July 2009 Blog Posts (149)

Give your resume the FLICK

This morning, I spoke with Annemarie Cross & Keith Keller on their weekly radio show, discussing how job seekers can give their resume the "FLICK" (Format, Layout, Image, Consistency & Keywords).

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Added by Thomas Shaw on July 27, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Guess What? It’s not about technology at all. It’s about connectivity!

Recruitment and staffing has been around a long time. And I have had the fortune to witness its evolution for almost 30 years. I have worked in many countries and recruited across many sectors.

And guess what I have learned.

The more things change… the more they stay the same!

It was not that long ago that if you walked into a successful recruitment office, every person you saw was on the phone. And why not? There was no computer to tap away on. There was no… Continue

Added by Greg Savage on July 25, 2009 at 8:27am — 5 Comments

sciencescrossing

sciencescrossing locates jobs inside your niche, conducting a more streamlined job search.

If you are a job seeker with a specific industry interest, sciencescrossing provides instant access to a comprehensive pool of listings based on your particular area of focus.

If you are a job seeker with a specific industry interest, sciencescrossing provides instant access to a comprehensive pool of listings based on your particular area of focus. Unlike other job search and career… Continue

Added by symonds on July 25, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

Recruiter Needed in Front Royal, VA

A client/friend of mine is in need of a Junior Recruiter to join his company in Front Royal, VA. i told him I would help him find someone who may be a good fit.

Send your resume to me if you are interested and I will forward to him.

PJ Cunningham
pjcunningham@realinterface.com

Added by PJ Cunningham on July 24, 2009 at 11:22am — No Comments

Maybe I have a fear of commitment - but....I hate filling out forms

I admit, I have a fear of commitment on so many things and an unwavering loyalty to certain things that I commit to.

Example #1 Commitment Fear – I am almost OCD when it comes to making decisions on no brainer things in my life (at work, no issues w/this – odd? yes) like flavor of ice cream (do I do vanilla, vanilla bean, french vanilla? AND YES there is a difference) where to go on vacation, etc. because I don’t want to commit to any one thing and always be questioning if the other option… Continue

Added by Sarah White on July 23, 2009 at 10:46am — No Comments

Facing Talent Challenges Today

To meet today’s challenges, companies world-wide are searching for ways to do more with less. While many strategies offer streamlined processes and ways to add value, the biggest opportunities to meet this challenge lie within the talent themselves and are critical to future success:

• Finding the right talent

• Retaining your top performers

• Ensuring your best employees have the opportunity to thrive

Managing talent can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be. The… Continue

Added by Vicki Z. Lauter on July 23, 2009 at 10:43am — 1 Comment

Should Job seekers Pay to use a job seeker board to find jobs?

This was a thought provoking question posted on LinkedIn. What do you think? here's my answer:

“I believe that many so called recruiters and job boards are capitalizing on the high numbers of people ACTIVELY seeking work in order to somehow make it through, themselves. For me, I'm not doing this because I think it dilutes a brand. People should never have to pay for a job. EVER. Job boards are for lazy agency recruiters who don't have time to actually research and source to find… Continue

Added by Claudia J. Samuelson on July 23, 2009 at 10:31am — No Comments

Beyond the Tweet

TwitterJobSearch Launches New Feature to Kill Job Spam

First Real-Time Job Search Engine to go "Beyond the Tweet"

London, UK – 16 July 2009, At the Social Media in Recruitment Conference: TwitterJobSearch (www.TwitterJobSearch.com), the first real time job search engine, launched its "Beyond the Tweet" functionality to eliminate spam from the job seekers experience. "Beyond the Tweet" will present relevant data to job seekers gathered from the pages linked to in Tweets. Using… Continue

Added by william fischer on July 23, 2009 at 5:49am — No Comments

Before You Begin the Candidate Search, Come Up with a Good Story...

Admittedly, I like to tell stories, and if I may say so, this is one of my strengths as a recruiter. Storytelling can be a powerful tool in the recruitment process.

If you are embarking on a search to find a new team member for your own company or on behalf of a client, one of the first things I recommend (if you haven’t yet done so) is to think about the company’s story. If the company is a startup, you won’t have a lot of history to fall back on, but you can still have a compelling… Continue

Added by Donna Brewington White on July 23, 2009 at 3:13am — 3 Comments

Recruiter - Texas

Hi Fellow Recruiters,

I am urgently looking for recruiters based in Texas region. Anyone wants to discuss this opportunity please contact me ASAP at nitin.bindal@verveos2i.com

Looking forward to meet good people.

Regards,

Nitin

Added by Nitin Bindal on July 22, 2009 at 10:45pm — No Comments

No Longer a Candidate's Market-Yet have the challenges really changed?

Just over a year ago the buzz in the market was all about how much today is a buyer’s (candidate’s) market and how there were more jobs than there was talent to fill the openings. From about 2001 to the end of 2007 the economy was souring and the number of jobs being created was increasing at fast rates. It was a time when such statistics as "44 million Gen “X”ers in the workforce to replace 77 million retirees" and "11,000 people are reaching age 55 every day" were staggering numbers that… Continue

Added by Stephanie Huff on July 22, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Make new friends but keep the old

News flash - these are challenging days! OK, that's sooo old news by now, but nonetheless it still garners headlines. As a profession that relies on a healthy job market, well....need I say more?

Working in a consultancy firm - our clients have always been important to us, but in times like these they are all the more so. I am reminded of that classic little ditty, "Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold". Not to say we think of our clients as merely… Continue

Added by Maria DiLisio on July 22, 2009 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Creative Marketing that is free and Eco Friendly

I wanted to share a site with you that I found. f you're looking for a secure, reliable and free image and video hosting solution, you've found it. Use.com offers unlimited uploads, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited views. Plus, you select your privacy level - share your photos and videos with just friends and family or the whole world. The choice is yours!

Choose Use.com to host your images for eBay, Craigslist, Myspace, Facebook or any other web site, forum or board. We offer free… Continue

Added by cyndi on July 22, 2009 at 11:34am — No Comments

Okay, so you lost your job...how could you be jumping up and down on the couch?

I had an interesting conversation today with one of my clients. Over the last seven years I have been witness to Marks setbacks and successes, his layoffs and his promotions. I've met his wife, his kids, and he has met my sons. I consider him a friend.

This past Friday he was laid off from a software firm that had difficulty securing an additional line of credit. At best, the firm has another 6-8 weeks before they close up shop. Mark called me… Continue

Added by Christopher McCann on July 22, 2009 at 9:12am — No Comments

Why Recruitment Brand?

Let me compare recruitment brand with product brand, how important is a

brand for a product....? as important as a name is to a human. The brand is the identity of

the product, the brand is how a product will look to its customers, it acts as the medium of

communication and products brand promotion is so vital the it determines the popularity

of the products in the market, the sales of the product depends upon the brand.

Its the same with a recruitment brand, it… Continue

Added by Vinodh Rengarajan on July 22, 2009 at 8:47am — No Comments

Social Media for Recruitment

Its true that social media is gaining popularity ass a base for recruiting, The most popular

amongst them are Twitter, My space and Facebook. Only recently companies have realized the hidden

power of the social networking sites, but still many other organizations are analyze the potential of the

social media for recruitment.

Now resume finding and resume pouring into a recruiter's in-box is quite different from the new

medium of social networking sites. Now every… Continue

Added by Vinodh Rengarajan on July 22, 2009 at 8:46am — No Comments

A Little Light in the Darkness

After a year of non-stop bad news it is good to see little shards of light emerge from the darkness. The recent European Chamber Business Confidence Survey 2009, done in conjunction with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, produces the necessary illumination.

The confidence booster is to be found in the fact that 37% of the 300 European companies surveyed said that China is… Continue

Added by Frank Mulligan on July 21, 2009 at 10:42pm — No Comments

Revolutionary Road Recruiting

“You want to play house you got to have a job. You want to play nice house, very sweet house, you got to have a job you don’t like.” (John Givings – Revolutionary Road)

I agree, on the surface it is not the most likely of movies that one could relate to Recruiting but I loved the movie Revolutionary Road – I found it to be an insightful and intriguing look at the human psyche. I saw it last night for the first time and will likely watch it again tonight. If you happen to be… Continue

Added by Sarah White on July 21, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Need to know the factors that set you apart as an employer?

Ready for a reality check from your current employees?

It's time for NAS Intuition, a web-based survey tool. Intuition generates online surveys, then accumulates, aggregates and analyzes the results. Any function that can be improved through analysis can benefit from Intuition.

Intuition can be used to solicit employee opinions on a variety of subjects, from your compensation and benefits packages to perceptions of your company as an employer of choice. It can assist in… Continue

Added by Valerie Ellinor on July 21, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Net-Temps.com adds JustJobs.com partnership to Job Distribution Network

Plantation, FL - North Chelmsford, MA - July 21, 2009 – Net-Temps, the leading job board for temporary, temp-to-perm and full time employment in the staffing industry has implemented a partnership to distribute its customers' jobs to the JustJobs.com family of job search engines.

“Net-Temps goes to great lengths to make sure the jobs of our clients are widely distributed”… Continue

Added by Eric Shannon on July 21, 2009 at 2:15pm — No Comments