September 2009 Blog Posts (200)

ERE Tickets + Flight $$ from Broadlook

Win a ticket to ERE. 2 lucky winners will get full conference passes ($1200 value) and one lucky winner will also get $400 towards either their flight or hotel. Watch this video for details.

See you at ERE!

Here is the youtube… Continue

Added by Donato Diorio on September 3, 2009 at 12:50pm — 1 Comment

Recruiting Model & Actionable Information

From $ apropos

This post will be somewhat tangential in terms of the SNS line of thought, although I would like to respond/think about Ken Forrester’s blog post “Searching for the New Recruiting Model”. Ken describes a conversation with a contact about how everything is being turned upside down, and that we now have a need to reassess what constitutes a workable recruiting model.

A lot of information is… Continue

Added by Chuck Hudgins on September 3, 2009 at 11:51am — No Comments

The Art of the Casual Greeting

The art of the casual greeting sounds simple in terms but can be daunting (or forgotten) to some. I’ve recently coached a few candidates who were afflicted with that serious condition that I have termed to be “greeting-challenged”.

The greeting-challenged individual has trouble remembering to keep their energy up when meeting a new person. They forgot to reciprocate with questions when someone asks them how they’re doing. They omit a positive sentiment, leaving the listener amid a… Continue

Added by Suzanne M King on September 3, 2009 at 11:40am — No Comments

General Interview Tips

1) Be flexible in what you are willing to do in the position you are applying for. 2) Don't discuss salary on the first interview. 3) Always be dressed professionally for an interview. Wear a suit (preferably navy blue, black or gray). It is always better to be as conservative as possible. 5) Ask what the company or manager is looking for in the person they will be hiring, what is important to them aside from the technical skills necessary, and what… Continue

Added by Kunin Associates on September 3, 2009 at 9:51am — No Comments

Tuck, Stanford and UNC MBA Resume Books Available Now!

The following resume book databases have been or will be released during the next month:

Resume Books Available Now:

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

Stanford University -… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on September 3, 2009 at 9:08am — No Comments

Fast Forward, Rewind, Pause or Play Your Career …

Our careers are continually in motion. You move in real time whether you are currently employed or not. It does not always feel like you make progress as you measure your success by how much you have truly accomplished and in what period of time it took to get there. Whether you wish you could hurl yourself into the future and fast-forward your career into a more profitable time, or you could rewind it back to a place when you were perhaps at the top of your game, always remember the choice is… Continue

Added by Lisa Kaye on September 3, 2009 at 2:16am — 1 Comment

Social Networking Services - workflow $ apropos

From $ apropos

In my last post I spent some time worrying about whether adopting new SNS based technologies was really worth the trouble, and if it wouldn’t be better to sort of temper our acceptance of the technology with a need to preserve some of the more traditional ways of developing a professional network. With that in mind, I have laid out a few points to keep in mind when attempting to integrate… Continue

Added by Chuck Hudgins on September 2, 2009 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Winning Business

The Hub It is clear that the current recruitment market is a tough place to be at the moment. Over the last 10 years, the £26bn UK industry has been saturated by small entrepreneurial businesses looking for a slice of the action. The vast majority of the smaller agencies owners, by which I mean a business with less than 15 employees, would have started life with a larger agency where they… Continue

Added by Jonny Hiles on September 2, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Java/ ILog Developer needed in parsippany, NJ

Hello,

We are looking for a Java/ILOG Developer for the position with one of my direct client in NJ.

Types of hires: Long term Contract, CTH, Permanent

Please respond back to me with your most updated resume to mir@eliteisinc.com.

Job roles and responsibilities:

Design and development of various middleware and web components for a major enhancement in the primary B2C Sales portal

Must have skills:

J2EE, JAVA, ILog and SOA… Continue

Added by Mir Ali on September 2, 2009 at 12:16pm — No Comments

SalesForce.com (SFDC) Developers needed for the Multiple openings in US

Hello,

We are looking for the SalesForce.com (SFDC) Developers for the multiple opening in US.

Types of hires: Long Term contract, CTH, Permanent.

Please respond back to me with your most updated resume to mir@eliteisinc.com.

Requirement Details :

- Must have Technical experience with Salesforce.com.

- Good communication and leadership skills.

- Broad based past experience in designing, prototyping, and building custom data centric web based… Continue

Added by Mir Ali on September 2, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Righteous Resume

I shall organize
I shall take the complex and summarize
I shall use bullet points to list career highs
I shall control font appearance and size
I shall avoid any and all surprise
I shall not color my text or otherwise
I shall be concise

Enjoy!

Added by Suzanne M King on September 2, 2009 at 11:12am — 1 Comment

Just a thought

We were manipulated for about 150 years, beginning from old man Chéret through advertising, propagandizing comfort and carelessness. But we have absolutely forgotten about one thing, that sooner or later- we will have to pay for everything! People have convinced of prudence of crediting. And we did it. We took credits which we weren’t capable to pay even for one lifetime. The mortgage – became norm! All the world is under the credit. And here when the crediting world standards began to fall… Continue

Added by Dorian G. on September 2, 2009 at 7:13am — 2 Comments

Benefits of Traffic Light Cameras

As a traffic cop, I’ve seen quite a few automobile accidents involving cars speeding through red lights. So when our police department was charged with the task to study the feasibility of using traffic cameras, I was all for it. Studies have shown that the red-light cameras act as a deterrent and the rate of accident due to people running red lights were reduced by asmuch as 30%. That is a significant improvement. Imagine the number of lives that these cameras have… Continue

Added by Dan Berecko on September 2, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

HashLove

I love twitter for a lot of reasons. I'm happy that I am alive in the same era that twitter arrived in because I love it that much. What I love the most about twitter though is how it works and how it enables a lot of possibilities and how it works with job distribution but the great thing is that twitter works I think with almost everything.

About a month ago… Continue

Added by Slouch on September 2, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

www.Skillgalaxy.com can save up to 30% on all your agency based hiring for permanent as well as temporary contract candidates !!!!

Have you heard about skillgalaxy.com? Skillgalaxy.com is a next generation service that utilizes the power of networking to fill jobs quickly and cost-effectively. You can use SkillGalaxy.com to reach millions of candidates, reduce costs and to hire both permanent candidates and temporary contractors. You can also use SkillGalaxy as an enterprise-wide solution for agency based hiring.

Let me explain you the service

I am sure your company hires candidate through… Continue

Added by Rohit Jain on September 1, 2009 at 3:12pm — No Comments

If You Remember One Thing, Remember ToRead.

I know I’m going to lose a few buddies right out the gate when I say this, but women can kick our ass when it comes to remembering things. It’s true. Research has shown women are able to dig stuff up from the vault and dish it out in a nano second. Us guys struggle to remember what happened last night.

But if you’re on Twitter, you know there is crap load of links that are thrown your way daily. How many times have you clicked on those links and tried to remember where they were… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on September 1, 2009 at 1:39pm — 1 Comment

Devil’s Advocate for the Luddite - $ apropos

From: $ apropos

In the past couple of posts I have spent some time pondering how SNS can/will be incorporated into recruiting efforts. I looked at how Asurion Mobile Application’s AddressBook might integrate with an ATS, such as Jobvite. Both are focused on making use of and managing SNS based efforts, and therefore offer a way to capitalize on those technologies.

So at this point I feel the need to play devil’s… Continue

Added by Chuck Hudgins on September 1, 2009 at 12:15pm — 2 Comments

A snippet from a day in the life of a recruiter

Dearest candidate,

Thank you for spending the time to conceive and prepare your resume. The multiple-colored fonts, 24-point type and boldly framed five pages documenting your experiences have, indeed, caught my eye. In addition, I appreciate your sleuthing skills in having found my contact information, and I remain impressed by your initiative to leave me five voicemail messages this week.

Unfortunately, the hiring manager with whom I am working has already selected a… Continue

Added by Suzanne M King on September 1, 2009 at 12:00pm — 10 Comments

Recruitment Strategy Development – Applicant Tracking Systems

So far we have discussed why you should develop a recruitment strategy, corporate and third party sourcing and recruiting. Now that you know how you will source candidates, how will you store their resumes? In this blog RecruiterGuy discusses Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

To define applicant tracking systems in their simplest terms, they are an automated system that allows you to store resumes and candidate information, retrieve resumes, candidate process tracking, and develop… Continue

Added by Bill Humbert on September 1, 2009 at 11:40am — No Comments

Is ‘free’ the wave of the future for job boards?

You can’t cough these days without bumping into a ‘free’ job board, i.e., a job board where employers can post their jobs at no charge. Free job site, free Tweets, free everything. Now, there have always been a few of these boards around, but in the past year or so, it seems like they’ve been reproducing like the proverbial rabbits.

What gives? Some would argue that Free, by Chris Anderson, put a voice to a burgeoning movement: “In a marketplace with low marginal costs and many… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on September 1, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments