March 2012 Blog Posts (207)

Stay Employable, Up-skill.

In life you continue learning new skills and there is always something you can learn to make an everyday life task simpler/easier, so why not transfer this in to your professional life. As we all work in ever changing markets and the competition for jobs is continually heating up, most people ask themselves what can they do to stay relevant and how can they get that new job or pay rise.…

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Added by Lipton Fleming on March 20, 2012 at 6:16am — No Comments

An Employer Of Choice - These Are The 10 Commandments That Set The Great Apart

Within our current economic outlook, there are those companies, including Staffing Companies, which have forgotten what it means to be an employer of choice.  These days, some managers act as though the employee is a widget, a piece of machinery, whose "intellectual property" is a company asset, and whose very existence is to drive the profit.  Fair enough.  But as the…

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Added by Mike Rasmussen on March 20, 2012 at 3:30am — No Comments

“MOST”-Part 4!!! Getting the “MOST” out of yourself, Speed!!

“MOST”-Part 4!!!

Getting the “MOST” out of yourself,

Speed!!

 

So this is part #4, pillar 3 on the “MOST” technique.

 

Pillar 3 Speed, not just fast but warped speed fast, the ability to perform at warped speed is essential to the pillars.

 

So this is a biggy, speed can be god given, or gained over time and effort or both. For our purposes we…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on March 19, 2012 at 6:13pm — No Comments

A quick guide to interviewing

I often get asked for some quick and easy advice on ‘how to interview’ by clients or professional connections that do not have a lot of experience with the process. While I do have a system that I use, I should be clear in saying that there is not one perfect approach nor is there a clear industry standard. I believe that the key is to be organized and to put yourself in a position to make useful comparisons so you can come away the information that you need.

Everyone understands that…

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Added by Mark Nelson on March 19, 2012 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Job Growth and Business Conditions

If you’ve been in recruiting for the last 10 years or 20 years, the chart below will be real interesting.  You should see a tremendous correlation between the levels of job growth per year and how business was during that period.  The chart is in hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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The great take away here is not that job growth is good for business.  We all know that.  But look how big the numbers were in the 90s.  Check out the slow down when the tech bubble burst in…

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Added by Todd Kmiec on March 19, 2012 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Can You Stand Out from the Crowd at Work?

Whether working for a small, mid-size or large business, you know like everyone else at the office that you need to stand out from the rest and not in a negative manner.



Each and every day you set foot in the office or telecommute from your residence, be it a small business start-up or a company that has been around for some time, how do you go about making sure that the boss notices you?



Having worked for several companies now over a 23-year span, I have always gone into a…

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Added by Dave Thomas on March 19, 2012 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Sales Brings ‘Em In, Service Keeps ‘Em In

The high cost of client acquisition necessitates that the service side of your business do outstanding work not just in delivery, but in retaining and expanding accounts. When the service team takes the lead in keeping and growing current customers, sales is given the freedom to add more new business at brand new clients. Companies that do this grow faster as they retain their core customers while enjoying an influx of new business at new and existing accounts.

In almost every case…

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Added by Scott Wintrip on March 19, 2012 at 11:11am — No Comments

The system is not perfect

Some of my customers, who are jobseekers, for the most part think recruiters—internal and third-party alike—are unfair and the reason for their failure to get a job. They think recruiters are only concerned with two things: 1) determining if my customers meet 10 out of 10 requirements and 2) want them to work for peanuts. I know this is not necessarily true, I know that recruiters have a job to do, which is to find what the employer wants. This is how recruiters get paid.

I’ve read…

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Added by Bob McIntosh on March 19, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

Professional Organizations Boost Job Search Success

Groucho Marx once famously quipped, "I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member." However, joining organizations in your chosen career with like-minded professionals is exactly what is needed to advance your career and jumpstart your job search. Professional associations provide invaluable networking opportunities and the chance to broaden your horizons. Although it costs money to join, usually an annual fee of about $100.00, it’s well worth it. Membership does… Continue

Added by Patrick Richard on March 18, 2012 at 9:57pm — No Comments

3 costly mistakes jobseekers make on cover letters

What’s more important – having a good CV or a good cover letter…? The answer? Both! Cover letters are just as important as CVs because a good cover letter gets your CV through the door and a good CV then goes on to qualify you for an interview!

If you know anything about my background, you’ll know I fell into CV writing, cover letters and so on by accident while working in the media as the assistant editor of a magazine. Back then I had to recruit people (as well as everything else)…

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Added by Mildred Talabi on March 17, 2012 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Why jobseekers need to show interest in Pinterest…

Unless you’ve had your head firmly stuck in the sand over the past three months or so, you would have noticed that everyone is going on about the latest social network that is set to “take the world by storm”. We’re not talking about Facebook, Twitter, and no, not even the still relatively new Google Plus – the latest boy/girl wonder site in question is none other than Pinterest.…

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Added by Mildred Talabi on March 17, 2012 at 2:55pm — No Comments

5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 3.10.12 to 3.16.12

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about sources of hire, talent matters, social recruiting, job creation & destruction, HR influencers and candidate experience.

 

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular…

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Added by Chris Brablc on March 16, 2012 at 10:39am — No Comments

National Unemployment Rate is misleading for the West

In September 2007 Canada reached the lowest employment rate in over the last 35 years at 5.9%.  By mid-year 2009 the national unemployment figure rose to over 8.5%.  To put this in perspective, every percentage point change is approximately 180,000 people who no longer have a position.  Today the national rate is 7.4%, lower than the national average for the last 36 years (8.5%) – and that should encourage us, however it is not because the unemployment rate is actually trending in the wrong…

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Added by Darryl Moore on March 16, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Jobseeker Advice - Just Be Yourself, You Are Your Biggest Asset

With psychometric assessment (aka psych testing) steadily establishing itself as one of the most reliable selection weapons in a HR professional’s arsenal, organisations around the country are implementing them as a standard part of their selection process, especially in bulk recruitment exercises like graduate intakes and vacation programs. 

Unfortunately, the growing popularity of psychometric testing has also led to the introduction of some ‘undesirable…

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Added by Salih Mujcic on March 15, 2012 at 7:25pm — No Comments

Find Top Notch Job Candidates

Why do companies continue to waste money on hiring talent over and over again? Isn’t doing something over and over again the definition of insanity? The reason this happens is the same reason so many companies and people still work 9 to 5 in an office at a cube. It’s because that’s the way everyone has done it for so long. Finding talent in the market we all are facing needs to be much more defined and strategic. The employer needs to look at each individual and determine if they are someone…

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Added by Patrick Richard on March 15, 2012 at 5:19pm — No Comments

CEOs & Other Healthcare Executive See Easy Money In Hospital System

CEOs & Other Healthcare Executive See Easy Money In Hospital System

In this age of public scrutiny about financial wrongdoings and at a time when Occupy Wall Street sends a strong message to corporations about greed there is a segment of the financial sector that still manages to break the rules day after day, healthcare. In a day and age when a piece of newsworthy material can make it from Beijing, China to Los Angeles, CA in a viral second the headlines are full…

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Added by Steven Jacobs on March 15, 2012 at 4:11pm — No Comments

IT Hiring Increases, Hits New Record

The Information Technology industry added 13,300 jobs in January, bringing the total number of IT jobs in the U.S. to an all-time high of 4.1 million, according to Staffing Industry Analysts.

Citing information from TechServe Alliance's index of IT Jobs, the article states that IT employment is at its highest…

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Added by Debbie Fledderjohann on March 15, 2012 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Recruiters...shhhhh here comes the secret...

What if I was to tell you I’ve been holding back? No really...  I’ve been keeping secrets from you…

My last 2 blogs covered such ground breaking and thought provoking issues as whether we should wear ties, or carry compendiums in the recruitment workplace.  Some of you saw it for the light hearted entertainment it was supposed to be, whilst others wanted me burned at the stake – or banished to the Victorian equivalent of Siberia (in my estimations that location would be Orbost,…

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Added by Craig Watson on March 15, 2012 at 1:15pm — 4 Comments

The Surprising Truth about Spring Cleaning



Traditionally, spring is the time to sweep out the dark corners that were neglected over the winter, open up a window or two, shake out the rugs and perform all of those once-a-year cleaning rituals.

That’s in your physical space.

And with everything feeling so fresh and new, the spring cleaning frenzy may even spill out of your home and into the confines of your…

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Added by Jessica Lunk on March 15, 2012 at 12:21pm — No Comments

3 Tenets of Excellent Customer Service in #HRTech

In this week’s #HRTechChat, we discussed what it meant to provide great customer service in the HR Technology space.  From real world examples of customer service excellence to how to create innovations that provide value to customers, there was a lot of great discussion and sound-bytes on the topic.

 

The question that inspired this post, however, was a simple…

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Added by Chris Brablc on March 15, 2012 at 12:18pm — No Comments

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