Yesterday was a sad day for the baseball profession. 13 major league professionals were handed suspensions for steroid use. I think a better use of words rather than sad, would be embarrassing.  This is not the first time we have seen this happen and it certainly won't be the last.  The names are astounding.  Alex Rodriguez, Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta were the 3 biggest…

I have spent a lot of time involved in the UK recruitment market. I have lived there, worked there, and owned and run recruitment businesses there, until very recently. For the past decade I have visited London at least twice a year, often more. So I speak from personal experience when I say there has not been much positive to report from the UK, recruitment-wise, since about 2008.

However, over the past 2 weeks I got a very pleasant surprise. I was in London to speak to four groups…

The talent shortage we created!!

I was speaking to a friend of mine who is a recruiter. He was complaining about the shortage of talent. I asked what he was looking for, he told me and we searched. We found a lot of candidates. We started looking at…

Here's a question from a PhD looking for a position in the Medical Device industry.  He had spent the last several years with university start ups and was seeking to make the jump to an established Medtech company. 

His inquiry was whether inviting industry recruiters to join his LinkedIn network would help his job search.  I can count on hearing a form of that question at least weekly.  What he was really asking was "Does a recruiter find jobs for people?"  Of course my answer is an…

Everything we do online matters. This has always been true, but it's never been as important as it is now. What makes this feel almost patently unfair is that, in spite of our actions mattering more now, we actually have less control over how we are perceived online. Thanks to social media, and a few other factors (not the least among them being Internet trolls), people can say just about anything they want about us online.





What are they saying about you today?…

Gathering feedback from candidates not only ensures that you know why your recruitment strategy is successfully driving skilled talent through the company door, it also provides powerful insights into the impact this process has on key candidate perceptions, motivators and expectations. Measuring and monitoring the candidate experience provides:

1.     Data evidence…

We are now well and truly in to 2013 and have been consistently reminded over the past year how well (or not) the job market is performing. But what do the experts think? Paul Avon, Director at AP Executive discusses what he believes the outlook will be for the UK job market.

The jobs market has been turbulent, to say the least, over the past few years, however, last month statistics were released stating the number of people claiming…

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http://www.fordyceletter.com/2013/07/30/what-a-brit-has-to-say-about-american-recruiting-practices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fordyceletter+%28The+Fordyce+Letter%29

Does he have a point or is he basing his…

Job interview question: what is wrong with this picture?

Earth and Moon seen from 1 billion miles away:

What is wrong with this…

The cycle of ; 'Candidate - Interview - Offer - Joiner' will still get complicated and we need more and more man power and physical energy to coordinate.Now, with social media reference, mobile apps changing the entire gamut of recruitment - does that mean we have things done at easy cost? A Big NO

GEN Y's Conviction

Gen Y wants Insta updates, status and waiting time is 0.1Sec or even lesser. Here 'time' is a double edged sword where one end - you will get…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about lost dogs, recruitment’s evolution, social recruiting, passive candidates and sourcing certification.

Now on to the articles.  Here are the articles that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

Practically every single company I’ve ever seen cited by all the social media/employer branding experts as a model in recruitment excellence have been a massive multinational with an almost omnipresent consumer brand.

Are you going to pick-up any useful scraps from the big boy’s table about how you can recruit better from reading any of these…

Recently I received a resume from a young lady that had just graduated with a master’s degree in Oceanography looking for a position.  She sent this to me in hopes that she would be chosen to work for the company I had a contract with.  She like so many hopefuls she applied on line and waited to hear if she was chosen or not.  She was.  She had the schooling and…

One week from today, Suzie started her fit.

Frank told Suzie to do her job, and not rely on gossip as a source for references.

Like the Tasmanian devil on Saturday morning, Suzie started to spin. Her thin skin couldn't take it. She was the HR person!  This was her domain! How dare Frank tell her what to do!

Using her power, she behaved badly. Her target was Frank. Her reach was far greater. She spun and spun and spun until she drew attention to herself. Frank looks like…

Just released today, Hootsuite (founded in 2008) a Social Media start up has secured $165 million in series B funding form a 3 way join venture including including Insight Venture Partners, Accel Partners and OMERS Ventures.

With more than 7 million users across it's platform and nearly half of the Fortune 500 (right around 240) Hootsuite has solidified itself as"The Player" in enterprise social media…

I have a sharp IP Attorney in the sweet spot for hiring with a JD 2010 and a Bachelors in Computer Science.  The only drawback is she wants in house and I only do law firms.  Is there anyone out there who would be interested in working with this type of legal candidate or know someone who would.

I would appreciate any help you can give or share.

Thanks.

Theresa Hunter

Legal Talent Recruiting

214-435-8345

Good news for all you Apple-loving, HR folks! Last month at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Fransisco, keynote speaker, Craig Federighi announced that LinkedIn will be integrated into the newest version of OS X, called OS X Mavericks. It was pretty great when they integrated Twitter, but now they’re …

If you are bored with your current career you could do a lot worse than look at getting involved in fashion. The fashion industry is an interesting one which is always changing and evolving. This means that there is always plenty to interest creative and flexible jobseekers.

Some Interesting Back Room Jobs

Most people assume that the vast majority of fashion jobs are retail related. To some extent this is true; however, the process of getting the garments designed, made…

If you work in the catering hospitality industry the chances are you will be extremely busy. Therefore, finding the time to recruit the people you need can sometimes be a problem. Fortunately, there is now way to speed up the process and make your recruitment processes far more effective.

The first step

The first step is to visit…

It was about this time last year I was…