the only thing (other than, of course, sports). The specific metric that has prevailed since World War II is the dollar value of a country’s economic output, expressed first as gross national product, later as gross domestic product. This is an improvement over ranking by military victories—the most time-honored gauge. And the era of GNP and GDP has been characterized by a huge global rise in living standards and in wealth. At the moment, though, GDP is embattled. Economists and national leaders are increasingly talking about measuring a country’s status with other metrics and even with a squishy-seeming concept like “happiness.” A 2009 study on alternatives to GDP, commissioned the year before by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and led by the economists Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, has become a global wonk sensation. In October 2011 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)—a club of the world’s wealthy nations—followed with a “How’s Life?” report on “well-being” in its member countries. Each year since 2007 the private Legatum Institute has published a global Prosperity Index, a sophisticated mix of economic and other indicators. Individual nations are getting into the game, with Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK making the biggest waves by unveiling plans to measure national well-being. There are decades-old challenges to GDP as well, such as the United Nations’ Human Development Index and the Kingdom of Bhutan’s insistence that it is out to maximize not GNP or GDP but GNH—“gross national happiness.”
Via hbr.org

Via Scoop.it – Greek HR

Η διαδικασία της συνέντευξης είναι ένα από τα βασικότερα κριτήρια για την τελική επιλογή του υποψήφιου εργαζόμενου. Ας δούμε ορισμένα μικρά μυστικά και χρήσιμες συμβουλές που αναφέρονται από ειδικούς…
Via www.flowmagazine.gr

Συνέντευξη που δόθηκε την Δευτέρα 28/11/2011 στην εκπομπή ΣΚΑΙ Τώρα του τηλεοπτικού σταθμού ΣΚΑΙ σχετικά με τον ρόλο των Ιστοσελίδων Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης στην αναζήτηση και εξεύρεση εργασίας (από το 48.30′).