February 2009 Blog Posts (293)

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

Big Valentine Sins

Are you kidding me? An I-O -U??

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 13, 2009 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Here are just a few ways to use Facebook as a tool in your job search (for those looking for a job)

http://web.me.com/hydra9/Resume/Using_Facebook_to_find_work.html

(This is something I wrote up for a friend that I found out lost his job via his Facebook status...)

Here are just a few ways to use Facebook as a tool in your job search

1.

1)Sync your Twitter feed with your Facebook status. Then use Tiny URL to embed your resume in your status. If you are not too web savvy then post your resume on Resumebucket. Almost every day I see a status about… Continue

Added by Marcus Ronaldi on February 13, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Rookie Mistake

So, I made a rookie mistake this week. I have a candidate that I have become friendly with and we talk and goof around through e-mail a lot. I set up an interview for him this past week and after it was over he e-mailed me and told me the interview was lame and the interviewer wasn't exactly a rocket scientist. My candidate is a high-level risk modeler and analyst and this company is smaller and I guess still immature as young capital companies go. Anyhow, after I received his feedback I… Continue

Added by See_Jane_Recruit on February 13, 2009 at 1:34pm — 3 Comments

Microsoft nails it with recruiter profiles on careers site

I've always been a fan of Microsoft's online recruitment efforts, and their latest addition is actually something I've suggested before: recruiter profiles on your jobs site. Michael Marlatt, are you reading this?

Take a look:

A nice mug shot, division within Microsoft he… Continue

Added by ryanchartrand on February 13, 2009 at 1:30pm — 25 Comments

13 Facts About Friday the 13th

If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year.

The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware who has studied the number 13 for more than 20 years.… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 13, 2009 at 12:41pm — No Comments

I Passed my Certification for the PIAV Assessment!!!

I have spent over a year working with and getting trained on several assessments produced by Target Training International. Recently, I have started studying for the certification exams for the DISC and the Personal Interest, Attitudes and Values (PIAV) assessments. Wednesday night I took the exam for the PIAV and found out the next day that I passed!

This exam was quite brutal even for someone who has a background in industrial-organizational psychology. When I first opened the link… Continue

Added by Stephanie Marberry, Ph.D. on February 13, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Creating a Positive Candidate Recruiter User Experience

I have been thinking about many things and experiencing “Web 2.0 overload” in my attempts to secure a new position and get my own enterprise off the ground. While some of what I am going to discuss here is obvious, I feel compelled to write about it.

There was an excellent discussion on RecruitingBlogs.com started by Jennifer LaVigne entitled “Cold calling and your best pick up line.” There were insightful comments from every smart person that participated in the discussion. What… Continue

Added by Dave Graziano on February 13, 2009 at 11:44am — 15 Comments

The Client Side - Pitchers and Catchers Report

Today is the day that Pitchers and Catchers report to spring training. One of the Great Days for baseball fans. This has been an exciting day for me for most of my life. I love baseball and even with all the problems the sport has had in recent years, it's still the greatest game to me. I love the strategy of the game and see some great parallels with our business.

For one thing, baseball is situational. There's no time clock so strategy is centered around situations, circumstances… Continue

Added by Todd Kmiec on February 13, 2009 at 11:41am — 1 Comment