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I’m back jack….

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

After a long respite I have emerged…sure, slimy and shawshank-like crawling out of…

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Added by WorkFarce on September 18, 2007 at 8:42pm — No Comments

Sometimes…You Can’t Fight your inner Farce

September 7th, 2007 · 1…

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Added by WorkFarce on September 18, 2007 at 8:41pm — No Comments

We're always looking for ways to demonstrate the positive power of social media. And this time we found it on BlogCatalog.com. BlogCatalog members have designated Sept. 27 as Blog Against Abuse.

While the topic is wide open, we were really taken by the idea. Enough so that I e-mailed the Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog, to see if we could go beyond our usual support of his social… Continue

Added by Rich on September 18, 2007 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Youth not always an advantage

Most of us who have been around understand (and sometimes long for) the advantages of youth (especially as our society is obsessed with youth), but when it comes to career changes sometimes a little experience goes a long way.

Obviously my job as a recruiter is to educate and inform a candidate about the interview process and assist them in working through details about a job and anything impacted by a change in jobs. Of course working with candidates who have been…

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Added by bill martineau on September 18, 2007 at 11:34am — No Comments

Re-Recruiting your Current Employees

Is re-recruiting your current employee’s part of your employee retention strategy? If not, it should be, according to Michael Jalbert, president of Management Recruiters International.

“Employers should be applying the strategies and tools of external recruiting to their current employees.”

Loyalty is a good trait to have but it is unrealistic to think that your employees will be loyal in such a…

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Added by Nicole St.Martin on September 18, 2007 at 10:28am — No Comments

The future of recruiting

Do you think you know? Here's the answer.

Added by Chris Russell on September 18, 2007 at 9:13am — No Comments

Another SourceCon Picture: Amybeth Interviews Audience.

Sourcers have diverse backgrounds.

Added by James Guske on September 18, 2007 at 5:55am — No Comments

Resume Typos & English as a Second Language

When I was just getting started in the Recruiting business, a very

successful recruiter told me that one of his red flags was a

typographical or grammatical error in a resume. His point was that a

resume is the most important document a person uses to "sell" his/her

skills, and he/she should make darn sure that there are no errors.

My mentor told me that a lack of… Continue

Added by Katie Tierney on September 17, 2007 at 11:03pm — No Comments

SourceCon2007 - 90% say "I will be back"

I just finished reading the conference attendee comments and 90% of you said you would definitely attend SourceCon2008 with many of you also saying you will be looking to bring along colleagues next year.

From the moment that our MC, Mr Jim Stroud, walked…

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Added by SourceCon Dude on September 14, 2007 at 5:06pm — 12 Comments

SourceCon1: "Wow"

I wanted to thank everyone here who met me at sourcecon1. More blog posts to come.

Added by James Guske on September 14, 2007 at 4:55pm — 1 Comment

The Atlanta Recruiting RoadShow is Sold Out

Congrats to Amitai Givertz and John Sumser for generating enough buzz to sell out the Atlanta RoadShow. That is great news and it validates that there is a need for this.

The Fordyce Letter is… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 14, 2007 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Are Recruiting Fees Going Down?

I remember about 2 years ago I had my first conversation with Harry Joiner. Since then we have always enjoyed our weekly calls about domain names and recruiting. This week we each bought a new one but that is another post.

Getting back to our first conversation, Harry told me that he was convinced that agency fees were going to go down because he could not see how… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 14, 2007 at 12:17pm — 7 Comments

Looking for feedback on ''Electronic Recruiting 101" 2007 edition.

Has anyone purchased or read 'Electronic Recruiting 101
(2007 Edition)
by Shally Steckerl
published by The Fordyce Letter

I came across it on www.ere.net and was wondering if it was a worthwhile purchase?

Any comments\feedback on this is welcomed. =)

Finn

Added by Finny Varghese on September 14, 2007 at 11:50am — 3 Comments

SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge

What was the challenge and who won?

Added by Charles Bretz on September 13, 2007 at 3:21pm — 3 Comments

Bad candidate clichés

In my twenty years of recruiting I’ve heard many clichés about the hiring process concerning candidates’ fears, but over that time most have either been dispelled or just fallen out of favor. However, two of the oldie but goodies were repeated to me the other day and I was simply amazed at the logic of the candidate.

The classics were “You have to get it (money) coming in or you’ll never get it” and “You can’t get a promotion for two years”. Now as we all know of…

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Added by bill martineau on September 13, 2007 at 10:07am — No Comments

Ever have one of those days?

Today was a good day. Today was one of those days that energizes
someone like me. Today was a day full of really good candidates, a
glowing reference for someone we’d really like to hire, and an overall
renewal of my faith in Generation Y.

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Added by Katie Tierney on September 12, 2007 at 9:39pm — 1 Comment

Poor Employment Site Usability – What’s it Costing You?

The goal of a corporate career website is to attract qualified candidates as well as encourage them to submit their resume to a job of interest. Unfortunately today’s corporate career websites and their applicant tracking systems lack website usability elements that make it difficult to achieve this goal.…

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Added by Nicole St.Martin on September 12, 2007 at 4:12pm — No Comments

RecruitingBlogs.com - A little layout change for a while

I am messing around with the layout of RecruitingBlogs.com

Ning has now limited the amount of things you can now have on the main

page. I have no issue with it. At first I did but now it seems I need

to take another look at what is on the main page and make some

decisions. Right now, I can't really add any more boxes so things are

going to change a little.

In the meantime, there are lots of pixels you can get for free and they

will last for 3 days. It's… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 12, 2007 at 1:46am — No Comments

Remembering Work, Life, Love Balance

I want apologize for being slow to post the past few weeks, my father had back surgery today. No matter how much I love to share my passion for my chosen career, it doesn’t compare to the love I have for my family and they will always come first, no matter what.

Not only was this the first time in my 36 years that I had to see…

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Added by Recruitnik on September 11, 2007 at 9:22pm — 1 Comment

Where's the Science in HR?

Yesterday, I read an article from Workforce Management on the correlation, or lack there of, between HR and the popular television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation around failures and successes within various organizations. All this talk of forensic science reminded me of a speaking engagement I attended with Jim Stroud last year on Resume Forensics. The audience was quite taken aback with Jim's insight…

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Added by Catherine Horgan on September 11, 2007 at 9:17pm — No Comments