The best way to market your career for employment is through your resume. It is your first point of contact and first impression, and in today’s society first impressions count!  If you want to get noticed and to leave an impact, your executive resume needs to be written perfectly and professionally. In accordance with the human resources experts, there are five basic concepts on how to write the executive resume.

An executive resume must be able to market…

This weeks post is a little different, in two ways.

Firstly, it is in fact a Vlog, rather than a blog, and I encourage you to watch the video, focusing more on the content than the plain visage of your faithful blogger!

Secondly instead of a recruitment tip, I am focusing today on the global job market. Is it improving?

I travel a lot. Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK just…

Recruiting business software improves capabilities for collecting, storing and managing employment-related documentation online

OCEANSIDE, CA   July 25, 2011 – Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS) upgrades its paperless document management capabilities within the latest Version 15 of SmartSearch®, an industry leading talent acquisition and applicant tracking system. New Candidate Portal options allow candidates to upload documents with their online employment…

Yesterday, one of our consultants had a question posed to her by a client. The question itself doesn’t matter, but it was, in effect, questioning her judgement and thus her credibility. She asked me how she should handle it.

I told her she needed to back herself 100%. This is critical for recruiters. A client has retained us to provide them with advice on who they should employ in their organisations. If we make a recommendation it’s for a reason, and we need to be able to support…

One of the major functions of HR or Applicant Tracking System is to be able to consolidate resumes into a single, searchable applicant database.

This short, 4 minute video shows how easily and quickly you can accomplish this when using an ATS that automates this process.  This demo shows how ApplicantStack parses out the information from the resume and imports it into the database.

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This provides and overview of how to collect voluntary self-identification information (i.e. gender, ethnicity and race) from applicants for recruitment compliance programs like EEOC and OFCCP.

View the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNChSPTJ58o&feature=channel_video_title

Job Seekers: Stop Working So Hard!

I had someone apply for 15 of our job openings the other day. Fifteen! And all the job openings called for completely different skill requirements. Before even opening this person’s resume I’m thinking: What a waste of my time. Just seeing those 15 messages in my inbox, I was completely turned off. I didn’t even want to look at his resume,…

Ever had an awful boss? I’ll bet he or she had some or maybe most of these bad traits:

Control Junkie: Has a tough time truly delegating or letting go. Has an opinion about everything.

Being Right: Even if your boss is usually right, it feels bad to think that you are generally wrong.

Rude: Bosses too often fail to say…

While all recruitment marketing efforts are focused on hires, it's qualified candidates that we really want or need.  And the more, the better.  I've talked before on how to measure qualified candidates in your recruitment funnel but that only works if you know what a…

The resume services team from ResumeEdge, a Nelnet company and leading online provider of resume writing services, today released a new resource, “Top Ten Interview Blunders.”  People often spend countless hours working on their cover letter and resume to secure a coveted interview, but then make mistakes during the interview that can’t be undone. This new guide…

Despite rising unemployment, employers and staffing firms continue to place an increasing volume of job ads for marketing positions each month, making it one of the most difficult jobs to recruit for.  In May, more than 24,000 new ads were posted, the highest volume in the past 4 years. Although slightly down, more than 23,000 ads were placed in June, still representing a 23% increase from 2010.  According to the …

What is the number one challenge for a recruitment company owner, or for that matter, any owner of their own business, whose business is established and successful?

Jobs are being filled, good placements have covered targets for the next few months, candidates & clients are passively rolling in. Sounds like recruiter heaven, doesnt it?

But this is the time the Owner needs to be careful because complacency sets in quickly and then mistakes get made, client &…

A few weeks ago we received the tragic news that a good friend and long time colleague, had suddenly passed away, in shocking and totally unexpected circumstances.

Duncan Cunningham, who I worked with for almost 10 years, not yet even 40 years old, and with a young family, was suddenly gone.

In Australia, one of our most famous folk ‘pub’ songs is called “I’d love to have a beer with Duncan” by…

Top VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Green Tech portfolio companies are hiring! Of 29 companies in the portfolio, 19 have a total of 324 open green jobs in the US.

Bloom Energy ranks first with 53 open positions, followed by…

Once in a while I have seen signs in front of restaurants that state some variety of "eat with us before we starve". Normally it is the type of place that buys a cake from Costco and resells the pieces. 

I am guessing (and hoping) it is a lame attempt at humor but always found it to be a bit unappealing. Their business being slow (and possibly going away) was not my issue. 

It is more obvious than ever that recruiting teams have to diversify their recruitment marketing efforts. Job seekers are getting savvier about their search and you have to make sure that your organization is found when they are looking online.

The smart money is moving to digital recruiting through targeted advertising and social…