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Where do the best candidates hide online?

Over the last two years and a half, we have been answering very question. With close to 100,000,000 banner, email and text impressions we have a good idea.

First, a little background.

In 1999, I became the first person to market student loans online at financialaid.com. We ended up becoming the largest provider of student loans online, transacting more than 1 Billion dollars of business each year. We found websites that attracted students and recent graduates and then… Continue

Added by Mike O'Brien on July 2, 2008 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Seeking Qualified Candidates - No Rockstars Please

I can't imagine anyone has not noticed the push to describe top candidates as rockstars lately: "Rockstar DBA wanted", "Only Rockstars need apply", etc. And for the most part I understand this to be kitschy and a way to market your req, but in the end, do the companies we work for/with really need/want rockstars?

Gene Simmons IS NOT the Model Employee

Now who doesn't love Gene? He's witty, he's edgy, he's fun to be around, and he is really cool. Heck his life is so… Continue

Added by Kyle Smith on July 2, 2008 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Offending The Undead

IIt is our sincere desire to apologize to any and all recruiters who feel that the TalentFilter software is forcing them to confront their deepest, darkest fears.

The TalentFilter software reduces the time recruiters spend searching for resumes in job boards, and that means that recruiters who use our product have more time to make phone calls, send e-mails, and ....keep reading

Don't Forget Either...

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Added by Talent Drive on July 2, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Managers Behaving Badly

Another Industry Radar article that tickled my reality bone, Managers Behaving Badly: Five Killer Results. How do these relate to hiring managers? Hmm...let's see:

Cargo Cult Management

It’s a classic - you see a successful practice at another company and copy it. To a “tee.” It’s the same thing that happened when Jack Welch… Continue

Added by Steve Levy on July 2, 2008 at 2:55pm — 1 Comment

Everybody Wants a (Rising) Star

In this business, we get to see our share of resumes, and with that as my perspective, let me offer some additional advice on crafting your resume.

Keeping in mind that two of the constants in the hiring process are that most companies want stars, and that a large portion of companies are unwilling to pay for them. So what do they end up hiring most of the time? A rising star, or something relatively close! So how do you convey this in a resume?

Two words: Career… Continue

Added by Jim Martineau on July 2, 2008 at 2:20pm — No Comments

Human Resources, Recruiter - Information Technology - St. Louis, MO

Title: Analyst, Human Resources

Location(s): St. Louis, MO

Desired Start Date: 07/14/2008

Desired End Date: 12/31/2009

Major Accountabilities:

Provide standardization of HR and Human Capital Processes and Analysis across Global Technology & Operations, as it relates to:

'X Recruiting, Staffing Activity and Costs, Strategic Programs, Diversity Dashboards, Employee Engagement, Project Management Tools, Reorganization Processes, Evaluations of Promotions,… Continue

Added by Jill Goldman on July 2, 2008 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Human Resources, Recruiter - Information Technology - St. Louis, MO

Added by Jill Goldman on July 2, 2008 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Craig Silverman Has Landed - Unlimited MedSearch

I have some exciting news about a good friend of mine named Craig Silverman.

Craig has accepted a position to be the Chief Operating Officer of a company called Unlimited MedSearch. It’s a medical recruiting company that wants to grow. There are already 13 franchises and 60 recruiters and Craig has some… Continue

Added by Slouch on July 2, 2008 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Recruitment Fever

Recruiting can be a hassle in finding the right people to do a job, working for IT based Recruitment Company we found that another stage is actually getting job references for employment. But with Saferef.com, we found that we can actually find candidates with good job references already in the system and also we could let them get their references themselves by using saferef.com. So what we do is to go onto saferef.com and do a search, then we find the candidate with a job reference, we assess… Continue

Added by mike crop on July 2, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Split Contract

can someone please send a 50/50 Split contract I can use?

Thanks in advance.

Added by HRTAP on July 2, 2008 at 11:03am — No Comments

Please send me your requirements..

Hi, My name is Prasad. i am working as a IT recruiter in Paradigm Infotech. Please do send your direct client requirments to prasad@paradigminfotech.com

Added by Sam prasad on July 2, 2008 at 10:24am — 1 Comment

Animal Show Jul 02 NOON EDT

GUEST: MAREN HOGAN. All call in and listen info here

Added by Recruiting Animal on July 2, 2008 at 10:03am — No Comments

Mid-Year... Stepping it up.

RecruiterGuy Improve Gel Well the 4th of July is upon us. It's this time of year that I'm always catapulted into taking a hard look at my current fitness program, recruiting practices, personal relationships, or work related self-development. Strange, I know - considering most people do this around January when resolutions run rampant or in the Spring when love is in the air (or is it because of that spring cleaning thing? either way...)

Every year at this time I spend some time on each of the above…

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Added by RecruiterGuy on July 2, 2008 at 9:27am — No Comments

July 2, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

This week Claudia advises "Steaming Mad" how to deal with a potentially toxic relationship with a co-worker who may have issues:

...The Generalist has been telling our business customers that I’m struggling in my job (of course, she denies that she said this). To make matters worse, she “forgot” to invite me to a meeting last week with an SVP to intake a new…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on July 2, 2008 at 8:13am — No Comments

Dangerous Liaisons

Dear Claudia,

I’m a corporate recruiter at my company, and I work closely with an HR Generalist for business hiring. I thought we had a great working relationship until a few weeks ago when another recruiter took me aside and said that the Generalist has been telling our business customers that I’m struggling in my job (of course, she denies that she said this). To make matters worse, she “forgot” to invite me to a meeting last week with an SVP to intake a new requisition, and now I’m… Continue

Added by Claudia Faust on July 2, 2008 at 1:05am — 10 Comments

How to beat the Summer Recruiter doldrums….? Web 2.0 networking

How to beat the Summer Recruiter doldrums….? Web 2.0 networking

You show up to the office Monday after a great weekend and are ready to source, the instinct of hunting takes over. You sign onto your favorite job sites, write you Boolean and search. Thinking to yourself, what interesting talented people will you get to talk to this week. There is a problem, why are there only 3 new candidates, and none are a fit for your role? The answer is that you are experiencing the summer doldrums! It… Continue

Added by Jordan Shaw on July 1, 2008 at 2:33pm — 2 Comments

Something to think about...

Added by RecruiterGuy on July 1, 2008 at 1:48pm — 10 Comments

Starbucks Recruiting

I'm reading a book called Starbucked right now - it's the story of the little coffeshop in Seattle. There's a some things that we recruiters can learn from how Howard Schultz ran his company and grew it from a small niche coffeeshop to the corporate juggernaut that it is today.

Starbucks delivered quality coffee in an era when the coffee in the US was terrible and had been for decades. The majors used lots of low quality "robusta" beans to supplement the "arcadia" beans that make up… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on July 1, 2008 at 1:11pm — 2 Comments

How Does TalentFilter Work?

This is a blatant product pitch. It's okay to do this occasionally, says Jim Durbin, so I thought I'd showcase how the TalentFilter software works. Recruiters currently spend up to 65% of their day searching for resumes on job boards. Although fancy Web 2.0 services promise passive candidate results, the truth is most of us use job boards…

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Added by Talent Drive on July 1, 2008 at 12:10pm — 1 Comment

Surprise! NYC Tops Nation in High-Tech Jobs

The Big Apple’s concentration of jobs surpasses major tech hubs such as San Jose/Silicon Valley, Boston and Washington, D.C.

The region had a total of 316,500 high-tech jobs in 2006, the latest year for which figures were available, states “Cybercities 2008: An Overview of the High-Technology Industry in the Nation’s Top 60 Cities.” The report was conducted by AeA, a… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 1, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments