It’s the Boy Scouts motto. It’s what your teachers, your mom and dad have been telling you all your life. But, are you really prepared? Prepared for anything?? Are you…

I've been in sales since I was about 15 years old and have worked a desk since late 1999. I've had the pleasure (and in some cases nearly nauseating pain) of working with some of the best sales people around. I've had the opportunity to train fledgling salespeople and watch them grow and develop from rookies, paralyzed by call anxiety, into take-no-prisoners, hard line closers. But, the truth is, with all of the…

It’s natural to think that your LinkedIn profile belongs only to you. It’s contains so much of your hard work and personal knowledge, it seems out-of-the-question that anything else

could possibly be the case. However, as business begins to recognise the

value social media brings to the bottom line, the issue of ownership of

social activities is coming to the fore. So, if you tweet for work,…

Phone interviews are becoming increasingly popular as a means of narrowing down candidates for a more traditional face to face interview. In the ultra competitive society we now live, a job advertisement can attract hundreds of resumes from candidates with similar set of skills and backgrounds. The recruitment process is all about finding the one perfect candidate among the basket full of candidates. The phone interview has become a popular, flexible, inexpensive and speedy way of finding…

A variety of challenges can be overcome by employing a hiring approach dating back almost 65 years – the temporary worker. The length of time…

I spend a lot of time bleating on about how I feel the recruitment market is a little down trodden to say the least. In fact this week when I introduced myself and my profession to someone they had the good nature to respond “…

I wrote a blog and thought “before I post this, let’s change the title to include Part 1.” Reason being is that I had more to say, and couldn’t organize and execute my thoughts as effectively as I would like.

Now for Part…

I’ve been reading articles and other blogs geared towards vendor management comparing the consequences of regulating vendor performance.

The general consensus:…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

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I keep everything online from my music to my bills and everything in between. I have practically my life online. Including my resume. I recently asked a candidate if they had a link to their online resume…allI got was silence. No stuttering, no excuses –just silence. My guess is they didn’t know there could be such a…

It’s pretty sad that in recent years resumes have become more and more popular as vehicles for stealing personal identities. It sort of makes sense when you think about it because resumes contain some pretty vital personal information. Aside from the obvious work history information, resumes can include home addresses, telephone numbers, and education information. Sometimes they even contain enough information to open a credit card! It’s…

These days we are told that we live in a "global village" and that everyone is contactable 24/7 with and via a myriad of devices ranging from letter, telephone and telegram to e mail instant messegner and many others. yet in buisness many people still seem to do things the hard way, lots of paper and lots of contact with lots of people.

I remember ( yes I am that old !!) when computers started to play a major role in my job, this was initially selling hard copy recruitment…

Interviews can be a very stressful time yet it doesn’t have to be that way when you understand what the objective is from the employer's perspective. Let me explain.

Employers are trying to hire candidates that match their requirement. They usually take time beforehand and make a list of required key skills and nice to have skills. Questions are usually formulated to

access and rate the information that will be obtained in an interview.

What the employer…

My presentation from the recent Talent Net Live Social Media Recruiting Conference is attached (btw, the conference was incredible and standing-room only). Big thanks to Fishdogs for pulling off the best conference I've been too in a long…

Amanda Sachs, Senior Director, WW Customer and Partner Experience, Microsoft Corporation, will be a speaker at the marcus evans Customer Experience Management and Retention Conference on 15-17 September, 2010 in San Francisco, CA.…