No one likes to be controlled. Which is just one reason why staffing and recruiting professionals must avoid this flawed practice.

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To say there is a love hate relationship with cold calling would be an understatement. In any sales career cold calling is the lifeline of your success. You’re job as a salesperson is to get the person on the other end of the phone to say yes so you can complete the sale. In agency recruiting it is no different. You must speak to the hiring manager who will ultimately make…

There are many companies that are doing data entry outsourcing, but this doesn’t mean that they are the best company out there. There might be some outsourcing company that is better and that is delivering better service. There are many reasons why you should only use the best data entry outsourcing company that you can find, and not just any company out there. Here are some reasons why you should take your time and find the best…

Often, the line between being assertive and being rude is quite fuzzy and open to interpretation.

Assertiveness, by definition, is a communication skill that allows a person to clearly express their thoughts and feelings directly and appropriately, while still managing the thoughts and feelings of others around you.

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Almost exactly one year ago, my husband and I adopted our little fur baby from the local animal shelter. We both grew up with pets, but this was our first (and only child) together as a couple. Our sweet guy, Hurley, immediately became a part of our family and dramatically influenced our official new lifestyle as doggie people.

As his one year adoption anniversary approached, I wanted to come up with a way to celebrate how much love and enjoyment he has brought our…

The modern recruitment marketing team is firm or agency that can help you in discovering talented marketing professionals to join your business. Marketing is an important aspect of any business and it is therefore vital for a business owner or company to select marketing professionals with considerable care. The modern recruitment marketing team can help you…

I've worked in Employer Branding for nearly 20 years. I surprise myself every time I say it, but it really is that long.

I started by working on research strategies for clients in recruitment when the idea was still in its infancy. Research - other than some basic media hunting - was not a prerequisite, so it was said, for a successful job ad. After all, it…

The recent WhatsApp Group Chat was a hit amongst the members as we received lots of inputs that were simple yet quite interesting. If you weren’t able to make it this time it’s not too late to be in loop of the insights shared as you are reading them. Here’s what our distinguished Talent & Sourcing professionals had to say about whether we really need weekend drives or if there are any alternatives? …

Instead of formulaic cut and pasted resumes and job descriptions, the free ATS Jobularity is making the search personal by using advanced tools like candidate videos, live references, and job descriptions delivered directly from hiring managers.…

ON the 4^th of July we celebrate our great nation, but lets no forget those who have fought and are fighting to keep the ideals of our great nation alive, our Military and Veterans.  Below are links to sites that can help our veterans and companies find and hire vets.

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Workplace diversity may seem like a hot phrase but it is the way of the future. A diverse workforce means diverse thinking, diverse solutions and a better connection to your potential customers. Here are seven of the best business benefits from having a diverse workplace.

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Having a loan won’t get anyone to the road of luxury. However, having a loan for the right investment or proper usage might bring someone somewhere a bit higher than where the initial capital has foretold someone should be. This is why, a lot of businessman and eager borrowers opt for short-term loans, specifically the secured ones. Secured loans are warranted loans which secure the lender of the buyer’s fulfillment of his agreed duty – that is to pay the debt – by the instrument which…

With so many Silicon Valley companies setting trends when it comes to office layouts, benefits, and meeting philosophies, it’s only natural that organizations across the country want to replicate their processes when…

Staying focused at work in summer can be quite hard especially after a long, cold winter and a rainy spring. As soon as the sun is out and weather gets hotter, we all dream about holidays, barbecues, sunbathing, long walks and pitches of beer, umbrella cocktails and other entertaining summer activities.

Summer is usually a shift…

I don't give a hoot, yeah I said hoot, about how many candidates it takes to get a hire. You know why? Because after being in this industry for 15+ nearly years you learn something about what it really takes. I'm going to break this down for you dear readers. We've all been doing it wrong lately. And, here is something more. You can blame whoever came up with the stoopid…

Ping pong tables, foosball tables, beer on tap, unlimited vacation. Question is, does this make a company more attractive than a company without these perks? For some, yes it does. But should these perks be the only thing that you look at? Or even part of an evaluation checklist that excludes companies without these things? Maybe not.

Having worked in talent acquisition for the better part of the past 15 years starting as an agency recruiter, agency owner, and now an internal…

The performance appraisal. Love it? Hate it? Honestly, when it comes to employee performance there really isn’t any other way to improve the quality of their work. However, there are ways to botch the process if you don’t conduct these…

Every employee works and learns in different ways, and knowing who works how is the best way to build productive and happy teams. At Vitru, we’ve distilled several kinds of employee traits into the five most predictive and important categories:…

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity but cashflow is a crunching blow of reality.

Without the right injection of working capital or sufficient planning agencies are effectively signing their own death warrants.

Cash is King!

Access to reliable finance is even more of a lifeline for recruitment agencies…