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More, more, more. Every day dear LinkedIn, come a new batch of fake profiles, fake profiles attached to “companies” (like GreyCampus). Why? Likely culling our private information and selling it to other marketers.

Your response? Crickets.

If you need…

Everyone is talking about big data but there aren't enough people talking about how you might actually use that data for anything useful. Slap all the numbers you want in a PowerPoint deck - if it doesn't add up to more money or making your job easier, who cares?

So while the rest of the “thought leaders” are just trying to define big data, we want to share the…

59% of HR professionals feel that retaining and rewarding the best employees is going to be the biggest challenge faced by human resources over the next ten years, according to research from the Society of Human Resource…

While the history on your resume is impressive, that’s not all it takes to get the job. Soft skills – truly the foundational job requirements – aren’t skills everyone has. Employers can teach the hard skills, technical and job-specific abilities, but they can’t teach soft skills. Recruiters and hiring managers are on the lookout for these during the interview. Today’s…

Noticed a reduction in your open and click through rates for emails sent over the last year? When Google rolled out changes to the way emails were filtered recruitment professionals with a large number of Gmail recipients noticed a significant drop off.

The introduction of category tabs and automatic content filtering sorts users emails into areas three areas; Primary, Social and Promotions. If you are a Gmail user the new filtering system is great for hiding all of…

When hiring the leader of any organization, such as a CEO, one of the desired personality traits that comes up time and time again is “charismatic.” People say that they want a dynamic leader, who can inspire and lead the masses.

But does charisma really lead to success? Is having a dominant personality that others instinctively follow necessarily a good thing?

Jim Collins and his team spent five years indirectly researching what makes a great leader…

5 Reasons You’re Not Hired Yet

Looking for a new job or a career change is exciting but certainly challenging in these economic times. Many applicants submit their resumes to a variety of positions and never hear from any of the companies. This can be dispiriting, but don’t let it get to you. Here are five common reasons you are not getting interviews and job offers:

1.       Your resume is unprofessional. Printing a resume on pink, scented paper is…

How to Get Work as an Accountant…

Buying a microphone is one of the most important steps you will take in setting up your recording studio at home. With a lot of different kinds of microphones to choose from, how do you know what to buy? In getting the best microphone for you, there are a lot of things to take into account; t’s not just about the style or the cheapest one out there. So to help you in identifying what microphone to buy, here are a few things you need to consider.…

The disturbed denial of service aka DDoS is actually rather common when it comes to computers and problems. Although you might not know it you may have actually faced this particular problem before. Because of the fact that you did not know exactly what it was you paid a hefty sum in order to have your computer repaired although it might have not needed that much of a pairing.

Determine what your problem is

In order for you to learn exactly…

Recently, I had a flash back to the '80s and Tina Turner's song - "What's Love Got to Do With It?", which I found playing on the radio one day while driving.  Appropriate because it is Valentine's Day this week.  As I listened I got a clue into a theme which plays out every day, 365 days a year, not just in February in Staffing/HR Departments across the world.  The concept…

Creating an online presence is not an easy task now as against earlier when recruiting was still doing things the traditional way. With recruiting now going online it is actually that important, especially for the recruiters and the ones on the receiving ends i.e. job seekers.

With social media dominating all most all aspects of recruitment and branding due to its efficiency and being cost effective. Everyone we know apart from recruiters and companies is on social media platforms.…

Graduates usually think that the papers they have once they leave college will catapult them in securing good jobs in the industry, but this is not always the case. The job market today is increasingly…

A couple of years ago, Facebook partnered with the U.S. Department of Labor and eventually unveiled its own job board.

Trend watching recruiters took notice and companies like Work4Labs, BranchOut and others now actively use and promote the…

Moving to electronic employee files creates a number of efficiencies for a Human Resources department. Here are some of the benefits you can expect from upgrading.

Storing and managing your employee files in a traditional, paper format can really suck a lot of productivity out of your Human Resources department. Files are easily lost or…

Now that we’re into 2015, we thought we’d compare how demand in the beginning of this year trended compared to the same time last year. We reviewed the top 50 industries with the most demand to see which ones experienced the highest percentage of growth, according to data from WANTED Analytics.

Industries…

Recruiters and job seekers alike see the words “Communication skills” plastered on just about every job ad they read or write, and with good reason. It’s cited as the #1 desired …

The Recruitment Hashtag Calendar, updated for 2015. Maximise your social media reach. Find, connect and engage more candidates.

A great way to find and connect with potential candidates is to get involved in hashtag conversations. HRS have complied a list of active hashtags that will help you connect with both…

Hi there! I am writing this article in order to give you some tips if you need to share an apartment with somebody you have not known before. I, as a student at the University of Charleston, found out an apartment to share from a list of apartments Charleston WV along with a university fellow who used to work at the University. We followed some strategies to have a friendly atmosphere in our apartment and to keep things working…

Owing to some very sloppy programming, by a rather amateurish Ruby coder, I was able to exploit a vulnerability in www.recruiterspam.com and determine the number of actual email addresses that received claimed 'spam' sent by recruiters. As far as I can tell, the number is 460, although possibly it is as low as 57 people using multiple "spam-trap" addresses, which is an illegal and deceptive practice recently ruled by the Courts to be…