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Lower your turnover rate by 6 times…..

Now that I have your attention…..Did you know that the turnover rate for employees under 30 is six times greater than that of employees that are over 50? Yesterday I blogged on http://blog.wiserworker.com/ about tough times, and if your are going to survive and more importantly thrive you need to become tough job seekers. Stay with me……

Overnight I pondered on how this applies to the world of recruiting and guess what it does and in more ways than one. As the labor markets as well as… Continue

Added by Amy Hoster on November 14, 2008 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Is your website ego driven ART ?

Why do clever, successful, business decision makers frequently make a total hash of things when it comes to their website! Time and time again directors and owners influence their website investment negatively resulting in art not a usable product!

Too often the decision maker of a new website ends up getting highly focused on the look and feel - the design turns into art. The personal likes and dislikes of the decision maker becomes the most important detail.

To the… Continue

Added by David Martin on November 14, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Death of a Recruiter

Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" playwright was about Willy Loman who chose the sales profession because he could earn more money. He was a good salesperson but later in his career, he faced all sorts of family and career challenges. Leaving family issues aside, recruiters who chose their profession in the late 1990's are facing their own serious career challenges.

Back in 1998, I stumbled across the recruiting profession. The money was great and the closures were easy. The… Continue

Added by Tirtis on November 14, 2008 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Un-Spun - Just When I Thought I Was Getting The Hang Of It...

I am probably the last person on Planet Earth to actually take a Spin class. When my health club started offering the class about six weeks ago I was hesitant to sign up - I've seen spin classes on TV, on the movies. They all entail some insanely fit instructor with a bullwhip and a megaphone screaming at their students to push, dig deep, DON'T YOU GIVE UP ON ME NOW, etc., etc. It intimidated me! I have enough scary voices in my head without opening myself up to another "motivational"… Continue

Added by Nancy Ford on November 14, 2008 at 11:06am — 2 Comments

Keeping Your Rivals From Minding Your Business

AS more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read only by the intended recipient.

HANG ON TO YOUR LAPTOP

LOCK OUT OTHERS

ADD THE 'S'

OUTSOURCE E-MAIL

ENCRYPT E-MAIL

BLOCK OUTSIDERS

Read more… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 14, 2008 at 10:13am — No Comments

First-Year MBA Recruiting: Class of 2010 Interns from Top B-Schools

New MBA Students, New Resumes, New Work Profiles!

First-year recruiting is in full-swing and, in this climate, you should consider every source of cost savings. Save time, save money, and recruit MBA interns virtually with online resume books. Find only those candidates who match your firm’s criteria. You can get started now at our secure ordering website: www.mbafocus.com/orders

Here are the first-year MBA class of 2010… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 14, 2008 at 9:59am — No Comments

Explaining Medical Sales — Part III

There are several things to think about when you are considering job opportunities in medical sales, whether you’re moving into it or moving around in it. In the first part of this series (Explaining Medical Sales - Part I) we talked about what’s involved in capital sales, and in the second part (Explaining Medical Sales - Part II) we covered consumable and service sales and what kinds of personalities best fit different sales jobs. In today’s video, I discuss specific aspects of sales jobs… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on November 14, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Glen Cathey, Boolean Black Belt

Glen Cathey*, the “Boolean Black Belt” believes that there is a hidden talent pool in every database comprised of 2 types of candidates: #1 candidates that recruiters cannot find, and #2 candidates that recruiters do not find (there is a difference). He further declares that this hidden talent pool is at least 30% - 40% of the candidates in each database.

Glen has developed a high level of expertise in sourcing, recruiting, and… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 14, 2008 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

MagicMethod Chat Log w/ Todd Burkhardt Leading (TH Nov 13, 2008)

Best Remark of the Day

"First off never volunteer the info." ~ Tom Cook

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11:38am Maureen Sharib Welcome sourcers! Before class, read today's Itinerary.

11:57am Todd Burkhardt Before we start, I want to clarify that I don't mean that active recruiters are not real recruiters. But if you are only recruiting active candidates, you… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 14, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Age Discrimination: McCain was too old!

Not in years but in attitude, energy, and communication style.

Okay - I am sure that I am going to step on some toes here but….I think McCain lost the election because he is “old”. Why do I say this? His platform, knowledge, integrity, and experience were much stronger but he failed to deliver the message because he is uncomfortable with technology, publicity and this new age of communication that we are now in.

He had an opportunity to be on the O’Reilly show at the exact… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on November 14, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Junior Consultant

We are currently seeking an articulate, energetic, highly motivated French speaking Junior Recruitment

Consultant to provide support with the recruitment needs of our client, a world energy expert who offer its customers technological solutions for highly reliable nuclear power generation and electricity transmission and distribution, for short but regular missions in third world countries.

Responsibilities:

Develop an understanding of the client's requirements.

Take… Continue

Added by Nadia on November 14, 2008 at 5:52am — No Comments

Alrighty then.. I'll get active! Sorry oh RBC Community

It's not like I didn't want to be contributing. I'm glad you noticed though! It's good to be missed, although a little confronting, logging into my "My Page", weary from a long couple of days interstate, without the time or ability to feed my addiction of RBC, only to be taken to task for not contributing. "You have no recent activity. Why not start something?"

... sorry. OK OK OK I hear myself sounding like Joe peski (?) in Lethal Weapon

The last few days have not been… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on November 14, 2008 at 4:56am — 2 Comments

Applicant Tracking System/ATS and its Efficiency

I am looking for an Applicant Tracking System for my company.
Can anyone please suggest me a good system and it would be really nice if you share your personal experience with it.
Suggestions on Pricing also would be really helpful.

How will an ATS be useful to my team to increase our efficiency?

Added by Kunal on November 13, 2008 at 6:57pm — 3 Comments

Urgent Requirement for PHP/MYSQL Developer

Title: Sr. PHP/MySQL Developer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Duration: 6 months contract to hire

Job Responsibilities:

Designing, developing and maintaining multiple applications in a team environment

Plan and develop multiple robust and extensible websites, implementing a strong code base across the websites, e.g. exercising code reuse methodology through object-oriented design and/or a template-driven approach

3+ years experience… Continue

Added by John on November 13, 2008 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

SENIOR FLASH DEVELOPER POSITION AVAILABLE IN BOSTON, MA.

I am looking to hire a Sr. Flash Developer near Boston University. You should have a thorough understanding of multi-tiered Web Applications with a strong understanding of Flash/ActionScript language, OOP, and Agile Development Methodologies. We're like you; we want to learn and grow.

Required Education and Experience:

Solid knowledge of ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3 and OOP concepts

Experience building data-driven Flash applications

1-2 years of online or… Continue

Added by KAREN H. FRANCIS on November 13, 2008 at 5:43pm — 2 Comments

Full Time Cisco ICM Application Developer Positions available in Atlanta, Georgia

I am looking for a ICM Applicaiton Developer with ICM hands-on experience required. A successful candidate will have extensive hands-on experience working with Cisco Unified ICM scripting and configuration. Additional proficiencies in CVP, IPCC and IP IVR are highly desirable.

The salary range is $90,000.00 to $110,000.00.

Position Description:

Project Implementation includes:

Project Management

Ensure projects remain within scope

Project… Continue

Added by KAREN H. FRANCIS on November 13, 2008 at 5:42pm — No Comments

SOFTWARE/SYSTEM ENGINEER POSITIONS IN BOSTON, MA 02118

I am looking for a Software/System Engineer that will work closely with the engineering team and users on high priority bugs and features. This person is expected to be able to manage many small to medium projects and deliverable quality work in a timely manner.

The Core duties include:

Perform software development on companys application

Perform maintenance and bug fixing on existing applications

Design and document your work

Unit text software changes and… Continue

Added by KAREN H. FRANCIS on November 13, 2008 at 5:33pm — No Comments

Online Reputation Management

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2ClipsPubCon: Submitted by Adamcohen from Google Reader 13 hours ago

The sheer quantity of different information sources online has resulted in a media circus. The various blogs, tweets and mainstream media outlets are like different acts vying for user attention. Online reputation management amid all the chaos can be difficult. It seems only appropriate that a circus insider, Jessica Berlin of Cirque du Soleil, weighed in with some tried and true… Continue

Added by Tina Huckabay on November 13, 2008 at 1:16pm — No Comments

Google Flu Trends and Job Search Engines?

Survey Data vs. Behavioral Data

Google Flu Trends offers a fascinating look at how search engines can replace traditional models for data acquisition to great effect. When google took search requests of flu symptoms by region and mapped them to CDC data, they indicated that at much greater speed and lower cost they could collect epidemiological info the closely… Continue

Added by william fischer on November 13, 2008 at 12:23pm — 1 Comment

The power of networking when your position has been eliminated!

I remember at my first recruiting position how scared I was to pick up the phone to talk to someone. I could feel sweat start to drip from the back of my neck and my voice started to quiver as I asked for their name. I figured emailing would suffice and I could fill jobs that way, right? WRONG. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was asking. All I knew was that I wanted to get off the phone and make the next call so the day could be over. Well, years later I hardly use email and would… Continue

Added by Tina M. on November 13, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment