Do you still believe?  Do you still have hope?  Do you still have the ability to find your inward drive to deliver?  The economy is improving, but challenges still exist, the latest SHRM Line Report says it all, while 2010 was a year of improvements we are still 5% below pre-recession highs.  Improvements have been modest, hiring has been tough decision making for leaders of companies as they make tough decisions and hire contractors and supplementary staff with the stringent standards once…

Following on from our previous post, we have had some job seekers and employees asking us about non-compete agreements!

Latest Version of industry-leading applicant tracking system features new User Interface, improved Dashboard, and advanced document management.

Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2011

Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS), the makers of SmartSearch®, a leading applicant tracking system, announces the release of its highly anticipated Version 15 is scheduled for April 30, 2011.

SmartSearch® Version…

Work It Like You Own It

There are times when all of us can get stuck in rote practices. Often we’ve had success doing something in a particular way, sometimes even repeated success, and it forges a belief that the same approach will continue to be successful. At those moments, once critical analysis indicates there is stagnation, it helps to approach the situation by thinking about how you might do things differently if you owned the business. If you’re already…

Kudos to Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners for this image for its visual IMPACT. http://doylepartners.com/

TRUTH BE TOLD...

In the recruitment assessment process does truth always shine through or is it a matter of making sense of truths and…

Part 2 of the ever expanding staffing function!!!

So this is part 2 of the series, or in reality it is the 3^rd installation but we are talking about the 2nd model. Here we are going to focus on the difunction model also called amr/cgr and finder/filler. (for acronyms see first post in this series)

In the difunction model 2 staffing professionals split the SLC in 2. One does the account/client management function…

Canadian employers and staffing agencies have posted almost 40,000 new online job ads for IT professionals over the past 90 days.  Hiring demand for IT professionals has now grown 53% over its 4-year low in August 2009.

Hiring Demand for IT Professionals — Canada — 4 Years…

I have twice used my discussions with my daughter to inspire blogs. Her and I frequently discuss the ways in which the worlds of business and the world of art and literature coincide. Not too long ago, we related this back to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and then Romeo and Juliet, and how lessons learned from that could apply in both words. Today we’re taking some more advice from the greatest playwright of our time and applying it to the business world of recruiting, because what Shakespeare…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about McDonald’s Hiring Day, Passive vs. Active candidates, referrals, Facebook Metrics and adopting recruitment technology.

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

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Canada is about to have yet another election on May 2,2011, Many people have varying degrees of opinion over the value of an election, from saying that there is merit in “shaking up” the status quo, to relegating it to a popularity contest where the winner was never in doubt, as the candidate got their name out just one more time than their opponent. And it seems invariably that after the election takes place, there are nay-sayers about the process, and that they were right in not voting, as…

This blog, the first of a two part series, focuses on candidate salary requirements and what employers need to consider before they make an (attractive) offer. Part two will concentrate on job seekers and handling salary issues once an employer makes an offer.…

When it comes to resume/CV writing there is no magic formula to follow that will ensure your resume will be read. There are however clear dos and don’ts that will either add value to your resume or work in the negative by having your resume deleted. No matter if you’re a front office banker or part of the mailroom team, listing and identifying achievements and backing these achievements up with numerical examples is the number one way to make your resume standout.

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By building your own Talent Network, you provide your recruiting organization with a new and most importantly free recruiting channel that you can use to find the best candidates for future open positions. Building your Talent Network, however, is not just about throwing candidate information in a database but it is about improving your overall candidate sourcing and recruiting channels (to increase the number of qualified candidates in your Talent Network) and making sure these candidate…

A resume database is one of the most primary and powerful tools that recruiters or hiring managers should always have in their kitty. It is a consolidated list of qualified candidates or some times prescreened candidates that recruiters and hiring managers can quickly reach out during various recruiting assignments.

 

There are some steps involved in building a resume database. The first step is to identify the targeted audience and search resumes. Typically recruiters search for…

We have a guest blog today from one of Advorto's very own account managers, Gavin Maze about the merits of maintaining your Applicant Tracking System - take it away, Gavin!

So, you’ve secured the funds, you’ve got the system you wanted, you’ve done the training and your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is up and running. You’ve moved into the wonderful, paperless world of online Recruitment which will empower your people to focus on what they do best..…

Arrogance- an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people”. Merriam-Webster Dictionary

 

The Arrogance Factor  

 

Are recruiters gaining on the status lawyers now occupy as operators in one of the most despised professions…

This can sound like a cliché but it’s never going to be more important than in the next few years.

Recruiters must build relationships. Real ones.

So many of the people who lost their jobs in our industry over the past 2 years did so because their relationship with clients and talent were superficial or non-existent. They had become technology driven, resume shuffling drones who competed on speed and price alone.

Now, the core competence of every recruiter is the ability…

I love being a recruiter.

Seriously, I think it’s the best job in the world.

Yet 80% of people who enter this industry, fail in the first 2 years, leave, and are never sighted again.

And it’s true, it is tough being a recruiter. And I believe in the modern era it’s getting even harder. During the downturn it got even worse. We all worked harder and harder, and earned less and less.

On top of that, our customers seem to resent us more than ever, as can be…