I had been regularly working out for almost 22 years until a couple years ago I was humbled by how few pull-ups I could do.

I worked out often but never did pull-ups. I quickly realized I was a beginner in the world of pull-ups and ignorantly thought my thousands of hours inside of gyms and sports meant I was an expert at pull-ups. False.…

Here is the list of the most important career page metrics that will help you evaluate, optimize and improve your career page performance.

Career page metrics for dummies :)

Career page metrics are among the…

You’ve posted the job, looked through resumes and are now ready to interview a group of candidates. This is one of the last chances you’ll get to understand a candidate before having to make a decision to hire them or not. In this blog, we’ll offer six questions that can be asked that will provide greater detail into an applicant’s interest in the company and the…

Struggling to find new developer candidates?  Like many of you, I think about all of the possible avenues where we might harvest great and new talent. 

Being a contract developer in the digital solutions world I only did freelance work as I wanted to have a career outside of just developing.  Don't get me wrong I LOVE to develop but my true passion is Talent Sourcing. …

Looking for a new job isn’t the easiest task at the best of times. But looking for a new job while you are still in your current one is even more difficult. Getting the time to find a new role is hard. You may find yourself having a sneaky peep at your emails on your lunch break or you could be stepping out of the office to take a phone interview…

Unless you live close enough to work to walk, your commute is an investment of time and money. If public transit is available, it’s usually the least expensive option. It’s also better on your nerves than fighting rush hour traffic.

Not all of us have that option. When work requires you to spend a significant amount of time behind the wheel, it’s important to…

Some people are fascinated by insurance. There are many people who crave careers that are rewarding and interesting, too. If you’re part of both of those categories, then you may be a good fit for a job as an insurance agent. People who want to grow into dependable and capable insurance agents can take a number of effective paths.

Make Sure You Have the Appropriate…

Check out these 5 great creative ideas that will make your company career page stand out!

How to make your career page stand out?

If you want to…

Snipplr lets your store and share all of your commonly used pieces of code and HTML with other programmers and designers. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true…

If you’re preparing for a job interview, it’s important to put your best foot forward. For many people, this can be a very challenging endeavor because of nervousness. Even though a job interview can seem intimidating, there is one major way you can appear effortless confident. If you dress to impress, this can speak loudly before you even open your mouth. Consider…

In my consulting business over the past year I have been contacted by a growing number of staffing firms and independent recruiters who are looking to launch their own job board. The launch of Google for Jobs and Facebook getting into our space has surely been the catalyst behind these calls. But there are other reasons too.…

Recruitment is a big game. Just like any game, where different individuals from different groups are fighting each other to grab a piece of place under the sun, recruitments make a company survive. Companies are improving every bit of their own spaces and people to attract candidates. No wonder, employee experience, candidate experience, ergonomics, and culture rank high for these companies and all these big terms ranked big time last year. They are going to remain on the top this year…

Landing a good oil and gas job requires standing out from the competition of oil and gas industry professionals. The primary aspects that help you win a new role are your CV, a good cover letter, and then your interview skills. A cover letter can…

Flexible working comes in all shapes and sizes. From job sharing and remote working to flexi-time and compressed hours, flexible working means that employees have a say in how, when and where they work. With the opportunity to work flexibly now one of the top considerations for job-hunters …

As you must have realized that Human Resources department is a critical department for an organization. Though it was easier earlier to push an HR department in the background, when making some important decisions, it has, over the years, become increasingly difficult to side track it. Especially, when there has been so much emphasis on people management or rather talent management.

Managing people has always been and would always be the primary function of an HR department. However,…

Work culture is like personality of an organisation. How would people describe the work environment is determined by the work culture that is in place. Companies invest a lot in developing people friendly environment. Everyone knows about Google; how they pamper their folks.

But creating a viable work culture in a bootstrapped start-up is not only difficult but also consumes a lot of management bandwidth, which is hard to come by. And on top of that, if the start-up comprises mostly…