Harris Interactive recently published a list of the most "reputable" companies based upon a survey that took 20 different factors into account, including social responsibility, financial performance, and leadership. WANTED took at look at the recent hiring activity of the 10 most reputable companies.
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Added by Carolyn Menz on May 12, 2011 at 3:08pm —
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One of the continuing challenges facing the Recruitment function is moving from the traditional, reactive and primarily transactional focus to a proactive and enhanced recruitment model.
Think about when you sit down with your hiring leaders to scope a new open position and the role details. When you ask the hiring leaders for a proposed start date for a new hire, how many of them responded with “ASAP” or “yesterday”? How many of your hiring leaders complain about the time…
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Added by Simon Parkin on May 12, 2011 at 8:59am —
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The most important decisions that business leaders make are not what decisions, but who decisions.
- Jim Collins, Author of Good To Great
“Who is your number one problem. Not what. What refers to the strategies you…
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Added by Nick Tubach on May 11, 2011 at 3:02pm —
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Inspired by Greg Savages post on his biggest stuff up in recruitment, I thought I would share my biggest mistake/favorite experience to date.
As most of you know recruitment takes some time, patience, learning and sometimes a thick skin to get to the end result. There is a lot more work involved than is sometimes perceived. My favorite moment encompasses all of these elements – last year 2010 I…
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Added by Stuart Harvey on May 11, 2011 at 8:13am —
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As a small agency – we find ourselves in an interesting “predicament” at the moment: Which assignments should we work on? While I’m personally overjoyed (and over-worked) with the opportunities at hand – I’ve got to make some tough decisions here. Today. Right now.......
Normally the clients that get our attention are the ones with the highest CUE ratings. For those that haven’t heard of it –…
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Added by Jerry Albright on May 10, 2011 at 10:21am —
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A brand is the identity of a product or service. Interestingly, the word originates from “branding” for ownership of cattle and other animals, but the meaning of the word has evolved to encompass identify, and can now take many forms (promise, symbol, general identity).
As any professional service provider (recruiter, lawyer, engineer, town planner etc) your personal brand defines who you are and what you stand for. In the professional services…
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Added by Ineke Read on May 9, 2011 at 7:06pm —
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Just watching the CNBC Street Poll today, currently Social Media has the highest votes on the next bubble to burst
What's the next bubble to burst ? CNBC
We all remember the dot com frenzy before it burst. Companies with solid business plans survived and that would be the case with Social Media or Social Recruiting.
Added by Suresh on May 9, 2011 at 10:26am —
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Like a powerful and addictive drug, the anticipated high offered by VMS (Vendor Management System) business often lures willing participants, only to leave them strung out and hungover when they reap the minimal rewards for their efforts. Not all VMS is bad VMS and you must have a process that allows you to evaluate the efficacy of these opportunities. One such process, which I call PPAA, covers four key areas:
1. Profit – What is the anticipated profit? What is the sustainability of…
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Added by Scott Wintrip on May 9, 2011 at 9:59am —
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One of the most important steps in the recruitment process is the offer stage – yet most companies don’t invest the appropriate amount of training and resources into this critical recruitment phase. Recruitment is all about the outcome – the hire.
As Recruiters, we need to look at this phase as “closing the candidate” and put the same importance the Sales function puts on “closing the deal”. An organization can have best-in-class sourcing channels but if they are unable to have…
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Added by Simon Parkin on May 9, 2011 at 9:21am —
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I am no LinkedIn expert. But I do use it. I post status updates, I join groups, I comment in discussions, and I check backgrounds of just about every person I am about to interview or even meet.
I also get lots of requests to connect, and as a result have about 1,000 connections currently, so I suppose I could be described as an ‘active LinkedIn’er’.
Active enough to realise there are a few things LinkedIn users simply should never do!
Firstly,…
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Added by Greg Savage on May 9, 2011 at 4:30am —
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Workplace suicides have matched the record high. In both 2008 and 2009, 263 persons took their lives on the job. The year before, 2007, 196 persons killed themselves on the job. We are not talking about Chinese workers in the iPad factory here. We are talking about American workers. And while these are not large numbers, really, they certainly are notable.
According to an article written by Ruth Mantell for …
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Added by Gordon Basichis on May 9, 2011 at 4:00am —
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1. Find the passive jobs!
Often times recruiting firms and hiring companies will not go straight to the job board route due to time constraints and costs. They will not only source candidates internally but will make a quick call to a recruiter to see who is actively searching right now, or who is “keeping and eye out” for the right job.
2. Break into a company that you have been targeting
A professional recruiter will have contacts with the top employers as well as those…
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Added by Noel Cocca on May 5, 2011 at 10:09am —
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This is Part 2 of my blog about
Mobile Career Sites and
applicant tracking. In
Part 1, we looked at the raw numbers of applicants that applied on our career sites and the type of device they used. In this blog, I…
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Added by Julia on May 5, 2011 at 8:30am —
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The number one question HR professionals in Canada ask me everyday is "When will the market heat up for HR talent once again?"
The HR Talent market has been through a roller coaster of demand over the past few years. Many organizations cut back on resourcing within HR starting in 2008. Many areas of HR were hit very hard including Talent Development, Talent Management and Recruitment. Many senior HR roles were eliminated as part of a corporate wide cost cutting exercise. Many…
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Added by Simon Parkin on May 4, 2011 at 3:55pm —
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Judi Wunderlich posted a good blog this week entitled, "Why Recruiters Get A Bad Rap (a cautionary tale)". There were a bunch of responses including one from me saying that recruiters should be held to a higher standard. I thought I would share a story which I originally posted on my blog, www.viewfrommadisonave.blogspot.com. I thought it would amuse all professional and above board recruiters so I am repeating it in its entirety…
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Added by Paul S. Gumbinner on May 4, 2011 at 11:15am —
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When I attend recruiting conferences and Human Resource meetings nationwide, inevitably the conversation works its way to attracting the Holy Grail of recruitment – the Passive Candidate.
It is valuable to listen carefully to that person’s definition of whom the Passive Candidate is. Generally companies define the Passive Candidate as someone who is doing a job at a high level within another company; and is perfectly content to remain…
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Added by Bill Humbert on May 4, 2011 at 11:05am —
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Today’s question, is recruitment Agile?
For anyone not familiar with agile this is the agile manifesto:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
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Added by Stuart Harvey on May 3, 2011 at 8:46pm —
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Lots of job descriptions cite “Multitasking” as a desirable trait, and many of us pride ourselves on the ability to do this all day long. I got a tweet last week with a link to an article called
The Price, and Myth, of Multitasking and I thought about how I try to make meaningful phone calls while my e-mail is chirping on the computer, my G-chat is buzzing, my Droid is beeping…
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Added by Mark Bregman on May 3, 2011 at 4:35pm —
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A good friend of mine was laid off of his job of 10 years and is searching for new employment. He has a complete LinkedIn profile with contact info and resume (thanks to me) and is on Monster and CareerBuilder.
He got a call last week from a local recruiter at a niche staffing firm. On the phone the recruiter told him he had a ‘couple’ of jobs for him, and they arranged to meet. My friend has an interim job so he had to arrange time off to meet this…
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Added by Judi Wunderlich on May 3, 2011 at 11:00am —
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Not a single day passes by of late without hearing the dreaded words 'global talent pool', but what does that phrase actually mean in practice, if anything at all?
Consider a typical recruiting scenario. You're looking for a mid-career engineer for a specific location. There is no relocation package on offer so straight away it would be fair to assume that 99 times out of a hundred your likely candidate is going to come from a 30 or 40 mile radius of wherever the business is situated.…
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Added by Alasdair Murray on May 3, 2011 at 11:00am —
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