Hirestrategy - The Source

We've long been told to keep the resume to one page. But now that the job hunt has turned digital, job seekers are left wondering: Does…

A recent blog by Tony Kontzer really got our attention here at Agile. And although the women who work at Agile were not pleased about the news, none…

A lot of us already use social media for personal reasons, but it is also a good source for your professional world as well.  More and more recruiters are using these networks to find potential candidates for open positions.  These social media tools are a great way to save time while searching for a job.  Instead of spending…

I am currently one of the managers at a 25-person, primarily contingency-based search firm that does a lot of interoffice splits.  We have been in business since 1991, and have a long-standing company policy of our recruiters being able to “own” candidates in our database, ad infinitum, as long as they were the first person to bring in that particular candidate’s resume.  We have even gone as far to allow those that put in meaningful information on a candidate into the database without…

Today, Mark and Gerry of CareerXRoads released their latest 2010 Source of Hire Report.

Two of the most notable changes in the numbers this year are the following:

* Job boards became the #2 source of new hires, behind referrals.

* Social media sites still don't account for a large percentage of hires.

To me,…

In Praise Of NortonNet

There are myriad groups in cyber space connecting candidates, employers, staffing industry thought leaders, and HR gurus. They vary in approach and in specialty, but most of them incorporate an element of glitz and virtually all of them include a profit model of some kind.

Then there is NortonNet. There is no website, it’s just an email distribution list augmented by monthly luncheons. It is…

Ah, references. They can be that little added oomph your candidate needs to get the job- It can also be the axe that puts them out the running. 

Many candidates offer references when you interview them. You may already have some if they applied online and your company requires they list a few. 

The reference check is a valuable way to check the validity of the claims made by the candidate in respect of experience and qualifications. It gives another point of…

A new trend emerging in the recruitment sector is the “engagement” portal. These offer Recruiters opportunities to engage with Employers.

They split into 2 models which can be broadly characterised as:

Tendering sites: e.g. http://bountyjobs.com which publish employer’s jobs and invite recruitment agencies to “bid” to work on them, and

Networks: e.g.…

I was lucky enough to attend this Tuesday’s #TChat (which you should attend if you are on Twitter) and there was a great conversation on “Best Practices Evaluating, Purchasing & Implementing HR/Recruiting Tech & Software”.  Long title, but a pretty interesting conversation between HR / Recruiting professionals with a few vendor opinions mixed in.  I encourage you to read the recap on the…

Hello.  My name is Melissa and I'm a recruiter.

Hi, Melissa!

I've been recruiting for about nine months now.  I had a friend who got me started on this and now I'm hooked! 

But I've got some problems.  First, I'm new.  Second, my friend who got me into this sees this more of a "lifestyle business" than a career.  She doesn't want to pursue new clients or work on orders that are, you know, actual work.  Third,…

It’s very easy to immediately exclaim, “Yes! Of course I will!” without thinking about the consequences. Much like the bachelor/bachelorette contestants desperately accept a rose or engagement ring in the heat of the moment, so do some job applicants only to find out weeks later “it just wasn’t a good fit for me”. But could this have been avoided in the first place? In order to avoid accepting a position you really don’t want, consider these factors:

• Goals- First…

Well, that's not all that surprising.  If you've ever felt like you needed to learn the Japanese language just to understand some of the vocabulary involved with these initiatives, trust me, you're not alone.

But there is an easier way than studying Kanji characters to get a handle on this, and it's called Simple Excellence. Actually,

"…

Resume is an important document to win an interview.It is a summary of a job candidate's work and educational experience. Employee makes selection from a bundle of resume and tries to find outstanding resume. Most of the resumes are written in the traditional paragraph format that is not easy to read. 

The HR has 100 0f resumes and they will not read the paragraphs.  They'll scan 1-2 lines of each paragraph and probably will not find what they are looking for because they didn't spend…

As mentioned in What Does a Google URL mean? Part I, every query we ask Google to run is represented with a URL that points to a results page, these URL’s are not static, but dynamic links which are continually updated and therefore provide real time results. 

To fully maximize the use of our Boolean operators and Google queries we must understand the URL Syntax Google uses. …

When you spend every waking minute analysing the possible outcomes for the recruitment industry over the next decade and you have a brain so limited in capacity as mine, you end up hearing the old cliché ringing in your ears:

“You can’t halt progress!”

I believe this to be true and short of a post apocalyptic return to the Stone Age, which actually seems frighteningly more likely than it did a week ago, I suspect that In-House, Social Media et al will continue to rise…