Scott suggests five steps to overcome craptacular attitudes in an organization.

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Reference Checking may or may not be a part of your daily recruitment activity. For many, it's a love / hate relationship. For some it's a significant channel for lead generation, for others it's a way to create better hires, faster.

Regardless of your reason for reference checking we have found that on Recruiting Blogs, there are many…

Ok, so your candidate has thought long and hard, and they've come to the conclusion that it’s time to find a new job. You’ve sent off their CV, you’ve guided them through the nail biting interviews, and finally, you’ve secured them the offer of a lifetime. Hurrah! You deliver the good news, they accept and hand in their notice to their boss. And that’s it, right?

Not always, no.

Cue urgent call from your candidate. What’s this? He explains that his contribution is vital to the…

No matter how thorough your workforce planning process, shortages in the availability of candidates with the required 

If effective workforce planning is the ‘right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time’, then the quality of the journey into the organisation is crucial…

So I assume a lot of people got the "Congratulations! You're profile is among the X% most viewed on LinkedIn  email. I got it earlier this week and my natural suspicion immediately clicked in. I don't trust any email that says "click here for more info" if I'm not ABSOLUTELY sure of it's provenance.

However a bit of judicious googling shows it to be genuine...but also…

There are days when I love my job as a Talent Management Pro. 



There are days when I want to end my own life by throwing myself into a cage full of wild animals, ideally gorillas who are under the influence of amphetamines, and let them rend my body limb from limb. …

Contract jobs offer various types of advantages for both the employers and the employees. More and more companies are offering contractual jobs to employees. There are many reasons to seek a contract job of an engineer.

Benefits of contractual job

Jobs that offer a fixed timing have the benefit of providing variety. The employers value experience and expertise. Due to diversities of contractual job, you will get the opportunity of learning different aspects of…

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Remember when you got to go to camp or on a field trip as a kid and there was always that handy dandy checklist to help you pack? Wouldn't it be nice if that were something that you got in real life too? Just like we talked about last week, we're doing a great series called "The First in HR" and we want to give you real tools that you can use every day. 

Building an HR Department within a new or established company is going to take some work, but with a solid plan and…

LinkedIn has made news in the last few weeks in a number of stories, some good and some bad (depending on your perception)

I wanted to post this to the group because I think this move shows some value to the corporate groups that subscribe to LinkedIn.

What are your thoughts? Is LinkedIn continuing to head in the right direction?

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LinkedIn is expanding its diversity offering by teaming up with the Professional Diversity…

In this shaky economy and ever-changing employment landscape, sometimes traditional hiring methods just don't suffice.  Increasingly, recruiters are being viewed as strategic partners who are expected to provide solutions to staffing problems, not simply fill job orders.

Are you in the position to serve as this type of strategic partner? If you are offering contract staffing, you can confidently say "Yes!"  Contract staffing can provide a solution to a number of hiring…

It’s obvious when you think about it – different people are good at different things. Just as a football player may not make a great manager, and vice versa, business leaders have skills relevant for different environments.

So when you are thinking about who to appoint into a critical position, it’s essential to consider not just who has preceded them but what they will be dealing with.

The phase the business is going through is generally a good place to start, as there are a…

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While checking my LinkedIn groups this morning I found this post from Seth Godin

At a recent seminar, a woman who helps run a community college stood up to ask a question.

"Well, the bad news," she said, "is that we have to let everyone in. And the truth is, many of these kids just can't be the leaders you're describing, can't make art. We need people to do manual…

I’ve been staring at this blank page for weeks. In the past couple of months I’ve heard from two very different contacts that they’ve gotten pretty far in the recruiting process, only to have the recruiter disappear. They don’t call, they don’t write. They certainly don’t pick up the phone when it rings. Why is that?

I received an email from a job seeker I've crossed paths with both as a candidate and professional networking contact. He is smart, educated, and has a great deal of…

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Scott’s new video book, The Avoidant…

It’s been a while since I looked at the newest crop of recruitment and job board sites, so I thought that we could take a trip down StartUpLane and see what we discover:…

Job interviews are usually associated with the long tense wait in a queue, especially if there are several interviewees. On entering the boardroom there are the panelist, who by taking one look, one can easily forget all the interview tips mastered for this special day. This is a scenario that does not exist in a lunch interview which by the way most people…