It's easy for job candidates to sit through an interview and feel as though they are on an unequal footing with the hiring manager. This is sometimes due to their own anxiety or their preconceived notions about how the interview will go. At other times, their anxiety directly relates to the hiring manager conducting the interview. Here are three tips to ensure that interviews look more like a conversation than an interrogation. Spotting a bad interview is a…

There has been a long standing debate about Talent Acquisition and Recruitment and the relation between the two. Based on this development it’s obvious that we’d like to know more about it hence the question what is the difference between Talent Acquisition and Recruitment?

Luckily one of the members of the popular Wednesday’s discussion addressed this very topic,…

Carpentry is an ideal career for people who enjoy building things and working with their hands. There are many carpentry job openings in and around the Perth area for those who have the right skills and experience. Whether you have just started your career as a carpenter or you have been working for years, potential…

Robots taking over jobs is a common theme these days yet, a contrarian view is explored in this episode of “The Jim Stroud Show.” Imagine you are a software developer who is constantly hounded by recruiters; almost to the point of distraction. So, what do you do? You do what Will Sims has done and build a robot to handle all calls from recruiters. Check out this very…

Recruiters are the frontline in the hunt for great talent. Their ability to do their job well can determine if industry-changing candidate-job matches are made. “The impact of a recruiter is twofold: first, you can literally change the life of an individual by placing them in their dream job, and second, you can effectively change the direction and the success of a corporation with a single great hire in a key job (i.e. recruiting LeBron to your NBA team)” …

No matter how many candidates you’re vetting, moving them all through the hiring process is not an easy task.  Keeping track of communication with up to hundreds of candidates for multiple positions at a time can trip up even the most experienced hiring manager. To better manage your applicant flow and get a clearer picture of each candidate, use the following tips to help yourself differentiate between your prospective talent.

Vary your interview…

Avankia the makers of TargetRecruit, a leading Workforce Management System and DBSync an Integration Platform for Salesforce, Financial, Healthcare and BI applications is gearing up for the biggest Cloud event on the planet, Dreamforce 2016. We are showcasing all that is new and happening and you are most welcome to take a sneak preview into what has kept us in…

The first Keynote was Bryan Chaney-Weird Science: Turning Talent attraction into Sourcing Success. Now for me when I saw Weird Science the move from the 70s came to mind. Obviously that is not the same thing but it did bring a smile to my face.

So Bryan started of with the career Decision Making Process.

Step 1-considering a change

Step…

There were once two managers who worked at a company together. Both were experiencing challenges with meeting their goals. They decided to hold a meeting to discuss on-going issues. One was a talent acquisition manager and the other was a unit head of a large software division. There was a lack of understanding on both sides and each blamed the other for failure. The…

Strategic recruiting is much more like sales than traditional recruiting. Correspondingly, how recruiting results are best analyzed is similar to how sales and marketing metrics are analyzed. Recruiting metrics can be broken down into two broad categories: …

“The customer is always right” isn’t just a slogan from the early 20th century used to get more incomes. It is an approach that advocates customer satisfaction as a high priority, because there is an understanding of the obvious fact: no customers – no business. With this approach you are generating loyal customers, and a loyal customer “costs” five times…

“Happy Sunday” I hope all is well and everyone had a great weekend so far. I just ducked into my office for a few hours preparation for the week, and the month ahead. Being a commission salesperson it’s a new month. “Yay me!” Basically the clock is reset the production board empty and everyone starts from zero. Here is when some degree of mental toughness comes in.…

Hitting the Target with Professional Associations in Recruiting/Staffing is a way that Talent Acquisition can create a Competitive Advantage in Sourcing and Talent Attraction.  In this series I study this marketplace and how it is going to have an impact in the future and how to effectively engage, build value and employer brand with these organizations.  The next Topic in…

If we look back in time, we find that whether you call it HR or personnel it has always it seems been our job to put out fires. It has always been our job to be the go to person when a problem needs to be resolved. That means that we respond to a given issue, at a given time, in a given space. This means that we are transactional in nature. Dictionary.com defines transactional as the process of carrying on or conducting (business, negotiations, activities etc.) to a conclusion or settlement.…

A hospital has a huge amount of demands on its time and resources. One of the biggest issues all hospitals face is having the right number and quality of staff available to ensure the best possible care is offered to every patient. In fact, this can be extremely difficult to achieve successfully. Hospitals generally have extremely limited budgets, which have to be used to get the best possible staff; the focus of this is surgeons, consultants and experienced, qualified doctors. While nurses…

A few years ago, when I first started writing here at Recruiting Blogs I must admit one of my very first posts, was all about how HR and Staffing/Recruitment were completely connected.  It was in 2008.  A lot has changed since that time, as continued technologies have evolved our staffing roles, and recruiting focus points.  Believe me, nothing pleases me more than a…

Don’t recruit blind when you can use data to make informed decisions and optimize your recruiting strategy. The benefits of tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) for recruiting go beyond allowing hiring managers and recruiters to make more better decisions, however. “KPIs set expectations and improve…

There are many life changing decisions that you will have to make and if you make a right decision, you will not go wrong in life. Before making any decision, you should have an idea about who you really are and you have to know your interests and passions. When have a proper idea about the previously stated factors, making decisions that are the best for you will not be a problem.

Know your interest

You are that person who knows yourself the best and it is always important…

My husband and business partner has been in the staffing and recruiting industry for over 20 years. He’s worked in corporate recruitment and at agencies, he’s been a contract recruiter and now owns his own executive search firm. I was an educator. I taught from first grade up to college…