Unfortunately, just as the economy was showing signs of improving, a number of factors are causing it to weaken again. Rising food and oil prices, supply chain disruptions due to the Japanese nuclear disaster and a still-horrendous housing market are all to blame. How will it impact your business? Mostly by affecting consumers.

As oil prices have climbed more than 20% this year, high gas prices are slowing the momentum of the recent economic improvements. Gas and food inflation are…

1. Better pay.

According to The Wall Street Journal, contractors are usually paid at least 20% to 40% more per hour than employees performing the same work.



2. More tax benefits.

According to NOLO.com:

Being an IC also provides you with many tax benefits that…

A recent story on Forbes.com supports a continuing trend: With many more candidates on the market than open job assignments, hiring managers are indeed asking some very challenging interview questions.…

I listened to this song by the Eagles on my way home today, and for just a moment, I found peace as I realized, being comfortable in your own skin, is as much a part of success, as anything.  A simple lesson really, but yet so important.  Sometimes, people have thier opinion of your direction, be it small, be it simple, yet, learning to be still, and just patiently enjoying the moments is so vital and key to every momentous success. 

At times, I can't help but be amazed at…

Thankful Tree, a musician performing in a unique museum setting, among the art…

I was recently working with the adwords tool doing some keyword research and the word "recruitment marketing" came up with 90,000 local searches.  This means that people in the US search the words recruitment marketing 90,000 times a month.  WOW, I never knew that recruitment marketing was so popular.  So with such a interest in recruitment marketing got me to thinking exactly what these words mean and even…

MacGyver, the 1980’s television icon played by Richard Dean Anderson, was a secret agent who never carried a weapon.  Instead, MacGyver relied on improvisation and a sound working knowledge of scientific principals, his Swiss Army knife, some duct tape and the occasional…

Last week we discussed the seven basic elements of a great career website.  As a principal feature of your internal sourcing resources, effective management of your site can help you tap into a greater pool of qualified candidates.  Today we will look at how implementing Google Analytics can optimize your site’s traffic performance, and…

Employers and staffing firms posted more than 103,000 new online jobs for Registered Nurses, a new 4-year high for this occupation. As the most in-demand job in the US, hiring demand in July increased by 40% from the previous month and 69% from July 2010.

Online Job Ad Growth for Registered Nurses…

For any recruiting organization to be successful it is important to know what recruiting activities are driving performance in bringing in the most qualified candidates and hires. To know this information, you need to set up a way to collect metrics and analytics in your recruiting process and most importantly a way to easily display this recruitment marketing data so you can make quick informed decisions on ways to improve your recruiting strategy.



But what data and metrics…

An interesting topic I have been wrangling recently is the convergence of Corporate Social Media and Corporate Social Recruiting. While the two seem to align perfectly with each other, they are proving more and more difficult to sync up. One would think, at least this one person, that social recruiting and social media have the same end goal in mind, but the problem is aligning the social strategy to new talent and aligning the social strategy to new clients is very different. This can lead…

There are thousands of job boards to choose from if you need to post a job. But not all are created equal. Here are some telltale signs that the job board you are about to post on is worth using.

1. It Looks Good: If the job board has good design, meaning a nice logo and well done interface with clearly spelled out call to actions and navigation.

2. Contact Info: If the job board puts their phone and email in a prominent place…

I tried to make a point at the recent #SRCONF that, when it comes to the employer brand, size no longer matters.  Big is not longer beautiful.  Money no longer talks - people do. Judging by the looks on the faces of the audience I failed miserably.

Ultimately I was trying to make the point that the new social order completely democratises the…

This was the wise advice of an old manager of mine at Solutions Partners a few years back, when the economic circumstances hit close, after my hours were cut when the permanent job orders that were 70% of my employer's business at Solutions Partners became less and less in demand.  It was on a bright and sunny day walking in Los Gatos, with Nathan North who provided such wisdom at the time, and said the economic storm will pass and "When in Doubt: Enjoy the Journey" - I couldn't help but…

A two part blog .....

I speak to agency recruiters all day ......some approach me looking for a new role and others are recipients of a headhunting call. Something that I am hearing more and more these days is the following sentence (or a version of):

"Have you got any roles in internal recruitment"

Fair enough. However, the majority of people that give me this response are not able to provide any well considered reasons for…

The Top 12 Recruiters Online - Aug 15/11

This list was composed using the Toronto-based Algorithm Method.

01…

We already know the benefits…