Featured Blog Posts – June 2010 Archive (80)

Rebranding Transparency

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, transparency is defined as (1) : having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly or (2) : free from… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell on June 9, 2010 at 10:41am — 2 Comments

Why Do So Many Business Owners Dread Hiring Employees?

The answer may be simpler than one would expect: humans don’t like doing things that they are not great at, especially if there are grave consequences when executed poorly.

Hiring can make or break any business. This is especially true with small and medium-sized businesses. In general, most people are not very good at hiring employees. In fact, according to…

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Added by Ben Baldwin - ClearFit on June 8, 2010 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments

The Dawning of the Cra#@pplication! You may be saving a tree, but you’re killin’ me!!

PART 1:

I recently posted an article on my company blog, www.Hooklineandthinker.us and here as well which highlighted the rise of Indeed.com and other job search aggregators, particularly in contrast to the Major Jobboards like… Continue

Added by Matt J Peter on June 8, 2010 at 2:30pm — 6 Comments

Unemployed? Move Along...Nothing To See Here.

This recent trend has me perplexed -the trend towards including exclusionary wording on job postings which state in various forms: “The unemployed need not apply.”

Laura Bassett reported this recently on Huffington Post in her post titled: Disturbing Job Ads: The UnemployedWill Not Be Considered. She outs a… Continue

Added by Nikole Tutton on June 7, 2010 at 11:00pm — 25 Comments

Winning With Words: Recruitment insights for Search Engine Marketing

Recruiters face a daunting challenge: how do we find and attract top talent in an age of information overload? Now that we have ready access to massive databases and information streams, some might think being a headhunter is a breeze. But they’d be wrong. While data and scale make some activities easier, they also create an environment where incremental… Continue

Added by Andrew Boyett on June 7, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Boolean Operators!!

Boolean Operators!!…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 5, 2010 at 2:17pm — No Comments

The Problem with Getting Champagne-Quality Talent on a Beer Budget

As recruiters in a sluggish economy, I’m sure there are plenty of stories out there about how companies are looking to obtain top talent at bargain prices. Kind of like having “champagne tastes” while only wanting to pay for a beer. I’d like to address this with the hope of providing some education and also learning what some best practices might be to combat this. As a recruiter that has been through many different markets, I know the downside of this type of hiring practice. In most… Continue

Added by Stacey Grimes on June 4, 2010 at 12:21pm — 5 Comments

My Littlest Placement

I have been given a gift. Well – not given, necessarily. It was earned. Those are the best anyway,aren’t they?

We’ve been recruiting for a junior level IT role with a client for the past 3 weeks or so. Not much in the way of qualifications – college degree, some sort of “paid” IT experience combined with a nice personality and…

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Added by Jerry Albright on June 4, 2010 at 12:00pm — 7 Comments

Are your Recruitment Strategies Helping OR Hurting your future?

There seems to be (what to me is a disturbing) trend in recruitment from some hospitality operations out there. Now, I have written several articles about how salaries are NOT going down, in fact they are going up. How good people are very aware of their worth and value and are not willing to take a step back or pay cut to go back to work and are in fact willing to wait it out for the right opportunity. How if you do get a great person at a “low ball” price, they are a “rental” and will be gone… Continue

Added by Corey Harlock on June 4, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

How can employers make themselves relevant to Gen Y?

Employers need to think big about how they are going to showcase their organisational culture and people to draw in, attract, and retain the next wave of high potential talent. While baby boomers still firmly rule the roost in the workplace, a new generation of graduates are emerging with a different set of influences and cultural reference points.

These graduates have grown up with technology around them, and thus have a different set of expectations from the world they interact… Continue

Added by Adam Lewis on June 4, 2010 at 4:04am — 2 Comments

RecruitDC: Change You Can Believe In

There was a time in the not so distant past (and not too distant future) where recruiters’ calendars were devoted, you know, largely to recruiting. Between sourcing and screening,

interviewing and on boarding, time for recruiting took all the time a recruiter

had. Before the recession, talent

professionals didn’t even have enough time to extend the common courtesy of

calling candidates back to let them know they hadn’t been selected, so busy

were…

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Added by Matt Charney on June 3, 2010 at 5:38pm — 2 Comments

Top 10 mistakes business makes in recruitment

1) Resume only rejection based recruitment

2) Prior and Lack of investigation into the actual role needed

3) limited or poorly written Job descriptions and Qualifications ( poorly written, Not relevant, poorly understood, generic, written by hiring manager, not accurate. too specific or too general...)

4) Thinking for today need vs. future need (box A needs candidate A, when a Candidate B has done it plus has C and D)

5) Hiring people "like themselves" vs. people qualified… Continue

Added by Susan Hand on June 3, 2010 at 4:28pm — 13 Comments

20% Increase in iPhone Recruiting App Downloads

As you may know my company, Allthetopbananas.com, supply mobile recruiting solutions. In the UK we supply iPhone applications to around 30 Job Boards. Part of the service includes monitoring of application usage and application download from AppStore. Download… Continue

Added by David Martin on June 3, 2010 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Why Great Candidates Don't Respond To Job Ads

Anybody who has ever posted a job ad online knows the frustration: hundreds of resumes, yet only a precious few worth consideration. To amplify the problem, the coveted talent behind those worthy few is inevitably off the market by the time your umpteenth call triggers a ringtone instead of a voice mail. The money wasted buying ad space and time lost sifting through second-rate resumes is nothing short of maddening.

So why don't “quality” candidates ever respond to your job… Continue

Added by Kevin Jenkins on June 3, 2010 at 8:30am — 7 Comments

#TNL tonight - mixing personal/professional in blogging and Social Media

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Added by Craig Fisher on June 2, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Riding the Rip Tide

I have been caught in real riptides. I have encountered them swimming, diving and boating. It is terrifying the first time you experience it. But when you learn more about the forces at work, you realize that you can go more places than everyone else if you can navigate them. For us, it means you can get access to candidates and clients that might not otherwise be open to talking with us.

This is a year of extremes, we hear it in every conversation we have. People are either in a… Continue

Added by Julia Stone on June 2, 2010 at 12:04pm — 2 Comments

Top 5 Reasons I love Recruiting Metrics: Reason # 3 Experimentation & Testing

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

I won’t lie, I’m in love with Recruiting Metrics! I’m totally enamored with them! I love the way they look with a big “+” sign in front of them, I love the way they look on my computer dashboard and most importantly I love the knowledge they possess. Overall,…

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Added by Chris Brablc on June 1, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Top Three Concerns of Recruiters Using Twitter (Resolved)

A few weeks ago, I held a roundtable discussion with recruiters on their opinions of and experience with social media sites. Mentioning LinkedIn elicited a positive response and Facebook stimulated a robust discussion about balancing their personal and professional lives. When I brought up Twitter, one of the recruiters responded “eh…” and another shrugged her shoulders (sigh).

After the crickets stopped chirping, they only expressed concerns:

My daily…

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Added by Ali Webster on June 1, 2010 at 1:00pm — 15 Comments

Let’s Keep Social Media ‘Strictly Professional’

When I first started using social media tools, I saw lots of complaints and news stories written about the level of personal information being shared. From what folks were eating for lunch to their relationship status, the strictly professional users felt these personal communications were diluting the ultimate value of these emerging platforms. While, there are some who can be described as oversharers; I actually think there is value in sharing personal information. Each one of us have many…

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Added by Omowale Casselle on June 1, 2010 at 9:24am — 4 Comments