Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 3!!!…

Lately the media is suggesting an improved economy and that companies are hiring. It is hard to cross the street without a self proclaimed career expert giving advice. Google, CNN, and Yahoo!

constantly feature articles regarding job searching and yet many

candidates find that they are sending out countless resumes and not

getting…

So many times I’ve heard on the street complaints from companies about headhunters trying to steal their employees…and everytime I laugh a little. Yes, partly because I am a headhunter, but my thoughts go deeper than that. It kind of reminds me of a relationship where one partner is always scared of the other straying away into someone else’s arms. What can we do to stop this from…

Yesterday we spent quite a bit of time related to setting up your recruitment marketing metrics to determine your overall strategy. Today we are going to focus on drilling down into those metrics to create a Diversity recruitment strategy. This article

will address preparing for your Diversity strategy, building and measuring…

When I first decided to join Precision Recruiting Services, I was introduced to LinkedIn. I know; had I been hiding under a rock or something? How is it possible that I hadn’t heard of this business social media tool before? Well, that is a whole other story. For now, let’s just accept the fact that LinkedIn was new to…

On opening day, Minnesota Twins center-fielder Denard Span struck out three times in five at bats (in an 0-5 effort). If that is the only time you ever see him play, you might draw the conclusion that “Span can’t hit the curve ball” or “Span can’t hit against right-handed pitching”. Based solely on the first game of the 2010 season, you might write him off as a terrible hitter with no future in the big leagues. Only if you either a) continue to watch him over the course of the…

For a long time, companies have been able to get away with poor treatment of prospective candidates. From enduring long response times or worse yet, never hearing anything at all; companies have undervalued creating a positive candidate experience for far too long. While there might be a variety of very compelling reasons why, the fact of the matter is that the increasingly social nature of the web will make the practice of continuing to treat candidates poorly a bad…

When I was younger I had a friend ask me what I felt his faults were. I thought to myself “what an awkward question” and asked him why he had asked me that. He responded “how can I be a better person when I don’t know or can fix my faults”. That conversation has stuck in my head for over 15 years and most recently has been useful in changing my mind on personal…

Can your organization attract a $250k+ recruiter with no non-compete and a portable book of business to your firm? What if they currently get to keep “100%” of the placement revenue - do you have a model and programs that can cause that person to potentially give up ½ or even more? If you cannot attract those type of producers, what’s to stop those who …

I have consistently contended that executives who tolerate “B” and “C” players on their teams give up a lot. Let me now quantify it:

Let’s say you are a CEO with 5 key management team reports, running a $50 million (revenue) company. Let’s say that you project 10% revenue growth next year, but…

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I've been reading a lot of posts lately from people who are concerned about the privacy of some of our new social technologies, in particular the geotagging services such as Loopt, Gowalla, Foursquare,…

by Nanci Lamborn – BrightMove Recruiting Software

When I decided to actually venture into the shark infested political waters and write this post, the results of my online search for recent articles or news stories related to this topic turned up absolutely nil. And it’s certainly no wonder. Our nation is becoming perhaps the most politically polarized group of citizens that we have ever seen in our…

I continuously read the blogs and articles about social media and proactive sourcing strategies. However it is critical to remember that we need to measure the effectiveness of what we

are trying to accomplish. In other words is our recruitment marketing efforts

solving a need or generating a result? This article will look at two dimensions

of data that will help you create an effective recruitment marketing strategy

and…

So this post starts what will be a multi part posting on different pre constructed boolean search strings. Today search strings are designed to find company, college and Organizations/Associations. Keep in…