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South Africa’s Employment Times: Jobs, Unemployment and Hiring in Q4 2009.

In a statement by Mr Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Economic Development, to the National Assembly on the framework for South Africa’s response to the International Economic Crisis on 20 August 2009 he said: “The recession was triggered by the global economic crisis and South Africa lagged many other economies in the timing of its impact on our production, employment and economic performance. Early signs were evident from late last year but the economic data released this year has confirmed the… Continue

Added by Gillian Meier on November 11, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Did You Know? MBAs Looking for International Internships

DID YOU KNOW thousands of first-year MBA students are looking for summer internships around the globe? Below is the number of available summer interns and their geographic preference:

* 4,102 in NYC

* 2,474 in Nebraska

* 2,141 in London

* 1,627 in Paris

* 1,490 in Alberta

* 601 in Kazakhstan

* 534 in Kuwait

Plus thousands of other MBAs looking for summer work in hundreds of other places around the world.

You can find these class of… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on November 11, 2009 at 9:29am — No Comments

ListGrabber Pro - Data Entry & Candidate Lead Generation Tool for Recruiting Professionals

Do you spend hours manually "Copy-Pasting" candidate details into your Database Application?

Manually entering contact information into a HRIS or HRMS is a tedious and distracting task to busy sales and recruiting professionals. ListGrabber's contact capture technology eliminates this time consuming manual data entry process. It automatically captures candidate contact information on Websites, online directories, in e-mail signatures, documents, spreadsheets, etc and… Continue

Added by Joel John Fernandes on November 11, 2009 at 8:57am — No Comments

Imagining SourceCon 2010 Atlanta. Can You Dig It?

SourceCon 2010 represents you, the Recruiter. It represents the hard working Americans fighting in the trenches every day to create a safe, clean, and healthy planet while using the latest in Boolean search string technology. That’s why I am challenging the folks at ERE to embrace my vision of SourceCon 2010 in Atlanta (Not San Diego).

The stage is your basic five story iPhone that comes with a 200 foot long video screen in the shape of… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on November 11, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Ready to make money in recruitment again?

Are you starting to make money in recruitment again? I don’t mean the nickels and dimes, I mean are you starting to make some serious money that you made earlier in this decade? If not then, maybe you should see how to reposition yourself.

The first thing you should do when repositioning yourself is understand where the economy is heading and what the economy will demand in the coming quarters. One of the best resources for recruiters who want to… Continue

Added by Saleem Qureshi on November 11, 2009 at 1:44am — 1 Comment

Go West! (or East, South or North)

For months we’ve been talking with those unfortunate IT professionals that have been affected by the economic downturn through RIF, layoffs, outsourcing, etc. about being flexible in their search. Flexible in the type of work they’ll do, their commuting distance, the salary they’ll accept…and finally we told them to be flexible in where they live and that while selling a house may be daunting there career livelihood may depend on it. However, after hearing… Continue

Added by bill martineau on November 10, 2009 at 11:57am — 3 Comments

Breaking the Cycle - Video

In my post on Breaking the Cycle of job board dependency I shared some historical insight to our industry and I believe this video is the pretty cool compliment..

This is one of the most recent edu-marketing videos provided by DirectEmployers… Continue

Added by Chad Sowash on November 10, 2009 at 11:53am — No Comments

Funny Tweet Hiring Video

The guys at TweetMyJobs are… Continue

Added by Chad Sowash on November 10, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Job boards and applicant tracking systems

The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants. An ATS can theoretically drive all job applicants into a single pipeline, massage their unruly information into neatly ordered database fields set up exactly as the employer desires, and allow HR to actually manage the interactions with applicants.

Sometimes the ATS works well – and sometimes (like all software) it doesn’t.… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 10, 2009 at 9:08am — 3 Comments

The Many Choices of HR

Last week, a final year MBA student wanted me to coach him, as he was keen to move into HR, in itself a little unusual career choice. In talking to his university career manager, he was an excellent student with a passion for HR. Now HR is not always seen as the preferred choice for ambitious, talented and commercially orientated graduates, which is his profile.

At times, I am still amazed and also a little disappointed, when I read the criticism by HR people of HR and it’s value to… Continue

Added by Charles Van Heerden on November 10, 2009 at 12:30am — 9 Comments

Explaining the National Labor Exchange

Tuesday Tutorial is a series of sponsored posts brought to you by the vendors and supporters of RecruitingBlogs.com

By Chad Sowash

After… Continue

Added by Tuesday Tutorial on November 9, 2009 at 11:21pm — 1 Comment

How long should you wait for a business appointment?

(This column was originally published in SNEWS, the most trusted outdoor and fitness industry news source since 1984. www.snewsnet.com)

King Louis XVII of France once said, "Punctuality is the courtesy of kings." Nearly 200 years later, some businesspeople still haven't perfected this courtesy. If you have an appointment to meet someone, and that person is late, how long should you wait?

No matter where you are on the food chain,… Continue

Added by Eric Raynard on November 9, 2009 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Are you committed like Cole Hamels? Employers hope not!

I know the MLB World Series is over and the Yankees have been crowned the champs but there was an interesting side story that I think really applies to your job search. Cole Hamels, superstar pitcher and MVP of last years World Series and National League Championship Series (yeah he’s kind of a big deal), really upset fans when he said he couldn’t wait for the season to be over. The problem - he said this after a poor outing and losing pitching effort against the Yankees in game 3 of the World… Continue

Added by Duane Roberts on November 9, 2009 at 7:43pm — 4 Comments

Sleep when I'm dead

Driving in my car today, in what turned out to be a drive down nostalgia lane. I'd hit THAT radio station, you know the one which somehow talked to me... it kept playing song after song, which just reminded me of my younger carefree days. This song came on, merging my current reality with my willful past... Magic.

Here I was signing out loud, probably scaring my son for life, and then I started hearing the lyrics, and my mind started tying them in with tweets… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on November 9, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

HRevolution: Conference Debrief.

The energy was alive, pulsating, and electric. That's what happens when 50 like-minded people gather to discuss HR and blogging. We discussed how we learn to use social media to disseminate a message, open the streams of communication, and transform the way we blog and thus communicate with our colleagues, employees and friends.

Over the next few weeks, I plan to interview the conference planners, presenters and a few of the guests. What I want to offer you is a flavor of the… Continue

Added by Margo Rose on November 9, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Three Easy Tips for Using Twitter to Dominate Your Next Technology Conference

You’re off to the big conference, your booth is ready and the iPhone is charged but do you know how to utilize Twitter to squeeze every possible opportunity out of this conference?

1. Identify Yourself!

Any technology conference that is not held out of someone’s garage will have a hashtag associated with it. Hashtags make your tweets more easily searchable and let readers know what content your tweet will include. Confused? Search #hrtech on Twitter or twitterfall.com and… Continue

Added by Adam Weise on November 9, 2009 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Til' Death Do We Part – How Spousal Interference Can Kill Your Job Search

If you are in a relationship, or know someone who is, you’ve quite likely experienced first or second hand the “We” Syndrome. We love that restaurant. We always listen to Jazz. We are trying to get pregnant. There’s a time and a place for every pronoun – But when it comes to your spouse’s job search, save the “we” for your favorite kind of pizza.

Last week I got an interesting call. I had been working with a… Continue

Added by Mindy Slobodkin Fineout on November 9, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

HR's Berlin Wall

I find it fitting that the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Walls falls squarely one day after the end of the first ever Human Resource HR Evolution (un)conference.

The Human Resource industry is at an impasse. For years, HR has been the voice to deliver the message often controlled by the actions and… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell on November 9, 2009 at 1:03pm — No Comments

PureSearch (The Power to Change your Conventional Recruiting)

Can’t find the Right Candidate?

Calling Candidates from the Job Boards and they have already been contacted?

Looking for unique skills and having a difficult time locating them?

Need Another Tool but can’t afford the expense of adding another Job Board?

We have been in the staffing business since the mid 1990’s and know how frustrating

and expensive resume searches can be. Recruiters need the tools to be… Continue

Added by Joe Limboo on November 9, 2009 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Your resume should work as hard as you do. Get Free expert feedback on your resume!

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Why aren't you getting more interviews?

You're talented, got a great background, and an updated resume, yet you seem to be waiting and waiting for the phone to ring for that next interview. WHY? It could be your resume is missing the mark.

As a job seeker in the legal profession, you need a resume firm that speaks your language. We have… Continue

Added by JDHUNTR In-House Jobs on November 9, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments