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The most important thing..

The other day, I was thinking back to a factory job I held from 1987 until 1995..I worked the afternoon shift at an aluminum casting foundry, where we made parts for things like autos, fighter jets, and tanks..

Anyway, my job was to take the rough edges off of the castings, done by holding the casting "just right" on a rotating belt of very coarse sandpaper..the belt moved fast enough that if one was careless or in a hurry, a casting could be destroyed in seconds, or worse yet, one's… Continue

Added by Thomas Patrick Chuna on September 29, 2009 at 8:52am — No Comments

Adidas' Employment Branding Philosophy- should I care?

After an absolutely exhilarating day participating in the Annual Member Congress of the International Association of Employment Websites, I was prepared to sense some level of deflation as I entered day two of my trip, and day one of the ere.net expo. After all, I work for a group of employment websites , and this was a conference primarily geared toward full time corporate and 3rd party recruiters. These were the people paid to find the talent that’s theoretically not looking for work on… Continue

Added by Jason C. Blais on September 29, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

TipTopJob International Ltd to exhibit at Onrec Chicago in the USA

TipTopJob International Ltd are to exhibit at the forthcoming Onrec exhibition in Chicago on the 2nd-3rd November 2009 in the bid to expand it's exposure in the USA as it has become the second most popular location for Users using TipTopJob.com.

TipTopJob.com has separate country domains for which clients are able to post jobs, for example, us.tiptopjob.com, uk.tiptopjob.com. This allows TipTopJob to offer clients not only fully international recruitment across various countries, but… Continue

Added by Corinne on September 29, 2009 at 3:47am — No Comments

The secret to "fun and money" in recruitment! A simple formula that guarantees billing success

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I was walking down the street the other day when I ran into an old colleague, an ex-employee actually, from my days as the owner of accounting and finance recruiter, Recruitment Solutions.

We talked for a while, and as we parted she said with a huge smile, “ Still following that old success formula, Greg. It has made me millions!” At first I could not for the life of me work out what she was talking about. But… Continue

Added by Greg Savage on September 29, 2009 at 12:00am — 11 Comments

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Added by Santosh Balajapalli on September 28, 2009 at 11:33pm — No Comments

Why HR is like the Yellow Pages

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Message and Medium Matter

One of the more irritating things about living in an apartment complex are the constant attempts at outreach by… Continue

Added by Michael VanDervort on September 28, 2009 at 7:29pm — 4 Comments

Can Your Business Win a Premiership?

On the weekend I watched the AFL Grand Final and witnessed probably two of the greatest AFL teams in history battle out an exciting tight contested game. Neither team deserved to lose, Geelong prevailed in the end. St Kilda’s leaders will use the loss as a motivator for next and subsequent years.

Many parallels can be drawn between successful sports teams and businesses (teams of people as well). A quick review of the two teams leads to some interesting (though not unexpected)… Continue

Added by Aaron Dodd on September 28, 2009 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Onboarding: Why Companies Fail

I often hear from business owners that they don’t have “time” to get a new employee up to speed. Excuse? Not at all. The reality is that business owners are extremely busy.

Based on staggering statistics that 22% of staff turnover occurs in the first forty-five days of employment, it makes perfect sense to delay a hire if you don’t have the time to onboard an employee properly.

Yet, most companies continue to hire new employees without providing effective training or… Continue

Added by Safari Solutions on September 28, 2009 at 5:10pm — No Comments

What's changed in recruitment since the crunch?

As a relative outsider to recruitment, I was wondering if anything has changed in recruitment?

I know things are tough but is everyone just waiting for the good times to return, for things to return to normal or has anything significant happened to change how the industry works?

I never fully understood the business model. It appears to reward poor performance. The higher an employers staff turnover, the more business a recruiter gets. It seems a bit strange and I… Continue

Added by Martin Gibbons on September 28, 2009 at 3:54pm — 10 Comments

Recruitfest’09

This week I traveled to Toronto for the second time within a week. First was to see U2 – totally awesome concert! It is a beautiful City fairly close to Upstate NY. I normally do not attend conferences, but learned of Recruitfest from Twitter. Then in having conversations with @jennydevaughn – she encouraged me to go, so I thought I would give it a try!

This was an “unconference,” described as an open forum to exchange thoughts and ideas with fellow peers and thought leaders within the… Continue

Added by Chernee Vitello on September 28, 2009 at 1:39pm — 1 Comment

ACTUAL LEADERSHIP, PART II - Now that you are leading...where to?

Let's suppose that all the planets align correctly and you wake up on the correct side of the bed (most days) and you are becoming an Actual Leader. This is confirmed for you on a regular basis by people who genuinely smile when they see you coming and also smile and thank you when they depart your presence. Some of these people come to you out of the blue to bounce ideas off of you or report progress because they know that you appreciate it and that they are appreciated. You are even taking… Continue

Added by Randy Levinson on September 28, 2009 at 11:38am — 1 Comment

How to Conduct a Great Interview

Hiring and keeping good workers begins with the job interview. A successful interview does not just happen, it needs to be planned, guided and prepared for. If your interview skills are a bit rusty here are a few pointers to get you back in the game.

1) Review the resume before meeting face to face with a candidate. Take time to know something about the person before you meet them. Otherwise you may come across unprepared or disorganized.

2)… Continue

Added by Kunin Associates on September 28, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

The Life Cycle of Roles - Not All Roles Are Created Equal

Life is just not fair. There are some roles that get the best out of a person, and then there are roles that were designed to make your life feel at times like hell on earth. It was only recently that I discovered that there is a life cycle for roles, similar as for a company.

The best roles are those with a great company and with a great boss. However, not all roles are created equal. In two of my roles I only stayed for one year, but started looking around after one month, as I… Continue

Added by Charles Van Heerden on September 28, 2009 at 2:13am — 2 Comments

Should Recruiters Be Accountable For Bad Hires

Remember college? Or maybe you can’t. You slept all day and partied all night. You had zero accountability except making good grades. Then you got a job, spouse, house and kids. And then, Boom! You’re responsible for a lot of things, pal. Like a mortgage, college and keeping your job.

Accountability, it’s the word of the day. And, it may be the Recruitment word of the year. Here is why.

Agencies are accountable for every hire they make, if the person bails or is… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on September 27, 2009 at 10:14pm — 6 Comments

Top 10 reasons to embrace social recruiting

Inspired by the New Zealand Prime Minister's (my Obama) 'Top 10 reasons to visit NZ' appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman (see video below), I've come up with my own 'Top 10 reasons to embrace social recruiting'. Please note that a team of script writers did not assist me to compile my list.

Top 10 reasons to embrace social recruiting:

10. The term ‘social’ makes it sound fun

9. The idea of building relationships… Continue

Added by Paul Jacobs on September 27, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Developer - Richmond

Position: Developer - Richmond

Job Description: Note: This position is in Richmond, VA

Analytics: Default Risk Metrics Specialist (Analysis)

Responsible for assisting in the day to day operations of servicing analytics and developing related activities. Assisting in developing servicing analytics related to our portfolio, and warehouse mortgage loans and consumer products. Assisting in development of scorecard models, portfolio customer performance models/product mix models… Continue

Added by Kala Sridhar on September 25, 2009 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Where is El Dave Bobblehead?

Attention: All Recruitfest09 Attendees: I need your help!

I am (or was?) the owner of the world's only Dave Mendoza Bobblehead. Now just why in the world would I have such a thing? And how did I get it? That's a long story so I'll not bore you with the details. This post is more important than that.

HE IS MISSING!

His trip started out as most everyone else heading to Toronto. In a van. Heading down Highway 402.…

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Added by Jerry Albright on September 25, 2009 at 6:00pm — 7 Comments

You Left With 3 Things, Didn't You?

Just a quick post to give you some food for thought over the weekend in regards to mobile marketing and recruitment. As I've spoken at several venues of various sizes over the last 4 months about social and mobile recruiting, I always love to ask the audience what they left the house with that morning. Check out this quick video posted where I posed the question to a local chapter of the… Continue

Added by RecruiterGuy on September 25, 2009 at 4:14pm — No Comments

White Paper - Staffing Waste

Most companies do not measure and report the complete results of their staffing process outcomes.

With outcomes obscured by reporting in percentages and with blurred lines of accountability, companies miss out on better profits and competitive advantage from poorly measured staffing processes.

This white paper invites the reader to consider four forms of waste common to the staffing process.

What do you measure?

Joe…

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Added by Joseph P. Murphy on September 25, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments