A friend, who is working in the recruiting function of a medium-sized company, wrote to me recently. She was worried about her

company’s on boarding process, or lack of, and was asking how to improve

it.

“We had a gentleman start in sales yesterday and I was really surprised at how disorganized we were…

Oh no… They’re coming! Self Proclaimed Experts in the Social Recruiting Space that have never recruited a day in their lives. THAT’S RIGHT! I SAID IT!!

With all the hype about social networking, everyone wants to now get on-board…

Whenever people talk about candidate lying, the usual topics come up: Exaggerating dates of employment, falsifying education, inflating salary or title, hiding a criminal record, and hiding a drug habit. Most of these can be easily caught by a decent background check. You can ask for a W-2 to verify compensation. Simple diligence can prevent a person who is lying about…

It's amazing what a well-written and nicely presented resume can do for your job search. Before you send yours out, follow this checklist to ensure you are sending out an excellent quality representation of yourself.

1. Grammar, spelling, punctuation - Use the grammar and spell check function, then print it out and read the document word for word. Spell checker…

Here is a debate to get your teeth into....

I have been hammering Social Media for about 4 years now, learning, tweaking and

generally working out how it can benefit my success in business.



What if you can offer your skills to your employer at a fee for setting them up and

managing it all?



Because Social Media is very time consuming to learn, by the time you have made sense…

Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 4!!!…

In the last post, we talked about the changing nature of markets and marketing in the Great Recession. This time we'll focus in on one of the results of these changes: Desktop Manufacturing.

In the old days, it could cost upwards of $10,000 to $20,000 just to create the custom molds and dies required to produce an item in a factory. Then you had to cover the costs associated with prepping…

I'm not a huge LinkedIn user. I have my own reasons; one being that I see them as a potential major competitor (all of us in the ATS/Recruiting business should be wary of them) but another being that I just don't have that much bandwidth between Facebook (which I really must use for family and friends) and email (which is how I do most of my work). In regards to our sales reps, we say to use whatever tools they think will move them forward-…

Despite being one of the easiest to use and most engaging social media tools, many companies seem focused on gaining the least amount of value from Twitter. So, what can you do to better utilize this amazing tool for social recruiting?



Create Goodwill

Remember that hard to value intangible asset on your balance sheet that is not directly attributable to assets or liabilities, but can increase the purchase price of your company in acquisition….goodwill. In…

The Social Sofa…

By Michael Brandt - BrightMove Recruiting Software

This is part 3 in a series of articles I am writing about selecting recruiting software. My goal is to give companies and staffing agencies the insight into the selection process the best way to navigate your way to a good selection. For this article, we are going to dive into the RFP process and why it may or may not be important for you to do an RFP.

What's an…

A Vision, A Revelation!!!!…

The minimum wage recently increased to $10.25/hour as of March 31^st, 2010 in order to aid low income families within rising costs to Canadian living.

Looking in the past 15 years,…

I'm getting ready for truUSA in Madison WI in just over a week. Really looking forward to this, if it is anything like truLondon in Feb it will be a fantastic event.

At truLondon I ran an impromptu track to create a few geniuses. We had ten people take part and all were transformed within the allotted 30 minutes.

The process is actually quite simple. Firstly we ran a simple test of Intelligence, Dee Allen was the winner and borderline genius before we even started. After this…