For those of you looking for a little good news for a change, USA Today is reporting a huge hiring surge the technology sector.

According to the article, the United States stands to gain…

I have been recruiting for 25+ years and just came across a new issue.  If anyone has suggestions, I would really appreciate the help.

I am dealing with the American subsidiary of an Asian company.  They are looking to hire a COO.  The compensation is about $300k, so it is pretty senior.  Now that they have started interviewing candidates, they are telling the candidates that they have a policy of a 90 day trial period.  This is, of course, a turn-off to all the people I have…

Supposedly the economy is getting better, but it’s going to take…

Some of the responses I have received from this post worry me.  I see that some recruiters do not understand some of the finer points of email protocol. They believe that you can set your email to check for received, open or read by recipient and everything will be cool. Many clients or prospects set their email systems to not respond like this in Preferences/E-mail Options/Tracking Options.…

Here is part 2 of our series of posts on The Importance of Candidate Experience - from the job description to the application form, here is our list of DOs and DON'Ts:

Don’t have scrolling bars within an application form that you need to scroll down with. Multi scrolls on one screen are extremely annoying.

Do use drop down lists if you have multiple options to choose from as an alternative to scrolling…

I recently read this very interesting post (via twitter) about an age old issue that continues to pop its awkward head above the parapet in the world of recruitment.  The double submission - when two agencies submit the same candidate to the same job vacancy (and the subsequent squabbling over ownership that inevitably ensues).

The…

On January 3rd, 2011, we opened the doors to start-up Jobspring Partners Silicon Valley. Day One we stood there, business partner Scott and I, taking in an open space of roughly 2500 square feet filled with new desks, chairs and white boards. It also came with a top-floor view from downtown San Jose overlooking all of Silicon Valley to the north and northwest. As the morning sun dawned on our new balcony, we watched a plane take off from the most technically advanced airport in the world, as…

"Hey you... Yeah you... the tall, balding guy who's getting a bit tubby around the midriff. Whats the best way to lay out my CV?"  I get asked this question a lot by friends and colleagues.  Over the years I've seen many designs and layouts from competency to chronologically career based with everything either side and in between thrown in for good…

Recruiting metrics are integral to bringing in top talent to an organization and every successful recruiting strategy has a successful reporting solution that is underneath it.  Through this reporting, the organization is able to set goals and measure the success of every one of their recruiting initiatives.

Most importantly, a successful recruiting organization will collect and track important…

As recently as several years ago, it was considered standard operating procedure for job seekers to post their resumes on as many job boards as possible. Why?Visibility. Employers and recruiters used the job board resume databases to find possible hires, so it made sense to have your resume in as many places as possible. Job boards encouraged this behavior because it made the resume access features easier to sell to employers.

Enter LinkedIn. It was…

An article in the national press here in the UK yesterday reminded me all too clearly that we live in an online world where identity is all too easily obtained. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8426426/Millions-warned-over-substantial-email-data-theft.html

I, like most, am bombarded by a huge number of emails, tweets, status updates, blogs…

Having just returned from visiting family and friends in South-western Ontario, I was once again reminded of the frustrations talent faces when organizational “process” road-blocks potential.

Before I begin, I have a confession to make - my name is Lisa and I was once a process-obsessed HR Professional. I was many talents’ worst nightmare, the ironclad gate-keeper with minimal awareness and direct impact on the bigger picture within my organization. The most unfortunate…

“I just lost a placement to a competitor because my email went to his junk folder and my competitor’s did not get marked as spam. Can you help us? I checked my email address it looks ok. I don’t have anything in my address that would invoke a spam filter! The client checked with his IT department…

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…

An Open Letter To Recruiters (With Love)

My Fellow…

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The PSL model has been the way that Employers manage their Recruitment suppliers for as long as I can remember. They remind me of medieval cities surrounded by moats!

Because there’s nothing to compare them with – they are or have been the only agency management model - it’s difficult to say whether they’re fulfilling a Clients needs well or…

Most big companies use a large number of contractors and temporary staff. For example, at any point in time, a typical FTSE 100 or S&P 500 company can easily be using a 1,000 plus…