September 2007 Blog Posts (79)

Professional Pet Peeve #1

Declining an Outlook meeting invite without looking at the date. Sorry, I can't make this meeting tomorrow because blah blah blah reason...even though the meeting invite states the meeting isn't until October. READ THE DAMN DATE PEOPLE! If people would slow down for 5 minutes and read instead of being Mr./Ms. Johnny/Janie On-The-Spot, Fastest Mouse-Clicker West of the Mississippi, Ms. Cleo of Outlook Invitations, I wouldn't have to write this. But no, it must be a race to see who can respond…

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Added by Ragan Kellams on September 19, 2007 at 2:15pm — 1 Comment

The born Job Advertising Index

The born team have launched a new information product this week, the born Job Advertising Index.…

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Added by Julian Stopps on September 19, 2007 at 5:10am — No Comments

bleeding my soul to the recruiting ANIMAL

Bled my soul

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Yeah…so of all people I called up the RECRUITING ANIMAL tonight and poured my soul to him…of course he was attentive and…

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Added by WorkFarce on September 18, 2007 at 9:49pm — No Comments

Four Part Webinar Series on Best Practices

Can your employer brand really affect your cost of doing business? Yes. Interested in learning best practices around the most critical issues facing HR: source of hire, recruiting process, employer brand

and retention?

logo_hrcom_beta1.gif class= Join us in this four part Webinar series to learn best practices that companies like Bank of America, Dick’s Sporting Goods, IHOP, Lowe’s, Methodist Healthcare, WellStar and

others are doing…

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Added by Catherine Horgan on September 18, 2007 at 9:22pm — No Comments

That's a big word Dave!

Folksonomy. AKA collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, or social tagging. What a great way to introduce this abstract concept! Dave Copps had just a wonderful talk at SourceCon about real nature of information on the web and how it relates social networking. Web 3.0. This is very much along the line of "Everything is Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger ISBN 0-8050-8043-0.

I also noticed that Dave uses a Mac.…

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Added by James Guske on September 18, 2007 at 8:52pm — No Comments

I'm Back Jack...

I’m back jack….

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

After a long respite I have emerged…sure, slimy and shawshank-like crawling out of…

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Added by WorkFarce on September 18, 2007 at 8:42pm — No Comments

Inner Farce

Sometimes…You Can’t Fight your inner Farce

September 7th, 2007 · 1…

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Added by WorkFarce on September 18, 2007 at 8:41pm — No Comments

Win $250 For Charity

We're always looking for ways to demonstrate the positive power of social media. And this time we found it on BlogCatalog.com. BlogCatalog members have designated Sept. 27 as Blog Against Abuse.

While the topic is wide open, we were really taken by the idea. Enough so that I e-mailed the Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog, to see if we could go beyond our usual support of his social… Continue

Added by Rich on September 18, 2007 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Youth not always an advantage

Most of us who have been around understand (and sometimes long for) the advantages of youth (especially as our society is obsessed with youth), but when it comes to career changes sometimes a little experience goes a long way.

Obviously my job as a recruiter is to educate and inform a candidate about the interview process and assist them in working through details about a job and anything impacted by a change in jobs. Of course working with candidates who have been…

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Added by bill martineau on September 18, 2007 at 11:34am — No Comments

Re-Recruiting your Current Employees

Is re-recruiting your current employee’s part of your employee retention strategy? If not, it should be, according to Michael Jalbert, president of Management Recruiters International.

“Employers should be applying the strategies and tools of external recruiting to their current employees.”

Loyalty is a good trait to have but it is unrealistic to think that your employees will be loyal in such a…

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Added by Nicole St.Martin on September 18, 2007 at 10:28am — No Comments

The future of recruiting

Do you think you know? Here's the answer.

Added by Chris Russell on September 18, 2007 at 9:13am — No Comments

Another SourceCon Picture: Amybeth Interviews Audience.

Sourcers have diverse backgrounds.

Added by James Guske on September 18, 2007 at 5:55am — No Comments

Resume Typos & English as a Second Language

When I was just getting started in the Recruiting business, a very

successful recruiter told me that one of his red flags was a

typographical or grammatical error in a resume. His point was that a

resume is the most important document a person uses to "sell" his/her

skills, and he/she should make darn sure that there are no errors.

My mentor told me that a lack of… Continue

Added by Katie Tierney on September 17, 2007 at 11:03pm — No Comments

SourceCon2007 - 90% say "I will be back"

I just finished reading the conference attendee comments and 90% of you said you would definitely attend SourceCon2008 with many of you also saying you will be looking to bring along colleagues next year.

From the moment that our MC, Mr Jim Stroud, walked…

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Added by SourceCon Dude on September 14, 2007 at 5:06pm — 12 Comments

SourceCon1: "Wow"

I wanted to thank everyone here who met me at sourcecon1. More blog posts to come.

Added by James Guske on September 14, 2007 at 4:55pm — 1 Comment

The Atlanta Recruiting RoadShow is Sold Out

Congrats to Amitai Givertz and John Sumser for generating enough buzz to sell out the Atlanta RoadShow. That is great news and it validates that there is a need for this.

The Fordyce Letter is… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 14, 2007 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Are Recruiting Fees Going Down?

I remember about 2 years ago I had my first conversation with Harry Joiner. Since then we have always enjoyed our weekly calls about domain names and recruiting. This week we each bought a new one but that is another post.

Getting back to our first conversation, Harry told me that he was convinced that agency fees were going to go down because he could not see how… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 14, 2007 at 12:17pm — 7 Comments

Looking for feedback on ''Electronic Recruiting 101" 2007 edition.

Has anyone purchased or read 'Electronic Recruiting 101
(2007 Edition)
by Shally Steckerl
published by The Fordyce Letter

I came across it on www.ere.net and was wondering if it was a worthwhile purchase?

Any comments\feedback on this is welcomed. =)

Finn

Added by Finny Varghese on September 14, 2007 at 11:50am — 3 Comments

SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge

What was the challenge and who won?

Added by Charles Bretz on September 13, 2007 at 3:21pm — 3 Comments

Bad candidate clichés

In my twenty years of recruiting I’ve heard many clichés about the hiring process concerning candidates’ fears, but over that time most have either been dispelled or just fallen out of favor. However, two of the oldie but goodies were repeated to me the other day and I was simply amazed at the logic of the candidate.

The classics were “You have to get it (money) coming in or you’ll never get it” and “You can’t get a promotion for two years”. Now as we all know of…

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Added by bill martineau on September 13, 2007 at 10:07am — No Comments