January 2012 Blog Posts (156)

You Accepted the Position – Beware of the Counter Offer

Expert Recruitment Consultant Discusses the Dangers of Accepting a Counter Offer

 

Numbers demonstrate the employment market is improving.  As a result the people who have jobs are beginning to dip their toes gingerly into the market.  Surveys show that 30% to 60% of employed workers are unhappy in their jobs and are waiting for the employment market to improve.  An expert recruitment consultant warns that some of these people are setting themselves up for…

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Added by Bill Humbert on January 24, 2012 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

How To Source Passive Candidates From the News

How to source passive candidates from the news is the topic of this episode of The Jim Stroud Show. Jim demonstrates how to use the video search engine Blinkx as a way to generate leads for recruiting purposes. Also, Jim Stroud reveals the real name of his video editor and the contest winner who will get the prize! Click here to download the show notes.

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Added by Jim Stroud on January 24, 2012 at 11:20am — No Comments

News From The UK: Evenbase launched with a global strategy

The founder of UK job board Jobsite, Keith Potts  today announced the launch of new digital recruitment group “Evenbase”.  Potts,  takes the helm as Chief Executive Officer of the new business, which sees new responsibilities for key personnel in the team.

This is a bold but logical move to formally combine the complimenting services offered by the companies in the…

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Added by Bill Boorman on January 24, 2012 at 11:16am — No Comments

33,000 Career Experts Can’t Be Wrong(?)

I got an email the other day making the claim that “33,000 recruiters can’t be wrong.” The email wanted me to buy whatever it was that the company was selling (OK, the email didn’t want that. Emails are inanimate objects and don’t actually want anything. But I digress.) The first thought that popped into my head was “just how many recruiters are…

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Added by David Gaspin on January 24, 2012 at 11:07am — 5 Comments

Recruiters: Have you ever been fired by a candidate even though they have accepted the position you worked hard to obtain for them? It happened to me today!

Long story but apparently this individual has asked our client that we do not contact him anymore as he felt too "pressured". However he has accepted the role that we introduced to him and did some very creative "out of the box" thinking in order to help him with his main motivating factor for changing jobs which was to reduce his travel time away from a young family. We were successful in cutting it down from traveling 2 weeks a month to a 3 hour different time zone to never (unless he…

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Added by Stuart Musson on January 24, 2012 at 10:53am — 6 Comments

A simple but effective recruitment auto-response

I was emailing a prospect the other day when I got their auto-responder email they send to candidates. It immediately caught my eye as a simple but effective message. I like the casual tone it sets for potential candidates and and how they encourage you to like them on social media. The flickr account is a nice touch. Every employer should showcase their offices with photos.

So you want…

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Added by Chris Russell on January 24, 2012 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Employees = Your Best Brand Ambassadors

It’s no secret in recruiting, referrals are a major source of quality hires.  And key to referrals are your employees.  While many organizations understand they need to get their employees better involved in their recruitment marketing process, the question is how to do it.

 

When getting started, you need to understand a few things.  First, understand what your main goal is.  Not only should…

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Added by Chris Brablc on January 24, 2012 at 9:40am — No Comments

What If It Mattered How We Treat Candidates

 

Economic challenges are allowing organizations to dodge bullets when it comes to the candidate experience.  But times are changing.  As key talent becomes more difficult to recruit, then brand and reputation matter.  And the candidate experience becomes a more significant influence on those key indicators.

 

In the BtoB (business to business) world, it…

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Added by Marvin Smith on January 24, 2012 at 9:30am — 17 Comments

What do you know?: the rise of skills testing sites

If you hire people, at some point you will have to hire for a position about which you know absolutely nothing.  Perhaps you’re hiring a chief technology officer, but your background is marketing and sales. Or you’re hiring a new accountant, and you only understand coding.

What do you do? Perhaps you turn to friends and colleagues who are more knowledgeable than you about a particular skill set. Or you figure out which certifications a ‘perfect’…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on January 24, 2012 at 9:20am — No Comments

The Art of a First Impression

I read an article a few weeks back that told me it takes 17 times of seeing someone again to diminish the first impression. If this is true than a lot of people need to really refine their day to day appearance; me included. 

It is crazy how powerful a first impression is. Even if…

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Added by Katie on January 23, 2012 at 8:52pm — 2 Comments

Dinosaurs, neanderthals, and stubborn old fossils. You?

This one is for recruiters. Especially recruiters with a couple of years experience, who think they are good. In fact you may think you are pretty damn good!

Well, there is a huge threat facing you. And it’s not social media, or technology or the economy, or RPO, nor the rise of  in-house recruiters.

It’s you.

To be more specific, it’s your attitude. And to be even more precise, it’s your arrogance and complacency. I can’t tell you how many promising…

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Added by Greg Savage on January 23, 2012 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments

It’s Not Over ‘Til It’s Over

Like him or hate, and there is certainly much of both, US Republican Presidential nominee Newt Gingrich proved that persistence pays after winning the South Carolina primary this past Saturday. Considered all but dead, his campaign now has new life as the contest moves to the state of Florida on January 31st.

Regardless of your feelings for the former Speaker of the House, you can learn from his tenacious example. When you sell you must see every no as getting you that much closer to…

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Added by Scott Wintrip on January 23, 2012 at 9:07am — No Comments

I see dead people...................

I became very angry on Friday due to a client advising me that a CV I’d submitted to him had been sent in the day before by a competitor. I was the only recruiter who has spoken to the candidate and briefed him on the role too. The client sent me the competitor email as evidence of submission with the candidate CV attached. The cheeky competitor had deleted the words “Personal Profile” from the CV’s opening paragraph and substituted “Consultant’s Notes”. As, if!



I take the…

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Added by Steve Williams on January 23, 2012 at 4:09am — 16 Comments

Best Embalmers & Best Recruiters Have What In Common?

International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral conference - Photo source: Enchantment (Albums) Guy Kawasaki



Exactly what do the best Embalmers have in common with the best Recruiters?…

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Added by Valentino Martinez on January 22, 2012 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

A QUICK HIRING CHECKLIST

Astute employers observe how changes in the professional labor market can affect their businesses. They take the time to define carefully what kind of employee they need, now and in the future. They avoid legal pitfalls that plague other employers.

They use all the hiring strategies available, formal and informal, to increase their chances for hiring the best workers, while reducing the risk of committing to inferior workers. They use the hiring process itself to begin the integration…

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Added by Cora Mae Lengeman on January 20, 2012 at 6:48pm — No Comments

5 Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 1.21.12 to 1.27.12

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 burning down your HR department, Job Titles for SEO, the best companies to work for, how to build social media talent community and avoiding the Black Hole.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week…

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Added by Chris Brablc on January 20, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

January: Data Management Market Skyrockets and More

January report: The Data Management Software Market Is Surging; Healthcare IT Employment is on the…

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Added by Terry Starr on January 19, 2012 at 10:01pm — 2 Comments

Nobody To Blame - Kodak

I love all of the stories about Kodak today.  Times changed and evolution of digital photography and the end of an Iconic American Brand……..etc….

The hard truth is that management wasn’t smart enough.  They weren’t as good as others they were competing with.  Kodak is a perfect example of a company that was put in a great position but the people running it were not good enough to evolve, to continue to grow.  Is there any doubt that others could have done tons more with…

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Added by Todd Kmiec on January 19, 2012 at 3:11pm — 2 Comments

The True Art of Networking

I consider myself a strong networker…….meaning I give as much or more back to my network than I ever ask for or receive.

I am often asked to conduct networking 101 sessions for corporate HR and recruitment teams and provide one-on-one coaching to business leaders on the art of networking.  The number one rule I always spend the most time speaking about is to never take advantage of your network and never make it a one-sided relationship.  You can’t be selfish when you venture into the…

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Added by Simon Parkin on January 19, 2012 at 12:39pm — No Comments

6 Tips for Decreasing Application Abandonment

An abandoned shopping cart is THE WORST for online retailers.  So close to making a sale, but the customer just didn’t bite.

Maybe the shopper couldn’t find the shipping costs, and decided to skip it. Maybe an item was out of stock when they went to checkout, so they left the site feeling disappointed. Perhaps they had a question, but it was too difficult to contact…

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Added by Jessica Lunk on January 19, 2012 at 12:15pm — 1 Comment

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