April 2008 Blog Posts (243)

Jungle Jargon

By: Inc. Staff January, 2006

All business subcultures have their own way of talking, and recruiters are no different. Here's some slang from the frontlines of the talent wars.

Lift-out n. When an entire team of employees is recruited from a competitor at once: "Good news: We engineered a complete lift-out of ACME Corp.'s programmers."

On-boarding v.… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 25, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Support a Greener Way of Life - Discovery TV to launch on June 4th

Hi,

I just have to say this once. If you care about leaving a beautiful planet for our children, please do what you can to recycle, buy clean/green or recycled products. Work for a clean/green company or more appropriately for this forum - recruit people to work for a clean/green product company. Do what you can to protect and preserve the environment. Here is a list of what you can recycle… Continue

Added by Lisa Zee on April 25, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

Aloha From Kauai

Ever wonder what recruiting and placement are like here in Hawaii? Be glad to share with you some of the highs and other wise experiences. Most of it good...sure is different from the Los Angeles Wilshire District office I used to work in...but I would not trade for anything. Here we are candidate rich and job order O.K....not like in Southern California but plenty to handle. Be good to chat with anyone out there on the Mainland or elsewhere....

Added by Lee Steinberg on April 24, 2008 at 11:04pm — 5 Comments

Digging Into Recruitingblogs.com V1.2

As our community marches on towards 10,000 members, the quantity and quality of the material on the site is exploding. There's an enormous volume of material to sift through. Almost all of it really adds to the development of the Recruiting Industry.

Take a look at the contributors. Over 10% of our members have participated in blogging or discussions. There's nothing like…

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Added by John Sumser on April 24, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Ten Steps to Get Everything from Networking Groups

1.Analise the group before joining to determine its synergy with your business goals. The most successful professionals always invest time to research which groups will offer the best opportunity to connect with qualified prospects before investing time, effort and money in a networking group.

2. Set a maximum of three groups at any one time. Credibility grows more quickly within a group than across groups. You achieve more and better results by investing in fewer networking… Continue

Added by Lisa Simpkins on April 24, 2008 at 8:21pm — No Comments

Talent Acquisition Professionals: Are You Blindly Worshiping at the Altar of Best Practices?

In an interesting article from Scott Anthony today, "When Are "Best Practices" Not Best Practices?", he touches upon an issue we so often see in the Talent Aquisition universe:

Blindly Worshipping At The Altar of Best Practices

Sound familiar? As Scott puts it, "The theory is that the manager should find a successful… Continue

Added by Joshua Letourneau on April 24, 2008 at 4:39pm — 1 Comment

FULL TIME/PERMANENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

I WORKING AS RETAINMENT WITH A FORTUNE 100 COMPANY ...

Those who contact me about what they can offer, Thank you in advance! HOWEVER - I am looking to extend my network and get referrals, I cannot look into the candidates you can offer me! Thanks again!!

Hey! I am working on behalf of a large corporation to help them fill MANY full time/perm positions. There are multiple opportunities available within Philadelphia, PA, Downingtown, PA, and Herndon, VA. This corporation… Continue

Added by Kristin Leigh Guldin on April 24, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Viva La Revolucion!

In his recent article Let’s Revolutionize the Standard Recruiting Model Mark Bielecki aptly sums up the frustrations that many of us Contingency Recruiters experience on a regular basis in his very first sentence:

“THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS.”

While it’s true that we have the power to select the types of companies we do business with that’s no guarantee that they… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 24, 2008 at 1:06pm — No Comments

5 Unique Ways To Get FREE Advertising

1. Give Testimonials

When you purchase a product or service and it exceeds your

expectations e-mail the business a testimonial. Tell them in the

testimonial the benefits you got from the product or service.

Give them permission to publish the testimonial on the web site

if they include your sig file at the end.

2. Leave A Message

When you visit a web site with a discussion board leave a

message. You could post a question, interesting content… Continue

Added by Lisa Simpkins on April 24, 2008 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments

SHALLY’s SOURCING SUMMIT, Las Vegas May 16th - Biggest Sourcing Event of the Year

SixDegreesfromDave.com Announces SHALLY's SOURCING SUMMIT, Las Vegas May 16th The Biggest Sourcing Event of the Year! Friday, May 16, 2008 — 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Kennedy Expo, Las Vegas, Main Conference and Expo Admission*: (May 14 -15, 2008)

If You Want to Become a Cybersleuth Come to Vegas. Register, Reserve your Hotel and Flight or drive down… Continue

Added by Dave Mendoza on April 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Googletopia - You Really Need to Work Here!

It started out two years ago with a viral email that was sent around China showing pictures of the Google offices in Beijing.

They looked pretty much like this first set below. No one is sure who sent the original email but it did a better job of building a Recruitment Brand than all the initiatives that internal HR is likely to have taken in Google China over the past few years.

A conspiracy theory approach would… Continue

Added by Frank Mulligan on April 24, 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments

April 24, 2008

Bill Vick's XtremeRecruiting.tv

Featuring Dave Staats, Headhunter, Flamethrower, Judge and Jury...

You know Bill Vick, don't you? Bill is one of the seminal figures in online recruiting, one of the first to write about internet recruiting techniques as early as 1996. And Dave Staats, you know Dave, right? The Fordyce Letter, prototypical… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on April 24, 2008 at 7:41am — No Comments

Interview With Amanda Lacey - FuseJobs

Last year FuseJobs launched to the UK market. The site has an interesting business model, which is a cross between a niche job board and a vertical search engine.

This week we took the opportunity to speak to Director Amanda Lacey about the site, why the company selected the ‘entry-level jobs’ sector and the challenges in aggregating job…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 24, 2008 at 7:01am — No Comments

Has anybody made the conversion from Contingency to Retained Search?

Although I have been a contingency recruiter for almost 297 years, OK maybe not quite that long, I have of recent been seeing less commitment from hiring managers to contingency recruiters. I have given serious thought moving my agency to retained in it's entirety or at least in part. Has anybody made this transition? If so what caveats, models to follow, tools etc can you advise me to look at and possibly incorporate into this process? I'd appreciate all responses, pros and… Continue

Added by George Mancuso on April 23, 2008 at 2:17pm — 8 Comments

job fair attendees.....

i went to a job fair /career expo (full disclosure: i work for Jobing.com) and i am always interested how recruiters plan for their attendance at job fairs. i know that i prepare extensively for our job fairs from 10-12 days out from the event.

i use resume search heavily before the event and utilize our job postings/videos/company website information to excite candidates about the opportunities available with our organization. i am extremely… Continue

Added by Recruiterdude on April 23, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

How to not win friends and influence people

Sometimes you just have to laugh at how people approach trying to secure employment. The following was posted at the top of a candidate's resume on Dice:

No Recruiters, DIRECT HIRE ONLY!

If you are a recruiter or work for a recruiting company, please read carefully.

You DO NOT have permission to submit me to jobs EVER!

You DO NOT have permission to add my information to your database.

If I find out that you have used my name or resume… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on April 23, 2008 at 9:30am — 9 Comments

Newsflash: Dull Jobs Really Do Numb the Mind

I know it's hard to believe. But here's the quote from the article:

"Boring jobs turn our mind to autopilot, say scientists - and it means we can seriously mess up some simple tasks."

But, here's the cool part of this research:

Monotonous duties switch our brain to "rest mode", whether we like it or not, the researchers report in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

They found mistakes can be predicted up to 30 seconds before we make… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on April 23, 2008 at 8:37am — No Comments

Hump Day Humor 4/23

Today’s cartoon comes to us from Grantland. For over 20 years, they’ve been creating buiness cartoons (specifically for the workplace) as a unique way to reach large audiences and their work has been used by thousands of organizations with great results.

With 2,900+ cartoons in their archives give them a call today to get their permission to use their materials if you need help spicing up your presentation, newsletter, or… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 23, 2008 at 8:21am — No Comments

Candidate Segment Knowledge - Are You 'Synthesizing' It?

Working in the Talent Acquisition arena, I remain in awe about how we march on with circa-1930s marketing processes despite the fact that if there is any business function that knows so much about their given 'customers', it's us.

I often ask the following question of Recruiters, Recruiting Managers, and even Directors of Talent Acquisition:

"What kind of information do you observe and store on the attitudes and… Continue

Added by Joshua Letourneau on April 23, 2008 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

April 23, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

Last week's post on hairy candidates raised a lot of eyebrows, hackles even. If you missed it, too bad -- we're moving on!

This week Tektree Gopi asks: