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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 17, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Turning the Tables: Digging Dirt on Employers

Employers need to watch out! The same tools that they’re using to screen applicants can just as easily be used by applicants to screen them.

Turning the Tables: Digging Dirt on Employers

Added by Willy Franzen on April 17, 2008 at 3:16pm — No Comments

Another great search engine.

So we all have used Google, Yahoo!, and some of us have even used Microsoft Live and Lycos. Well one search engine in particular has become a favorite of mine and that is Exalead (www.exalead.com). What I like about Exalead is its preview function. It allows you view the document in an HTML format with all the search criteria highlighted. If you click on the highlighted text at the top, it will automatically take you to where the word is located in the document. Then when you are done, with… Continue

Added by Steve Sill on April 17, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Pictures from SHRM show in Nashville

These are taken from the SHRM staffing&management expo in Nashville April 14-16…

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Added by Chris Russell on April 17, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Communication 101 - Information exchage

Communication: \kə-myü-nə-kā-shən\ - a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system

I think that we’ve all heard how email communications are a poor substitute for speaking on the phone, and that most of us believe that since the aspect of understanding someone’s emotions or sense of humor is just so tough.

However, I’m not here to complain about misunderstandings that email creates (deal with people). I’m here to talk about how the… Continue

Added by bill martineau on April 17, 2008 at 11:34am — No Comments

How To Keep Going During A Slump

Everyone depends on you. Your sales efforts impact everyone. Without them, everything stops.

That’s how important you are to your company and the people in it.

Each sales week and month, you and your team will almost certainly be presented with sales challenges and periods of time that test your resolve to make the next call and, in some extreme cases, even question your career choice.

Perhaps this happens more for those of us in Recruiting and Sales because our… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 17, 2008 at 8:41am — No Comments

Job Board Widget Review: AllTheTopBananasPosted by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 5:52am

We kick start our review of job board widgets this week with the AllTheTopBananas widget.

AllTheTopBananas, the name says it all: bouncy, energetic and not too serious. It’s a young site and full of innovation, so it comes as no surprise that it was one of the earliest sites to release a job widget.

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 6:01am — No Comments

Research Simplified - All On The Same Page

via The Sourcer's Corner - San Diego Employer

This month at San Diego Employer eMagazine, we feature a handy web resource that is sure to please any sourcer. 20Search.com features just about every major search engine you can imagine - all neatly placed on one page. 20Search labels itself The Web's Best Search Engine List, and it delivers quite handsomely by auto-populating each of the 20 boxes with your search string. Accompanying… Continue

Added by Steve Cherry on April 16, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

"I need a hero..."

Yes, just like that chick in Footloose, I need a hero.

I'm not talking about one that "has to be strong and has to be fast, and has to be fresh from the fight... "(thank you Bonnie Tyler)

I'd take a slightly geeky one who likes Star Trek, D&D and can write software using ASP.NET, C# and SQL code in an enterprise environment. Dancing is optional.

Added by Amy B on April 16, 2008 at 4:13pm — No Comments

Active vs. Passive Candidates

I was reading a blog earlier this morning on ERE.net that got me fired up. The writer, Sam Medalie, hits the nail right on the head. The point is, as Recruiters, we have to seek out the right candidates (passive, active, whatever want to call them) regardless what their current work status might be. It means we have to be vigilant in the resources we are using and, more… Continue

Added by Recruiterdude on April 16, 2008 at 12:48pm — 1 Comment

Talent Drive Viral Video

We launched the first of the Talent Drive Commercials today. It's uploaded at the Recruiting blogs video, but I can embed it here.

Links to Flektor, and to the new Talent Drive blog will also show you the video. We're doing this in a series, so each week we'll have a new video. Comments, notes, diggs, and stumbles would all be great. If you link or embed it, send me a note and I'll make sure to link… Continue

Added by Jim Durbin on April 16, 2008 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Hump Day Humor 4/16

Today’s cartoon comes to us from Grantland. For over 20 years, they’ve been creating buiness cartoons (specifically for the workplace) as a unique way to reach large audiences and their work has been used by thousands of organizations with great results.

With 2,900+ cartoons in their archives give them a call today to get their permission to use their materials if you need help spicing up your presentation, newsletter, or… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 16, 2008 at 8:50am — No Comments

April 16, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

Claudia responds to a question asked on the Recruiting Animal Show...

'If a candidate is very hairy on the chest and back, should they just shave right down every day to below their collar line?"

Read Claudia's fantastic reply in 'Hair of the… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on April 16, 2008 at 5:07am — No Comments

New Job boards - are they a front for massive ID theft?

This post started out as a flippant remark made to someone yesterday, but it made me think further.

There seems to have been another influx of new job boards coming into the already crowded space recently. My question is simple and worrying at the same time. What would stop a foreign owner (doesn't have to be foreign of course) setting up a job board? Then building up a database of CV's quickly, with some fancy promises, only to disappear to 'farm' all the personal information they have… Continue

Added by Andy Headworth on April 16, 2008 at 3:23am — No Comments

Courageous Careering - Story #1

I really enjoy discovering stories about people who completely change their lives. I admire people who make a plan and stick to it in order to make it happen. That is a fundamental philosophy of this blog…to career courageously through life and to not let people tell you that you can’t do something. As I come across stories like this, I will post them here. We can all learn from each other’s experience.

I found this excellent… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on April 16, 2008 at 3:00am — No Comments

Wednesday Wisdom: Hair of the Dog

Claudia,

If a candidate is very hairy on the chest and back, should they just shave right down every day to below their collar line?

Recruiting Animal

This question actually came up on last week's radio show with a hilarious response by guest recruiter Joshua Letourneau...check out my music list for the audio clip, provided for your listening pleasure courtesy of the… Continue

Added by Claudia Faust on April 15, 2008 at 8:30pm — 29 Comments

Tax day...I filed on time this year!!!

Last year wasn't a fluke for me...I did it again...I filed my taxes on time this year! This may not seem like a great feat, but I used to be notorious for procrastinating on my taxes and filing an extension.

What's been the difference for me, you ask? Well, I got married in 2005 and my wife was not about to let me procrastinate and let the government keep our refund (yes we got one again, which means I need to adjust my W4...). My wife holds me accountable and I love her for it… Continue

Added by David Sprinkle on April 15, 2008 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Recruiting Using Craigslist

If you’re currently not using Craigslist as one of your online recruiting channels, you’re missing out on a great opportunity to find candidates. Guy Kawasaki agrees in the extraordinary effectiveness of Craigslist, read about his experience with posting jobs.

For those that are unfamiliar, Craigslist (as defined by Wikipedia) is a centralized network of… Continue

Added by Nicole St.Martin on April 15, 2008 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Why won't you call me back??!!

Maybe it's just me, but my Sales 101 class told me that if you leave a message 80% of the time you're not going to get a call back. Rather than listen to our team lament about how people don't call back I decided to ask a few pointed questions. Question one was "are you making more than one attempt?" and their answer told me I didn't need to ask any more questions. So I implemented a procedure using our ATS to increase our call back hits & wanted to share it with you.

First off,… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on April 15, 2008 at 2:43pm — 1 Comment

Notable Quotable

“When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges…”

Jack Handy (American Writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991-2003; Famous for his “Deep Thoughts” sketches)

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 15, 2008 at 11:19am — No Comments