Staffing is like hitting in Baseball!!

Staffing or specifically sourcing is like hitting in baseball. To quote the character ‘Jack Elliot” from the movie “Mr. Baseball”, “Hitting is like the tide, there is high tide and there is low tide and then there is high tide again”. This analogy works well for staffing. Think about…

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I place ads on Ebay and elsewhere. A man by the name of Alexander sent me a disturbing email yesterday 4.30.2013. He writes in broken English I can not get him a job. He says my ads are fake and he will flag my ads on Ebay. Alexander is looking for a job. He stated if I do not send him on an interview he will slander my name and keep flagging my ads on the net.He says I can be sued for spam.He said he will contact my internet provider that I am sending spam ads out that I collect information…

I place ads on Ebay. A man by the name of Alexander sent me a disturbing email yesterday. He writes in broken English I can not get him a job. He says my ads are fake and he will flag my ads on Ebay. He started if I do not send him on an interview he will slander my name and keep flagging my ads on the net.

Any suggestions.

The results are in from the 2013 Online Recruiting and Job Board Trends surveys. Here are some interesting tidbits:

• Most respondents are planning to increase spending on their company career site, mobile recruiting, and referral programs
• Referrals, niche job boards, and LinkedIn are most frequently cited as producing high quality candidates
• Only half of the respondents track the cost per application
• Over…

Recruiters get terrible press.

And it’s worse now then ever before. Everyone has a ‘terrible recruiter’ story. They are ‘lazy, sleazy, pushy and incompetent’. And those are just the nicer things said. Every day brings more abuse and increasingly, gleeful…

The construction industry is rapidly and dynamically growing over the last few years. Modernization and expansion are the buzzwords of various construction companies all over the world. With this advent, several construction recruitment agencies have also come into existence to help companies fill in the various job opportunities that appear at different levels in the construction companies.…

What’s In Your Recruiting Bag?

“The Top 5 things that are guaranteed to make the difference”

By Jon Bartos…

As a staffing company, IT Accel caters to different sized businesses, and our network of talent has different needs as well. Thinking about those two facts, we always focus on gathering pertinent information from both parties to try to create a perfect match that will ultimately lead to the most successful and mutually beneficial work relationship. …

My name is Elizabeth (Recruiter Betty) I love comic sans even though I was once told it was the most unprofessional font ever and I am a Technical Recruiter or as I like to say "Technically a Technical Recruiter" I have been recruiting for a short time 109 days to be exact (I know rediculous that I am counting). I have had some corporate recruiting experience in the past and now I am working with a great Technical staffing agency called…

Mention the fear of cold calling and you’re hitting on a problem many recruiters face at some point in their careers. Sales call reluctance, or perhaps more apt: ‘recruiting’ call reluctance; often stems from deep inside the person’s psyche and can be a serious headwind to any recruiter’s career – especially if they don’t acknowledge they have a problem and thus do nothing…

An often overlooked quality in new hires is their laziness. If you hire more good, lazy people, you’ll find that this is one of the fastest ways to grow your business. Surprised? If so, that’s not a surprise as most hiring managers look at laziness as a detriment instead of the attribute it can be when the right people with lazy streaks are hired strategically in your organization.

Traits, including laziness, can be applied for good or for evil. This all depends on the motives of the…

IT, VB.Net, HR, AP, c++,IP, ID, iOS, CIO, SAP, C#, ASP.Net….oh, my!

 Years ago I worked in HR for a world-renowned IT company. This company was known for acronym’s – starting with its name - so it’s surprising our division was called Personnel rather than HR. But of course talent back then referred to a job applicant and an iPhone just meant “I” was the proud owner of a telephone, albeit a landline.

 Personnel ran the gamut of responsibilities from recruiting, to salary…

Lion vs. Gazelle …

Over the past 90 days, more than 14,000 jobs ads for human resources professionals specified that candidates would need either a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification or a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification. This is an 8.5% increase in the number of jobs that specify this certification in their ads. However, this only represents about 7% of…

The really successful internet marketers seem to get so much done in a small amount of time. To some degree, that's  because they are doing the same thing over and over and they have it down to a science. However, they also follow some tried and true time management tactics to stay focused and make the most of every minute. Here are 7 top time management tips that will help…

This post by the Anonymous Recruiter originally appeared on the RecruitLoop Blog. Here he vents on the curse of every recruitment agency – the Monday morning meeting: Predictions, pipelines and peer pressure.

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