I have always preached research comes first with regards to staffing, and sourcing in particular. You have to know what you are looking for and know what companies have what you are looking for. You need to be able to find and contact those people, know trends, perform talent mapping and basically find what cannot be found. Here at Lockheed Martin, this type of research…

XO Group has been around for about 20 years, yet it has the energy and creativity you’d expect from a much younger company. As a public company with over 600 employees, XO Group has done an amazing job scaling quickly while maintaining a very open, collaborative, and innovative culture.

So at 600 people, how have they been able to maintain a collaborative recruiting culture?

The answer is simple. Hiring manager alignment.…

Some jobs are more profitable than others. If you're thinking about going back to school or earning any post-secondary job certifications, here are seven fields that would welcome you with open arms.



1. Physical Therapist



According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 73,000 physical therapist jobs are expected to open…

When you really get down to it, not much about the ‘good old days’ was truly very good - but you did at least know you’d be expected to wear a suit to an interview.

Formality may have been stifling, but it took the agony out of the interview wardrobe dilemma. These days, it’s all Converse in the office and open-necked shirts…

Which selection tool should I use to identify the best suited candidate for my vacancy? This is not a trivial question, since you certainly want to make a good decision and know you cannot rely on your gut feeling, right? That’s why we will have a closer look at two selection tools which have proven to be very useful in everyday recruiting: online assessment center andpre-recorded video interviews. Just to remind you, in the last post, we presented two other smart selection…

It’s no secret; in fact, it is one of the most well-known maxims in the world of business. A happy employee is a productive employee.

Creating a good work environment where your staff feels welcomed, appreciated and valued is one of the most important things you can do for your business. However, the solution to creating this idyllic ambiance is not…

You have got to Google images for “team building”. The only way it could get cheesier is if these visualizations of team building were cross-stitched. Yes, it’s…

As we approach the end of 2014, I wanted to share with you an interesting trend in hiring demand this year. While many times we think that the competition for talent is in populous areas - like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Silicon Valley - we found that hiring grew significantly more in smaller, less populated areas.

Some of the top metropolitan areas for…

I read recently some ‘recruitment expert’ advising owners of recruitment companies to phase out ‘billing managers’ and to allow a team of ‘dedicated managers’ to simply ‘run’ the business’.

Now, how should I put this as calmly as I can? OK, this will have to do.

Bullshit!

In Australia, New Zealand…

President Barack Obama has vowed to make the government “cool again” and enticing to work for, but numbers suggest otherwise. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

The average federal employee makes …

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the classic Rankin-Bass holiday special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Despite its’ age, this stop-motion special still appeals to kids today and certainly evokes nostalgia amongst those who don’t believe in Santa any longer (sorry if I just ruined that for you).

There is a time and place for nostalgia and re-exploring our past,…

As 2014 comes to an end, we reflect on the past year and look forward to 2015 with uncertainty and a plethora of predictions. Today, we thought we'd talk about the hot or in-demand jobs from 2014, according to data from WANTED Analytics. We examined the most commonly advertised occupations in the world's largest…

When it comes to ascertaining whether a candidate really would be a good cultural fit for your company, you don’t need a crystal ball. The only thing that a smart recruiter needs is a set of strategic behavioural interview questions.

The candidates of today are savvy. They know all the standard interview…

In order to meet the challenges of skills shortage, war for talent and demographic change, you need to ensure a professional personnel selection. For this purpose, however, more and more methods and tools are available. We will present you several very useful selection tools and their advantages as well as their disadvantages! In the first part of our series, we’ll be talking about “Realistic Job Previews” and the “Situational Judgment Test”.…

You can’t escape them. You can’t ignore them. Your candidates want video interviews, and your organization is looking for ways to save money. There’s no better way to do that than to save 67% on travel costs with video interviewing. There…

Most individuals these days spend a considerable amount of time on Social Media sites like Facebook. The concept of meeting people in person seems to have taken a back seat lately, as a result of changing times. With people flocking to social networking sites to establish long lost connections or to simply connect with people they wouldn’t be able to meet up on regular bases. This seems like the perfect platform to re-establish those connections.

If you thought that this site only…

Now-a-days, English writing has become ineffective in point of proper meaning and good sentence structure. The reason is that most of the human beings related to education or business cannot follow the proper rules of good English like academic writing. As a result of that, the people cannot be able to get success in the any sector in his education or theie personal life. Though the English writing in the normal life can be done with use of informal writings but it is sure and centain that…

This always happens. The latest and greatest piece of technology that you just bought is outdated only a week later. However, the fundamentals never go out of style. Referrals, Sourcing and Job Descriptions are important aspects of your recruiting strategy, and it is important to keep discovering fresh ways to keep them relevant with the times. You can use them in new ways that revamp…