Great teams don't just happen. Сreating a successful team is possible only when the right people with the right skills come together. However, in today’s competitive market, simply hiring top talent isn't enough. Knowing your players' strengths and coaching with the right management styles will help…

Best practices. You know you’ve read that teaser a gazillion times.  One place you see this phrase are on popular recruiting websites and conferences.   The REALITY is this. Recruiting is ACTUALLY more about WHO than HOW.

Unfortunately, recruiters are lured away from the WHO and into HOW to business lately.

Let me illustrate this even more. Here are the recent…

Throughout your career you will be judged on your credibility to handle the opportunity at hand.

Potential future employers and contacts who you are looking to work with you will be evaluating you and deciding if it is worth spending time with you.

Investors will be assessing your ability to grow an idea to a scalable relevant business. It will be as much about…

Social recruiting is here to stay. In recent years, it’s become a great source of hire for many companies; social has leaked into all aspects of the recruiting process, from employer referral to sourcing to distributing job postings. In recent…

The biggest challenge with recruiting today isn't the massive amounts of information flooding the recruiting gates. It's not even the growing bytes of data amassing in the virtual cloud. One of the hardest facets of using big data in the recruitment…

In the modern times, we are compelled to live according to choice of others. When it comes to eating then there are no limitations to think of other choices. Further the food chains like Dairy Queen make it easy to avail as many choices as one can but still according to one’s own interest. Satisfaction of taste buds can be done best in an amazing way when mood is well synchronized with it. Choosing from a variety of options does not remain a difficulty when a person now about the specialty…

Introduction

Assessing someone for a job based only on a CV can be a little superficial. Today in this dynamic world where there is cut-throat competition everyone has an impressive CV. However, not everyone possesses the art of tackling a good interviewer and dodge their tricky questions with adroitness. Asking the right questions at an interview is extremely important as they confirm your qualifications and credentials as a…

Everyone has reason to become negative about his/her work from time to time. Workplaces are composed of people with various personalities and attitudes, which can become negative when there are deadlines to be met, and challenging tasks to be completed.  There is no set solution to preventing negativity in the workplace, but guidelines should be put in place so the employees are held to a certain expectation of behavior when the environment…

*** Please note this post originally appeared on The RecruitLoop Blog ***

A few weeks ago I attended a Talent Acquisition and Selection conference in San Francisco.

Having been playing in ‘the recruitment game’…

 Acme Manufacturing is a proud firm that has been serving its customers for nearly a century but lately they have been experiencing some problems. Just yesterday their largest customer called the CEO of Acme and told them if the reliability of their products did not drastically improve, the customer was going to take their business elsewhere. The CEO immediately calls a management meeting and tells the department managers and HR if the human capital assets can’t do the job correctly…

PPC, or pay per click, is a strategy many marketers use to buy keyword based traffic to their websites. In fact, many companies from startup to Fortune 50 spend millions of their advertising budgets on "owning" certain keywords each year. So why wouldn't you try PPC for recruitment marketing? The best recruiters think like marketers, right? 

Well, yes - but we don't…

You take the time to create strong professional networks. You continue to build, nurture and maintain them. This is a skill many recruiters have mastered and successfully continue to leverage as they recruit world-class talent. You too need to be sure to leverage your networks…

You’ve gotta get your hands dirty!

Now that we are enjoying a healthy economy and companies are growing again, I am seeing new leaders take the reins, and I’m also seeing experienced leaders struggling to retain talent.  I believe a major reason leaders lose their key players is that their…

That infamous question – …

That first day on the job… has the potential to be an employee’s best or worst day on the job. It’s the same for you as an employer. You’ve spent nearly a month or more searching for the right candidate and using a lot of time and money to find them.…

Whenever I see an article on Big Data and how it's going to revolutionize HR from hiring to management, I cringe a little. Not because I don't think it can, or even will. But because HR, and especially recruitment, have huge data problems that have been staring them right in the face for years - and they haven't changed a thing.

The inability to collect, organize, and analyze…

Most of us have heard of The Office; the UK and later American television show that follows the day-to-day lives of sales staff. Whilst there are no direct links to the recruitment industry, each character represents a real-life candidate that recruiters could encounter. With that in mind, we, at …

The popularity of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is growing and not just for large companies. Small and medium sized companies are looking to advance their HR departments as well. But there has to be a good combination of human and computer interaction. Automation is the current trend in HR and recruiting. How effectively do you use your Applicant Tracking…

Companies are constantly seeking out talented individuals, to build and grow their individuals business. In times when talented and skilled labour isn’t easy to come by, especially when such individuals are in demand by several companies be it; a small start - up, a growing business or a big business. It’s safe to say that a recruiter’s task is never ending as candidates who have been great employees but have received better packages.

Recruiting is the most daunting task or job…

Create a good first impression over the phone

Rule no. 1: Find a quiet place to talk to recruiter, fully charge your mobile before the interview, and turn call waiting off.  The person on the other line will be able to hear you clearly, and you will be able to hear them.  It sounds simple, but wind can be a factor if you take the call outside!

Rule no.2:  Be friendly! …