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HOW TO: Work with Recruiters

This week, I’m going to miss one of my favorite Twitter chats, #careerchat due to my travel schedule. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. If you’re unfamiliar with what I’m referring to when I say “Twitter chat”, check out this great post from Avid Careerist: … Continue

Added by Kirk Baumann on November 2, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

Recruit Like You Work At Nordstrom

After a couple years in recruiting I started having successes. My manager at

the time was a big fan of companies that were superior in service. He

took me out with him one weekend because “you need some clothes kid”. I had the pleasure of shopping at Nordstrom. Not a regular thing for me. I was not accustomed to such products or stores but I had read and even more importantly heard about their customer service. Customer Service that is simple and of the highest… Continue

Added by Noel Cocca on November 2, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Its Our Birthday and We Can Smile if We Want To

Our die-hard fans on both the Jobseeker and Employer side are of course aware that October 2010 marked Bayt.com’s 10th Anniversary! Ten years of helping you help the region by promoting employment on a micro and macro scale. At the level of every single job role and industry and career level as well as the level of every single country in the region. Together we have succeeded enabling hundreds of thousands of… Continue

Added by Mona Karaoui on November 2, 2010 at 4:33am — No Comments

Drowning in job applications...

How do you manage your (unqualified) job applicants in a time-effective, courteous manner?

In my current position there are just far too many applicants to be able to personally respond to each of them, even if it's just sending out template email. So many are unqualified or have limited work permit approval in the US.. so we don't want them all going into our ATS.

But as someone who's applied for a job and received no response, I know that…

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Added by Amy on November 2, 2010 at 12:04am — No Comments

Are Startups Having a Difficult Time Recruiting Software Engineers Even in this Job Market?

I recently read an article on the Bloomberg Businessweek web site titled “Entrepreneurs: Struggling to Recruit Software Engineers”. The article’s subtitle is “Startups vie with bigger rivals as demand for programmers

returns”. According to the article “In many industries, high

unemployment means abundant available labor. That’s not the case for fledgling

tech companies making their crucial first hires.” They report that

finding software engineers is as hard as it was…

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Added by Mike Astringer on November 1, 2010 at 9:08pm — 13 Comments

2010 Best Recruiters in the Defense and Intelligence Community

During each of the Cleared Job Fairs held throughout 2010, participating security cleared job seekers were given the opportunity to vote for the nation’s top recruiting experience from a pool of employers and defense contractors seeking professionals with active security clearances.

Over 5,000 job seekers in the security cleared marketplace have since selected more than 120 recruiters from defense and intelligence…

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Added by Kathleen Smith on November 1, 2010 at 2:13pm — 1 Comment

Cease and Desist Stinking Thinking

Persistent thoughts become pervasive beliefs and some of these reek of inaccurate assumptions and dangerous misinformation. For example, recruiters often think there is a waiting period before you can ask a new candidate for referrals, and salespeople frequently tell themselves that prospects aren’t willing to engage in detailed conversations. When did it become our job to set boundaries for other people?

Scientists have proven that humans are…

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Added by Scott Wintrip on November 1, 2010 at 1:32pm — 3 Comments

TOP 10 Things Your Managers Aren’t Telling You

Here’s a list of things that CEO’s almost never hear directly from members of their management team, although it would be useful if they could!

“Here’s how to…

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Added by Mark Bregman on November 1, 2010 at 1:26pm — 1 Comment

Job Titles 101

In my daily travels as a job board owner, I see job titles by the dozen. They list the typical and sometimes strange positions: Sales Rep, Administrative Assistant, Marketing Director and even one for Beer Pong Marketing Manager. But too many of them fail to describe the job and entice the reader.

So here's a few tips to jazz up your job…

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Added by Chris Russell on November 1, 2010 at 12:36pm — 1 Comment

Recruiting Older Workers on Facebook - Do you know What Works & What Doesn't?

We know Facebook is a mystery and a bit of a stretch for most of those over 45. Some interesting statistics gathered directly from Facebook include:

• More than 100 million active users

• Facebook is the 4th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore)

• Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)

• Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks

• More than half of Facebook users are outside of… Continue

Added by Bobby Edelman on November 1, 2010 at 11:47am — 1 Comment

"It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!"

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to incorporate one of the season’s classics into our Movie Quote Mondays. For many “Halloween” with Jamie Lee Curtis or “Fright Night” or “Twilight” may be more in keeping with the season, but Linus in his pumpkin patch is one of my all time favorites. It’s a tossup between “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” and “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” but we will get to that in another season.

There were many who decided to do a reflection of the major…

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Added by Kathleen Smith on November 1, 2010 at 10:03am — 1 Comment

SHED YOUR RECRUITMENT JITTERS - RESUME PARSER MAKES IT EASY NOW

Recruitment, a colossal exercise! The mere thought of it sends jitters down the HR Manager's spine. A preparatory exercise commenced months before - advertisements splashed in leading news papers, applications amassed, sequenced, details scrutinized, tabulated and merits summed up. And then came the hassle of inviting candidates, interviewing individually by a board of selectors and shortlisting the right one. The HR Managers had to undergo a grueling exercise to finally shortlist the… Continue

Added by Julian wood on November 1, 2010 at 4:55am — No Comments

Social Media Within A Recruiting Strategy

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David Als, Talent Attraction Strategist at Human Capital Management Solutions, reached out to me to talk briefly about the challenges of integrating Social Media into a recruitment strategy. It was terrific to be able to touch base with David before the upcoming…

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Added by RecruiterGuy on October 30, 2010 at 9:40am — 1 Comment

Your Intuition – Don’t Let It Be a Hiring OBSTACLE

Many CEOs claim to have exceptional intuition about hiring for their executive team. “I know in my gut if someone will be a fit,” they say. Much like the stories of gamblers, who will brag about their winnings (but not tell you about their losses), you only hear about the successful hires.

Too many executive candidates today are good salespeople. They know how to create a good first impression, and hit the CEO directly in the gut with their personality, and win the job offer. A smart… Continue

Added by Mark Bregman on October 29, 2010 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Generosity – That’s your Currency!

Lately, I’ve been planning 2011. One of the things I have decided to do is more marketing and branding. Today, that typically means having a social media presence and blogging. This is my 4th straight week writing, which is pretty good since I have blogged about once every 3 months for the previous three years. Then I wonder why I have no followers. At first I had no idea what to write about this week, then after a rather positive networking call I was writing a thank you email to the person… Continue

Added by David Jacks on October 29, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 10.23.10 to 10.29.10

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 ways to develop great HR metrics, candidate experience, Facebook for Recruiting, Internet marketers going into Recruiting Software and decreases in unemployment.

Here are the articles our that interested us…

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Added by Chris Brablc on October 29, 2010 at 10:17am — No Comments

Why Haven’t QR Codes Caught on in Recruiting?

I love my smart phone. Obsessed with it. It does things that I never would have thought were possible. I was blown away by playing Snake on my old Nokia in high school. Now you’re saying my phone can scan QR barcodes from billboards, computer screens, etc., and it will take me to a website, dial a phone number, or even send an email? Quite the progression from… Continue

Added by Jeremy Fanning on October 29, 2010 at 9:42am — No Comments