When you were a kid in elementary school, you were undoubtedly asked at least once, if not in every grade, what you wanted to be when you grew up. As each member of your class named a profession or wrote their little paragraphs answering that question, the responses were pretty standard – lawyer, doctor, maybe engineer or writer or teacher. As you progressed through grades in school,…

Are you bored with your current job, and looking for a career change? If you love fashion, shopping, and working with people, a great career option would be to become an image consultant. This is a person who gets paid to help people how to look, feel, and act their best. As an image consultant, you would be offering advice to your clients that could help the find their dream job, meet their one true love, etc.

What does an Image Consultant Do?

There is a lot…

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Have you read about HR in the media this year?

In case you missed it. Here is a sample of some of this year’s headlines featuring Human…

More of what we need or want can be acquired right now or just minutes from now. From downloads to deliveries to services on-command, the rise of the on-demand economy has made speed not just a competitive advantage. For doing business it’s a requirement.

When it comes to hiring, however, some people don’t…

I’ve observed recently a series of hiring processes in firms from mature to entrepreneurial where each was an object lesson in how not to conduct an interview process and which profoundly affected their ability to win the best candidates.

So, based on these experiences, here are the seven deadly signs of a broken recruitment process and some thoughts…

We recently came across a startling statistic: almost half of companies in the United States …

It's fall, which means that everyone is scrambling to make their deals before being sucked into the neverland of Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years. What better time, then, to gather up what's been going on than now? A tip of the hat, by the way, to two key sources: TechCrunch and AIM Group. So without further ado, let's get scribbling!:…

LinkedIn makes everything pretty easy.

It’s essentially developed into a huge, professional A-Z, supposedly stuffed full of great candidates that are waiting for you to contact them.

The problem is that it sending messages to candidates on LinkedIn is so hit and miss. The LinkedIn sales department want us to aspire to a 25% In-Mail success rate – this…

Adobe photography solutions are on great demand in the present global scenario that is driven by digitalization. You can count on your prospects for…

There is hardly any working professional who does not want to improve career prospects but very few are sure about the ways to do so! There is no magic solution to bag a dream job and neither there is a short cut way. However, with a few proven strategies and consistent efforts you can make a change in your present career position. This is applicable to professionals in almost any industry including IT, healthcare, retail etc.

Below listed are a few handy tips, which may help you…

Is this the tipping point?

100 Recruiters reveal 3 of the biggest challenges facing the industry

Over the last few days I made it my goal to really find out what were the top three challenges effecting recruiters. Over 3 days I spoke with 100 directors, managers and senior recruiters with between 5 and…

What's more nerve racking than a job interview? Salary negotiations might come to mind.

Do you wait for the employer to mention it? What if their salary is far lower than you're looking for? How do you negotiate without offending them?

There's no doubt about it, salary negotiations can be thorny.

If you want to negotiate a salary you're happy with, while…

You think you’re working for a great company, but you can’t help but look at your turnover rate and feel something is wrong. A…

An average recruiter will spend 8 hours qualifying 100-200 candidates daily...

1 hour sourcing

1 hour referring

3 hours screening

1 hour lunching

1 hour processing…

Professional Development.

Those words either elicit moans and groans from your employees or sometimes, if you're lucky, excitement.

Too often, employees see professional development as a waste of time when they could be getting their actual work done. They look at is irrelevant and a dull chore, instead of something they can learn from and apply to their daily…

“FEAR, that deadliest of all emotions clutching at your heart…”

Night of the Living Dead – 1968 independent film.

This is how the tale of the Terror begins.

First…

A common misconception among many managers is that continuous process improvement will happen overnight. It just does not happen that way. The implementation of the TLS Continuum and continuous process improvement demands and even requires that we create a new corporate normal. This new normal creates a new corporate culture, which can be dramatically different from what your organization is accustomed to.

Our goal then must become looking at the entire organization and looking at…

Have you ever seen an adventure series about sourcing passive candidates before? If not, check out "The Sourcing Duel" series below.

With the mission to find 10 data analysts in the quickest time, Randstad Sourceright's @TheBalazs and @JimStroud take on each other in a sourcing duel. Who will win? Tweet #TheBalazswins or…

The future of teamwork is all about workplace …