This concept also applies to recruiting.  At least it does for me, now going on 40 years in the discipline.

Do you youngsters, I mean, younger professionals in the business see yourselves doing this kind of work for a few more years, or until the phone is removed from your cold, dead…

At the end of the financial year, it's a good time to take stock of the industries that are going strong and contributing to employment growth!

The Qld Office of Economical and Statistical Research Information Brief for the March 2011 quarter has reported that Health Care and Social Assistance had the largest percentage increase in employment - up a healthy 5.7%.…

I'm always hunting for ways hiring managers to more accurately determine who to hire that DON'T involve the requirement of being a better interviewer.  In the past I've suggested that you should look at obvious traits like obesity and…

Show and highlight email addresses in resumes

Emails in Resumes

Refinements:

• has a phone number
• links to a LinkedIn profile

Social Media continues to be a hot topic, and the job market for those with social media skills and experience keeps getting hotter. In April we took a look at online job posting activity for the search phrase "social media" and found 19,000 new ads for the previous 60 days. For the month of May alone, however, we're seeing over 26,000 new job ads containing "social media". Unsurprisingly, Marketing Managers and PR Specialists account for 29% of the positions overall, but it seems that more…

Bringing enhanced talent acquisition capabilities, configurable workflows and an improved user experience, the latest version of Bond Talent will be unveiled at this year’s SHRM Annual Conference.

Minneapolis, MN (June 15, 2011) – Bond International Software will be showcasing the latest version of Bond Talent – the web-based talent acquisition and applicant tracking software application – at the…

Earlier this week, I took a look at recruiting lessons you can learn from marketing professionals.   In today’s post, I’d like to take a look at some best practices that can be learned from your sales team to help you improve your recruitment marketing strategy.

As I said…

Let’s call it like it is – as headhunters, we want to see those professionals we’ve placed transition seamlessly from their current employer to the client we’ve matched their skills and experiences with after an offer is accepted.

Part of the process we recommend is a brief resignation letter – “Please be advised that effective[two weeks from the date of the letter] I am ending my employment with [current employer’s name].  Thank you for the opportunities you have…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: LinkedIn is a great tool for recruiters!

The company has a bunch of products that can help any recruiting professional make the most of the world’s biggest professional network.

Fortunately a lot of LinkedIn’s material is free and you can find out more in the following 3 links. If you check out their Corporate Recruiting Solutions Resources page, for example, you’ll find dozens…

You are looking for a job, your resume is posted on several job boards and you have a LinkedIn profile among others as well. It’s chum for recruiter infested waters! So, how do you choose between a good headhunter and a bad headhunter, and what should you know about the internal recruiters at companies you are targeting?

Let’s start with headhunters (they hate this name by the way). Many headhunters out there are bottom feeders that are scouring the internet for resumes that can…

Unemployed need not apply..Really…Really!!

You read it right, there are actually companies out there who are putting up signs or including in

their job descriptions that the “unemployed need not apply”.

How pathetic, how disgusting, how wrong. The bad part is because the unemployed are not a

Protective class, there is nothing that can be done about it. Now of course if the company must

Comply…

I’ll say up front that the subject matter of this post is a bit unreal. Great interviewing can’t be boiled down to a list of questions. It’s a combination of helping a candidate feel at ease, listening, observing, talking and, yes, asking the right questions. And what a recruiter or potential employer does (or asks) in any given interview depends,…

Tactics are underrated.  Problem solving is taken for granted.  Business leaders want to hire executives who are strategic, who take a big picture view, who can make long term plans, guide and mentor others in the plan execution, and not get bogged down in details.

Interestingly, when I ask high level candidates…

Many business leaders cite what has become a cliché: that people, human capital, are their company’s most important asset.  But do most CEO’s walk the talk?  In an article last week in the Harvard Business Review called The Only Thing That…

Mom always said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

Mom, of course, pre-dates the internet.  Had she been aware of the impact of social media, she might have added “ESPECIALLY on Facebook!”

By now, we all know that social media can both be a powerful tool and an unintentional (and often self-directed) weapon.  You’ve probably already seen the post about the woman who got fired for complaining about her boss …