Now that we have our target companies, it’s time to start building our database. The #1 advantage that recruiting agencies have over corporate recruiting departments is that they have a database of prospects/candidates to call on. Since our goal is to reduce spending on outside agencies and build an internal talent engine, we need to create our own database. This is an extension of our previous market research activities, but now we’re getting more targeted and looking at individuals…

Remember 1999? For those of us in online recruiting, it was the year Monster ran an ad during the Superbowl. Overnight the job board went from sort-of well-known to very well known. Part of it was a memorable…

Featured Guest Post by Lars Schmidt, Senior Director of Talent Acquisition & Innovation at NPR 

Later this week I’ll be presenting at the annual Recruiting Trends Conference. My session,…

Over half of digital job-seekers only hear back from 1 in 5 jobs they apply for despite an increase in vacancies, a new survey has revealed.

The survey, carried out by niche online jobs board Bubble Jobs, made the observation as research into the digital industry shows that the sector is burgeoning despite all the bad news about employment.

A study into the European app economy revealed that almost 800,000 jobs have…

Judith Blair, MD of PCR Recruitment, will be once again attending the Silicon Milkroundabout. She shares why this event is so important to the tech start-up industry and what 2013 has in store.

Silicon Milkroundabout is a London job fair aimed at tech start-ups and the talent pool looking for employment in this fast growing sector. Set up by a team of creatives initially as a pub event,…

Small and medium sized organizations are David up against large Goliath companies in the war for talent. They can definitely win, say Hirefly, but they need the right approach.…

Several countries offer the Working Holiday Visa to young foreigners who want to experience a short period of time vacationing and working on their shores. Australia is one of these countries that attract tens of thousands of individuals to travel throughout the country while taking on casual jobs to supplement their excursions.

Australia is a great place to travel to with a Working Holiday Visa. Aside from having some of the…

Lean Six Sigma in Talent Acquisition

The HR Technology Conference serves, for our industry at least, as the debutante ball for talent technology, the annual ‘coming out’ event for dozens of new systems, solutions and services jockeying for their fair share of recruiting organizations’…

Talent Acquisition by Design

 The Good The Bad The Ugly of the Recruiting World

…are more precious than most people realize.

If you sell, you have only that amount of time to capture a buyer’s attention. What you do with it will determine if he or she gives you another nine seconds, and then another and then another. You are always nine seconds away from a conversation continuing or ending.

If you lead, nine seconds determine if employees stay engaged or disconnect. Will you use those precious moments to invite motivation or incite apathy? What you ask or…

I’ve been stimulated by something I read earlier: – “Up to a few years ago, Google would have employees go through a 12 – 14 meeting process. This would result in dreadfully long staffing cycles, loss of top talent to competing internet companies and overall inefficiency when attempting to…

You have joined a new school and you are finding it pretty difficult to adjust to the surroundings. That happens, sometimes when you do not know how to handle pressure and your professor you might end up at the bottom. Today’s educational system is such that students are already pressurized into performing at the level best when writing research papers.

Sometimes, you get to see students not being able to handle the pressure and doing a lot of things that necessarily need not happen.…

It is very difficult for the recruiters to enroll top talent who have the right skill and experience. At the start of the New Year here is a huge pass out of fresh graduates that are ready to become the active part of the society. However rolling the fresh and new talent is something many would consider however it is difficult…

Corporate ladder climbing is a skill.  A lot of the times, it means going the extra mile and taking on more work than necessary in order to get noticed and seem indispensible.  Being a go-getter, furthering your education by taking classes like PMP certification classes, making connections, and learning a skill that no one else can do are great ways to make yourself primed for a move up the corporate ladder. 

Be the Go-Getter Everyone’s…

On Wednesday, the big news at Talent Connect was that LinkedIn had gone mobile.  But mobile access wasn't the only upgrade that LinkedIn's Recruiter product received, although this one received very little fanfare:  recruiters who occupy a LinkedIn Recruiter seat can now post status updates directly onto the Company's Career Page.  On its face, it makes sense.  There's a 94%…

This year I had the absolute privilege to help The Candidate Experience Awards as a member of the CandE Council. It’s been 3 years now and as someone who has followed this program since inception, it’s absolutely tremendous to see how much it’s grown in such a short time (credit is due to founders…

Sourcecon 2013: Building a Global Sourcing Team: Making the Business Case for Sourcing

This Session was on making a case for creating a global sourcing team. Melissa Harper of Monsanto ran this session. One of the key slides of this presentation…