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How to build confidence at interview?

In reality we do not really know what questions we will be asked at the interview, we can have a good educated guess by reading the essential skills need for the job role on

the job specification, as the employer is sure to ask questions around

these skills.

Prior to the interview process you will find yourself normally nervous, fidgety, dry-mouthed or sweaty but being nervous and anxious is not an abnormal thing. If you are…

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Added by Lee Fossey on July 15, 2010 at 3:10am — No Comments

“Social Realism” It is Recruitment Today.

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Added by Keith Robinson on July 14, 2010 at 5:38pm — No Comments

Are you Tactically Strategic or Strategically Tactical?

After spending countless hours (maybe it even adds up to years now) in business meeting that talk about being strategic and being tactical and interchanging those terms and correlating them it seems that for many they have lost their true meaning and purpose. And then last night I was in a meeting that pointed out the true difference in these terms as never before. In the meeting was Director of Manufacturing, a Director of Supply Chain, a Sales Marketing Director and, interestingly… Continue

Added by Randy Levinson on July 14, 2010 at 4:56pm — No Comments

The Way Things Are

From the film Babe:

The scene: Christmas day on the farm. The pig, the cow, hens, and Ferdinand the duck crowd by the kitchen window, craning their necks to see which unfortunate one of their kind has been chosen to become the

main course at dinner. On the plate is Roseanna the duck…

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Added by Nick Tubach on July 14, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

How can career websites be useful?

Career websites offer a great deal of support and guidance to job seekers. With the high shooting rate of unemployment, more and more people are searching for jobs and career websites

have become a useful platform for such job seekers and provide helpful

information on career planning and starting an effective online job

search campaign.

Many employment websites allow candidates to search for and…

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Added by Lee Fossey on July 14, 2010 at 8:42am — 2 Comments

Employers WANT Military!

Over the years I've experienced many companies who have successfully tapped into transitioning military talent pools.

Veterans need jobs and companies want to hire them. So what's the problem?

1) The language barrier:

Military occupations in many ways are similar to civilian jobs although civilians don't understand the military jargon and transitioning military unfortunately do not know how to… Continue

Added by Chad Sowash on July 14, 2010 at 8:12am — 17 Comments

To Lead or Follow? Both!!

Photo credit: Dave Wyman

The root of the word “leader” is “lead”, which means… Continue

Added by Kirk Baumann on July 14, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Five social media recruiting pitfalls to avoid

Consider the benefits and risks of social networks when using them. The advent of social media has been an advantage for search consultants and recruiters as it drives professional background information onto the web - therefore making our job of finding people with particular expertise somewhat easier. However, don’t forget the risks too.

There is a lot of buzz in recruiting circles about the benefits of using sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and…

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Added by Shireen DuPreez on July 14, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

MBA Recruiting Picking Up Just in Time for Recent Grads

Several weeks ago an apparent uptick in just-in-time MBA hiring was reported as graduation came and went for many students. Now, well into the summer, it appears that this uptick has become a trend, with a number of sources reporting steady increases in MBA recruiting. A recently released survey by the MBA Career Services Council indicated that 38% of U.S. business schools noticed an increase in on-campus university recruiting activities for…

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Added by Jon Reifschneider on July 13, 2010 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Are You Hiring the Right CFO?

Following is an article that I wrote a couple months ago, in a slightly different version, for Octane Magazine. I thought it might be worth posting to my blog, since I’ve recently been asked twice about hiring the right CFO for a small or medium-sized business.

As the owner of a…

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Added by Ben Baldwin - ClearFit on July 13, 2010 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Stop Thinking, Start Recruiting

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Added by Noel Cocca on July 13, 2010 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

Recruitment Marketing Messaging: Telling Candidates what you’re about in 10 minutes or less!

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

If you didn’t already know, SmashFly Technologies is part of the MassChallenge Start-up Competition and as part of the 2nd round…

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Added by Chris Brablc on July 13, 2010 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Survey Results: Job Search Success Points to People You Know

A recent job search success survey conducted by Notogroup was giving to 75 professionals across all job disciplines. Approximately half of those surveyed were unemployed and the remaining half had successfully landed a new job in the past 24 months. 68% of survey…

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Added by Roy Notowitz on July 13, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, the initial scanning of a resume!!!

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, the initial scanning of a resume!!!…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 13, 2010 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Career Maintenance

Over the weekend, I vacuumed two flights of stairs, cleaned the bathrooms and washed the kitchen floor. I also sat down with my copy of Home Maintenance for Dummies and tried to figure out why my toilet sweats more than a marathon runner. Suggestions would still be appreciated.

As I completed my checklist, I wondered if anyone has ever applied the idea of home… Continue

Added by Ali Webster on July 13, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Why You Should Never Apply for a Job - Personal Brand Strategy and Social Media Toolkit

This presentation provides insight on developing a personal brand strategy and utilizing social media and networking tools to enhance your leverage in a career search. It has been featured on Slideshare.net as one of the top presentation uploads for July, 2010…

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Added by Mark A. Leon on July 13, 2010 at 4:11am — 2 Comments

HR marketing process

HR Marketing process step 6- Campaign effectiveness check

Once the campaign is in the media it is important to check the effectiveness of the media.

Ineffective media is waste of time and money so in order to avoid this proper effective check should be done.

Here are some ways to do the effectiveness check

Web 2.0 Online media:

• ATS- applicant tracking system

• SEO check through running various searches like Boolean

• Google…

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Added by Vivek Jothi on July 12, 2010 at 5:41pm — No Comments

New Business Development for recruiters made VERY Easy!!! Bye Bye Cold Calling.....

Busy Recruiters....

We know your day is full of sourcing, placing, searching and calling.

In between all of this you still need to continually business

develop, to bring in new vacancies and opportunities.

How many times have you made vast amounts of business development calls to clients, only to find out they are not recruiting? How would it feel to be able to call clients, knowing exactly when they were trying to fill a position?

If the team at… Continue

Added by Mark Lennard on July 12, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

Recruiters, go to the beach!

It was a beautiful sunny Thursday morning last week that made me want ditch work and go to the beach. And even though I'm allowed to do it once in a while (God bless people who came up with flexible work arrangements!), I still had a tiny feeling of guilt deep inside because I thought I was going to lose the day and not get much work done. Not surprisingly, being a workaholic that I am, I ended up working from the beach, and the entire day turned out to be a quite productive, yet very enjoyable… Continue

Added by Jonas Axelsson on July 12, 2010 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Healthcare Job Listings | Medical and Hospital Job Candidates

Hire Health is a new member of the Recruiting Blogs group.

If you hire or recruit for medical jobs, hospital jobs or healthcare jobs, Hire Health is worth taking a look at.

Hire Health provides a comprehensive, robust and affordable job search engine with a built in applicant tracking system and soon to be… Continue

Added by Jay Tokarz on July 12, 2010 at 9:25am — No Comments