You certainly wish you could snap your fingers and find the right people for your clients. Unfortunately unlike the classic TV sitcom Bewitched, you can’t just wiggle your nose and wait for talent to appear.

The skills gap has made it harder than ever to find the right people, which explains why…

We’ve all thought it, “I could do this from home, why do I need to be here…wearing pants?” And then killed time on Candy Crush for the last couple hours of the workday. When the recession hit, a lot of businesses said, “Yeah, why do you need to be here?” Telecommuting became an incredibly popular way to work. …

Miss Recruitment sits over in one corner of the office, sifting through CV's and writing job ads.

Mr Marketer is over in the opposite corner throwing screwed up balls of paper at the newest member of the sales team. Or whatever they do …

Recruiting and marketing have always been considered very separate functions. But could your recruitment procedures learn a few tricks from marketing…

We are creatures that communicate via mobile constantly.  It only stands to reason that a sourcer or recruiter must be just as connected as their audience in order to identify, engage, and attract the right talent.

Micro-blogging (blogging via Twitter, IM status, Facebook status, Linkedin status, etc.) is one of the main communication methods that a lot of people use.  Because of the avalanche of information out there, certain mobile apps can be beneficial in the mobile recruiting /…

Love the “No.”

As recruiters we are trained to love hearing yes.  “Yes, please help me with this position.”  “Yes we are going to make your candidate an offer.”  And best of all, “yes I will accept that offer and here are seven of my highly qualified friends that need work.”  I may have exaggerated with the last one.  But you get my point. 

The word “No” is something we are trained…

A company’s brand is who they are and what sets them apart. There are probably thousands of other companies in most industries, but there are only a handful of names that people will recognize. They will recognize those names because of clearly defined and successfully promoted branding. Even if a company offers the exact same services or products as the other guy, the company with the established brand will always do…

Instead of handing employees a handbook and wishing them the best of luck, there’s a better way to get them informed and engaged. Employees who are given the proper material and training, engage and produce. It’s common sense, if companies facilitate the proper training of…

Mobile healthcare recruiting is a very effective way to recruit younger generation healthcare professionals. Many young people today have grown up in climates where mobile communication is ubiquitous. So it's natural for these young people to use their mobile devices to search for new jobs. Savvy healthcare recruiters can employ mobile recruiting to ensure they are reaching a wide number of young people searching for jobs in the healthcare…

As the biotechnology industry grows, interest in contract staffing among both companies and workers in this area is also increasing, creating a hot new niche for contract staffing recruiters.

Biotechnology professionals are those who are involved in the use of living organisms to create certain products, such as engineered crops and pharmaceutical drugs.  These include a wide range analysts, scientists, engineers, technicians and specific titles such as biomedical…

In-house physician recruiters are asked to do a difficult job. Competition for candidates is intense, bosses demand results, scheduling phone calls and interviews around multiple physician’s schedules can be crazy, and neither anticipating or answering every question a physician candidate may have about a particular job is very easy either. And that is just the “regular” physician jobs.  How can in-house physician recruiters work to fill the “challenging” positions that require extra…

I love coffee.  There are times when instant does the trick, but the slow-roasted, slow-matured brew is the best.  How often do we choose our favorite places for a chat with our close friends, or to meet a client or candidate?  It has to be the quality of the coffee!  The way I see it, I am paying a few dollars to a business who has taken the time to source the best and they normally have way more to offer once I sit down and scan the menu.  Do I order more?  Hell yes.  I…

If one of your favorite songs is the old folksong "The Times, They Are A-Changin'," then you'll want to be sure to check that the resumes you send out are up to date. For, yes, the times really have changed since that tune was popular, especially with all the new technology trends popping up in the past few years.



Here are a few signs that a CV needs a serious facelift and how to update it.





The Times, They Are A-Changin'



Lots of…

***This post was originally posted on Bulls Eye Recruiting (www.wthomsonjr.com) and has been extremely controversial.  Love to hear your thoughts.  

There has been a lot written about the job market lately.  “The good jobs” aren’t posted anymore.  Don’t apply to jobs on the Internet!  Don’t bother putting your resume in…

Check out iCIMS' latest blog post from iCIMS blogger Angelo Gagliano.

Improving process in the work place has been an extremely rewarding job for me over the past 17 years. In my personal resume cover letter I have a sentence that reads “Inefficiency makes me…

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The Needle Online, an HR Tech recruitment business specialising in Video Interviewing, announced today that recruitment entrepreneur and founder of CVSeeMe.com, Keith Mabbutt, has joined the company. Keith joins The…

Luck in Staffing!!

As we all know there is a great deal of skill, experience and dedication in being a great staffing professional. What some us may not realize is there is also a great deal of luck. How many times have we been banging our heads against the wall looking for a particular candidate with a specific skill, only one day to have them…

I'm a studious reader of sites like ERE.net, SourceCon, TLNT, and RecruitingBlogs. I've read the debate over the demise of agency recruiting. A debate which is filled with emotion, and where sentiments are strong.

Reading the commentary and online debate provides perspective, but to me it's not enough. That's why a recent conversation with a Director of Talent Acquisition [let's call her Jane]…