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Blog Post: Top 12 Interviewing Mistakes

It’s a tough job market out there today as you are frequently up against a small army of competing job seekers. Acing the interview is crucial for winning the right position.

Watch out for…

Added by Jamie Amaral at 10:11pm on June 11, 2012

Topic: 10 video Interviewing Options to consider for your recruiting organization from #HRtechconf & #HRevolution: I have to say that I was impressed with the advancements year over year. Though most of my questions have been answered I know that the community here will not be fully convinced that video interviewing (recorded and live) plays a significant role in the advancement of hiring best practices. Understanding that our community is rather diverse I do expect varying view points how there are a few key questions everyone will want to ask. If you are a vendor or user and have real numbers to post, please let us know. We'd like to have a debate on the technology and share the outcome with our community. Here are a few questions we need answered: What is a legitimate starting point in dollars to buy into this type of engagement. Taking into account there are various forms of usage including full integrations as well as a point of sale plug and play, what can a firm expect to budget? Is there a precedent for compliance that can be cited for clarification and legal challenges? How does the internal talent acquisition team of a company position this solution to the business so that the investment proves to be a value add? What is an expected period of change management during implementation on a full service video interviewing solution? Are you considering a video interviewing solution in your organization? Below are a few of the video interviewing platforms to consider. Keep in mind that not all vendors offer the same solution and offer a variety of levels at which they can serve you. Here is a short list of video interviewing platforms represented at HR Tech 2013: (NOT IN ANY SPECIFIC ORDER) HireVue: click here to learn more Our Talent Interaction Platform lets people tell their story and demonstrate their talents, enabling high-quality high-touch collaboration and insights - at the speed, quality and consistency of digital. Highly compatable, HireVue augments existing talent management applications, accelerating productivity and decision-making by providing "hi-def" clarity into people’s character, cultural fit, personality, and potential. Turbocharge your recruiting. WePow: click here to learn more WePow is a global leader in recruitment communication, offering breadth, depth, and a personal touch to attracting talent. WePow’s scalable and customizable video and mobile recruitment solutions simplify the way talent acquisition goals are achieved. Our innovative clients are increasing their productivity, improving their efficiency, and significantly reducing their interviewing cost, while improving the quality of their engagement with candidates. At WePow, we translate human interactions into amazing experiences! Reimagine recruitment and learn more about WePow’s recruitment, branding, and mobile talent acquisition solutions. www.wepow.com Interviewstream: click here to learn more From the Interviewstream website: The bottom line? There is no competing provider that can match the flexibility, simplicity, and level of scalability that our system can offer. In addition, since InterviewStream is the only provider to cover the entire interview cycle - from practice to employment - we have developed a knowledgeable user base on college campuses, during outplacement training, from local workforce centers - who are familiar with our tool that is being used by our Enterprise clients. 24/7 Customer Support Available Jobvite: click here to learn more From a single login recruiters will be able to invite, interview, screen, schedule, track and hire effortlessly from their desks. These capabilities will not only accelerate candidate screening, but also reduce remote hiring costs and facilitate panel feedback early in the hiring process leading to better candidate matches. The time saved and the feedback enabled will allow recruiters to understand their talent funnels and level of engagement better. Unlike other video platforms, Jobvite Video is natively built to work seamlessly across the entire hiring process. Take The Interview: click here to learn more Learn about the compliance questions on the TTI blog: click here Take the Interview is a company that changes the way people hire. Its software enables hiring managers and recruiters to ask candidates their most important questions via asynchronous, or not-live, video interviewing. Through its easy-to-use platform, Take the Interview makes the hiring process more efficient by eliminating the need for time-consuming phone screens. Rivs: click here to learn more RIVS was born out of necessity. At their previous startup, our founders constantly struggled with the vast inefficiencies of the hiring process. Their company was growing quickly, and so they needed a lot of great people, but couldn't afford to spend the time reviewing every one of the 1,748,921,303,569 job applications they received every week. GreenJobInterview: click here to learn more Provides cloud-based virtual interviewing solutions that help employers dramatically reduce the time and costs associated with scheduling and conducting interviews. Per GreenJobInterview: Clients reduced their interviewing costs by roughly $18 million in 2012 alone by using GreenJobInterview’s solutions. More than 20,000 interviews were conducted on the GreenJob LiveTM platform. The Orange County Business Journal named GreenJobInterview® one of Orange County’s “Fastest Growing Companies.” Sparkhire: click here to learn more Lower cost monthly subscription model. Eliminate the need for time-consuming phone interviews. Set up one-way video interviews in which your candidates record video responses to your interview questions. Watch and evaluate candidate responses whenever, wherever. Montage Talent: click here to learn more Montage Interview expands your recruiting reach by virtually eliminating the need for candidate and interviewers to be in the same location. With just an Internet connection and a webcam, live video interviews can take place between a candidate and one or many hiring decision makers. Anytime. Anywhere. Even from a mobile device or tablet. We have capacity for unlimited interview participants for an unlimited duration. Ansync Interview: click here to learn more Very cool new LinkedIn Feature on the Async video interviewing platform: click here to learn more Quicker response times? Simple setup? Less insecurity? Most candidates would welcome those additions to the recruiting cycle. Give your candidates a simple, solid solution that makes sense in today’s business climate. Async offers practice interviews and tips throughout the interview process to put your candidates at ease and works with several candidate experience award-winning companies. In a recent poll of a client’s candidates, 100% of the candidates had never done a video interview before, over 75% of candidates stated they enjoyed the experience.…; Added by Ryan Leary to HR Tech Conference at 2:27am on October 9, 2013

Blog Post: A Talent Professional's Strategy for Landing the Big Job

This is how a highly skilled recruiter tackles an opportunity to land a dream job.

I got to know Karla Porter through various recruiting networks over the last year or so, and…

Added by Craig Fisher at 9:51am on April 15, 2009

Blog Post: 15 Ways To Attract And Hire Diverse Job Candidates

2018 was a year when I…

Added by Pooja Khandelwal at 3:43am on October 30, 2018

Topic: Meet Andrew Heywood, Global Recruiter Veteran from Google, Apple, Adobe - Dog's Best Friend: dogs. * Email Andrew Directly Andrew Heywood is a veteran recruiter/sourcer with corporate staffing experience at Google, Apple, and Adobe. Andrew has developed extensive International staffing experience including Japan, Korea, India, China, Zurich, London and Australia markets. In addition, Andrew has project management, and sales expertise both in domestic and international markets. He has lived and worked in Japan for 4.5 years and gained additional international travel experience in Germany, Singapore, Philippines, Canada, and Mexico. Andrew is multi-lingual, speaking Japanese (JLPT3) and Cantonese (basic) in addition to his native English. Andrew's specific areas of expertise include: Diversity Recruiting Best Practices, Google ATS, HRIS, Hire.com, Filefinder, Offer Work-flow (Google specific), Internet Sourcing Training, Boolean Searches, LinkedIn, Conferences, Corporate Directories, Alumni directories, Associations, proprietary database, job boards, networking, and cold calls. Q&A with Andrew Heywood Six Degrees: Tell us of your home world. Andrew: I am currently single living in Northern California with my two wonderful dogs Kiseki and Surf. They are both 4.5 years old and I adopted them from the rescue organization Norsled (http://www.norsled.org/available.html). My family (father, mother, sister, brother) all live in California and I spend time with them when I can. I am an active person who loves the outdoors and is involved with various sport activities (triathlons, hiking, yoga, badminton). I use to be a Collegiate Division I, Cross Country runner and still love to run to this day. When I am not playing a sport, I love to keep up with my Japanese and volunteer my time with the dog rescue group Norsled. I spent over 4 years living/working in Japan prior to moving back to California (Jan 2005). I have then caught the travel bug and love to explore new parts of the world when time allows. Six Degrees: How many years have you been in the staffing industry? Andrew: I have been recruiting for over 7 years. I spent my first 3 years working for a recruiting agency in the heart of Tokyo Japan, then following working in house for Google, Apple, and Adobe once I moved back to the United States. Six Degrees: How did you get started as a recruiter? Andrew: Prior to recruiting, I had just graduated from college and spent one year as an inside sales representative for MA Laboratories in San Jose California. I then moved to Japan to teach English in the country side for a year adventure before I settle down with my career. Little did I know that coming to a country on the other side of the world would open up a new career that I am very passionate about today. I had just completed my English teaching contract with the JET Program and moved back to California two months before September 11 2001. The job market had crumbled and there were no jobs in sight. I attended an alumni networking event for the JET Program (the program I taught English for in Japan) and there was a recruiting agency there trying to find young talent to go back to Tokyo and train to become a Head Hunter/Recruitment Consultant. I had no idea of what being a Head Hunter/Recruitment Consultant was all about, however I decided to take a chance and move back to Japan. The company Access Technology Japan (ATJ), really taught me the hard nose basics of sourcing and recruiting great talent. I was recruiting sales, marketing, IT professionals and developers. This was not only my first time in this profession, however I was recruiting Japanese nationals into foreign companies in Japan (which add another level to the learning curve). At the same time, I was also developing my Japanese language skills. I have never work so hard in my life however at the same time enjoying every minute of it. There was no such thing as a 40 hour week, I would call it more of a 60 - 80 hour week including working Saturdays. The colleagues who worked with me in the office were from all parts of the world (Japan, Canada, USA, Australia, Romania, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, etc) which made the experience even more exciting. If I look back at the various challenges learning recruiting in that market, I realize how much I learned as a 23 year old getting into the business. After ATJ, I decided to move back to California and begin my career in recruiting in the states. I ironically had more experience working in a foreign country than I did my own. When I moved back to California in January 2005, Google had just begun its growth frenzy and I had heard great things about working there. I applied and my good friend who was working in the AdSense department referred me to the staffing department. I landed a contract role where I was able to contribute to many of the emerging technical offices (China, Japan, India, Zurich, and Australia). I focused on technical positions from individual contributor to higher management. I spent a total time of 3.7 years at Google (2 years contract and 1.7 years as a permanent employee) focusing on a variety of technical roles not just for over seas offices but the Mountain View Head Quarters and YouTube San Bruno office. I also had the pleasure of working for Apple Computer and Adobe Systems during the time I was a contract recruiter. I am currently starting to work on a free-lance basis venturing into a new chapter of my recruiting career. Six Degrees: What single event had the most impact on your sourcing/recruiting career? Andrew: Without a doubt it would be during my first recruiting job at ATJ in Japan because it gave me the opportunity to feel the sense how much you are impacting a persons life and career. I learned so much during these years that I am using these basics to this day. A specific example of this is my experience working with a Japanese Sales Manager candidate. Although he did not accept the role I was recruiting him for due to his family situation, he told me I was one of the best recruiters he has ever worked with. It was the first deal I lost, but realized the relationship and trust I built with this person lasts a lifetime. We still keep in contact to this day and he has referred many people to me. Do you have a mentor to whom you attribute your overall outlook on recruitment, capabilities, and/or model your career after? Andrew: I have learned so much from many people I have worked with in Japan, Google, Apple and Adobe. It is hard for me to point out one particular person as I have had the honor of working with some top notch recruiters and people. From each experience, I take aspects I lack and try to grow from there. Six Degrees: Tell us about your most recent gigs. Andrew: My most recent position was recruiting technical roles for the YouTube San Bruno offices. I was located on site in San Bruno California. Google in general has a staffing organization consisting of hundreds of recruiters, although my group consisted of 5 recruiters at YouTube. Six Degrees: (A) What other companies' recruiting operations do you admire or have heard are best-practice examples? Andrew: I also had great experiences working for Apple Computer and Adobe Systems in their staffing organizations. Although each different in their own respect, they each have top notch teams and candidate process management. Six Degrees: What recent general news story or industry trend do you feel will have an impact on your work in the future? Why? Andrew: I feel the current state of the economy is definitely impacting the recruiting industry as a whole as many companies are freezing head count and laying off employees. “HOW DOES ANDREW DO IT?” Six Degrees: How many applicants at your present employer do you estimate are hired from your corporate website as compared to how many are hired through referrals? Andrew: At Google, they would receive thousands of resumes a day. however not all the hires came from general applications. More came from sourcing, various events and referrals. Google takes recruiting very seriously and will use these methods to find the best talent. Six Degrees: What is the source of the "Most Hires" collected from at your present employer? (In terms of Quantity #) Andrew: The source of most hires would have to be through proactive sourcing and employee Referrals. Six Degrees: What is the source of your "LOWEST COST OF HIRES" - (least amount of invested resources for the easiest hires, regardless of quality) at your present employer? Andrew: The source of lowest cost of hire would be through general application. Google has created a great environment in which top talent proactively apply. It is truly amazing the talent that works at the company. Six Degrees: What talent niche groups do you target and are these particular talent areas specialized under your review? Andrew: Through out the last 4 years I have focused on various software engineering professionals (back and front end software engineers, web developers, flash developers, product management, and system operations,). Also I have a niche for hard to find roles specifically language specific for instance korean and Japanese speaking engineers. Six Degrees: What types of training in sourcing/recruitment are available to you and have you taken advantage of? Andrew: I feel very lucky to have worked for some great corporations here in the Silicon Valley who make a great investment in the training of their staffing professionals. I have been able to take advantage of online, seminar, and video conference training. I always strive to continue and develop my skills. Six Degrees: What recruitment software tools do you use in your day to day recruitment activities & do they translate effectively within all of the different countries where you recruit? Andrew: In house ATS and the internet (Blogs, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, boolean searches, job boards, patent searches, alumni groups etc.) Some of the tools we use here in the U.S. do not translate to finding great talent directly as with other parts of the world. For example with a more private sensitive country like Japan, it is harder to do a Linkedin search to source good talent. Many people are very reluctant to put their information on the web. It is more about the referral process and face to face interaction which takes more time. Although the up and coming engineering talent often will have their own blogs or web site. They are more keen to engage in this but one will have to be able to at times understand Japanese as it may not be in English. Six Degrees: What tools (technology or old school file folder, for example) did you first encounter early in your recruitment career? Andrew: When I first started recruiting, I used a Japanese phone book and in house database at the agency I worked for in Japan. The first three months I worked at the company, I was cold calling (cold calling was still going on strong in that market at the time) 8 hours a day then spending the rest of my day meeting candidates at coffee shops and at the office. The tools were very limited and I also attended many conferences to meet candidates and various hang out locations. Since in Japanese culture many people go out to drink after work with co-workers, I often would go to a local bar or club to meet potential candidates. In fact, some of the people I met at these local hang outs I placed into different companies. Six Degrees: How did your expectations of being a recruiter compare to the actual, first time you got on the phone or in the cubicle? In your opinion, how do people's assumptions about our vocation differ from reality? Andrew: The only expectation of being a recruiter was from my sister who first started in the business when I was in college. However at the time I didn't pay attention to her line of work and just remember her always doing research for her company. I didn't find it exciting at the time and before joining the agency in Japan and was a little hesitate but had no other job option. Six Degrees: Worst mistake, biggest goof, lousiest practice you thought would fly but didn’t…and how that was a learning experience? Andrew: My biggest mistake when I first began recruiting was my pre-qualifying skills. It was so tough in the Japanese market to bring someone in from a cold call that I remember often times not doing a good job pre-qualifying. I learned right away how to be smarter with my efforts versus working harder. Six Degrees: “Best practice” you are most proud of developing (now or in the past) in your recruiting career? Andrew: One of my strengths is my customer service and relationship building skills. I believe one of the best practices I tried to leave with each opportunity is treating each candidate as if they are the only person I am dealing with. I have been commented on this often and have conducted many informal training on my style. Although very busy I always try to make each person feel specifically special trying to at least leave them with the good image of the company even if they didn't get the job. Recommendations For Andrew Heywood “I have known Andrew for many years. He takes great pride in matching people with the right job and takes a personal interest in their continued success and career development. I have seen many people walk up and thank Andrew for helping them years earlier.” March 18, 2009 Paul Peissner, Alliance Manager - Business Development Specialist, BMC Software “Andrew has contributed enormously for building the engineering team for Google. He has realized great trust among line managers as a Recruiter who can actually deliver. Andrew has a very challenging assignment to hire world's top notch engineers with Japanese language qualification. Regardless of the challenge, with the three years that Andrew has worked for Google, Andrew has achieved to build a great engineering team in which the team he built is making enormous contribution to the core product development. Andrew is greatly experienced Recruiter where he can manage the entire recruiting life cycle. He has great sustainability in the way he manages candidate and client relation. He also has great interpersonal skills in the way he knows how to gain and maintain trust with candidates. I have worked very closely with Andrew at Google for two years and I highly recommend him as professional recruiter.” September 2, 2008 Tim Hayashi, Recruiter at Google Inc. “Andrew is such a pleasure to work with. He is a sincere, genuine, hard worker who will go above and beyond what the job entails. I enjoyed working with Andrew on my team. He's one of the most polite people I have ever met and has a kind, gentle heart. Andrew is a superstar performer and I'm glad that we were able to work together.” February 11, 2008 Gina Pak (gpak@longview-inc.com), Recruiter/Coordinator, Google “It was great working with Andrew. He always has a positive attitude and develops a great rapport with his work colleagues. Andrews works hard to get things done in time. I highly recommend him to anyone!” February 11, 2008 Dennis Ho, Recruiter at Google “Andrew is an excellent recruiter who knows how to close the deal. He finds the candidate, gets them through the process, and gets them to accept the offer in an efficient and timely manner. He understands the importance of making the sale.” February 11, 2008 Christopher Cheung, Internet Sourcer, GOOGLE “Andrew is an amazing recruiter. He is soft spoken but articulate. I’ve worked with Andrew at Google in different groups but we often worked together to source/recruit Japanese professionals for both Mountain View and Tokyo Google offices. Andrew gave me some great tips and resources on finding Japanese candidates. We often shared ideas and brainstormed on ways to find the Japanese Google talent. He is very smart, resourceful, responsive and friendly. I had a great time working with him and he is one of the successful recruiters that I know of at Google. You can never go wrong hiring Andrew!” February 10, 2008 Ritu Singh, Partner Solutions Organization Sourcer, Google “Andrew is a friendly and passionate recruiter. He speaks Japanese and has good skill to recruit software engineers internationally. He works hard to hire good software engineers in Japan as well as those in U.S. who would like to work for products targeted at Japanese market.” February 9, 2008 Junji Takagi, Software Engineer, Google “Andrew is hiring lots of Japanese software engineers in US and in Japan. He works with a certain amount of teamwork and helps me often.” January 31, 2008 Jun Inada, Engineering Recruiter in Tokyo, Google Japan…; Added by Dave Mendoza at 2:51am on March 30, 2009

Topic: Meet Barbara Ling, RiseTrends - "I'm In The Make Things Simple Business": eries please click here. • Barbara Ling, Author of RiseTrends, “All Around Deity of Internet Smart Moves” in addition to Trainer, Dog Trainer, Karate bundle of ferocity • Location: Monmouth, NJ • RecruitingBlogs Profile • Linkedin • Facebook • Twitter • Company Website • Personal Blog • Community Volunteering: Unofficial photographer for dojo/high school band • Personal Causes: Animal Rescue • Office Number: I don’t do phones – I do skype. Barbara.ling • Personal Email Barbara Ling is a "Deity of Internet Smart Moves" She has been both an Entrepreneur and Internet recruiting pioneer since 1997. She was one of the original Master Trainers of demystifying online recruiting. She has since extended that concept to teaching individuals how to become an authority in their niche (Income Fitness). Barbara is an author of over 25 books and ebooks on entrepreneuring, Internet recruiting, marketing and business. She was spotlighted by Microsoft Corporation as the Small Business of the Month. *Over-delivering is her trademark!* She offers free resources like those found at her Virtual Coach Income Fitness Community at http://www.virtual-coach.com/forums/forums.php Q & A with Barbara Ling Six Degrees: Tell us of your home world. BARBARA I’ve been married now for 16 years to the most wonderful man on the face of the planet, and have plethora of kids that range from the ages of 13-going-on-18 down to 6. Additionally, the Ling Clan hosts 2 mooses (okay, moose-sized doggies) and 12 Twitter Budgies – you can read more at http://www.squidoo.com/barbaraling . If you were to consider one key word to describe my family, it would be “character-building.” I always view any problems encountered in life as misunderstood opportunities that are craving to teach us something, and instill that view in my family as well. Six Degrees: What do you do for personal fulfillment BARBARA Gosh, where to start? During my venerable lifespan, I’ve dabbled and/or mastered: • Stained glass design • Telephone insulator collection • Computer hacking/security • Dog training • Teaching kids to read • Playing the trumpet • Hustling kids in video games (okay, that was in college ) • Karate • Twitter Budgie Mastering • Video making and parakeet humor -- among other things! When I was 14 years old, I was a professional comedy dog trainer and visited many nursing homes and hospitals across NJ. My doggie back then was a German Shepherd/Collie mutt, and we specialized in bringing smiles to people who otherwise led a very depressing life indeed. And would you believe, I’m one belt away from earning my black belt in Gojuryu karate? It’s true – right after the Virginia Tech Massacre, I realized that while I might have taught my children everything about academics, their education was sorely lacking in street smarts/get-out-of-the-way abilities etc. So I signed up my entire family for karate and we’ve been progressing together ever since. Six Degrees: How many years have you been in the staffing industry? BARBARA Teaching/training-wise, since 1997, when I started generating high SEO for local recruiters, Recruiters Online and teaching recruiters how to find quality resumes for free on the Internet. Prior to that, however, I also dealt with recruiters on the other end (as I was a consultant to Bell Labs and AT&T after taking the buyout package in 1995). Six Degrees: How did you get started as a recruiter? BARBARA It was a stark and dormy knight. I started as a recruiter back in 1997 (prior to teaching) when a local NJ recruiting company asked me to help them quality local techie folk for places like AT&T and Bell Labs. I quickly realized that I far more enjoyed the thrill of the hunt rather than using a (gasp!) phone to talk with candidates, so I started focusing my skills in the training/SEO area entirely. The owner of this particular company was good friends with my husband, and he had heard that I was a wizard with Unix and security. At that time, he was LOOKING for people with my skills, and asked just how I would go about finding them. The rest, as one would say, is a most magnificent history lesson indeed. Six Degrees: What single event had the most impact on your sourcing/recruiting career? BARBARA Achieving an 8-fold increase in the SEO visibility of Recruiters Online at http://www.recruitersonline.com . You have to remember, I started building webpages back when Mosaic was released (ie, Netscape Version 1.0). Here’s a fun fact – did you know that back then, if an image was included in a webpage that DIDN’T exist, the browser would STOP loading until you acknowledged this horrible omission? It made for humongous, long-loading pages back then, I’ll tell you that. Do you have a mentor to whom you attribute your overall outlook on recruitment, capabilities, and/or model your career after? BARBARA But of course – Bill Vick, the undisputed sage of everything recruiting online. Bob Larson has also been inspirational to me too. I remember first meeting Bill back in 1998 – he was visiting NJ for the NJ Staffing association meeting. A dynamically brilliant guy, he ended up securing my services for providing SEO to Recruiters Online. Funny thing too – the next year, I was speaking at that convention. I will never will forget that. Six Degrees: Tell us about the “Barbara Ling” engine – tell us what those pistons are churning out on a daily basis! BARBARA Nowadays, I’m a powerhouse of one (count ‘em, one!) and focus on teaching people how to use the Internet to their best advantage (recruiters, business folk, career peoples, etc.). I am responsible for everything regarding my brand – writing my products, designing the copy, setting up the websites, generating the high SEO, supporting my customers, and the like. This is one of the reasons why I’m always up and about at 3am; it’s the best time to simply get things done WITHOUT having to deal with a passel of kids, 12 chirping Twitter Budgies and 2 mooses to boot. Six Degrees: (A) What other companies' recruiting operations do you admire or have heard are best-practice examples? BARBARA Maureen Sharib, Jim Stroud and Shally. (B) In what aspects are they superior? BARBARA Maureen embraces the phone (something I can NEVER do). Jim is a master at podcasting and getting the word out… and Shally, well, he’s SHALLY. And when you’ve said that, you’ve said it all. Six Degrees: Tell us about your broader involvement within the staffing industry: BARBARA LING I offer help via my blog and forums at http://www.virtual-coach.com/forums/forums.php I’ll also lend a hand when colleagues ask for assistance regarding their web design or how to find candidates online. Nowadays, I’ve broadened my focus to embrace the small business niche as a whole. I’ve learned that no matter in WHAT business you might have online…..some things will never change (the need for quality customer care, how to design an effective website, where to go for help online, etc.). Six Degrees: Can you detail how the recession has affected your particular industry niche? BARBARA For me, it generally hasn’t – people STILL want to be profitable online. But! For my recruiting customers - I’ve noticed quite the shift indeed. Many recruiters have abandoned the field in hopes of finding more profitable venues and are more open to different lines of work. The big-billers, of course, know how to weather the storm, but for others…the field was rapidly depleted of the individuals who weren’t in it for the long haul. Unemployment has become rampant, and yet at the same time, individuals are even more leery about where they spend what they still have. Thus, even recruiters who tried becoming job coaches instead found difficulty in employment as well. Six Degrees: Aside from simply the generic term “Networking” what specific efforts have you made on your own behalf, or on behalf of colleagues to broaden your opportunities. BARBARA I’ve been branding both my name and my sites now on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking platforms quite prominently. I use resources like Ping.fm and Social Oomph to get the word out. Not only that – because forums are great communities, I started my own at http://www.virtual-coach.com/forums/forums.php . To do that, I had to teach myself how to run the entire exciting thingee – that was character-building in the extreme! But I always say, “Fear is the main thing that prevents success” And I refuse to let such a damaging emotion sideline my efforts. Now, back when I was heavily involved in teaching recruiters, I would frequent sites like http://www.ere.net and the various Ning groups as well. I find those resources to be stellar in assisting recruiters to maximize their bottom line; http://www.recruitingblogs.com and http://magicmethod.ning.com are two excellent current-day resources too. Six Degrees: Given your own Trial and Error experiences as a Networker, what advice do you have for your peers on what NOT to do? BARBARA Got a couple of years? Here are some of the top tips I can offer: • Do NOT spam your blog for SEO. • Do NOT promote your C++ job opportunities to hard-core sys admins (I still get offers for that!) • Do NOT write anything that you’d be ashamed your children found out • Do NOT be arrogant online, but DO be confident • NEVER apologize for your own personal greatness • Do NOT EVER talk bad about your competitors. Compare and contrast instead. • Showcase WHY you’re the recruiter of choice – walk the walk you talk. Remember, it’s NOT enough for you to just make the placement. Theoretically, ANYONE can “make a placement”…but that’s a single, short-term goal indeed! You want the candidate to RECOMMEND you to THEIR friends as well. If you choose to get known for your superior customer service (read – you SOLVE potential candidate issues instead of treating them like a commission check), your reputation will spread like wildfire in a GOOD way; the candidates will do your marketing for you! Six Degrees: What is your next career goal? What do you need to do to get there? BARBARA I’m shooting for Empress of the Galaxy but will be willing to accept “All Around Deity of Internet Smart Moves” , in other words, the ultimate AADISM. I plan on becoming THE authority of choice when it comes to maximizing one’s business profits online. Recruiting, after all, is a customer service adventure – it should be hands on from the beginning to the end. And the Internet allows anyone to showcase themselves as THE recruiter of choice; it’s simply a matter of taking advantage of what’s out there an seamlessly adding it to your business online.…; Added by Dave Mendoza at 3:32am on December 14, 2009

Blog Post: 15 Must Read HRTech Stories From Summer 2020

The pandemic has led to an increasingly unique situation for the workforce. Unemployment rates remain high. Remote working is the new normal. The reliance on technology grows by the day.

HR…

Added by Phil Strazzulla at 8:53pm on October 9, 2020

Blog Post: Plagiarism online tools to detect plagiarized papers and essays

Plagiarism has become such a common problem…

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Blog Post: Corporate Recruiting: Action Steps During a Recession Things that recruiting and HR can do to protect the budget: Corporate Recruiting: Action Steps During a Recession

Things that recruiting and HR can do to protect the budget

Monday, April 14, 2008 | by Dr. John Sullivan

Anyone…; Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey at 12:29pm on May 7, 2008