I couldn’t resist the opportunity to incorporate one of the season’s classics into our Movie Quote Mondays. For many “Halloween” with Jamie Lee Curtis or “Fright Night” or “Twilight” may be more in keeping with the season, but Linus in his pumpkin patch is one of my all time favorites. It’s a tossup between “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” and “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” but we will get to that in another season.

There were many who decided to do a reflection of the major…

David Als, Talent Attraction Strategist at Human Capital Management Solutions, reached out to me to talk briefly about the challenges of integrating Social Media into a recruitment strategy. It was terrific to be able to touch base with David before the upcoming…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about ways to develop great HR metrics, candidate experience, Facebook for Recruiting, Internet marketers going into Recruiting Software and decreases in unemployment.

Here are the articles our that interested us…

There is yet more evidence that American workers are putting off retirement, courtesy of a new retirement survey reported on in USA Today.

According to the survey conducted by Sun Life…

With the recent release of the movie, “The Social Network” there’s been buzz about Facebook and social media in general. There’s also been a lot of talk in the recruiting community about the use of social media; its pros, cons and inherent value. Some recruiting professionals find it to be the golden ticket. I read stories and see YouTube videos showing how they’ve mined, aggregated, aggravated, X-rayed,…

During each of the 2010 Cleared Job Fairs, participating security cleared job seekers were given the opportunity to vote for the nation’s top recruiting experience from a pool of employers seeking professionals with active security clearances.

Over 5,000 job seekers in the security cleared marketplace have since selected more than 120 recruiters from government agencies and defense and intelligence government…

I know, goofy question! Having been an Executive Chef for the past 20 years and now working @ Simply Hired handling small business sales, I thought this would be a fun way to help open up some dialogue and get to know a few people.

How would you relate building business relationships to growing a vegetable garden?

On another note, anybody interesed in posting a job on Simply Hired and saving 20%, please click on the link…

Halloween weekend is coming up and let’s admit that everyone likes a good scare. Encountering the unexpected is both thrilling and frightening at the same time but it’s how you react to these encounters that determines how much you enjoy it. Laughing about your momentary lapse in composure is usually the best reaction because lets face it, no-one wants to be the crying child who is a buzz-kill to what should be fun time.…

Any unemployed Recruiters out there who are as annoyed as I am with what you see happening out there? I realize that companies have scaled back. For some firms, to be able to have a Recruiter at all, they have had to hire junior level recruiters who are cheaper. You get what you pay for! But now these junior people are in charge of finding talent. However, these so called…