Learn the difference between right and wrong. Respect your elders. Say “please and “thank you.” Work hard and be honest. Don’t give up and always try your best. Play nicely with others and learn how to share.

These are all lessons we teach our children so they will be prepared to be contributing members of society and generally good adults. Another opportunity to prepare your kids that is often overlooked is how to enter and successfully navigate through their…

While gratitude for current circumstances and successes is prudent, being satisfied is incredibly dangerous for business professionals. Satisfaction becomes a trap that keeps you cemented to your doorstep and allows your competitors to grab more market share. I asked a recent workshop participant, who was resistant to ideas for enhancing her business, if she was satisfied with her current business model and she replied, “Yes!” When asked if she was also satisfied with her results, she…

Video interview or video resume?  Live or streaming? Record at home or in a studio?  Free or paid?  Video technology is everywhere and its growing fast!  Every candidate and recruiting professional needs a strategy to meet this ideological shift.  TalentRooster is hosting an educational webinar to help those interested understand the opportunity that video technology offers. It's free and if you're interested, please join us! …

Thought for the Day: If you are going to have a twitter account for your recruiting I suggest you follow Google's lead.

Check out https://twitter.com/#!/googlejobs

Entitled "Life at Google" their twitter account is a living, breathing, active communication tool for their recruitment strategy. They link to job openings but they also COMMUNICATE WITH CANDIDATES! Something many…

1. Build talent pipelines and recruitment strategies to key business groups

Business units love to engage and buy-in to recruitment strategies that are tied to their groups and units vs. the whole company where job requirements and competencies can get watered down to meet all requirements.  Sourcing and recruiting to fill a specific pipeline for…

As the markets in Asia Pacific continue to grow at rates from 6 – 23.5% (in the case of SG’s 1^st Quarter 2011!) the ‘…

Is Twitter experiencing Facebook envy? Or, do they just want to be creepy? Google is doing something really cool with their image search and that's a good thing for social recruiting. Plus, Jim Stroud shares the love. Download the show notes for all the links to the stories covered in this video and more!…

Human Resources - What a confusing appellation!

As an HR professional, I frequently feel that HR, as a profession and as a business function, has become extraordinarily complex. If we are an HR professional we are confronted with:

- Treating people as a resource and being called "offensive" or are considered "callus".

- Treating people as individuals, we run the risk of discriminatory outcomes.

- We know people are not objects yet we seek to be objective in…

Many executives who are in meetings all day feel that when they go on an interview, they can “wing it” and successfully ad lib.  This is very dangerous.  Interview settings increase the tension, and you may not always be at your best when “on the spot.”

If you enjoy movies or theater, and you’ve seen an actor really embody a role, really own the character,…

It all started with the military heritage of my family.

On June 16, 1942 the New Mexico Albuquerque Journal had a front page article with photos entitled "GIVE FIVE SONS TO THEIR COUNTRY".  The photos are those of my grandparents, on my mother's side, and their five sons (my uncles-THE CHAVEZ BROTHERS) in military uniform, all in the service (Army and…

From my recruiting experience, sometimes its challenging to remember ALL the candidates you have met during the week. Relying on my photographic memory is not enough anymore. How do you keep track of your candidates, what techniques are/have used to keep a mental picture of the person? Do you think its ethical to take a picture of a candidate for the sole purpose of  'jogging your memory'? I have mixed feelings about this issue, what do you think?

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

Greetings on 11.11.11--Veteran's Day in the U.S.

On this day, we honor those who served our country as members of the armed forces.

Public schools are closed. So too are banks and state and federal government offices. Today, wreaths were laid at…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about Hiring Veterans, Recruiting mistakes, employee retention, Talent Communities and polishing the process.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

This 1999 photograph provided by Chrisitie's shows the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky. Titled "Rhein II," the chromogenic color print face-mounted to acrylic glass was sold for $4.3 million Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, at Christie's in New York City, setting a record for any photograph sold at auction. (AP…

                                        Social Media Architecture/Framework!!!!!! Part 2

This will be the 2nd in a series of posts about Social media architecture/framework.

In part one we went over the why, we talked about branding and about seeing what is being said out there about you.

Now it’s time to go over some of the social sites.

Sites: now keep in mind there are hundreds and more every day. They…

I don’t know about you, but I had never heard of the staffing or recruiting world while I was in college.  I am personally lucky for making it to Dawson because I knew someone who worked here after I graduated.  She called me one day and said “We are looking for a new recruiter and I think you would really enjoy it.”  My response “Absolutely, I’ll send you my resume right away!”  After I hung up and did what I needed to I thought “Okay, so what exactly is staffing and I will be recruiting…

When you are starting to build your Talent Community (or Talent Network), it’s extremely important to think about this question.  In understanding why candidates want to be part of your Talent Community, you can start creating communities & messaging that better appeal to your best target candidates.

So the question remains, when a candidate opts into your Recruiting…

Dear Penn State Undergrads,

You have just been hit between the eyes with a hard dose of the real world.  I notice that you are not handling it very well so let me try to give you something to think about besides  your folk hero and the game on Saturday.  As i have listened to your comments ,i am reminded of the time many moons ago when my world consisted of Wildcat football games, painting the "A" at the University of Arizona, boondockers with a keg or two and once in a while a…