February 2008 Blog Posts (152)

something i may do .....i

A recent article I read .

Let's fantasize about what it would be like to take maybe a month off (or, since we are dreaming, maybe even two) just to do succession planning. It would be a time frame when no jobs are assigned, and you have a complete focus on finding candidates for jobs that are not yet open.

At Brown Shoe Company, we have established a program to do this. We call it the "Strategic Month." Each corporate recruiter doing full-cycle…

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Added by tom on February 6, 2008 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Hump Day Humor 2/6

A REAL ESTATE SALESMAN AND HIS BOSS

A Real Estate Salesman had just closed his first deal, only to discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely under water.

“That customer’s going to come back here pretty mad,” he said to his boss. “Should I give him his money back?”

“Money back?” roared the boss. “What kind of a Salesman are you!?! Get out there and sell him a houseboat!”

SOURCE:…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on February 6, 2008 at 12:53pm — 5 Comments

An intro, and The Recruiting Toolbox Blog

Hi - I'm a former corporate recruiting leader from Amazon.com and AT&T Wireless, up in the Seattle area. Since 2002, I've partnered with corporate HR and recruiting leaders to help improve their internal recruiting capabilities. I started Recruitig Toolbox to help organization recruit better. We help with recruiting strategy, processes, systems, tools, metrics, and branding, and build custom, highly rated training for recruiters, recruiting… Continue

Added by John Vlastelica on February 6, 2008 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

RedPrairie WMS Contractor for Memphis, TN

I have a contract position open in Memphis, TN, for a RedPrairie WMS contractor with Oracle 8i, 9i or 10G DB experience and PL/SQL. Please let me know if you have anyone that would be interested in hearing about this position. Thank you.

Linda Winfield, CPC, CTS
Sr.…
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Added by Linda Winfield on February 6, 2008 at 10:19am — No Comments

Podcast 44: Employer Branding Online

The latest born podcast is out now. Digital recruiting news this week: TMP releases an employer branding whitepaper, we interview Tim Elkington (Enhance Media) and Monster’s US index takes a tumble.

All this news, and more, this week on…

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Added by Julian Stopps on February 6, 2008 at 10:15am — 1 Comment

2/6/08 - openings in Houston (perm and contract)

This is a list of my current "hot jobs" open here in the Houston area as of February 6th, 2008. Feel free to contact me directly about these to discuss more in detail.

Kent Sims - Recruiting Supervisor

RSA

kent.sims@rsacorp.com

CONTRACT OPENINGS

Technical Writer with Oil Drilling experience (3 months, possibly longer)

.NET / C# Developer (open ended - long term/perm conversion possible)

CMVC/ClearCase…

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Added by Kent Sims on February 6, 2008 at 9:51am — No Comments

Welcome SixDegrees Friends: "I joined RecruitingBlogs.com, ... Now What?"

By Dave Mendoza, SixDegreesfromDave.com



A hearty welcome to all my friends from my Linkedin Network, SixDegreesfromDave.com who were kind enough to take my suggestion and visit RecruitingBlogs.com today and joined.

I was just mentioning to Jason (”Jay Dee”) Davis that it was…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on February 6, 2008 at 9:19am — 2 Comments

Meet Tiffany Peery, Senior Technical Recruiter at Intel, Part 1

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

(720) 733-2022





Tiffany’s Email

Linkedin Profile

Connect with Tiffany…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on February 6, 2008 at 5:14am — No Comments

3 Simple Ways to turn your Customers into Fans



Video not working? Click here for Adobe Flash…

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Added by Dennis Smith on February 5, 2008 at 10:24pm — No Comments

HireVue Lends A Hand.



I want to say thanks to Mark Newman who is the CEO of HireVue. Mark has stepped up as the first sponsor (hopefully not the last) for a networking party RecruitingBlogs.com is putting on at the MGM February 28th. It will be in a…

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Added by Slouch on February 5, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Free Webcast: Internet Recruiting 2.0 - The Flow of Information

On the Radar: Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

As part of their Talent Acquisition Learning Track, The Human Capital Institute will be producing an hour-long webcast on February 14th, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:00PM ET. I will be presenting Internet Recruiting 2.0 - The Flow of Information. The webcast is sponsored by job search engine…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on February 5, 2008 at 11:12am — No Comments

The problem with relocation

If you ask almost any company about relocating new employees in today’s market they’ll probably tell you that they have no problem doing so, and in the same breath they’ll tell you that their recent experience with relocating candidates has been poor. Meaning that the candidates they been interviewing aren’t interested in moving, chose not to move once the process was complete (i.e. turned down the job), or have been making excessive demands on the…

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Added by bill martineau on February 5, 2008 at 10:53am — No Comments

Creating New Pipeline Techniques

Does anyone have any ideas that they have implemented and found to be successful in sourcing and qualifying candidates for contract opportunities? My focus is IT based jobs any suggestions you may have would be welcomed.

Added by Finny Varghese on February 5, 2008 at 9:42am — 1 Comment

Time Kills All Deals

The Hiring Sense recently pointed me to an excellent Career Journal article - -…

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Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on February 5, 2008 at 8:17am — No Comments

Water Cooler Time

I have learned to make a conscious effort to call colleagues. I call this my “water-cooler time”

http://recruitnik.blogspot.com/2008/02/water-cooler-time.html

Added by Recruitnik on February 5, 2008 at 8:10am — No Comments

Could you recommend someone for: 1) Medicinal Chemistry, 2)InVivo and 3) InVitro - all roles in Bangalore, India???

Hi, and first of all thanks for your time.

Could you recommend someone for:

1) Medicinal Chemistry, 2)InVivo and 3) InVitro - all roles in Bangalore, India???

On behalf of BMS India we are looking for candidates that could very soon fill the following roles:

1) Head of Medicinal Chemistry (International experience is preferable)**

2) Head of InVivo Screening

3) Head of InVitro Biology

This is a great opportunity to build a team at this one-of-a-kind…

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Added by Matias - www.linkedin.com/in/MatiasCazeaux on February 5, 2008 at 7:25am — No Comments

SIX DEGREES: Meet Andrew Banever, CEO of JobTarget, One-Stop JobBoard Posting, Part 2

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

(720) 733-2022




Andrew Banever is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of
JobTarget, a service many recruiters have used without knowing they have…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on February 5, 2008 at 3:26am — 1 Comment

Meet Daniel Harris, Talent Researcher at VeriSign, Part 1

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.







Daniel’s Email

Linkedin Profile

Blog, “Sourcing Talent”

Mobile: (707) 373-6896…

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Added by Dave Mendoza on February 5, 2008 at 3:26am — 1 Comment

Detail on SEO - Join the discussion at Ecruit-seo group

Hi ,



Below you will find some detail on tools I use to track , test & utilise my site positions and readability in the search engines to produce organic search results , hope you find them useful , if you have any of your own , place them on the discussion board as its good to share !



Ranking Reporting Tools



Keep an eye on your search engine rankings across the major and minor search engines. If you see a ranking drop or increase you will…
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Added by tom on February 5, 2008 at 1:59am — 2 Comments

Lots of People Joined Today

Today was a fun day. My wife is in New York with one of my kids so I stayed home from work and looked after the other three.









To start with Dave Mendoza invited about 3000 people to join RecruitingBlogs.com. It’s way more than I have ever invited. As a result, the membership went from about 1050 to 1345 in less than 9 hours.









At one…

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Added by Slouch on February 5, 2008 at 12:51am — 1 Comment

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