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Creative Recruiting on the Rise

On the Radar: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

According to a new survey:Recruitment Advertising: Moving in New Directions:

Organizations plan to spend less on print and major job boards, and more on Web 2.0 elements, such as social and business networking sites, referral programs, blogs, video and virtual worlds. The war for talent and the inability of the job board behemoths to find quality candidates are…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on March 5, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Passive-Candidates.com: The search engine that grows every time it searched

On the Radar: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Billed as the "World's Largest Exchange of Web Resumes" Passive-Candidates.com offers a new twist on sourcing resumes on the web.

Passive-Candidates.com, worth checking out, playing with.

Hat tip: Geoff Peterson, StaffBytes

Added by Amitai Givertz on March 4, 2008 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Creative sourcing techniques? Let's hear the war and success stories!

Hello World!

It's my first time blogging so please be gentle on me! While adding Yahoo Messenger to my arsenal of communication tools to stay in touch instantly with the outside world, I noticed something called Chatrooms and wondered, have any of you effectively set up or gone into the computer rooms to recruit? What are your war stories for methods you thought were creative but failed miserably? What worked that you never thought would? I look forward to hearing your inspiring… Continue

Added by Lisa Matkowski on March 4, 2008 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Employees See Value in Volunteering

Article Title: Employees See Value in Volunteering

Author Byline: William Frierson is a CollegeRecruiter.com Staff Writer.

Author Website: http://www.collegerecruiter.com/

Full Credit for this article on February 10, 2008 goes to Vinnee Tong of The Assoicated Press.

http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/morningnews.html

As a result of today's employees perspective on volunteer work as a source to develop new skills or advance their careers, volunteering is… Continue

Added by Holli Maestas on March 4, 2008 at 10:35pm — No Comments

US News & World Report - Middle Managers Are In Short Supply

Despite rising jobless claims, some positions will be hard to fill this year, a survey finds. Read more here:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/03/03/middle-managers-are-in-short-supply.html

Added by Ben Gotkin on March 4, 2008 at 4:26pm — 1 Comment

Advice You Can't Ignore

Today’s post is for Recruiters and Hiring Managers who are tasked with adding Sales Professionals to an organization.

An excellent piece titled “Secrets Buried in a Salesperson’s Resume” on ERE today by Lee Salz talks about the importance of accurately assessing the Resume of a Sales Rep who is better than the average person at selling themself to others.…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on March 4, 2008 at 3:19pm — No Comments

Update: RecruitingBlogs.com Networking Party in Dallas (Thursday)

...the food has been ordered.

Slouch - you'd better bring a phat wallet.

Added by Dennis Smith on March 4, 2008 at 1:07pm — 4 Comments

The Endless (Mindless) Ravings of the Roving Recruiter...(when will he stop?)

Don't even think about braving the streets of Dallas today...it's a nightmare out there:

Added by Dennis Smith on March 4, 2008 at 1:05pm — No Comments

The Story of a "Fair Weather" Networker

This is a true story about how NOT to network.

About 3:00 this afternoon I received an email indicating that I had received a recommendation.

I was psyched! Within another few minutes, however, I received a second email from the same person titled “Unemployed”. Ahhh…I see how this works.

Now I’m not picking on the guy, he was a candidate of mine several months ago. He ended up finding a job on his own…the "perfect job" he told me at the time. Hey, it happens.… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on March 4, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

How's your ego?

On the Radar: Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Come on, we all need a little strocking! From egoSurf:

Simple. You enter your name and your blogs web address. We search google and find links to your blog. We calculate your ego ranking. We show you where your blogs appear in the search engines. Did we mention that we can search in Yahoo, MSN, del.icio.us and Technorati too? Got more than one blog…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on March 3, 2008 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

3/3/08 Some more background on my recruiting experience

First I want to thank those that commented and offered me help in learning how to be successful in recruiting. You can expect my call sooner or later. To give you a little background, I started my recruiting career on day 1 at the Ranch with Peter Lefkowitz. I got lots of information some of which made sense, but most of which I could not relate to having never experienced anything in recruiting. I work for an old friend of mine who has been in the business for about 17 yrs. He has been pretty… Continue

Added by Mark Walton on March 3, 2008 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Sr. Research Engineer - St. Peters, MO

(To apply for this job, email Sandra@WorldLink-US.com)

Do you have furnace design experience? What about steel casting experience?

Well, have I got a job for you. A fortune 500 company located in St. Peters, Missouri is on the prowl for a Research Engineer and Sr. Research Engineer.

They are a large semi-conductor company that manufactures solar wafers/cells. They have awesome benefits/package… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on March 3, 2008 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Sales Recruiter, New York (NOW HIRING)

I'm hiring a recruiter in NYC. Please share this with anyone you think could be a great fit. Please have her/him call me. 646-237-3404

http://jobsearchmrktng.jobthread.com/job/b2a1f208be9b114cb97231ce22c1f46d/?d=1

Added by mattmartone on March 3, 2008 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Back From Vegas

Back from Las Vegas. It was a great time.

There is lots to report and lots of video to be put up.

I want to say thanks to the companies that sponsored the party at the MGM.…

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Added by Slouch on March 3, 2008 at 1:48pm — 1 Comment

Diaries of a rookie recruiter

I've been in this business for about 1 yr, but I still consider myself a rookie. I work remotely and run a full desk. Because of my solitude, I dont think my development has been as fast as I had hoped. I'm really going to pour the steam on from hear on out. the next 3 months will be make or break for me. I thought that keeping a diary and sharing thoughts and ideas here, might be something that will help me grow and learn more quickly. I've never blogged before and dont know if anyone even… Continue

Added by Mark Walton on March 3, 2008 at 1:15pm — 5 Comments

ANYONE HAVE A Software Engineer with Oracle SOA Suite Experience

Tandel Systems has extensive experience developing real-time aerospace and defense systems. We have the project management skills and the systems engineering capability to work with our customers to deliver fully tested real-time hardware/software capability for defense, space and civil aviation systems. We also have extensive experience with flight test systems development, independent verification and validation, and legacy systems upgrades. Tandel Systems is working with its customer to… Continue

Added by Austin Dillon on March 3, 2008 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Waterboarding At Work?

I came across two job-related news items over the weekend that can only be classified as BIZARRE to say the least.

At first, I thought I was reading some satire the likes of which are usually seen on popular sites like The Onion, but to my surprise these were legitimate news stories.

Stories like Employee’s Suit: Company Used Waterboarding To Motivate Workers and… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on March 3, 2008 at 11:37am — No Comments

The Week Ahead

Cool week ahead ~ currently working on several requirements for clients in the telecom/wireless world. That will keep me busy every day, but then there's a couple more things I'm looking forward to:

Wednesday - speaking to a graduate class at DBU about recruiting and web 2.0. Love doing this - lots of questions and great discussion.

Thursday - unless you've been asleep for 2 weeks, you probably know about the… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on March 3, 2008 at 9:54am — No Comments

I Just Don't FIT In A Box!

I received an email the other day from LinkedIn pal, Larry Megugorac, who is a Business Development/Sales professional, saying:

“I’ve got to hand to you....I cannot figure out how a former Accountant goes into Recruiting.

Obviously being in sales before-hand helped tremendously. I always thought that Accountants were a conservative group. Recruiters only get paid when they make a successful placement right? I thought… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on March 2, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Feeding My Inner-Geek

Do you have an inner-geek? Boy, I sure do.

Maybe you don’t have an inner-geek, but you do have an inner-artist or an inner-writer or an inner-athlete. Whatever you have, it is very important that you keep them fed.

Back in 2002, my inner-geek had not been fed in a very long time; that is how I ended up in accounting. It started with a class that my company sent me to which was designed to teach us how to speak to C-level executives. The instructor started the class by… Continue

Added by Valerie Gonyea on March 2, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments