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Good Resumes in Bad Times

In this economy, I wanted to reach out to candidates and give the do’s and don'ts of writing not just a good, but an EFFECTIVE RESUME. I asked my very opinionated team of K. Russo Associates executive recruiters to write down all the things that we as recruiters (and therefore Human Resource managers) find helpful and annoying when reading over a resume.

The Top DO’s for Good Resume Writing

• Use a clean and simple font; stay away from anything cursive or hard to… Continue

Added by Karen Russo on February 17, 2009 at 10:30am — 5 Comments

Practice Makes Perfect

One of the things I really began to pine for in this recession that is affecting many of us is the lack of sourcing "practice" that I used to get every day. I've found a couple paths to keep my skills cutting-sharp and I'll share them with you today in the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Chat but I expect you to share yours as well! See you at noon (EST) in class. Don't be late.

“Practice is the best… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 17, 2009 at 7:54am — No Comments

Job boards are in it for themselves

While browsing the ‘news web’ this morning I pick up an interesting article entitled “Beware job board CV advice”. The headline immediately caught my eye and the content certainly raised a few questions.

Written by Nick Gendler, a career coach at Workjoy.co.uk, the piece discusses the author’s experience (via a colleague) with a CV review/writing service, offered by [continue… Continue

Added by Julian Stopps on February 17, 2009 at 4:58am — No Comments

Surprisingly enough the answer was right under my nose

When working on a position that is open for a while things tend to change a time or two. The manager wants a different certification, more experience, less experience, an advanced degree, or a whole different skill set if you give them enough time. Unfortunately, this is the kind of position I have just recently begun the recruiting process on. It has been open for a few months and the manager has reviewed and declined over 60 resumes (and counting).

I've only been in the loop a week… Continue

Added by Gino Conti on February 16, 2009 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Get in the Habit of Taking Action

A lot of us get stuck in inaction –procrastinating, doing a lot of unimportant tasks to avoid the important stuff, worrying about failing or about being perfect, having a hard time starting, getting distracted, and so on.

It’s time to start forming the Action Habit instead.

And it’s really not that hard if you focus on it for a little while. Like any other habit, start in small doses, little tasks, just short bursts, and then build on that momentum.

Some quick… Continue

Added by Noel Cocca on February 16, 2009 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Going International

My job site www.nuclearcareersonline.com needs to go international. I am worried about getting jobseekers from all around the world, because in the nuclear business security clearance makes it necessary for applicants to be from specific countries to be acceptable. I can see how I can get a country of residence from a jobseeker, but I am not sure how to structure the site to make it attractive to a wide range of countries. Please can anyone help?

John UK

Added by John Sadler on February 16, 2009 at 1:33pm — No Comments

Jobseekers aren't happy anywhere - so why torque them off even more?

When the NSA says that that personal instability caused by this greedy recession had become the biggest security threat facing the US, you know that employment is a really big issue. Read this article then ask yourself how you interact with jobseekers...

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Are you an old school soldier who believes command and control is your strategic response?

Are you the used car… Continue

Added by Steve Levy on February 15, 2009 at 12:11pm — No Comments

I've finally made sense of "The Apprentice!"

So you're over Agency work.. over the sales? Over the cold calls? over the rejection? over the financial expectations? the stats? the KPI's? the managers looking over your shoulder? The feeling that no-one wants to talk to you? You've just got to get out of sales! I know the feeling. You think... I know Recruitment, I'll go into Internal Recruitment, or try to move up to HR (I hate that thought, UP to HR.... Seriously?, but apparently it… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on February 15, 2009 at 9:25am — No Comments

Welch's recruiting philosophy

When life gives you lemons make grape juice then watch and listen to others wonder how you did it.

The problem with challenging times is inclination to do what others are doing - but then you have the situation where you're simply picking apples at the same orchard as everyone else. The only thing you can find are partially eaten apples and worms.

Al's gonna hate me for saying this but toss out Monster for a week - heck, no job boards at all - and… Continue

Added by Steve Levy on February 15, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

SEATTLE - SHADOWING OPPORTUNITY FOR BRAZILIAN PROFESSIONAL

I am from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil and I’m looking for an opportunity to exchange experiences (shadowing) with American Company specialized in Recruitment & Selection and/or Human Capital Consultancy, during my study trip on March 09th to 27th in Seattle.

I have more than 20 years of experience in the Human Capital Area. Since 2003 to Current, as Franchise Dealer of RHBRASIL (www.rhbrasil.com.br) - 5th greatest Brazilian company for services in outsourcing activities and Recruitment… Continue

Added by MARIA BIA APARECIDA HENRIQUE on February 14, 2009 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Advertising Your Videos

Affiliate programs are marketing tools used by vendor sites such

as amazon.com. Basically, you need to sign-up for the program

and they will give you an affiliate ID number. You will receive

instructions on how to create links to their website from your

own website or written article. You can even create links to

specific products on their website. When a person clicks on the

link you made, the vendor site takes note of the reference

number and your ID number. If the… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Affiliate SEO Tricks...

The majority of the world’s working population perform their jobs

in offices and most of the world’s working population do not

like their jobs because, well, who wants to work? So, if you

don’t like to work but have to work anyway, why stick yourself

into a job with low pay? The best solution would be to find a

high-paying job, work hard and then start your own business if

you can. The problem is, even with a high paying job, you can’t

earn enough money to start a… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:21am — 1 Comment

Direct Advantages of Email Marketing

Email marketing is a wonderful way to reach large amounts of

customers in a short amount of time. This is a very inexpensive

marketing method that is effective. It will result in getting

more traffic to your website thus generating more sales. Email

marketing can be used by any type of business regardless of the

products or services they have to offer.

One huge advantage of email marketing is it can be effective for

both large and small businesses. When it comes… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

Easy Brainstorming

Are you an article writer? If so, how do you write your

articles? Do you brainstorm? If not, you may want to think

about doing so. After a close examination, you will see exactly

how brainstorming can help you, when it comes to writing

articles.

Before examining the benefit of using brainstorming to write

articles, it is important that you first understand exactly what

brainstorming is. Brainstorming is a technique that is used in

many different… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Post Regularly Because...

Keeping people interested in your blog, whether it is a business

or personal blog, is key to attracting a lot of regular

visitors. Many blogs have died because people have just lost

interest. The main reason for the lack of interest is simply a

lack of posts by the blogger. Regular, frequent posting, which

will boost your blog’s ranking in search engines, is essential

to the survival of any blog.

You might be asking yourself, what is frequent posting?… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:17am — 3 Comments

Affiliate Traffic Tricks

With affiliate programs, you can easily sell products without

even having to have the product in your hand. As nice as it

sounds, you still need to have you own website; it is a

requirement for many affiliate programs. Having a website is

ideal, but to really make money with affiliate programs, you

need to have a website that receives a relatively high amount of

traffic. If you would like to increase the amount of traffic

that your website sees, you should… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:16am — No Comments

7 Turbo Writing Tips...

Are you an article writer or an e-book writer? If so, how long

does it take you to write? Do you wish that you could write

quicker, but without having to compromise the quality of your

work? If so, you can. There are a number of different methods

that you can use to write quicker, while keeping the quality of

your work the same or even improving it. Just a few of these

methods, seven to be exact, are outlined below.

(1) Comfort – If you would like to… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:15am — No Comments

Info On Ad Blocks

Are you tired of the continuous stream of ads coming your way

every time you search the internet for something? If so, then

you may be interested in learning more about the various Ad

Blocks that will prevent this from happening. Your computer will

also run faster without all of those ads and you will have more

privacy regarding where you go on the internet. Most Ad Blocks

work by blocking out the host files. Others work by using a list

of host names. You can… Continue

Added by David Williamson on February 14, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

Free Career Directory

Hello Fellow Recruiters,

I invite you all to submit your recruiting websites and blogs to my free Career Directory at Career List We all know how important building one way back links are for increasing page rank and ultimately increasing search engine placement. Please let me know if you think I should add additional categories or subcategories. Of course there is a category for Recruiting Firms :-)

Added by Dan on February 13, 2009 at 11:50pm — No Comments