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Comment for: Joshua Letourneau: it and think it is more about areas of interest. I did a study on the demographics of social sites and while most are skewed towards women some are not - badoo, orkut and ning (which is interesting because of the niche sites) are a few examples. Twitter is more balanced than others and attracts a wider age distribution as well. Its easy to say a lot and yes, that appeals more to women, personally, that's not me. There are also differences in preferred content - text Vs video. I think it will be interesting to see how social will continue to evolve and ask great questions like this to better understand the audience and finesse the strategy and approach.…; Added by Susan Burns at 5:15pm on July 3, 2008

Comment on: Blog Post 'Ageism - Recruiters, Are You Just Being Politically Correct?': females"? Expressed that way it is clearly discriminatory but in the context of a business buy decision you either do what the client asks for or you lose the sale. Every client has a right to not do business with you, but at what point do you lose your own soul? IMAO, the current practice of hiring temporary and temp to hire employees has the effect of neutering most employment protection laws. The employee ends up with no benefits, no protection, and no recourse. I believe I've seen psychological preference studies that show that pretty much everyone (including older people) prefer to interact with people who (at least) appear younger... Just because it happens doesn't mean we should encourage it! ;-)…; Added by Paul Hanchett at 11:58am on July 29, 2010

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Comment on: Blog Post 'Ugly Candidates - what is a client to do?': really doesn't matter what age, but it seems to be a bit more prevalent in middle to older candidates. You only have 10 seconds on first meeting to register an impression, be it good or bad. It takes much longer to change that impression once it is registered. Anyone going for an interview needs to be able to make the best visual impression they can. Being frumpy can give the employer the impression that the person is not able to keep up and perhaps not able to adjust to an ever changing environment. It's one thing to be over weight, which can be a distraction but can be over looked in the interview, but it is quite another issue when it comes to personal hygiene and clothing issues. You don't need plastic surgery to make sure your hair, beard, mustache, eye brows and nose hair (yes I said nose), are all trimmed and neat. I wouldn't hurt for a female candidate to have a good hair trim and color, or at least have hair in an age appropriate style. Please take a look at your eye glasses. If you haven't replaced the frames in the last 15 years, it's time to update your style. Take out peircings and try to cover up tatoos. I'm not asking candidates to go to Brooks Brothers or Nordstroms to buy an interview outfit, but please make sure your clothes are clean, pressed and fit you properly. Please don't wear athletic shoes to an interview even if it hurts you to wear a dress shoe. I could go on and on, but I'm sure you all get the picture. It just amazes me how many people shoot thenselves in the foot before they even walk in the door. …; Added by Marcia Tiemeyer at 11:22am on October 31, 2012

Blog Post: Discrimination: Is it So Prevalent Everyone Gets a Fair Shake?: We all know discrimination exists in the hiring process. The primary concern is to give equal consideration to job candidates across different races, genders, ethnicities, and to those candidates…; Added by Ryder Cullison at 2:00pm on April 4, 2012

Blog Post: Someone in the office caught your eye lately? Think twice! (or, how what seems a good idea at the time can turn into a nightmare): Way back when, my since dear departed brother and I worked together in the classified advertising department of one of the UK’s leading quality newspapers. No big deal – except that we were…; Added by Alasdair Murray at 10:05am on May 26, 2010

Topic: A Story That Needs to be Told - Part I: action with for the past two years who has suffered at the hands of one of these lunatics unlike i have ever seen in my 30 years as a recruiter. At age 19 she started as a sales and customer service rep for a household word telecommunications company. She was the leading sales rep within a short time earning over 100K a year for several years. She was offered a promotion several times to a manager level position and turned it down as it would mean that she would take a significant cut in pay. Finally realizing that if she did not accept the promotion she would forever be at the current level she made the decision to try and advance her career and make the move. At the time she accepted the promotion the Sr. Manager who had promoted her accepted another position with the company and a new Sr. Manager who had been a first level manager for 20 years was promoted into his position. The new Sr. Manager let it be known that she did not think this young woman should have been promoted. (You see the storm clouds on the horizon). My candidate's promotion was finally approved. Within 7 months early 2008, the new Sr. Manager called her in and told her that she was helping male employees more than she was helping female employees and had been talking to them about non business related matters. She was written up for a violation of the code of business conduct. The situation was that she had been assigned to a new training class of sales reps. Several of the new trainees were guys that she had gone to high school with who were planning their first high school reunion and as they knew her they were more comfortable going to her for help than some of the other trainees. Ok, she acknowledged that yes she probably had talked with them about non business matters , the reunion, and yes she probably had helped them more than other trainees as they felt comfortable coming to her because she knew them before they started. Reasonable concern and she would correct it, which she did. What followed in the next two years was a series of the most bizarre manager - direct report situations on the planet. She was called in and told that it had been reported that she had come into the office trying to buy marijuana from some of the reps while she was on vacation. The week she was supposed to have done this insanity she had been out of the city at a company training seminar for two days of the week, had taken vacation time and stayed in the other city for the remaining three days. The office has a security situation requiring a key card. She suggested to her boss that she check the security records to determine if her key card had been used and offered to provide hotel receipts to prove she not even in the city and take a drug test to prove that she had not and did not smoke dope. Her boss told her that would not be necessary, she believed her. Her boss then made a career for the next two weeks of asking almost all of the 170 employees in the center if they had ever seen her outside of work smoke marijuana. When asked why she was talking to everyone in the office creating the question as to my candidate smoking dope her boss informed her that it was her job to investigate every complaint no matter how absurd. When asked why the boss had indicated that a drug test was not necessary when that would have proved that the girl had not used any drug and the report had been that she came into the office to try and buy drugs which was easily negated by checking the key card access. The boss responded that even though that complaint could be proven wrong it was her job to determine if the girl did smoke dope as maybe a drug test could be manipulated. As no one had ever seen this young woman smoke dope that one seemed to go by the boards and nothing more was said to my candidate and it had been proven a false report. Or so my candidate thought. Stay tuned for part II this is long an bizarre story that will convince anyone that there are insane, vindictive, crazy people in management positions who should be exterminated. …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 5:16pm on June 10, 2011

Blog Post: 20 tricky interview questions...and how NOT to answer them!: There are few things more daunting than attending a job interview. That's why it's good to prepare by considering some of the questions you might be asked. Just make sure you don't end up giving…; Added by Alasdair Murray at 5:13am on January 13, 2010

Blog Post: SYNAPSE-FIRING ALERT!!! -- " . . .Cognitive structures—mental maps—to help make sense of their experiences between the ages of 11 to 13": In coming across a very interesting HBR Article…; Added by Joshua Letourneau at 11:47am on May 23, 2008

Blog Post: Recruitment Track Explores Veteran Hiring, Award Winning Initiatives, the Changing Face of Social Media and Wowing Clients: DirectEmployers 2013 Annual Meeting & Conference (DEAM13) included a recruitment track with talent acquisition professionals from a variety of companies including the American Heart…; Added by Soapboxholland at 10:30am on February 13, 2014