June 2008 Blog Posts (249)

The Future of Search

The Future of Search

You may have just become accustomed to the idea of Search 3.0, but get prepped for search's latest evolution -- and it's more socially powered and human influenced than ever before.

Danny Sullivan recaps the growth of algorithmic search from strictly on-page factors (Search 1.0), to off-page factors like links (Search 2.0), to blended or Universal Search (Search 3.0) and arrives at this new age of Mahalos, Eureksters, Twitters and personalized… Continue

Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey on June 2, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Deal or No Deal: Getting Top Talent to Accept Your Offer

By Roy Notowitz, Managing Director, Notogroup

The TV show "Deal or No Deal" is a game of chance, but ensuring that your finalist candidates accept your offer does not have to have the same odds. Achieving a stellar track record of “offer acceptance” requires market knowledge, proactive communication, and attention to detail.

Here are some tips for getting to yes:

1. Do not assume strong interest

I have heard numerous stories of companies delaying a hiring…

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Added by Roy Notowitz on June 2, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

It's an easy question for a Kindergarten student?

Not so easy for adults.

Added by Dennis Smith on June 2, 2008 at 1:48pm — 6 Comments

iPhone & Mobile Videos

Do you think today’s modern job seekers find it useful to watch careers / Job related video content on their mobile devices?

Added by Jason Giller on June 2, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Interesting Insight - "CRM Gets Social" (Economist Intelligence Unit)

Hmmmm . . . sound familiar? Let me ask all internal Talent Acquisition Pros:

How well do you know your CandidateCustomer Segments? (Yes, the word CandidateCustomer is together to illustrate a point.)

"-- CRM Gets Social --

A survey conducted recently by The Economist Intelligence Unit aims to shed some light on the disconnect between companies' desire to be more customer-centric and where the focus of new CRM initiatives should be. The report recommends… Continue

Added by Joshua Letourneau on June 2, 2008 at 11:53am — No Comments

Job Boards Are Restaurants, Databases Are Home Cooking

The advent of the electronic resume was supposed to create a hiring utopia for corporate America. Job-seekers could send their resumes into corporations who could slide, dice, filter, and parse this data into actionable intelligence.

What happened? A glut of data overwhelmed the ability of recruiters to work efficiently, and the rapid change of data (from contact numbers to jobs to cities) made it difficult to say that information sent to a… Continue

Added by Talent Drive on June 2, 2008 at 10:39am — No Comments

Who cares?

I read an article by Debra Walker at NetTemp's Crossroads Newsletter titled the "Ten Things a Recruiter will never tell you". Naturally I was curious, since I consider myself a fairly open book and am not afraid to discuss much of anything with a candidate. I still can't figure out how to paste a link into this blog, so my apologies for you having to cut and paste this into a browser: http://www.net-temps.com/adcgi/banner.cgi?ref=crnews&ch=2885&id=crs_2885.

Here's the Ten… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on June 2, 2008 at 10:06am — 2 Comments

eProject Source in Singapore - Project Management Consulting/Offshore Business Development and Technical Recruiting

We are up and running now about 30 days in Singapore. Partnerships are being formed, proposals written, and job orders are under search! The new and improved website should be up this week as well, designed by those fabulously artistic guys in Bangkok!

I have a one off candidate search going on now in the Middle East. It is a spin-off from SAP consulting recruitment we do. It looks like this:

Middle East Oil and Gas Sector Warehouse/Materials Management/… Continue

Added by Rick Price on June 2, 2008 at 5:41am — No Comments

The Last Recruiter Standing

The title of today’s post is a reference to the Reality TV Show “The Last Comic Standing”. As a professional talent scout, I am enthralled with any reality show that has to do with the talent selection process. I get hooked on the suspense of determining the “cream of the crop”. There are several interesting aspects to the format of these shows that are applicable to the hiring process.

They start by casting a large net

As painful as it is to generate a big… Continue

Added by Roy Notowitz on June 1, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments