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Beijing to Bangkok

What's that line about the best laid plans?

I knew China might block Gmail, but who knew it would block RecruitingBlogs?

Guess Jason's a more dangerous guy than we thought--or maybe it's Animal they're worried about. Whatever the case, I'm in Bangkok now so I'll be putting up posts from the last few days over the next few days.

Thanks for your patience. They'll be worth the wait.

Added by David Kippen on February 6, 2010 at 10:39am — 2 Comments

The Career of Champions: When Economic Circumstances Teach You How To Reinvent Yourself

This blog post is going to be exceptionally personal. You have been warned. A few months ago, I stood looking down on the San Francisco Bay, at Sunset looking west from the Oakland Hills-when I snapped this picture. It was at that time I told myself, I had what it takes to make a difference in my profession, I could put people back to work, and really help propel myself forward to a career track of greatness. I thought of the beautiful…

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Added by Mike Rasmussen on February 6, 2010 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

Are mobile Sales & Recruiting apps for real?

The Stage

The Apple AppStore has over 100,000 iPhone applications. Verizon's Droid is a a few months old and Google just launched the Nexus One. Microsoft has Windows Mobile and the Palm has the hot new Palm Pre. The current king of Mobile Business is the Blackberry (RIM), but it is losing ground fast. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Palm, Verizon & RIM all going after the same market and that makes for great headlines.

The… Continue

Added by Donato Diorio on February 5, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Overseas Recruiter V's Home Based Recruiter

I

recently interviewed a Consultant for a position based in our Singapore

office, and that interview provided inspiration for this blog.

Recruitment is recruitment right? On the face of it, it’s as simple as finding…

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Added by Dee Allan on February 5, 2010 at 9:58pm — No Comments

Is Talent Overrated?

It's a fact of life that when you live in Southern California there's less opportunity to read than there is when you live in New York City or any other place where you have to rely on mass transportation. After all, when you're crammed into a sardine can with your fellow human beings pressed all around you a good book or a cheap newspaper can be the life-preserver that saves you from drowning in too much contact with your fellow human being.

Granted, there's always the sport of… Continue

Added by James Seetoo on February 5, 2010 at 1:56pm — 2 Comments

Psychology of a Counter Offer – Fractured Relationships

So, my last post focused on the fact that making or accepting a counter offer is a bad idea. Now I want to attempt to explain some of the pitfalls of making and in this post, accepting a counter offer.

As a job seeker the absolute worst thing you can do is shop for a new job with the intent of taking it to your current employer in hope of getting a counter offer.

Most employers will spend a lot of time (which = money) and real dollars advertising, interviewing and… Continue

Added by Corey Harlock on February 5, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Recruiting Green Eggs and Ham

Don't you hate it when your bluff gets called. I get a lot of inspiration for blog posts from my day to day life, especially with my kids. You'll notice my posts are not the high brow statistical masterpieces, or comprehensive analysis of some new Recruitment tool. They are just my views. A while ago, I went through a series of posts, getting analogies from books I was reading with my children, posts like…

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Added by Dan Nuroo on February 5, 2010 at 7:06am — 3 Comments

Recruiters and Background Checks – How to Deal Effectively with the Process

The life cycle of a background check is often in conflict with a recruiter’s time constraints to fill a position. This blog explores how recruiters can help speed up the process.

Part of the on boarding process for most in-house recruiters is the completion of the pre-employment background check.On the other hand, it is mission critical that employers exercise due diligence in their hiring. If an employer hires someone who turns out to be dangerous, unfit or…

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Added by Les Rosen on February 5, 2010 at 12:50am — 1 Comment

How NOT to motivate your staff.

Added by James Robbins on February 4, 2010 at 5:32pm — No Comments

Executive jobs: It’s not you, it’s not me. It’s just not meant to be.

Business trends and the current recession are forever changing the way corporations hire and retain talent.

These are hard times for finding a new job or making a career transition. The state of the economy and uncertainty has forced many companies to downsize. Yes, downsize. Not rightsize. I don’t hear clients tell us they need to hire 100 people because they are rightsizing. Companies are downsizing and in many…

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Added by Jose J. Ruiz on February 4, 2010 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Branch Office College Recruiting - Coordinating and Maintaining

I had the opportunity late last month to facilitate a NACE employer roundtable in Seattle, WA. Where college recruiters from the area gathered to talk about their jobs, share best practices and learn from each other.

While at the roundtable, there was an "AH-HA" moment when several of the group members had a similar challenge and a solution had already been created by another participant. I love it when you can watch this interaction take place right in front of your eyes - it is… Continue

Added by Jennifer Rutt on February 4, 2010 at 1:44pm — No Comments

Making progress with fake resumes

After a few years witnessing the continual buildup of fake resumes, we seem to have finally cracked the armor and have had several candidates who have presented their fake resumes fess up. We take the direct approach - "We know your resume is fake because it has all the earmarks of the typical fake resumes we receive daily. If you want help finding work, please send us your real resume and we will help you." This direct approach works more times than not. It results in both an admission that… Continue

Added by Steve Fleischner on February 4, 2010 at 12:23pm — 2 Comments

BREEDING ARSONISTS...the exciting conclusion!

When last we left our recruiting hero, they had successfully completed their search assignment, cashed a fat check, and were on to the next search.

The question remains. Is it a good thing to be a firefighter for your clients? That's the crux.

Initially, it seems like something you want your customers to do-think of YOU first.

Since you're in the service industry it's logical and profitable to be perceived as responsive and customer focused.

Don't… Continue

Added by Brian Keith on February 4, 2010 at 11:54am — No Comments

Build Your Brand Today in Recruiting

If you are looking for a role or a promotion in today's economy you must understand how to make yourself stand out.Developing a personal brand could be the key to making yourself more marketable. Noone is more brand conscious than celebrities,just like corporate brands recruiters must leverage themselves and their names.

Creating a signature brand that is recognizable and uniquely yours can put you on the map.So,if you are not Trump,Oprah or Diddy how do you establish your personal… Continue

Added by A J on February 4, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

All Tomorrow’s Parties – what TruLondon and Unconferences mean to me

The first time I read about unconferences three words sprang to mind – ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’

Those three words mean two things to me (and no doubt a lot of other rock fans) – an iconic song from the Velvet Underground debut album and an alternative music festival, which runs every year as an antidote to more corporate music festivals.

Both encompass the spirit of everything that I believe unconferences should be, and none does it better than TruLondon.

I will… Continue

Added by Mervyn Dinnen on February 4, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

Search Entrepreneurs: Who Sits On Your Board of Directors?

You will find my blog as well as great tactical and strategic best practice ideas for Search Entrepreneurs at: www.SkrentnySPEAKS.com

Most of you answered "No one."

Should that really be your answer?

This Saturday I met with my Board of Directors in Chicago for the first of three meetings we will have this year. I was exhausted after our day of hard work together, which of course was… Continue

Added by Jeff Skrentny, CERS on February 3, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Get ready to start countering – or not

As the economy picks up and more jobs come available, people are going to start resigning. With that, employers are going to counter offer. I say – Don’t do it!

Here are the facts;

over 80% of people who accept a counter offer cease to remain at that company after 6 months. WOW

54% of your current staff are looking for a new job – seriously they are. As soon as the market gains some strength they are shopping their resume.

So get ready to start countering –… Continue

Added by Corey Harlock on February 3, 2010 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Listen up Recruiters!

I would like to talk about Recruiters and I don't mean military recruiters but workforce recruiters. Recruiters are the liaison between employers and job seekers, a recruiter will contact a prospective candidate for a job opening that might fit the qualifications that they're looking for (as they find candidate resumes on job boards, etc), then the recruiter will speak with candidate in a phone screen and a face to face interview about the candidates qualifications and the job opportunities… Continue

Added by Noelia Hamilton on February 3, 2010 at 6:00pm — 7 Comments

Boston Software Jobs apply online

Use Referral Sue Hand

The APP-V Team is HIRING in CAMBRIDGE, MA!

CURRENT OPENINGS IN DEVELOPMENT (ALL POSITIONS IN NERD in Cambridge, MA):

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER – App-V Team – Job Code: 702260- SE ROLE

Microsoft Application Virtualization (“App-V”) is the pioneering application virtualization software for enterprise application management. The App-V Product Group is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Sustained Engineering (SE) team… Continue

Added by Susan Hand on February 3, 2010 at 5:21pm — No Comments

44 States Show Positive Job Trends in January

January’s jobs report from the Department of Labor is scheduled to be released later this week and based on data released this morning by LinkUp, Friday’s report will show that the job market improved sharply during the month. LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported that new job listings on company websites rose by 69,082 (18%) from December. Total job listings on company websites in LinkUp’s search engine increased by 34,525… Continue

Added by Molly Moseley on February 3, 2010 at 4:49pm — 2 Comments