A lot of job seekers assume that the holidays stretching from Thanksgiving until after the New Year are a time to put their job search on hold. If you tell yourself no employers hire over the holidays, no employers interview during December, everyone is physically (or mentally) on vacation...stop! Sure the festive nature of the holidays means that less will get done, but take advantage of this slower time. We've…

Hey, everybody, Jerry Albright here. Your old Uncle Jerry.

It’s no secret – I’m a party guy. And I’m an especially big fan of the Christmas party….but when everyone else is out having fun with gang at the annual big do, I’m all alone with my desk and my phone.

You fellow work-from-homers know what I’m talking about: Office Christmas Parties! The one time each year you get to hang out with the boss and let your hair down a bit.

Well…

Most of the answers I get revolve around new challenges, a company that is positioned better for growth, the usual. BUT, almost every…

Circumstances can seem overwhelming at times, and it may appear like there is domino effect of one event happening after another. Before you know it, feelings of overwhelm seem to take over and stop you in your tracks. It’s moments like these in work and life where I’ve heard people wish that they never got overwhelmed and, instead, had a life of consistent calm and underwhelm. If that condition persisted, I suspect…

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GM announced on Nov. 30 that it's hiring 1,000 engineers and researchers over the next couple of years for its electric vehicle division. When was the last time GM announced the creation of high-paying jobs?

This time around, GM is very optimistic, and full of new found confidence. With billions of dollars from a recent IPO, and a single order for 12,000 Chevy Volts from GE, who wouldn't…

Yesterday I received an email from ExecuNet which had a link to a recent post on their website: “Recruiter Confidence Jumps Amid Positive Economic Indicators.” In the article they explain that they poll Executive recruiter’s confidence quite regularly and explain that in their most recent poll 61% of respondents were either “confident” or “very confident” that executive hiring will improve over the next six months.…

Today I have decided to talk about a key part of business and operations: The Mission Statement. For a full definition of what a mission statement is, please refer to Wikipedia or a fantastic book by Stephen R. Covey entitled “7 Steps of Highly Effective People”(http://ee.sharif.edu/~commi/Comm1_files/SevenHabits.pdf). I believe many people in the industry own this book (Its required reading at…

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 if recruiting top talent is your #1 priority, Lessons from Ben & Jerry’s, Fortune 500 social media insights, economic recovery on the horizon and listening to your employees.

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

The economy’s getting better! No, it’s not. Yes, it is! No, wait . . . hold on . . . no, it’s not.

I can see why some recruiters have decided to stop watching and reading the news. There’s no point. Do the so-called “experts” have a handle on anything that’s happening? I’d have to say probably not.

Take Friday’s monthly labor report, courtesy of the U.S. government. According to the report, U.S. employers added 39,000 jobs to…

A survey of human resources managers by job board CareerBuilder.com revealed that almost half of them typically review up to 25 applications per job while spending just 30 to 60 seconds looking over each one. That number pales in comparison to the applications our recruiters at Agile receive. Depending on the particular job posting, an Agile recruiter can get inundated with hundreds of applications – for just one position.

Now that the economy is turning around, the number of…

The major airlines and many recruiting firms have a problem in common — both want to be more competitive, yet, perpetuate the very business practices that keep them stuck in coach class. Southwest Airlines, on the other hand, is the perfect case study of the positive impact of new

and improved best practices, including no change fees, rapid turnover of flights, reasonably…