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What's your motivation??

I recruit recruiters. During the interview process, one of the most

important things that I look for is what drives them to be great, to be

better than the day before, to graduate from college, to look for a new

job, to enjoy their friends, to workout, to do a cross-word puzzle, to

simply wake up in the morning. It's not a question that I ask during

the interview, because then I'd get some cookie-cutter answer shoved

down my throat and they'd figure out how to… Continue

Added by Kristi Young on June 6, 2007 at 12:48pm — 1 Comment

RecruitingBlogs.com Discussion Group

I started a new group for feedback and suggestions for RecruitingBlogs.com

Added by Slouch on June 6, 2007 at 12:27pm — No Comments

International Staffing Perspectives: Brian Janecek, Brno, Czech Republic

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, JobMachine Inc.

Visit My Blog: http://www.sixdegreesfromdave.com

The war for talent has exposed an ever decreasing technical engineering base within North America, as universities produce fewer engineers than demanded by attrition to sustain today’s technology revolution.

Recruitment has gone global in harnessing the potential of a highly

educated and motivated class of…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on June 6, 2007 at 11:40am — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

On writer's block...

"it used to be that whenever i'd stumble upon an interesting article or blog post about recruiting, i'd immediately blog about it here. but now, it's so darn easy to just send such a page to recruiting.com, that i'm left thinking what am i going to blog about?"

Jason Goldberg, this blog is a changing

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 6, 2007 at 10:51am — No Comments

Standout Jobs Raises $1.4M In Seed Capital

With plans to launch its site this summer, Montreal-based Standout Jobs, Inc. announced that it had raised $1.4M in seed financing from Garage Technology Ventures Canada and angel investor Austin Hill. The start-up

promises to change the face of recruiting with a job site that

leverages social media tools…

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Added by TobyDayton on June 5, 2007 at 6:25pm — 1 Comment

Recruiting Pet Peeves

Here are a list of pet peeves I have while recruiting.

1.Musical voicemail-If I have to hear your demo tape, or how smooth you are, or hear a sermon i usually check out

2. When a candidate applies for the job, the recruiter calls him/her and the applicant acts like they can't be bothered

3. An applicant who leaves me a message with just their first name, no phone number and no reason to call them back

4. Creative email addresses..I once had a guy go off on me…

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Added by Kevin Harry on June 5, 2007 at 4:04pm — 6 Comments

Tomorrow On The Recruiting Animal Show

Tomorrow, Heather Hartmann, Pam Claughton, and Harry Joiner will be on the Recruiting Animal Show to share their insight about recruiting. At least, that is the plan. It’s tough to know for show because the… Continue

Added by Slouch on June 5, 2007 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Sharing and Growing

I received a post to this thred but wasn't able to post it. Please resend - thanks!

Added by Mary Margaret Walker on June 5, 2007 at 10:21am — 1 Comment

Sometimes change brings on new ideas

After years of buying PC's , gadgets, software, and having to update every piece of software I own almost every other day....after multiple glitches, crashes, freezes, processor hogging applications, and mystery error messages..after having to upgrade my PC every 3 years..I have finally bought a Macbook Pro. I have never really used a Mac except once in a blue moon when I would hop on one in a local coffee shop. After playing with it for a few days, I realized not only that I love it but…

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Added by Kevin Harry on June 5, 2007 at 10:14am — 3 Comments

Quote for the Day: Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

On competitive advantage in the war for talent...

"Your challenge, if you want to build long term profitability and competitive advantage is not to engage in an undifferentiated, scorched-earth war for talent. Instead you need to make sure you hire as many talented people who fit your culture as possible, then use your systems, supervisors and your culture to help them become as effective as possible."

Wally Bock,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 5, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments

War for Talent Warms Up Downunder

The Australian newspaper's IT section today has a lead article Pay to continue rising as skill squeeze tightens. The article reports that the tech skills squeeze forced salaries in the IT industry up by 5 % last year.

The article draws on the just-released Ambition Technology Recruitment Market Trends and Salaries Report. That report says salaries overall had jumped 10% on a 12 month basis and contract… Continue

Added by Des Walsh on June 4, 2007 at 11:07pm — 1 Comment

Please Sign In

I'm all about social networking, but will someone please create a

website where I can sign into all of my profiles at once?!?! I had to

create a spreadsheet just to keep up with them all. I came across Ning

and the RecruitingBlogs.com

social network today, and I can't believe I was so out of the loop on

this one! I'm loving the idea, but I swear if I have to create one more

profile I'm going to set my eyelashes on fire...

The End.

I think this… Continue

Added by Kristi Young on June 4, 2007 at 4:00pm — 7 Comments

Recruitment by Attraction

Recruiting with a blog takes courage.

That's the first line in John Sumser's May 29th post titled, Humanizing.

When I added a blog to my recruiting ~~arsenal~~ toolkit back in 2004, I didn't necessarily think it took a great amount of courage. In fact, I felt like I was jumping on the blogging

bandwagon a bit late, assuming I would just be one of thousands of

recruiting-blogs…

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Added by Dennis Smith on June 4, 2007 at 11:48am — 2 Comments

Numerator and Denominator of Cost Per Hire

Measuring an accurate “cost” in the cost per hire (CPH) metric must include three separate elements; direct costs, indirect costs and risk costs.

How you determine these costs and apply the number of hires to the equation will determine whether your metric is worth…

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Added by Holly on June 4, 2007 at 11:33am — No Comments

A Big Hire for TheLadders.com

Congrats To Marc Cenedella and his team at TheLadders.com

Added by Slouch on June 4, 2007 at 11:03am — No Comments

Quote for the Day: Monday, June 4th, 2007

On talent management...

"After this [talent management] conversation most HR people recognize that this is not just plumbing or automation - but something way beyond their span of control. This kind of initiative must be led, supported and driven by Sr. Management. In most cases, what happens next is that there is some more conversation and then the idea dies."

Tom O'Brien,… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on June 4, 2007 at 9:00am — No Comments

An offer is not a transacton, it’s an event - closing great candidates

The WAR for talent is on! Great candidates have lots of choices in terms of where they go to work. We have more clients knocking on our door than we can handle. A client MUST understand how to partner with us to hire the talent they want: How do you, the company differentiate yourself once you’ve identified a great candidate? Some tips I have learned over the years:

Get the hiring manager 100% involved. Hiring managers must…

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Added by Scott Dunlop on June 4, 2007 at 8:56am — No Comments

Web 2.0 Hire in the press

Small quote from my co-founder/partner but hey, it is free press!

Regardless, great article on Web 2.0 recruitment in the valley.

Web 2.0 Hire

Cheers

Christie

Christie Dean-Bower

Added by Christie Bower on June 3, 2007 at 12:24am — No Comments

Monitoring “CPH”– Cost Metrics in Recruiting

Measuring success is critical in recruiting. There are four general types of metrics on which to concentrate – cost, quality, quantity and time .

Possibly the most… Continue

Added by Holly on June 1, 2007 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Why Sumser Made Me Laugh Today

"We see the tip of the iceberg in our own Recruitosphere. The Animal, Cheezhead, Mr. Moustache and a host of other characters signify that our online personalities are not necessarily what our friends and family see. We're all experimenting with the difference between our public and private selves while those distinctions are changing." — John Sumser.

Gee John, that is some pretty funny stuff. I cannot speak for The Animal or Cheezhead, but I don't have an online personality that… Continue

Added by Rich on June 1, 2007 at 2:33pm — No Comments