Helping those looking for work!!!!!!!!! Part 3 The Job of finding a Job!!
So given the unemployment rate went up a week or so ago, I thought I would repost a 3 part series I did about a year ago on resumes, finding a job and more. So here we go.
Part 2
The Job of finding a Job!!
That is right finding a job is a job, if you cannot commit a minimum of 3-4 hours a day looking, than you will…
ContinueAdded by Dean Da Costa on September 19, 2011 at 12:56am — 1 Comment
This is an old post from my blog "The Recruiting Unblog.", but as there have been a few posts recently on the topic of Twitter and Recruiters, I thought it was worth sharing. David Palmer asks"Does twitter do anything for recruiters?. This is how one recruiter figured out how to source from Twitter, and got great results. Be glad to hear of other success story's, and no…
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What’s the percentage of hires to resumes in your company in a given year? I bet you’d be surprised to hear that it’s on average only about five percent. So that means that 95% of the resumes you receive are not part of your companies recruitment strategy. Many great hires could not be made because candidates turned down your offers due to compensation, job location, lack of interest in…
ContinueAdded by Francois Guay on September 18, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
The thing I have learned from being a sales person and recruiter...never sell anyone anything without making them a friend first...may not always apply but it does help.:)
Ruthie Appleby
Added by Ruthie Appleby on September 17, 2011 at 8:23pm — 3 Comments
I just realized my last blog post was about 3 years ago. Titled Social Networking and Jobs Board. IF you think about it – 3 years ago, there was very, very little or none SN elements on any job board. All this Branch Out, Be Found and clones like Talent me have happened in the last 12 months actually. I wrote about in in 2008!
The fact that I am still working on the same…
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Eight new MBA resume books have released over the past week. Each Resume Book is an extensive database of profiles and resumes submitted by top MBA talent at one of our member schools. Select a school below and search this resume database by experience, certification, keywords, and more.
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Added by Ryan Pratt on September 16, 2011 at 1:19pm — No Comments
I want to hear from you - really I do. I want honest, blunt and clever feedback.
I am the Director of a smallish recruitment agency with major accounts and jobs rolling in the door - but that's not success.
Success is:
a) FINDING great consultants and;
b) KEEPING them
I take responsibility for (b) and by and large we don't lose high performing consultants because we value them so highly - but we are small and I would love some…
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Early on in my career when I was responsible for Nortel Networks recruiting I was approached by top sales executives to find out how I could help them win a key telecom account worth millions possibly billions in revenue.
The account was held by Cisco and the customer loved the Cisco sales executive and sales engineer that supported them. The team, lets call…
Added by Francois Guay on September 15, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments
I am always amazed when I am approached by a client who has a retention problem. It’s always interesting to note that they have not dealt with some of the small things that can be done to somewhat lock the door from the barbarians at the gate, those pesky headhunters.
Rule #1: Make sure employee/telephone directories are not available for download and make it extremely difficult for anyone including employees to print or copy it. It’s incredible how…
Added by Francois Guay on September 15, 2011 at 4:24pm — 15 Comments
I talk to professional recruiters everyday. I am often asked how relevant the social media world really is to a recruiter. We discuss LinkedIn and the prevalance of custom applications being built for the recruiting industry. We talk about the opportunity to connect in mass with great talent, or connect very specifically with that one candidate you can't find - using Facebook and other social properties. But the numbers really speak for themselves. Both B2C and B2B companies are present…
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Talent management expert Peter Cappelli has an article this week on Human Resource Executive OnLine entitledThe One Thing You Should Do Now. In this piece, Peter discusses how HR people can help their executives manage uncertainty. But of course, Peter is a professor, so it isn’t one…
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I was recently reading how BT were warning their recruitment suppliers to not discriminate against disabled candidates (why would they in the first place if their client did not??) or they’d be off the PSL and it occurred to me how beholden Recruiters have become to their Clients.
Now that candidates are relatively easy to track down and recruitment is being taken in-house, Recruitment Consultants need to find a USP that will change the balance of power and stop the…
ContinueAdded by David Palmer on September 15, 2011 at 11:10am — 6 Comments
I don’t have much time for it and I’m no expert but I do get that others see personal and commercial value in it. The very fact that people may be talking about you or your business on it means you need to adopt some sort of position - don’t you?
As far as Recruitment Consultants are concerned I see no value in it directly. Will you attract candidates? Will you attract Clients? Will you shape your brand? Is anyone listening? Probably not!
However there are a…
ContinueAdded by David Palmer on September 15, 2011 at 11:08am — 9 Comments
Well, hello recruiting world. I have been reading the blogs on here with interest and decided to dive in myself.
Tiny bit of background on me and then I'll get on to my topic of choice. I'm working for an RPO organisation in Manchester UK on their business development/recruitment improvement/training/marketing side of things (yes, this means I am ALWAYS busy!) I'm relatively new to recruitment, having joined the industry in December 2009, but am very taken with it. What could…
ContinueAdded by Samantha Lacey on September 15, 2011 at 9:43am — 3 Comments
CVs have changed. Instead of going round your local businesses with a folder full of CVs, handing them out and knowing people will read them, the majority of CVs are submitted as part of an online application process and now, there are even CVs that take the form of web pages – all in order to help people stand out more to try and help them get read.
With the amount…
ContinueAdded by Emily Stevenson on September 15, 2011 at 7:33am — 5 Comments
Last week I received a call from prospective client who was struggling with a high staff turnover. He pleaded with me to help him stem the outflow. He is a small manufacturer that sells his products largely through distributors. I arranged to visit his offices in the Eastern suburbs the next day.
As I pulled into his carpark it wasn’t hard to spot his Porsche parked next to the front door. Upon entering the building it looked as though the premises hadn’t been renovated since…
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The following is a note for all the Canucks feeling Election Fever. This was written in April, but it still seems somewhat relevant today. New post before the weekend, but enjoy this gem for now...thedanieljsmith....
Canada is about to have yet another election in October 2011, Many people have varying degrees of opinion over the value of an…
ContinueAdded by Daniel J Smith on September 14, 2011 at 4:47pm — 1 Comment
Yes I am getting worried about some of the Recruiters that I have seen on Twitter and other Social Media channels.
They are incredibly passionate and enthusiastic advocates for Social Media Recruitment and they seem to have few reservations about its limitations. Indeed so enthused are they that they spend a lot of their free time talking about it, tweeting it, communicating with their friends about it and reposting articles and blogs about it. It has become their…
ContinueAdded by Jon Terry on September 14, 2011 at 4:39pm — 5 Comments
It took me a long time to hone in on his primary virtue - which is being a local go-to guy. Near the end of the show the @animal crew chose to focus on something else:…
ContinueAdded by Recruiting Animal on September 14, 2011 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments
Sometimes I think too much.
I know this about myself and counter that tendency by focusing on the slogan (yes another one) "Action breeds action" every single day. "When in doubt send them out!" is another one that rings true in my ears.
However, that doesn't mean we should present a candidate without thinking, it doesn't mean our job is to fling crap at the wall without preparation.
On this board we sometimes talk about how we should prep candidates for interviews,…
ContinueAdded by lisa rokusek on September 14, 2011 at 10:41am — 5 Comments
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