New Tools and Content Will Help Give UpMo Users and Robert Half Candidates a Competitive Edge in this Difficult Employment Climate
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Upwardly Mobile (UpMo), the only intelligent, personalized career service that leverages the science behind career success, today announced a strategic alliance with Robert Half International (NYSE: RHI), the world's leading specialized staffing service. Both companies recognize that job losses stemming from economic instability have displaced many outstanding professionals. This collaboration is designed to help job seekers by combining the wealth of content and "personal touch" experience from Robert Half's long history of staffing and placement services with Upwardly Mobile's innovative tools, technology and resources to help highly skilled professionals manage and succeed in their career.
According to recently released unemployment data from the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly six unemployed workers for every job opening, and the unemployment rate has reached 9.5 percent. These figures underscore the need for professionals to be able to respond quickly when presented with either an unexpected job loss or, on a more positive note, an attractive new career opportunity.
"People often overestimate how prepared they are to showcase their skills and experience to hiring managers," said Reesa Staten, senior vice president and director of workplace research at Robert Half International. "By working with UpMo, we'll be able to provide job seekers with a range of valuable online and offline tools and resources that can help them promote themselves to potential employers and advance their careers."
As part of the alliance, Robert Half will provide a portfolio of customized resources through the UpMo service to help professionals prepare for the job hunt including career advice articles, white papers and other timely research. In addition, UpMo and Robert Half are collaborating on a "Job-Hunt Readiness Evaluator," an advanced assessment tool currently in beta that measures how prepared users are to search for and land a job in the next 90 days. The new tool is scheduled for a late summer release. Similar to UpMo's Network Readiness Evaluator, the Job-Hunt Readiness Evaluator asks UpMo users fewer than 25 questions to help them assess their unique career perspective, behavioral traits, skills and network. UpMo leverages its deep scientific base by comparing this information with elite professionals, industry benchmarks and millions of data points to assess how ready users are to land a job in today's market.
