​ In the many buckets that fill up the Human Resources world, it is argued that hiring can be one of the toughest/ most aggravating.

You have to schedule interviews, coordinate the internal interview process, go through the selection process, perform all pre-employment onboarding and offer a position.And even after all that there is never…

The American Medical Association recently released some frightening statistics about the financial impact of ICD-10 implementation, which predicts the transition to the new coding system will be significantly more costly…

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report presenting mixed reviews for President Obama’s key initiative of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. On the positive side, the report stated that 16,500,000…

Healthy bodies gain their strength and stamina through a balanced intake of nutrients, exercise, and sleep. Nutritionists have raised our awareness of physical health by focusing our attention on what we ingest and do each day, often in the context of Minimum Daily Requirements. MDR’s make the achievement of healthy living easier by allowing us to manage this one day at a time.

The corporate body also requires a balanced intake of nutrients in order…

As someone who has been on both the agency and corporate side of recruiting, I firmly believe every recruiter should start in the agency world. The agency world is a trial-by-fire environment; you make your calls, send your emails and earn your placements or you're fired. It is a fast paced, high stress, micromanaged environment. I have nothing but respect for people who are life long agency recruiters.…

I interviewed Dr. Tracey Wilen, the author of "Employed for Life: 21st Century Career Trends" in this episode of "The Jim Stroud Show." We discussed the world of work from a 21st century perspective and how much has changed from the days of the baby boomers, how new generations…

A few of us non-traditional, mold-breaker, non-conformist, square pegs in a land of round holes occasionally jokingly refer to ourselves as unemployable. And, in certain ways that isn’t far from accurate.

If we look throughout history we find plenty of well-known business and leadership success stories that wouldn’t have been possible if those responsible didn’t push…

The reason this post on THE ROLE OF PARENTHESES IN BOOLEAN SEARCHES is so amazing is that Hasan Mirza wrote the identical post that I did on my own website back in 1990.   Shally Steckerl at the time identified me as the author and published it on his Arbita website at the time, and Shally did a much better job than I in putting it into a nicer format.  For at least the last 6 years Hasan Mirza continues to publish as his own the exact same content.  Truly amazing!  John…

If you have clients who have 1099 independent contractors (ICs), you will want to make sure they are aware of the government's latest initiative to crackdown on worker misclassification.

While there are situations where paying workers on 1099 is perfectly legal, many employers abuse the classification, labeling workers who should be employees as ICs.  This results in the loss of tax revenue for state and federal government agencies.  The Obama administration has been particularly…

Professional Associations and organizations are a great source of passive candidates.  These groups focus on an industry or a discipline, and allow people with similar interests to network together.  The group’s focus can be technical or functional (G&A).  The larger ones have local chapters throughout the nation.

Functional (G&A) Examples:

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1 Know your requirements viz need, pricing -Read out exactly what requirements are put foreword by HR department and how it can implicate all connected processes in general. Start drawing out use cases which will help you to uncover the real need behind problems.

2 Get educated on its technical aspects.-Once you know your…

One of the hardest things to do as a recruiter is to deliver on expectations. Notice that I didn’t say delivering on promises. Say this out loud: “But you promised!” Did you hear that in a child’s voice punctuated by a mini-tantrum-induced foot stomp? That scenario comes from a common memory that may have…

Since the recruiting environment is constantly evolving as new technologies become available and more widely adopted, we were curious to see what skills or tools are currently being advertised in Recruiter job ads.

What (hard) skills should Recruiters cultivate for their career path?

If you're filling these roles, how hard-to-fill are they likely to be? We…

The previous year had brought about radical changes in the recruiting industry and 2014 is all set to take those changes to a new altitude altogether.

Experts reveal that the face of our careers in 2014 will be determined by the changing world…

If you are hoping to land a job or want to keep your current job, you have to realize that your personal brand will affect a company. A wrong step could leave a company a lot of clean-up—your picture gets placed in the paper for something illegal; you guest post a controversial article; a joke on Twitter gets misinterpreted; etc. For this reason, companies are looking for…

In recent discussions with two quite different clients in Singapore they mentioned that they had each failed to resolve critical hiring needs that had originated well over a year ago.

Firm one had known for some time that they were losing a partner in a strategically vital practice area and would require a replacement more or less immediately to maintain client…

Is it difficult to be accepted in the corporate field if an individual has a career gap? I believe every individual may have had a break in their career for some good reason.Interested in knowing how they got back and what got them motivated to do so. comments plz...

          Business is quite robust so far in 2014.  Record-level business for me, even as a 25-year recruiter, tripling all of last year's revenues within the first 60 days.  I was informed that I have a new offer coming out today, for a candidate I have known and had in my network for at least a decade, finally getting a chance to place him, and he is very excited.  Another candidate for another position also successfully submitted his resignation today, and set his start…

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