February 2015 Blog Posts (190)

#FirstInHR: How to Attract Candidates to Your Small Business

Your small business is growing, and there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done yourself. Hard as it is, you learn to loosen the reins and add an extra set of hands and a mind or two. These new employees bring fresh ideas to the table. The only problem, you haven’t hired them yet. It is a different playing field attracting candidates to your small business. Daily…

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Added by Raj Sheth on February 5, 2015 at 10:18am — No Comments

How to find contract resources in IT?

It's tough to hire resources for contract assignments.Here i would like to share some of my thoughts. 

People who have done higher studies and returned from abroad

People who returned from abroad after working for some time. They possess good domain experience.

People have taken break for Family reasons – pregnancy, raising kids etc. In just matter of time.. they will come back and do well on the job.

Failed Entrepreneurs – Can create win-win…

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Added by upendar ramini on February 5, 2015 at 1:55am — No Comments

The Key Ways I Differentiate Myself as a Recruiter

When I first started my recruiting career I wasn't even on the ground floor; the reality was I didn't have keys to the building.  My knowledge of SAP software was nonexistent and I knew very little about full lifecycle recruiting.  However, I had…
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Added by Brian VanDerveer on February 4, 2015 at 9:00pm — 5 Comments

Using SMS to be One of Your Recruiting Tools

Now your company can recruit faster and more efficiently thanks to SMS.

In the past, recruiters had to be part time headhunters, part time spies, sneaking around in pubs and water closets, hoping for just a few moments of privacy with job candidates. So how is SMS changing the playing field? 

Here's why SMS is spot on as a recruitment…

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Added by Dave on February 4, 2015 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

The Power of Effective Messaging in Social Recruiting

Last week we attended the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in San Francisco, where we were among top influencers that shared their insights and techniques on building out social strategies. One of the key takeaways from this two-day event was understanding effective…

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Added by Casey Marshall on February 4, 2015 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

4 Ways To Ensure You Are Career Fit

 

Television, radio, print and all over the internet you are given advice, opinions, tactics and best strategies on how to be healthy, but have you used any of those practices to test your career fitness.  Just as we prepare our bodies to compete or get into better shape we should also make sure you are strong and enduring in your career. If you have not already began…

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Added by Benae Lambright on February 4, 2015 at 3:23pm — No Comments

The Skill No One is Talking About...Yet

Tech, interpersonal communication, and teamwork skills are just some of the prerequisites for many jobs. But there are other attributes that should deem a candidate worthy of further consideration. The paramount trait of these unspoken skills is creativity. It’s more than the chair you made… it’s how you made it.…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on February 4, 2015 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

5 Things to do While Still in College to Make Yourself More Employable

It is estimated that about 400,000 American college graduates are currently working in jobs that are unrelated to their major fields of study, and many of them are grossly under-employed. How did this happen? A college degree was always supposed to be the ticket to a great career! Unfortunately, the…

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Added by Andy Preisler on February 4, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

The President's Sick Leave Proposal: Good for People, Good For Business

Sometimes employees get sick. Sometimes employees have babies. Sometimes employees' babies get sick. Such illnesses, life events and family crises are an inevitable part of adulthood. So why do 43 million Americans working in the private sector still lack the paid time off necessary to deal with them?

That's a question the Obama administration has mulled since a working families summit in June. And the president recently …

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Added by Kim Peters on February 3, 2015 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Find the Right App for the Recruiting Process

Recruiting the right talent is certainly not an exact science.

In many cases, you will hit the nail on the head, delivering the right guy or gal for the position. Other times, however, you will go back and review the process to see where things might have gone wrong.

For many recruiters, any tools that can help make this process more defined and less…

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Added by Dave on February 3, 2015 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Geeking Out Over Analytics

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The long-standing stereotype of the HR professional has been that he or she is more a ‘people person’ than a ‘numbers person,’ one who shies away from hard data, science and math. While this is somewhat understandable given that ‘human’ is embedded within the very job title itself, it is by long stretches an unfair…

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Added by Jed Hamilton on February 3, 2015 at 12:18pm — 1 Comment

How do you Prevent The 'Job Exodus Time Bomb'?

Research carried out by Investors in People revealed the following:-

  • A 10% rise in employees looking for a move.
  • An increase of 5.85% in employees who believe the job market has improved.
  • A 4% drop in employees who are happy with their current job.

While these figures may not come as a surprise, coupled with this are soaring absenteeism levels, equating to £30 billion per year or 7 days for each employee per year.

Put the two together and…

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Added by Jay Freeborn on February 3, 2015 at 11:30am — No Comments

How to Recruit Like Charlie Townsend

The man in the phone, Charlie Townsend, isn’t your ideal supervisor. He only ever calls his angels – his team – when there is a problem or when he needs something done. On the other hand, there is something recruiters can learn from this mysterious enigmatic man. Charlie knows his angels, he talks with them, but he never sees them face-to-face. Recruiters,…

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Added by Julie Salerno on February 3, 2015 at 11:17am — No Comments

The Recruitment Software Dictionary

Whether you are actively looking for a new system or just want to see how solutions have progressed, the recruitment software dictionary has been created to help clear up some of the technical terms and phrases associated with recruitment software.

Scroll down to check out the Recruitment Software dictionary or download your…

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Added by Mike Robinson on February 3, 2015 at 11:11am — No Comments

TLS Continuum Part 5: Darn it!! Why aren't you listening

Dr. Tony Alessandra, the author of the book “The Platinum Rule” , suggests that the purpose of all businesses is to acquire and maintain customers. So how do we, as Tony suggests, acquire and maintain customers? We do so by listening to the voice of the customer as it relates to how we do business.

 

To begin with let me clarify what we mean by the term customer. Whether it is an internal customer in the…

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Added by Daniel T. Bloom on February 3, 2015 at 11:08am — No Comments

Recruitment Marketing 101

As a marketer in a recruiters world, I clearly have a different perspective on this whole "candidate experience" thing. I'm less worried about getting people in the door and wondering how the hell you even got anyone to apply after those awful reviews. (Do you seriously have dry holiday parties? Forget it.)

The thing is, recruiters don't usually think about reviews and the candidates…

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Added by Katrina Kibben on February 3, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

Campervan Hire Or Motorhome Hire – Which One Is Better?

There are experienced travelers who differ strongly about which motor vehicle rules the road when coming to road trips – motorhome or campervan.  However, it totally depends on your type of trip, how long is the journey and what are your take away from the trip. So let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each vehicle when choosing between a motorhome and a campervan.

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Usability is an important point to ponder, especially if you’re thinking about a motorhome. Motor…

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Added by Geo Msn on February 3, 2015 at 7:30am — No Comments

How to Recognise the best Candidate?

Most Recruiters, while they have all the right resources to assist them in their performance, they still have the most trouble when it comes to hiring candidates for the job. This is a common occurrence that most recruiters face. When it comes to deciding whether the applicant is the right fit for the job, that’s where the trouble arises.

Judging whether the candidate is the right one for the job can be a tedious task for recruiters unlike other job profiles. The job demands patients…

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Added by Sheetal Devarde on February 3, 2015 at 2:55am — No Comments

Learn All The Technical Terms Of The Forex Trading Before Investing The Money

Need of investing money with Forex trading:

With the everyday increase in the currencies of the foreign market, it has become a very common trend among the people to invest money in this market. A lot of people invest the money for the urge of earning profits from the Forex trading market, but because of the ups and the downs in the economy of the country, the foreign exchange market keeps on fluctuating on and off. There are a lot of technical Forex tips that can be used, so…

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Added by Geo Msn on February 3, 2015 at 2:00am — No Comments

How to Find a Job Before It Gets Posted

It’s a fact. Not every available job opportunity is advertised. That can obviously make looking for the perfect role even more difficult however it does provide you with the chance to showcase your networking and investigative skills. Better still, don’t wait for a job opening to apply for it, you may find yourself more successful if you apply for a position before it…

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Added by Amanda Delatycki on February 2, 2015 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

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