Tim Giehll's Blog – April 2011 Archive (9)

Shakespeare Returns to HR

 Today is another addition to those “literary posts” that I have already shared with you. This day is a day we take some additional advice from the greatest playwright of our time and apply it to the business world and your recruiting department, because what Shakespeare taught us about love and war, he can also teach us about business. These lessons are most applicable to your Internal Recruiting Staff.  Today’s topic: Othello.

If you are unfamiliar with the…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 28, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Minimum and Maximum Wages For All

Users of recruiting software know that salary details are the stickiest part of any hiring process. But it’s important to consider salaries with some perspective.

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on the minimum wage, reminding readers that a minimum wage employee that works full time will only earn around $17,300 per year. Not…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 25, 2011 at 5:50pm — No Comments

Five Common Resume Lies

I love staffing software, but I also know its limits. It can’t help much with a common problem faced by all recruiters and staffing professionals: resume padding.

In 2006, ResumeDoctor.com, a resume writing service, did an internal study and found that 42 percent of …

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 25, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The Top Staffing Companies in the World

In its March 2011 issue, Fortune magazine released its annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. These are the companies that have the best reputations among business people.

To create this list, Fortune’s research group surveys approximately 1,400 companies: the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue; non-U.S. companies in Fortune’s Global 500 database with revenue of $10 billion or more; and the top foreign companies operating in the…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 25, 2011 at 10:51am — 2 Comments

The King and the Recruiter

I have twice used my discussions with my daughter to inspire blogs. Her and I frequently discuss the ways in which the worlds of business and the world of art and literature coincide. Not too long ago, we related this back to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and then Romeo and Juliet, and how lessons learned from that could apply in both words. Today we’re taking some more advice from the greatest playwright of our time and applying it to the business world of recruiting, because what Shakespeare…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 22, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Screening Applicants With Social Media

Type “screening applicants with social media” in your Google box sometime. You might be surprised by the results. I certainly was.

I had expected to find lots of pages with a title like “Five Tips for Using Social Media When Hiring.” I found some of those, of course, but I found a lot – and I mean dozens – of articles and…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 20, 2011 at 11:11am — 2 Comments

Twitter as a Recruiting Tool

I’m a big advocate of staffing technology (of course!), but I also promote using social media in recruiting and staffing. After all, recruiters and staffing professionals need to go where candidates are, and candidates are on the web, checking their email, Facebook accounts, LinkedIn connections, and Twitter feeds.

In this post, I’ll focus exclusively on Twitter and 6…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 19, 2011 at 1:00pm — 15 Comments

Hey Dad; What Job Boards do I search for a Job

Top Job Boards

Staffing Software is great, but it can’t tell you where to look for candidates in the never-ending (but always exciting) world of global staffing. I did some digging on the internet and found the top five sites (by volume) that job seekers – i.e. candidates for your staffing agency – used when they’re looking for work in 2010:

1. Yahoo! Hot Jobs: 27,900,000 monthly…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 14, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Would You Hire Romeo & Juliet ??

Recently I reminded you that have a daughter who studies philosophy and literature in college. She and I frequently discuss the ways in which the worlds of business and the world of art and literature coincide. Not too long ago, we related this back to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and how lessons learned from that could apply in both worlds. Today we’re taking some more advice from the greatest playwright of our time and applying it to the business world, because what Shakespeare taught us about…

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Added by Tim Giehll on April 4, 2011 at 12:51pm — 1 Comment

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