In the past it seems that most of the time Recruiting and HR have been separate entities with vastly different goals. Now that companies are streamlining departments and cross training employees, I am finding more and more instances where Recruiting and HR are being combined into one department with a joint function. Even in our company, the two outsourced divisions of RPO and HRO have now been merged to form just one Managed Services…

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As a National Sales Executive Search Firm, Paramount Recruiting Partners, LLC is no stranger to networking. Even so, there was one area where they could use an increased presence: online social networking communities.On the heels of launching their corporate blog …

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On the Radar: Monday, February 4th, 2008

On the heels of last week's report that Monster's North American modest growth of 3% was in sharp contrast to international growth of 59%...

US RECRUITING website Monster has said that it plans to acquire in midyear 2008 the remaining 55 per cent stake in ChinaHR that it doesn't already…

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And here we go again with a new month and this week's round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives posted on Recruiting.com...



Browse the archives of "That was the week that was..."…

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At last a new project has finally came to fruition !

In the corridors of power ( i.e outside my office door !) , there had been discussion of opening a new division of my recruitment business , and finally it happened.

I have teamed up with a fellow colleague of mine ( ex creative director @ Barkers Advertising) , to add to our portfolio a Recruitment Advertising Agency.

To top it all off , we have won a contract with The Scottish Qualifications Authority (…

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On the Radar: Friday, February 1st, 2008

Compliments of AIRS:

During 2008, the directory will be distributed free of charge to recruiting professionals from 100 percent of the Fortune 500, in every major industry, including the 250 largest U.S. hospitals and 150 largest federal agencies. Indexed by vertical industries, the directory is available in print or can be accessed online in a searchable…

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10 Emailing Rules When Communicating for Business

http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2008/02/10-emailing-rules-when-communicating.html

With the United States unemployment rate being at an all time high of 5.0 as of December 2007, job seekers can not only become desperate, but vulnerable to online scammers. These scammers use a time like this to their advantage and

can take job seekers for a disastrous ride including stealing your

identity, money from your account, and sending you tons of spam email

containing more notorious scams.



First things first:…

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Comsys has some exciting new job opportunities that I wanted to share with you and your network. We are currently seeking candidates for the following positions:

Senior Level Help Desk – St. Louis MO…

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By Richard Becker









Forget Facebook and other online advertising models for a minute. Datran Media released a study that says direct-to-consumer e-mail spam works.





More than 82 percent of the marketers surveyed indicated that they plan to increase e-mail marketing this year. That’s a whole lot of e-mails.





Why? As much as everybody complains about e-mail advertising, it seems to work. The… Continue

There is only one television event each year that can hold people’s attention through commercials. In other words, there will be no use of the DVR and you won’t hear anywhere yell for you to “fast-forward” past the paid ads.

Of course, I’m referring to the Super Bowl and I’m sure this is all true simply because the ads can sometimes be more entertaining than the game itself.

The NFL’s title game is famous for being the most watched TV event of the year. With 80-90 million…

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MONKEY ORGANISATIONS

An organization is like a tree full of Monkeys, all on different levels, some climbing up, some going down as none is satisfied with his and others position and control on the branches of the tree, as these, branches of the tree, are their property. The monkeys at the bottom look up and see nothing but A**holes. All the time, the monkeys on the top will get the fruits first and most of the time they will eventually produce SHIT for all the…

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