July 2010 Blog Posts (172)

HR marketing process

HR Marketing process step 6- Campaign effectiveness check

Once the campaign is in the media it is important to check the effectiveness of the media.

Ineffective media is waste of time and money so in order to avoid this proper effective check should be done.

Here are some ways to do the effectiveness check

Web 2.0 Online media:

• ATS- applicant tracking system

• SEO check through running various searches like Boolean

• Google…

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Added by Vivek Jothi on July 12, 2010 at 5:41pm — No Comments

New Business Development for recruiters made VERY Easy!!! Bye Bye Cold Calling.....

Busy Recruiters....

We know your day is full of sourcing, placing, searching and calling.

In between all of this you still need to continually business

develop, to bring in new vacancies and opportunities.

How many times have you made vast amounts of business development calls to clients, only to find out they are not recruiting? How would it feel to be able to call clients, knowing exactly when they were trying to fill a position?

If the team at… Continue

Added by Mark Lennard on July 12, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

Recruiters, go to the beach!

It was a beautiful sunny Thursday morning last week that made me want ditch work and go to the beach. And even though I'm allowed to do it once in a while (God bless people who came up with flexible work arrangements!), I still had a tiny feeling of guilt deep inside because I thought I was going to lose the day and not get much work done. Not surprisingly, being a workaholic that I am, I ended up working from the beach, and the entire day turned out to be a quite productive, yet very enjoyable… Continue

Added by Jonas Axelsson on July 12, 2010 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Healthcare Job Listings | Medical and Hospital Job Candidates

Hire Health is a new member of the Recruiting Blogs group.

If you hire or recruit for medical jobs, hospital jobs or healthcare jobs, Hire Health is worth taking a look at.

Hire Health provides a comprehensive, robust and affordable job search engine with a built in applicant tracking system and soon to be… Continue

Added by Jay Tokarz on July 12, 2010 at 9:25am — No Comments

Interviewing without marketing is like cereal without milk - ham no burger!

Interviewing is certainly the process by which we make the determination to hire someone. However, there is another critical component to the process…

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Added by Sam Smith on July 12, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Essential Tips For a Perfect Video Resume

A video resume is a short video created by a candidate for employment and uploaded to the Internet for prospective employers to review. The video resume describes the individual’s skills and

experience and is typically used to supplement a paper resume.

Video Resumes are becoming very popular for job seekers to get in front of hiring decision makers. You can use video on career job sites like mycareeri.com, to…

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Added by Lee Fossey on July 12, 2010 at 6:55am — No Comments

What to do about writing a Resume with No Content to Include

Writing your first resume can be very daunting, especially if you have little to no work experience to speak of. This is a common problem for students, and a lot of them go about addressing this problem the wrong way – they either apply for jobs that do not require a resume, or they turn in a resume with little to no content.

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR RESUME BLANK!!!

Every person, including you, has skills and…

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Added by Gavin Redelman on July 12, 2010 at 2:40am — No Comments

Tour de France 2010 Lessons we can learn from true servant leaders!

Like many, I have been following the exploits of this years Tour, not least because of seven-time tour winner, cancer survivor and campaigner - the Texan - Lance Armstrong.…

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Added by Peter Lanc on July 11, 2010 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Offering to Help? Think about the Client.

How many of us have offered friendly advice to our friends or candidates on how to write resumes? How many of us have told them that the professional resume writers had it wrong? I have however over time I realized there is no one way to write a resume. Preferences in your resume vary among recruiters, human resource…

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Added by Chuck Summerland on July 11, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

There is no "I" in "Team" but there is a "Me" - Talent Management and Lebron James

July 8, 2010 - The day Cleveland Died

I don't doubt the fact that many people were watching the hour long reality ESPN special featuring Lebron James and the interviewers of his choosing. I for one was tired and went to bed. So when I came across the Yahoo… Continue

Added by Benjamin McCall on July 11, 2010 at 9:34pm — No Comments

HR Partnership with Strategic Management

Just a thought:

The HR industry has grown exponentially in the last 10 years as issues with Employees and Contingent labour has changed in the legal scene.…

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Added by Neha on July 11, 2010 at 4:34pm — No Comments

HR marketing process 5th step- Campaign implementation Campaign implementation:Moving on the to the campaign implementation, this phase deals with the implementation of the campaign strategy.In campa…

HR marketing process 5th step- Campaign implementation

Campaign implementation:

Moving on the to the campaign implementation, this phase deals with the implementation of the campaign strategy.

In campaign implementation step companies should develop a campaign implementation plan which will help in executing the hr marketing strategy formed in the previous step.

Campaign implementation should have an implementation plan.

Campaign implementation plan- this helps in…

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Added by Vivek Jothi on July 11, 2010 at 4:40am — No Comments

Interview with Markus Gries, HR Director at Fraport KAIA, KSA

Visit: http://blog.bayt.com/2010/06/interview-with-markus-gries-hr-director-at-fraport-kaia-ksa

Bio

Markus graduated with a MBA from WIU in Phoenix, AZ and then worked as Head of Flight Operations in Frankfurt from 1989 till 1996. Markus has long been working for Fraport´s joint ventures abroad. For nine years in Tenerife and Palma de Mallorca, Spain, as Director… Continue

Added by Mona Karaoui on July 11, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments

The Middle East Consumer Confidence Index- June 2010

July 05, 2010

The goal of the Middle East Consumer Confidence Index analysis is to understand the perceptions and attitudes of Middle Eastern consumers regarding the economy of their countries, their personal financial and job situation, their likelihood to purchase and invest and the employment and jobs market in general. Job seekers surveyed were spread across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and other Middle Eastern and North African… Continue

Added by Mona Karaoui on July 11, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments

Office politics, a brief survival guide

(I started writing this post on 24th June 2010, I'm finding these things are taking me a little while now days)

A great day for woman kind here in Australia. I know many women rejoicing in the fact that we have our first Female Prime Minister. A great achievement, and hopefully something that will inspire many generations to come. As a father… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on July 9, 2010 at 11:21pm — No Comments

TMI? If in doubt, leave it out! Making social media work for you

• “OMG! I got so wasted last night!!”

• “Blacking out is no fun! How did I get home?”

• “I can’t believe I slept in a field AND lost my shoes?”

• “How did I end up in Hoboken?”

• “Have to go to court today – stupid speeding tickets!!”

• “I hate my boss – I can’t believe what an idiot I work for!”

• “This job is SO NOT worth $25 per hour!!”

Sound familiar? (These are actual posts by the… Continue

Added by Kelly Moeller on July 9, 2010 at 5:07pm — 2 Comments

A Survey: Unemployed Job Seekers . . . and the Companies Who Hate Them

Okay, maybe “hate” is a bit of a strong word. But still.

I’ve written a few blog posts in the recent past regarding the fact that some companies are mandating they will only consider candidates who are employed for their open positions. You can read those blog posts by clicking on the links below:…

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Added by Matt Deutsch on July 9, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Candidate Response, Company Brand and Your ATS

Working your way past the locked door, to the room of the interview

I am sure that many of us have had our share of interviews. Gone through the process of entering in data and resume information into a company applicant tracking system for a position. For those of us who may be a little more savvy, we may have built our relationships, made contact with our influential contacts, networked and sweet-talked our way into an interview.

Denied

Whichever way you chose… Continue

Added by Benjamin McCall on July 9, 2010 at 1:19pm — 2 Comments

9 in 10 want to use their smartphone to get a new job

This post is published with permission from MoRecNews.com the Mobile Recruiting News site.

We know that the Mobile Internet is growing rapidly. By now everyone should have seen the graphs and predictions highlighting Mobile Internet being equal in usage with

Desktops by 2014 – just 4 years away!

But do candidates want to look for jobs on their Mobile?

Our experience supporting companies…

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Added by David Martin on July 9, 2010 at 12:13pm — No Comments