5 Reasons You’re Not Hired Yet

Looking for a new job or a career change is exciting but certainly challenging in these economic times. Many applicants submit their resumes to a variety of positions and never hear from any of the companies. This can be dispiriting, but don’t let it get to you. Here are five common reasons you are not getting interviews and job offers:

1.       Your resume is unprofessional. Printing a resume on pink, scented paper is…

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Buying a microphone is one of the most important steps you will take in setting up your recording studio at home. With a lot of different kinds of microphones to choose from, how do you know what to buy? In getting the best microphone for you, there are a lot of things to take into account; t’s not just about the style or the cheapest one out there. So to help you in identifying what microphone to buy, here are a few things you need to consider.…

The disturbed denial of service aka DDoS is actually rather common when it comes to computers and problems. Although you might not know it you may have actually faced this particular problem before. Because of the fact that you did not know exactly what it was you paid a hefty sum in order to have your computer repaired although it might have not needed that much of a pairing.

Determine what your problem is

In order for you to learn exactly…

Recently, I had a flash back to the '80s and Tina Turner's song - "What's Love Got to Do With It?", which I found playing on the radio one day while driving.  Appropriate because it is Valentine's Day this week.  As I listened I got a clue into a theme which plays out every day, 365 days a year, not just in February in Staffing/HR Departments across the world.  The concept…

Creating an online presence is not an easy task now as against earlier when recruiting was still doing things the traditional way. With recruiting now going online it is actually that important, especially for the recruiters and the ones on the receiving ends i.e. job seekers.

With social media dominating all most all aspects of recruitment and branding due to its efficiency and being cost effective. Everyone we know apart from recruiters and companies is on social media platforms.…

Graduates usually think that the papers they have once they leave college will catapult them in securing good jobs in the industry, but this is not always the case. The job market today is increasingly…

A couple of years ago, Facebook partnered with the U.S. Department of Labor and eventually unveiled its own job board.

Trend watching recruiters took notice and companies like Work4Labs, BranchOut and others now actively use and promote the…

Moving to electronic employee files creates a number of efficiencies for a Human Resources department. Here are some of the benefits you can expect from upgrading.

Storing and managing your employee files in a traditional, paper format can really suck a lot of productivity out of your Human Resources department. Files are easily lost or…

Now that we’re into 2015, we thought we’d compare how demand in the beginning of this year trended compared to the same time last year. We reviewed the top 50 industries with the most demand to see which ones experienced the highest percentage of growth, according to data from WANTED Analytics.

Industries…

Recruiters and job seekers alike see the words “Communication skills” plastered on just about every job ad they read or write, and with good reason. It’s cited as the #1 desired …

The Recruitment Hashtag Calendar, updated for 2015. Maximise your social media reach. Find, connect and engage more candidates.

A great way to find and connect with potential candidates is to get involved in hashtag conversations. HRS have complied a list of active hashtags that will help you connect with both…

Hi there! I am writing this article in order to give you some tips if you need to share an apartment with somebody you have not known before. I, as a student at the University of Charleston, found out an apartment to share from a list of apartments Charleston WV along with a university fellow who used to work at the University. We followed some strategies to have a friendly atmosphere in our apartment and to keep things working…

Owing to some very sloppy programming, by a rather amateurish Ruby coder, I was able to exploit a vulnerability in www.recruiterspam.com and determine the number of actual email addresses that received claimed 'spam' sent by recruiters. As far as I can tell, the number is 460, although possibly it is as low as 57 people using multiple "spam-trap" addresses, which is an illegal and deceptive practice recently ruled by the Courts to be…

A cover letter is another “pleasant thing” that online resume services can provide to their clients. Yet only a handful of job-hunters avail of this benefit whenever they seek the help of these entities as they walk through the job search trail. Cover letters provide the potential and future employers a glimpse of what a job seeker can do to their company. It gives highlight on the passion and interest of…

[Before or after you read this missive, be sure to read Derek Zeller's "You're Not Really A Recruiter"]

Can you articulate what makes you a recruiter, let alone a great one? Can you describe to your loved ones exactly what makes you a recruiter?

Great, you…

Staffing and recruitment firms who are achieving the fastest growth in margin percentage and dollars are taking their cues from some of the best at innovation: Starbucks, Airbnb, Warby Parker, Patagonia, Kickstarter, and Apple. Instead of bombarding tons of prospects with mundane sales and marketing pitches, hoping to get them to care about their offerings, they are figuring out what matters most to these buyers, then delighting them, one person at a time. This approach,…

From a recruiter's perspective, knowing the right way to handle interview individuals after the interview can be tricky.

Some interviewees are needier than others and some can be downright presumptive, assuming they've got the job when in actuality your client may already have chosen someone else. Some of these problems may be avoided by recruiting the right…

On the back of a stellar jobs report unveiled last Friday, I was asked by a reporter for Hearst Publications to take a look at our data for engineering job advertisements in the final quarter of 2014 and to compare them to the final quarter of 2013.

Across the board, every engineering discipline saw a marked increase in the number of jobs advertised on any given day in the final quarter of 2014 vs 2013.  What makes this particularly insightful for this year's recruiting - the…

It’s the end of the workweek. Some people in the office leave a little early to get a jumpstart on their weekend plans; some people didn’t even come in because of their flex schedules. Friday for the average professional is a godsend. For job postings on the other hand, the end of the week doesn’t ring the same bell as it should. Fridays were once the ideal time for job postings.…