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Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week (5.29.10 to 6.4.10)

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week’s topics include creating job ads rather than descriptions, job posting growth, recycling…

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Added by Chris Brablc on June 4, 2010 at 1:43pm — No Comments

The Problem with Getting Champagne-Quality Talent on a Beer Budget

As recruiters in a sluggish economy, I’m sure there are plenty of stories out there about how companies are looking to obtain top talent at bargain prices. Kind of like having “champagne tastes” while only wanting to pay for a beer. I’d like to address this with the hope of providing some education and also learning what some best practices might be to combat this. As a recruiter that has been through many different markets, I know the downside of this type of hiring practice. In most… Continue

Added by Stacey Grimes on June 4, 2010 at 12:21pm — 5 Comments

My Littlest Placement

I have been given a gift. Well – not given, necessarily. It was earned. Those are the best anyway,aren’t they?

We’ve been recruiting for a junior level IT role with a client for the past 3 weeks or so. Not much in the way of qualifications – college degree, some sort of “paid” IT experience combined with a nice personality and…

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Added by Jerry Albright on June 4, 2010 at 12:00pm — 7 Comments

Are your Recruitment Strategies Helping OR Hurting your future?

There seems to be (what to me is a disturbing) trend in recruitment from some hospitality operations out there. Now, I have written several articles about how salaries are NOT going down, in fact they are going up. How good people are very aware of their worth and value and are not willing to take a step back or pay cut to go back to work and are in fact willing to wait it out for the right opportunity. How if you do get a great person at a “low ball” price, they are a “rental” and will be gone… Continue

Added by Corey Harlock on June 4, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

Pulling Information for Your Resume

By Pat Meehan

Let’s take a look into your current job and start to identify all of the little things you do each day that add up to making you capable of doing your job responsibly, and without supervision. This takes a…

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Added by Pat Meehan on June 4, 2010 at 10:38am — No Comments

Social Recruiting: Influence via Social Media

For those who follow Chris Hoyt, AKA TheRecruiterGuy, you know that he recently began a new opportunity at PepsiCo. This week, he periodically tweeted about various aspects of his onboarding process. I'm not sure about anyone else, but after seeing what happened during his 1^st week, PepsiCo sounds like a pretty AWESOME place to work. Check out some of his tweets (…

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Added by Omowale Casselle on June 4, 2010 at 9:26am — No Comments

How can employers make themselves relevant to Gen Y?

Employers need to think big about how they are going to showcase their organisational culture and people to draw in, attract, and retain the next wave of high potential talent. While baby boomers still firmly rule the roost in the workplace, a new generation of graduates are emerging with a different set of influences and cultural reference points.

These graduates have grown up with technology around them, and thus have a different set of expectations from the world they interact… Continue

Added by Adam Lewis on June 4, 2010 at 4:04am — 2 Comments

Make Facebook your LinkedIn

Just the other day there was a group organized to quit Facebook due to its privacy settings. I thought to myself “should I quit?” I rarely ever use it and I don’t care to join someone I knew in high school in a game of Mafia Wars. So why not quit? It seemed like an opportune time.…

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Added by Chuck Summerland on June 3, 2010 at 6:07pm — No Comments

RecruitDC: Change You Can Believe In

There was a time in the not so distant past (and not too distant future) where recruiters’ calendars were devoted, you know, largely to recruiting. Between sourcing and screening,

interviewing and on boarding, time for recruiting took all the time a recruiter

had. Before the recession, talent

professionals didn’t even have enough time to extend the common courtesy of

calling candidates back to let them know they hadn’t been selected, so busy

were…

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Added by Matt Charney on June 3, 2010 at 5:38pm — 2 Comments

Top 10 mistakes business makes in recruitment

1) Resume only rejection based recruitment

2) Prior and Lack of investigation into the actual role needed

3) limited or poorly written Job descriptions and Qualifications ( poorly written, Not relevant, poorly understood, generic, written by hiring manager, not accurate. too specific or too general...)

4) Thinking for today need vs. future need (box A needs candidate A, when a Candidate B has done it plus has C and D)

5) Hiring people "like themselves" vs. people qualified… Continue

Added by Susan Hand on June 3, 2010 at 4:28pm — 13 Comments

Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 26!!!

Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 26!!!…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 3, 2010 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Long Term Unemployed? Are they the bottom of the barrel or not resourceful?

Last night I went to a local Recruiting Club to discuss ideas in a round table discussion and one topic that came up was the long term unemployed. Some recruiters have had a increase of resumes coming in from people who have bean out of work for 2+ years or more.

One Recruiter said he would never hire someone out of work for 2 years, because he said it shows they are not resourceful. Another Recruiter said the long term unemployed haven't used their skills in a long… Continue

Added by Roger Cohen on June 3, 2010 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Top 5 Reasons why I love Recruiting Metrics: Reason #1 Bargaining Power

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

I won't lie, I'm in love with Recruiting Metrics! I'm totally enamored with them! I love the way they look with a big "+" sign in front of them, I love the way they look on my computer dashboard and most importantly I love the knowledge they possess. Overall,…

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Added by Chris Brablc on June 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Attitude and The Power behind It

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. For me, attitude is more important than most things. More important than money, education, what other people think or say or do. It is more important than skill, appearance or circumstances. It can make or break a home, an organization, ... a church, etc.

We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the only string we can… Continue

Added by Cheryl Kirschenmann on June 3, 2010 at 1:49pm — No Comments

20% Increase in iPhone Recruiting App Downloads

As you may know my company, Allthetopbananas.com, supply mobile recruiting solutions. In the UK we supply iPhone applications to around 30 Job Boards. Part of the service includes monitoring of application usage and application download from AppStore. Download… Continue

Added by David Martin on June 3, 2010 at 1:20pm — No Comments

From Chains to Spiritual Liberation – A Hero’s Story

I have just had one of those life-changing moments, which called on me to reflect and tell the story. It’s only been a few days that…

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Added by Peter Lanc on June 3, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Hiring for Passion or Experience?

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Added by Margie Tosch on June 3, 2010 at 10:09am — No Comments

What makes you think you deserve a "premium" fee?

Fee negotiations. Fun stuff, eh?

You finally connect with a manager that seems to need your help. You think you've done a good job "not" sounding like an idiot. Though the position was a little outside of your comfort zone you held on nicely. Your questions seemed to spark quite a dialogue: What projects will this person work on? How big is the team? Tell me about your company.........why do you LOVE working there? What are the types of companies that seem to have the best candidates?… Continue

Added by Jerry Albright on June 3, 2010 at 9:00am — 31 Comments

Why Great Candidates Don't Respond To Job Ads

Anybody who has ever posted a job ad online knows the frustration: hundreds of resumes, yet only a precious few worth consideration. To amplify the problem, the coveted talent behind those worthy few is inevitably off the market by the time your umpteenth call triggers a ringtone instead of a voice mail. The money wasted buying ad space and time lost sifting through second-rate resumes is nothing short of maddening.

So why don't “quality” candidates ever respond to your job… Continue

Added by Kevin Jenkins on June 3, 2010 at 8:30am — 7 Comments