Featured Blog Posts – July 2015 Archive (57)

The Follow-Up You’ve Always Wanted to Send but Haven’t

Recruiters are the face of the brand to new candidates, protecting the employer brand, outgoing, polite, diplomatic, engaging, and the adjectives just don’t stop.  But I feel safe in saying that if a recruiter’s internal monologue were ever visible the interactions would go from G-rated to ‘R’ pretty quickly.  We all have horror stories of that one candidate.   Those tales…

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Added by Daniel Fogel on July 13, 2015 at 10:57am — No Comments

6 Questions You'll Be Asking About Big Data Soon

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Added by Kelly Robinson on July 13, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

So Many Choices, How to Decide?

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Added by Eric J Miller on July 10, 2015 at 3:00pm — No Comments

How to Schedule Your Candidate Interviews Effectively

Scheduling the best interview time for you and your candidate is a kind of a challenge. They lob a time over to you, you lob it back over to them, and so until you come to an agreement.  

In today’s job market, the competition for top talents has increased significantly. If you manage your interviews ineffectively, the process will slow down, and…

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Added by Ann Aldrich on July 10, 2015 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The $70,000 Solution

Minimum wage hikes are all the rage these days. My own adopted hometown of Seattle recently approved $15 / hr minimum wage. Not be outdone, the CEO of…

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Added by Amy Ala Miller on July 9, 2015 at 4:15pm — 8 Comments

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Spoke

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Spoke

Spoke is a business directory and intelligence website mainly used for professional networking. The

site collects and aggregates information from public sources as well as user generated content.

However sometimes doing it from within the tool can…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on July 9, 2015 at 2:38pm — No Comments

The Good (and Bad) Employee Benefits Around the World

Did you know 30% of employees are looking for other work while at their jobs? — Some of those might be wondering what it’d be like to work in another country.…

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Added by Kelly Robinson on July 9, 2015 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Coaching Employees with a Fight or Flight Response to Stress

Company culture is often defined (at least partially) by the employees within the organization. By using personality assessments…

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Added by Ryan Mead on July 9, 2015 at 8:30am — No Comments

Why Your Job Titles Hinder Your Recruiting

Copywriters know that the most important part of an advertisement is the headline.  The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

Recruiter's have something that is equivalent to a headline in an advertisement...the job titles of our job posts.  This is the first thing…

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Added by Eric Putkonen on July 9, 2015 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Googling for LinkedIn Profiles Template and Custom Search Engines

This is a refresher on searching for LinkedIn profiles via Google (“X-Raying” LinkedIn) and links to a Custom Search Engine for those who don't want to write complex Boolean Strings.

LinkedIn has many public pages that Google indexes: profiles, company pages, job posts, and more. 

Public member profiles have URLs that include either "/in" or "/pub"…

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Added by Irina Shamaeva on July 8, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Online Training Programs: The Pros and Cons

With every aspect of employee life becoming automated or moving to the cloud, it only makes sense that training would end up in the crosshairs of discussion. Currently, only 34% of workers have participated in some sort of computer-based or …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on July 7, 2015 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Sales Recruiting Cold Call: What Are You Getting Out Of It?

To say there is a love hate relationship with cold calling would be an understatement. In any sales career cold calling is the lifeline of your success. You’re job as a salesperson is to get the person on the other end of the phone to say yes so you can complete the sale. In agency recruiting it is no different. You must speak to the hiring manager who will ultimately make…

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Added by Chadd Balbi on July 6, 2015 at 8:00am — No Comments

A blog about my dog (...and recruiting)

Almost exactly one year ago, my husband and I adopted our little fur baby from the local animal shelter. We both grew up with pets, but this was our first (and only child) together as a couple. Our sweet guy, Hurley, immediately became a part of our family and dramatically influenced our official new lifestyle as doggie people.

As his one year adoption anniversary approached, I wanted to come up with a way to celebrate how much love and enjoyment he has brought our…

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Added by Kelly Blokdijk on July 3, 2015 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

When Employer Branding and Candidate Experience Collide

I've worked in Employer Branding for nearly 20 years. I surprise myself every time I say it, but it really is that long.

I started by working on research strategies for clients in recruitment when the idea was still in its infancy. Research - other than some basic media hunting - was not a prerequisite, so it was said, for a successful job ad. After all, it…

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Added by Nick Price on July 3, 2015 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

7 Ways to Attract Candidates Like a Silicon Valley Startup

With so many Silicon Valley companies setting trends when it comes to office layouts, benefits, and meeting philosophies, it’s only natural that organizations across the country want to replicate their processes when…

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Added by Joe Weinlick on July 2, 2015 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

How many candidates does it take to get a hire? One, two, a thrrree?

I don't give a hoot, yeah I said hoot, about how many candidates it takes to get a hire. You know why? Because after being in this industry for 15+ nearly years you learn something about what it really takes. I'm going to break this down for you dear readers. We've all been doing it wrong lately. And, here is something more. You can blame whoever came up with the stoopid…

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Added by Michael Glenn on July 1, 2015 at 4:01pm — 1 Comment

How to Improve Employee Performance in 4 Steps

The performance appraisal. Love it? Hate it? Honestly, when it comes to employee performance there really isn’t any other way to improve the quality of their work. However, there are ways to botch the process if you don’t conduct these…

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Added by Chris Arringdale on July 1, 2015 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

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