During my professional career, I've been fortunate to be able to take advantage of some fantastic opportunities. As I result; I've developed an amazing network of friends and colleagues. I've personally tapped these fine folks when applying to various opportunities of interest and expect to continue to leverage these connections throughout my career. Since I've become more senior in my career, I knew that eventually I would be called upon to recommend someone else. Here's what happened, I…

Years ago when presenting candidates to hiring managers I was able to get the hiring managers on the phone and verbalize the presentation, create the interest and nail down the interview. At times I would get a request for the resume and agree to faxing it (remember those times?) after the interview was set. Most of the time though I was able to assure the hiring manager the…

For the fun of it, I want to provide a variety of insights around how a sourcing strategy may vary by industry. For the sake of this example, let’s assume you are a manufacturer of a product that is sold through a retail distribution

chain. Additional assumptions are:

1. You sell product to big box retailers, however you have your own retail outlets

2. Holidays drive an increase in labor needs within your…

The Candidate Experience!!!…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

As you are posting your job ads across the web, what are the job boards and websites that you distributing your jobs to? It's been estimated that there are anywhere from a few thousand to over 40,000 job boards across the web (depending on your definition of…

On April 17, our real-time jobsearch engine jobtweet.me, hit the magic number of 1.000.000 job-offers for the English-speaking world within a single month.…

By Pat Meehan



Once self-awareness is ingrained in habit, the search for self-improvement becomes an ever evolving natural course.”

____________



If you have started reading this first sentence and are still reading, you are really thinking that you can pull off a new life long career growth…

You know what that means, right?

It's Equal Pay Day. (Please, you know I didn't mean that that 4/20)

Today is the day - we're told - that "symbolizes how far into 2010

women must work to earn what men earned in 2009".

Akin to "Tax Day" (the day you supposedly have to work until you make enough

to…

While watching the recent NCAA basketball championship game; a new concept on how to identify top…

Staffing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!!…

Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 8!!!…

If you would like to become a tester and add your company to our network. Please contact us at support@hirepress.com and send us…

This morning I watched an older woman with a walker make her way down the sidewalk. Her movements were very deliberate and it was clear that her limbs would no longer cooperate to move her with any urgency or speed. In fact she shuffled more than she walked – it was the best she could muster.

What I found fascinating though was the effortless manner in which she used the walker. With each step forward on her right foot…

Depending on the time I arrive at my office, I can predict with great accuracy the activity that will occur between the time I step out of my car and arrive at my desk. One of my favorites occurs every morning at 7:10…