Your executives may not be show business celebrities, but how important are they to your business? And how would your customers react if you lost a key VP?  Conversely, if one of your executives were performing poorly, but left on bad…

New web application, Resunate, applies cutting edge technology to your resume

The world of job applications is changing, faster than most job seekers realize. With increased access to online job boards and career sites, the average number of applicants per job opening in the U.S. now hovers around 200. As a result, employers are spending less and less time reviewing resumes. This means job seekers must become more strategic in how they present…

Sounds sort of weird right?  A Marketing Director to work inside Human Resources.  The reality is that marketing may be one of the key things missing from the world of social recruiting and justifying budgets each year to the executive team.  Having a dedicated Marketing person that can analyze and execute campaigns is something that could prove vital to keeping HR recruiting budgets in tact as well as bringing in more quality talent. 

Tracking all of your ads and…

One of the hardest things to deal with when you are evaluating marketing and recruiting channels is working through your perceived value vs. the actual performance that they provide.

You have great relationships with your vendor contacts and they bend over backwards to make you happy until you are satisfied with the value their solution provides.  They say all the right things and prove why their solution will work for your business with plenty of case study…

While the UK still struggles to get out of this recession (just as the rest of the world), there does seem to be a hint of economic improvement. In a recent report, low-carbon or green businesses are receiving funding from the Regional Growth Fund. The main purpose of this funding is to spur vacancy…

If you are interested in Information Technology, here are the hottest jobs in the IT industry now.  The IT field is growing and as the economy keeps getting better, the IT job market will only expand.  A great way to find and land one of the positions is to reach out to an IT recruiter! 

Here are some of the hottest jobs in the industry right now:…

Imagine that you’re one of the thousands of job boards that provided Indeed with job postings from its inception. Imagine that in addition to providing those jobs (which turned Indeed into the most visited job site on the web), you also spent money promoting those same jobs – thus providing Indeed with a lucrative source of income. Imagine that, in return, Indeed provided your job board with a stream of inbound referrals (both organic and…

The UK Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) are scheduled to come into effect in Q4 2011. The majority of UK based Recruiters and HR Managers are aware that the…

Lately I've been hearing and seeing a lot of articles and posts relating to the Video CV and the techno-geek in me just can't help having it's attention grabbed.

I haven't come across any companies that require a video CV (if you are one please let me know how they're working for you) but I was recently speaking to a consultancy who mentioned their CRM system possessing  functionality to enable applicants to record a brief video of themselves when registering at their…

“So. Please tell me about a time when you…”  No interview type is perfect but as a recruiter I’m a huge fan of competency-based.  Done correctly they really allow the interviewer to get under the skin of what you’ve actually done / achieved in your career.  If you’re lucky enough your interviewer won’t be too clued up and will ask you the old favourites such as: What would…

In 1993, Jimmy Johnson, then the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, credited a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, with helping him prepare for the Super Bowl win that year. 

“Flow”…

The United States economy is growing faster than those of other large industrialized nations, according to a recent USA Today article.  So where are the direct-hire jobs already?

Well, according to the article,…

Negotiating a contractor's pay rate can be one of the most difficult parts of placing a contract candidate.  Where do you start, especially if you have had little experience placing the particular position in question?

Luckily, there are a couple of tools on the Internet that can give you a starting place for negotiations:…

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