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Blog Post: Why You Need to Wean Yourself Off Being Busy

7 Smart Reasons to Quit being Busy…

Added by Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon at 1:58pm on February 9, 2016

Blog Post: Agree/Disagree: So you want to be an Executive Recruiter? Response: Hello, Everyone. I stumbled across this article written in 1998 and the words of advice and matter of opinion seem to be right on! I am curious to know what other…; Added by Delores Ipms at 11:35pm on January 21, 2011

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Blog Post: Start Your Unusually Creative Journey to HR’s Edge

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Added by Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon at 9:54am on February 26, 2016

Blog Post: Staffing agencies: do they have a future?: I used to work for a staffing agency. A good one at that. One that tried hard to recruit good consultants, who, on the whole, tried hard to do a good job finding the right people for their…; Added by Nick Leigh-Morgan at 7:21pm on May 30, 2012

Blog Post: Tips to Working With A Recruiter: Trust Me - I'm An Expert; Filed under category "Insider Tips": Reviewing my introduction on blogspot.com, I noticed that I promised "insider tips, tricks, etc." as an ongoing part of my blog. Reviewing past entries, I noticed a lack of tips and/or tricks.…; Added by Nancy Ford at 4:24pm on September 23, 2008

Topic: The latest from The Good News Group (Recruiters): edundancies, I honestly feel that the market is telling us that we have started to climb back from the bottom. Approximately 5000 people have exited the recruitment industry in the UK over the last 6 months, voluntarily or otherwise. Many businesses have either closed or dropped out; it has been a worrying time. What we are left with is still a sizeable market with fewer players. Those that have ridden the storm have proved themselves resilient, have upped their game, got on the phone and won new business. The demand from clients and candidates for quality over speed is allowing recruiters to add real value. It is a great time to be in the market! More of you have been active in the group this week, further echoing my feelings that things are getting better. Lisa Johnson of Jarvis Johnson in Doncaster work in the food sector and report winning 4 new interim roles after a quiet period, Jackie brown from Jackie Brown medical listed 511 new jobs that had been created in Ireland recently (news strangely missing from the papers, seems bad news sells!),Graeme Read of Antal reports that his excellent business is winning new roles in Saudi at a senior level and that construction is still the key recruitment area in the middle east, John O'sullivan of Elite Recruitment Leaders (who I regularly speak for) reports a record increase members indicating more independent recruitment businesses are feeling confident enough to start investing as well as recruiting through the Elite Academy and Steve Ames of rec to rec company Shadow UK, continues this theme reporting that he has secured 17 new roles for recruiters across a range of sectors. If there is not enough there to get you excited about what’s happening you must be a real "mood hover" and determined not to succeed. Better times are here so share the news! I was delighted to read from Wendy Jacob of G.F. Partnership about the good news board they have put up in the office to promote the good news. A great idea, another of my clients now gets each consultant to bring in a good news story to the morning meeting, one is picked out of a hat and discussed and this story is then featured as a screen save. Very effective and free! Also using good news boards are Lisa Carr at The Recruitment Bureau and Lyn Cecil of secretaries plus. I was particularly pleased to see Lyn contributing. Lyn is a recruitment legend with offices over Vivienne Westwood’s shop. I first came across Lyn when I was a spotty member of the IEC and Lyn was then president of either the Ferrari or Porsche owners club, at a time when women weren't supposed to drive fast cars. Please keep posting. I'm on the road again this week presenting Tin Hat Strategy (the full version) and launching Elite Leaders group in Dublin on Tuesday 19th. This is a taster and there are still a few places left, if you want a free ticket e-mail me quickly. My hope for this group is to link the members in Ireland with the members in the UK and see how we can all work together and increase trade through joint ventures, new business and candidate flow. Lots of potential. We also have the Elite international meeting coming up in London on the 10th June with Doug Budgie of Antal. This is a free meeting for Elite members and demonstrates further ways we can collaborate to increase business as the market rises. Drop me a mail if you are interested in this event. If you want to hear good news live I will be continuing to present the "Riding the Recession Seminars" across the UK. I always update attendees with news from this group. As well as the presentation, delegates also receive a copy of the research report of the same name from the REC. The sessions are put on to support members rather than make money hence the ticket price of £75.00 including breakfast. The next session is in Manchester on Thursday 21st, Glasgow 9th June, Bristol 16th June, Newcastle 23rd and Birmingham 30th. If you want to attend and say hi in person, drop me an e-mail and I will pass on your details to arrange it. Through all my travels, tin hat breakfasts, Elite groups, the N.R.F. in Ireland and the R.E.C. I’m getting this continued feeling of positivity. I'm glad it is not just me; we just have to work hard to make the most of it. That’s also not exclusive to any sector or industry. Even the central bank reported being cautiously optimistic and famed investor George Sorros commented how he was backing an improved money market and better performances by the pound. This of course was reported on page 27 of one national paper, relegated by more important news of Peter and Jordan and M.P.'s expenses! Over the next week I will be announcing dates for the launch of two new Good News Group (Recruiters) services. A week ago I was a guest on The Recruitment Animal show. This is a recorded conference call for an hour where the host grills the guest and callers contribute. I thought it was a great format for low cost worldwide networking and idea sharing. (Thanks Animal.) I believe a good talk blog is needed in the UK and will be launching Good News Group (Recruiters) talk show shortly. Similar concept to the group, to share good news, best practice and market views at the same time each week. Anyone can phone in and contribute and the show will be recorded and downloadable as either a podcast or to listen to from the web. If you would be interested in either receiving the recording or in taking an active part in the live show please drop me an e-mail or message so that I can gauge interest and set it up. I will also be launching a series of webinars on recruitment subjects tailored to the current market. The first will be on selling in the current market, the second how to demonstrate value to clients in order to grow business and the third will be on selling retainers in this market. The first three will be free to determine interest and value. Again, if you want to take part drop me a line and I will advise on dates, times and how to log on and take part. As a last tip in how to ride out the current difficult times, if you are completing expense forms this week, don't forget the moat cleaning and the house you rent to your sister! (Apologies to anyone outside of the U.K. that doesn't get the joke!) The Good News seems to be well hidden in the papers, keep sharing yours! Spread the word. Bill PS: In case you need it my direct e-mail is bill@billboorman.co.uk You can find The Good News Group (Recruiters) @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1856679&trk=hb_side_g…; Added by Bill Boorman at 3:37pm on May 17, 2009

Comment on: Group 'Virtual Recruiters Network': support-level work to be assigned to you by the Team Double-Click® corporate office. Does this sound like something that would interest you? If so, then the Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate Program is for you! Working as a Virtual Sales Associate or support-level virtual assistant for Team Double-Click® is a wise move on your part. Your research into the virtual staffing industry undoubtedly showed that when you do a search for “virtual assistant” on the internet, you get an intimidating 12,000,000 plus matches. As the virtual assistant industry becomes more and more popular, it becomes harder and harder to start your own virtual assistant business and even more difficult to locate work as a virtual assistant. Anyone these days can slap up a website and call themselves a virtual assistant, after all. Team Double-Click® is here to help by offering careers in virtual staffing for sales representatives and support-level virtual assistants. As a Virtual Sales Associate you have the unique ability to draw upon Team Double-Click’s strength in the industry, our name recognition, marketing, training and knowledge. Clients know when they hear the Team Double-Click® name that it means quality. All of this gives you a leg up. We're looking for high-energy individuals with outstanding interpersonal skills to sell virtual staffing solutions while not being restricted to a limited territory. As a Virtual Sales Associate, you will be responsible for contacting and developing sales leads, and closing sales with no geographic limits. We'll support your career growth with ongoing sales training, advanced sales tools and an attractive compensation package designed to reward you for your initiative. It's a high-speed, exciting career with unlimited earnings potential, and our standards are high. If the Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate programisn’t for you, no worries. We will always need support-level virtual assistants to perform the work that our Virtual Sales Associate, Virtual Services Representatives, and Order Acceptance Representatives locate. And as always, there is never a fee to register as a support-level virtual assistant or Virtual Sales Associate with Team Double-Click®. For those of you who are interested in the Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate Program – please read on. We have lots of exciting details to share with you. Team Double-Click’sgoal is to provide you with as many opportunities as possible to build your home-based business and client base. What Is A Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate? A Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate is an individual who wishes to build their client base, backed by Team Double-Click’s® recognized branding and stellar reputation. As a Virtual Sales Associate for Team Double-Click® you will have the ability to seek out clients on your own, rather than wait for us to locate work for you. If accepted into the program, you will be allowed to use the Team Double-Click® name, brand, logos, and marketing messages and will receive sales training. You build your client base and the business you bring in is turned over to our service department where it is placed with Team Double-Click® support-level virtual assistants. Team Double-Click® pays you a commission from the clients who you sign. There are no set up fees to become a Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate. However you must pass our interview process. You will be expected to remain in contact with those clients and assist in maintaining their accounts. After our Virtual Sales Associates reach a certain level they earn the ability to recruit other Virtual Sales Associates and move up to Virtual Sales Consultants, earning a higher commission percentage. Virtual Sales Consultants also earn money from the sales generated by their recruits’ clients. Commissions from recruits are paid one-level deep only. The information we have provided you is just an overview of the Team Double-Click® Virtual Sales Associate program. When you apply to become a Virtual Sales Associate, you will receive so much more information about the program and strategic ideas on growing your virtual business! The Team Double-Click® team will be with you every step of the way. Compensation for Virtual Sales Associates (VSAs) and Virtual Staffing Consultants (VSCs) Compensation for VSAs No base pay 20% of the profit margin from the sales for the clients they sign personally Commission for each client is good for the first three months that the client is with the company and then commission ceases VSA must reach a minimum of 20 billing clients per week and sustain that level for 8 consecutive weeks and have been with the company for a minimum of 3 months then commission increases to 40% 5% of the profit margin from the sales of each new VSA they successfully recruit into the company (recruited VSA must also pass the interview process) while at the level of VSA Commission for the gross sales of the VSAs they recruit is good for the first three months that the client is with the company and then the commission ceases The commission for the VSA’s first two sales is split between VSA and Sales Director (or their sponsoring VSC if applicable) Recruiters’ commissions are only paid one-level deep Must apply for VSC and pass an interview process with Sales Director for the same Compensation for VSCs No base pay 50% of the profit margin from the sales for the clients they sign personally To be eligible for VSC, the individual must reach a minimum of 20 billing clients per week and sustain that level for 8 consecutive weeks and have been with the company for a minimum of 3 months to move to Sales Consultant and have successfully applied for and passed the VSC interview Commission of 50% of the profit margin is payable on all currently billing clients, which the VSC may have signed as a VSA, for the remainder of the 3-month commission period Commission for each client is good for the first three months that the client is with the company and then commission ceases 10% of the profit margin from the sales of each VSA they successfully recruit into the company (recruited VSA must also pass the interview process) Commission for the gross sales of the VSAs they recruit is good for the first three months that the client is with the company and then the commission ceases The commission for the VSC’s recruited VSA’s first two sales is split between VSA and VSC VSC is expected to assist with their recruited VSC’s first two sales to be eligible to obtain the commission split on said sales. The 10% recruiting fee is excluded from the first two sales made by the VSA. Does the Virtual Sales Associate program sound like something just right for you? Visit www.teamdoubleclick.com to apply. Feel free to contact me with any questions.…; Added by Shawn King to Virtual Recruiters Network at 12:35pm on October 24, 2008

Comment on: Topic 'NEWS ON JOBS AROUND THE WORLD': By C.g. Lynch , CIO , 01/06/2009 Sponsored by: As the economy falls deeper into recession, many people have turned to LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, to job hunt and connect with contacts who might help them land a new gig. But career experts say your LinkedIn job-hunting efforts will all be for naught if you don't build your profile page properly and ensure that it is search-friendly for potential employers and recruiters. More on LinkedIn on CIO.com LinkedIn's Most Unusual Members: Meet The Super-Connected LinkedIn Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts LinkedIn vs. Facebook: Is the "Boring" Underdog Poised to Beat Its Flashy Competitor? You can take some simple steps (all free of charge) to ensure that you've done everything possible to differentiate your LinkedIn profile from the others, career management experts say. These steps will make it more likely that recruiters and other LinkedIn users will find you serendipitously when they navigate and search the site. We've arranged these tips (roughly) in the order they appear on a LinkedIn profile page. In order to change your profile, log into LinkedIn and go the left menu. Click on the aptly named "Edit my profile" link. Related Content Picture While you don't necessarily need to pay a professional photographer, it's important to upload a picture to your LinkedIn profile, says Jason Alba, CEO of Jibberjobber.com, a career management firm, and author of the book I'm On LinkedIn - Now What?. "It doesn't have to be amazing, but a picture just makes your profile a lot more personable," Alba says. "With the way digital cameras are nowadays, just put on a suit and have your friend take some pictures and crop it in." Professional Headline Like the New York Times has its slogan "all the news that's fit to print," your professional tagline should sum you up for the LinkedIn reader, very concisely. Because the professional tagline occupies the prime real-estate immediately below where your name is, you really want to make this one count, says Kirsten Dixson, a career management consultant who specializes in helping people utilize web applications for their professional endeavors. "It's how you position yourself right away in the reader's mind," Dixson says. "It should be a shortened version of your personal brand." According to Alba of Jibberjobber.com, if you have a job, it's not necessary for you to use your actual title, especially since that appears in the "current" jobs section of your LinkedIn profile section. If you're looking for a job, "think of the tagline as your ten second pitch," he says. "It's not easy to do [in so small a space], but make sure you get a clear message in there of what you're about professionally." What Are You Working On? This is like LinkedIn's version of Twitter, the short messaging service that allows users to leave status messages regarding what they're doing. Unlike Twitter, all your status messages should be business-like in tone and compelling for readers. According to Dixson, these messages could ask an intelligent question to your fellow contacts, known as "connections," on LinkedIn. Or you might offer mention of a specific project you're working on that exemplifies the kind of work you do or are interested in pursuing. Dixson says the status update also provides an easy avenue to keep your page fresh. If you update it regularly, it will show that you're engaged with your LinkedIn page and the people who visit it. Related Content Your Websites LinkedIn allows you to list three websites on your profile. Most people choose to add their company sites, or blog (if they have one). When you go to add a site in the edit settings page, you will be given the option to describe the site generically as "My Company" or "My Blog." But if you look closely, you can click on "Other," which will allow you to type in something customary. Alba recommends using that feature. While you could choose to type in your company name, Alba says you might want to use a phrase that's descriptive and that will draw readers in. In Alba's case, for instance, he would describe his blog as "career management blog" instead of the generic "My blog." Go get your LinkedIn URL Like any social network or web service of its kind, LinkedIn will create an address for your profile page. Ideally, you want to have your name at the end of the URL. Such as, for example, http://www.linkedin.com/in/cglynch. You can edit your LinkedIn URL. And do it quickly, especially if you suspect many users share the same name as you. It's much like free e-mail services: it's better to be John Smith@[email service] than JohnSmith1431@[e-mail service]. "This is a URL you might leave in your blog or homepage, or maybe in your professional e-mail signature," Alba says. "If it's cleaner and recognizable, that will be helpful." Summary The "summary" section is the meat of your LinkedIn profile, and matters a great deal both in terms of human interaction (do people find it interesting?), and also in terms of LinkedIn's powerful search engine, which will find certain keywords in it relevant, and return you higher in search results when people query terms in your field of work. "The more keywords you have the more relevant you are in search," Alba says. "So if you're in project management, for example, you might want to have PMP (Project Management Professional) in there." But Alba says you must remember that humans will be reading your summary, so don't get so hung up on keywords that the summary becomes unreadable. "Some people will do SEO (search engine optimization) and make it just a list of keywords," Alba says. "That's not very compelling for a human reading your summary." One thing you might do, Dixson says, is focus on writing a good concise summary of yourself in the summary field and save the keywords for "specialties," which appears as a subsection within the summary and can be modified when you click to edit your summary. Recommendations Recommendations allow people viewing your profile to get a third-party perspective on you and your work. If you ask someone to write you a recommendation, you will be able to approve it before it gets posted to your profile. While Alba says it's nice to have that recommendation where your boss gushes over all the great work you do, don't stop there. Go for what career coaches call the 360-degree view. "If you can have subordinates say you're the greatest boss in the world, or customers who say you're great to do business with, that provides [readers of your LinkedIn profile] with a much fuller view of you," Alba says. What to do with Apps In October, LinkedIn launched its applications platform, making it possible for users to add up to 10 different apps to their LinkedIn profile. "Whatever you do within the apps, keep it on brand," Alba says. As an example, then, don't use the slideshow application to post pictures of your vacation to Florida or anything personal. Instead, the app to create a PowerPoint-like presentation showcasing your work, Dixson says, or display your career goals in another engaging format. All contents copyright 1995-2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com…; Added by Melissa Furtwengler to Green Jobs Now! at 5:44am on January 12, 2009

Blog Post: Customer Experience and the Importance of Making People Feel Special: Every morning I stop on my way to the station to get a coffee…my Soya Latte is very much a part of my commute, even in summer! I have stopped for a couple of years at one particular coffee shop (Cafe…; Added by Mervyn Dinnen at 7:28pm on January 20, 2010