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What if the Unemployed possessed Killer Recruiter Skills?

The holidays are right around the corner where it’s now a time to reflect on the year that is near its end and, 2011, the new year to come. A time to get together with close friends and family and perhaps ... A time to think of those not so fortunate - where volunteering to help those in need might be a reminder of how thankful and grateful we should be..., for what we do have.…

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Added by Paul Alfred on December 12, 2010 at 9:30am — 6 Comments

My response to Ad/Marketing/PR firms social media greed

I recently read a blog on Recruiting Blogs. While well written, I think we need to keep the social media picture in perspective as recruiters/sources as well as organizations with a need for social media. It's not a difficult medium to use/learn. Therefore, why are people so impressed with what advertising, marketing, and/or public relations firms are offering?

To preface, check out the original blog post:Never Slash A Social Media Program Too Soon (… Continue

Added by Justin McMillin on December 10, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Many Bosses, One Leader

I remember as a child when we would be playing, there was always a big obsession about who the boss of the game was. I don’t know where we learnt the concept so early in our lives particularly the perceived power that comes with being the boss. The good news is today, there is an ideal for more leadership than management. That means more and more organizations are looking to create a culture where the boss is the facilitator and not the order giver. People are people so while there may be…

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Added by Thabo on December 10, 2010 at 7:50pm — No Comments

Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 12.4.10 to 12.10.10

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 the value of words in recruiting, why ROI stinks to measure social recruiting, insights on recruitment for 2011, recruiting continuing beyond hiring and some Twitter basics.

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

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Added by Chris Brablc on December 10, 2010 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Social Media, Confidentiality, Wikileaks and Generational Disparity

In the recruitment world over the last twelve months much has been written about privacy concerns and social media. Should potential employers source additional and sometimes irrelevant additional material about potential employees? It’s largely an academic argument as many employers will do it regardless.

Many industry commentators, including myself have noticed that Gen Y employees, i.e. younger employees brought up in the… Continue

Added by Aaron Dodd on December 9, 2010 at 4:12pm — No Comments

Best Cities to Work in the Middle East and North Africa ...

As our Bayt.com community already knows, every month for many years now we have conducted a regional MENA HR survey and the results of these surveys have been made available for FREE to all our HR practitioners, Employers and Professionals/Jobseekers. This month we released the much anticipated Best Cities to Work in the Middle East and North Africa study and the results have been eye-opening to say the… Continue

Added by Mona Karaoui on December 9, 2010 at 8:27am — No Comments

Will the Real Qualified Candidate Please Stand Up!

Back in 1956 when television shows were only in black and white and there were only

three channels (OMG how did people survive back then????) a show called To Tell

the Truth debut. The show has since run off and on through 2002, so even those

of you who were not born BC (before cable) may have seen it. The show featured

a panel of celebrities who were… Continue

Added by Nick Tubach on December 8, 2010 at 1:41pm — 1 Comment

To recruit or not to recruit? Becoming a NYC Advertising/Media/Marketing Recruiter?

Hello!

I am brand new to RecruitingBlogs and I'm hoping that you, as a community, can help me make a decision about the next step in my career.

I have been working in marketing and for advertising agencies for the past 6 years in and around NYC. I recently met with a recruiter who was interested in me as a candidate for one of her job orders. About half way through the meeting, however, our conversation changed. Initially we were talking about…

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Added by Lauren on December 8, 2010 at 11:30am — 15 Comments

Never Slash A Social Media Program Too Soon

There is another side of measurement that people are sometimes afraid to talk about. It can best be described as reverse benchmarking — what happens when companies experiment with social, over focus on numbers, and then prematurely cut programs?

Sometimes they find out months later that their decision was a bad one. And sometimes, not always, it's… Continue

Added by Rich on December 8, 2010 at 10:46am — 4 Comments

Top 25 Jobs – The StaffingU Market Demand Report

The recovery continues to pick up steam with hiring paving the way, especially for our industry. Staffing and recruiting firms need to actively recruit for the following roles and should expect increased demand for these job types within the next four weeks as companies struggle to fill these openings.TOP 25 JOBS

Volume added in the past 60 days and the percentage increase compared to last year.

Data:…

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Added by Scott Wintrip on December 8, 2010 at 9:26am — No Comments

Words matter – for job boards, career sites, and recruiting in general

Every day we are deluged with images, sounds, sights, smells….and…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 8, 2010 at 9:14am — No Comments

5 Ways to Maximize Your Use of Job Boards

As the owner of more than 30 job boards, I know a thing or two about using them to recruit. Here are my five best ideas to help you get the most…

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Added by Chris Russell on December 8, 2010 at 8:19am — 1 Comment

Recommendations do they really work???

Recommendations do they really work???…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on December 7, 2010 at 11:02pm — No Comments

Rational Thoughts on Thinking Creatively

"I’m not talented. Creativity is better left to the artsy types. Some people are born creative and others are not". How many times have you thought or uttered a similar phrase? Creativity is commonly one of the least understood or misunderstood areas of human endeavor. Notions of just who is creative, or to what degree, are often erroneously formed early in life. Our ideas about our creative selves are too frequently discouraged in our formative years by others whose ability to judge this… Continue

Added by Ilona Jerabek on December 7, 2010 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Recruiter-candidate relationship Q & A

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Added by Samantha Poliseno on December 7, 2010 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Just What Are YOU Doing to Prepare for 2011?

It’s already December 7. The new year will be here before we know it. In addition to trying to close as many deals as they can before the end of the 2010, recruiters are also trying to prepare for 2011.

So the question becomes this one:…

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Added by Matt Deutsch on December 7, 2010 at 1:11pm — No Comments

The Greatest Interview Question of All Time

I'm on vacation with my family in Boston this weekend (Go Jets!) and so I thought I'd go digging for some "old fashioned" blog posts that might still have a lot of validity in today's market.

Kacey Claiborne, our Director of Talent Evaluation at…

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Added by Jonathan D. Davis on December 7, 2010 at 1:11pm — 7 Comments

A New Year/And Holiday Message: The Power of Long Term Perspective

It's official! Long term perspective is the key to success in life no matter what your endeavor. I think this blog post has been in the works in my brain for sometime, as I have witnessed changes in my life whizzing by me like a crazy race car. Vroom, Vroom, start your engines. No matter our undertaking, it is important as we begin to think about our New Years resolutions, and celebrate the…

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Added by Mike Rasmussen on December 7, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Will clients pay 60% permanent placement fees? Well, yes actually.

Regular readers of my blog will know that I have predicted for some time that clients will expect more from recruiters as the market recovers. I have said that we can expect pressure on our fees, particularly as employers invest in other ways to access talent.

But it’s also true that market forces will prevail. At Firebrand Talent Search we have seen a marked easing in pressure on our fees and in…

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Added by Greg Savage on December 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — 13 Comments

LinkedIn is bragging again - Feature on Advertising Age

I recently came across a link that was shared to me via the LinkedIn "Network Activity" feed- sound much like news feed? The link directed me to Advertising Age's online article, "Why LinkedIn Is the Social Network That Will Never Die." I'll want to share some exerts from…

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Added by Justin McMillin on December 6, 2010 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments