Today, we can witness a rapid growth of headhunting practices, as any company, a mid-size or a large-size one, wants to attract to their team savvy experts who will bring considerable benefits. However, sometimes it’s not so easy to find out the suitable candidates, because a seemingly experienced and leading specialist may hide some valuable info, have…

Hiring the wrong candidate can be a fatal as a venomous snake bite to any organization.…

I had the opportunity last week to attend the monthly meeting of my local chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, which covered a legislative update for its membership. I am from a family of lawyers so I understand they have a role to play. But every time I come away with the same feeling.

For over 30 years when I attend these it always seems to be the case of us against them. The lawyers tell us that we have to begin to develop strategies to combat the rash of…

The definition of corporate employee recruiting and training refers to the methods employed to provide personnel with the business skills they will require to attain their work-linked actions. When a Human Resource Department is part of the company infrastructure, the overall responsibility for employee competency, training and…

Often we meet or come across many people who are not happy or satisfied with their duties and jobs. There may be various reasons for this, for instance they are not happy with some of their office colleagues or their schedule of work or perhaps they don’t particularly like their supervisors and boss. So they need some career advancement tips for setting their career…

Allowing your employees to bring their own devices to work can lead to a number of security issues. Their devices may not be properly secured or encrypted, and many may already have viruses or malware on them. Employees also may not practice proper network safety techniques outside of the office, which could leave their devices open to data breaches and other…

It's easy for job candidates to sit through an interview and feel as though they are on an unequal footing with the hiring manager. This is sometimes due to their own anxiety or their preconceived notions about how the interview will go. At other times, their anxiety directly relates to the hiring manager conducting the interview. Here are three tips to ensure that interviews look more like a conversation than an interrogation. Spotting a bad interview is a…

There has been a long standing debate about Talent Acquisition and Recruitment and the relation between the two. Based on this development it’s obvious that we’d like to know more about it hence the question what is the difference between Talent Acquisition and Recruitment?

Luckily one of the members of the popular Wednesday’s discussion addressed this very topic,…

Carpentry is an ideal career for people who enjoy building things and working with their hands. There are many carpentry job openings in and around the Perth area for those who have the right skills and experience. Whether you have just started your career as a carpenter or you have been working for years, potential…

Robots taking over jobs is a common theme these days yet, a contrarian view is explored in this episode of “The Jim Stroud Show.” Imagine you are a software developer who is constantly hounded by recruiters; almost to the point of distraction. So, what do you do? You do what Will Sims has done and build a robot to handle all calls from recruiters. Check out this very…

Recruiters are the frontline in the hunt for great talent. Their ability to do their job well can determine if industry-changing candidate-job matches are made. “The impact of a recruiter is twofold: first, you can literally change the life of an individual by placing them in their dream job, and second, you can effectively change the direction and the success of a corporation with a single great hire in a key job (i.e. recruiting LeBron to your NBA team)” …

No matter how many candidates you’re vetting, moving them all through the hiring process is not an easy task.  Keeping track of communication with up to hundreds of candidates for multiple positions at a time can trip up even the most experienced hiring manager. To better manage your applicant flow and get a clearer picture of each candidate, use the following tips to help yourself differentiate between your prospective talent.

Vary your interview…

Avankia the makers of TargetRecruit, a leading Workforce Management System and DBSync an Integration Platform for Salesforce, Financial, Healthcare and BI applications is gearing up for the biggest Cloud event on the planet, Dreamforce 2016. We are showcasing all that is new and happening and you are most welcome to take a sneak preview into what has kept us in…

The first Keynote was Bryan Chaney-Weird Science: Turning Talent attraction into Sourcing Success. Now for me when I saw Weird Science the move from the 70s came to mind. Obviously that is not the same thing but it did bring a smile to my face.

So Bryan started of with the career Decision Making Process.

Step 1-considering a change

Step…

There were once two managers who worked at a company together. Both were experiencing challenges with meeting their goals. They decided to hold a meeting to discuss on-going issues. One was a talent acquisition manager and the other was a unit head of a large software division. There was a lack of understanding on both sides and each blamed the other for failure. The…

Strategic recruiting is much more like sales than traditional recruiting. Correspondingly, how recruiting results are best analyzed is similar to how sales and marketing metrics are analyzed. Recruiting metrics can be broken down into two broad categories: …

“The customer is always right” isn’t just a slogan from the early 20th century used to get more incomes. It is an approach that advocates customer satisfaction as a high priority, because there is an understanding of the obvious fact: no customers – no business. With this approach you are generating loyal customers, and a loyal customer “costs” five times…

“Happy Sunday” I hope all is well and everyone had a great weekend so far. I just ducked into my office for a few hours preparation for the week, and the month ahead. Being a commission salesperson it’s a new month. “Yay me!” Basically the clock is reset the production board empty and everyone starts from zero. Here is when some degree of mental toughness comes in.…