September 2011 Blog Posts (181)

A recruiter without hunger is like a cat without curiosity.

 

 

Gotta love a cat's curiosity. 

It gets them into trouble as well as earns them a hunter's knowledge. 

The important thing is they are constantly looking to satisfy their hunger.

A recruiter without a…

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Added by Valentino Martinez on September 21, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

How to Help Candidates Take Advantage of New Relocation Opportunities

The housing market is still dismal, at best, but it appears that relocations are beginning to rebound anyway.

Relocations took a dive during the recession because workers who might have otherwise considered taking a job elsewhere couldn't sell their homes. And companies that may have purchased potential employees' homes in…

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Added by Debbie Fledderjohann on September 20, 2011 at 3:13pm — 1 Comment

Why Recruiters Should NOT Ignore "Job Hoppers"

A recent blog post on www.ere.net poses an interesting question "Frequent Job Hopper - Should We Ignore Them?"

For many recruiters, the knee-jerk reaction to this question is a resounding "Yes!" After all, your clients don't want to pay you good money to place…

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Added by Debbie Fledderjohann on September 20, 2011 at 3:00pm — 9 Comments

The Juror Who Was Never Called: Recruitment Lessons from the Jury Selection Process

By Karen Bucks, iCIMS Blogger

 

A couple of weeks ago, I got this notice in the mail that brightened my day, well week, well actually a good month. It was a jury summons! Wait what? Yes, you’ve heard me correctly…jury…

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Added by Karen Bucks on September 20, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Selling is easier...So What?

I attended the Staffing Industry monthly webinar the other day and they presented a slide

based off feedback from staffing companies reporting that  selling is now easier for most markets  and has been for about 3 months.  The cycle has started to flip and we are approaching a candidate driven market.  I

always preferred a client driven market because I enjoyed the challenge.  I am not saying I want to go back to a year ago, I just appreciate what starting out in a client driven…

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Added by Melissa on September 20, 2011 at 10:45am — No Comments

Double Dipping in your Recruitment Campaigns

No matter if you are receiving too many applicants or receiving too few, there is always value in looking on how you can maximize the performance of your recruitment marketing campaigns.

 

Whether it’s increasing your ability to collect recruiting contacts through opt-in or creating a better recruitment marketing mix of recruiting channels, there are plenty of opportunities to set up processes…

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Added by Chris Brablc on September 20, 2011 at 9:35am — No Comments

What's next for job boards? Devolution? Revolution? Evolution?

“You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we’re all doing what we can.” – The Beatles

“We’re pinheads all, jocko homo.” -DEVO

 

These lyrics really get to the two extremes of what recruiters, employers, and job seekers think might happen with job boards. On the one hand, there are those who think job boards are on the way out, ‘devolving’ into lowest common denominator sites that carry fake jobs and offer little…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on September 20, 2011 at 9:11am — 3 Comments

Tracking Candidates for Profit – Making Money for Your Company

I recently did some work for a large retailer who’s executives kept talking about increasing their customer base and of course their profits. While conductiong  a recruitment audit it was clear that all candidate tracking was being done on spreadsheets with zero candidate follow- up unless the candidate was the chosen one of the day. When I suggested to senior executives that they should follow- up on each and every resume with at least an automated response thanking candidates for their…

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Added by Francois Guay on September 20, 2011 at 8:37am — No Comments

Thoughts for recruitment tech start-ups...

I seem to have spent a significant amount of this last year back in the field of a subject that occupied my working life some 13 years ago - recruitment technology. More specifically, new technology in the form of start ups and new entrants which is always more interesting. However, as those with way more experience of the start up arena will tell you, you have to kiss a lot…

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Added by Gareth Jones on September 20, 2011 at 8:00am — 6 Comments

What is happening with .jobs?

What is happening with .jobs?

Does anyone know what is the latest (current) status of the .jobs domain space please? I just found this:

http://universe.jobs/profile/IvanStojanovic

That looks like an ‘Employers Alliance’ kind of a project more than anything else?

 

BTW. Is the platform of that Universe.Jobs the same NING as the platform used for this site…

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Added by Ivan Stojanovic on September 20, 2011 at 7:32am — 1 Comment

When Your Prime Recruiting Candidate Lies to You

So what happens when your prime candidate lies to you?  I am not talking about some modest little fibs here  but some outright whoppers that when detected leave you twisting in the wind.   As a recruiter, this doesn't bode well for your relationships with different clients.   Most prefer to know the goods are genuine authentic, not some counterfeit designer

But in this difficult  economy with a highly competitive job market, some employment candidates might be selling you a bill of…

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Added by Gordon Basichis on September 20, 2011 at 3:30am — 3 Comments

Get Ready for the America Hires Virtual Job Fair



 

Say good-bye to traditional job fairs and say hello to the America Hires Virtual Job Fair, an online and interactive event aimed to help 1MM+ career professionals find employment across the United States.

Organized…

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Added by Carlos Gil on September 20, 2011 at 1:53am — No Comments

How to See a Shining Candidate Through a Lousy Resume

I’m not prone to feel sorry for people who don’t put together a good resume and complain about not finding a job, just like I don’t feel sorry for recruiters who complain about bad applicant tracking software but who never took the time research such a crucial… Continue

Added by Tim Giehll on September 19, 2011 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Millennial Momentum: Required Reading for Corporate America...and the Rest of Us

Cross-posted to The Green Suits:

 

Aided by my wonderful but eye-straining Kindle for Android app I read Millennial Momentum, Morley Winograd’s and Mike Hais’ great new book about the U.S.’s Millennial Generation.

 

The Millennials (otherwise known as the “Gen Y” cohort) are Americans born between 1982 and 2001. Milllennials stand in stark contrast to the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers that preceded them; they…

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Added by Dan Smolen on September 19, 2011 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Social Media Recruiting to Job Aggregators: Grandma's Chicken Soup #33

I am running a week behind...my apologies.  I want to thank everyone who stopped by and chatted with us at the HireClix booth during the Fall ERE Expo.  Here are some great photos taken by our friend @HRMargo.…

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Added by Scott Ryan on September 19, 2011 at 10:38am — No Comments

Recruiting for Gurus, Wizards, Ninjas, Rockstars and Evangelists

Job titles can go through trends just like anything else.  We decided to take a look at the job titles using the words Guru, Wizard, Ninja, Rockstar or Evangelist in the title. In the past 90 days, there have been 600 ads that included these words in the job titles.

 

Hiring demand for gurus, wizards, rockstars and evangelists

Source:…

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Added by Carolyn Menz on September 19, 2011 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Simply Balanced

Most sensible people avoid driving drunk and even driving while overly fatigued, knowing the physical harm they could do behind the wheel of a car. Yet, many of these same sensible individuals are driving their businesses under the influence of little sleep, long working hours, and extraordinary amounts of stress. Little thought is given to the harm that could befall the company and its clients as a result of the poor decisions and inattentiveness that come with being out of… Continue

Added by Scott Wintrip on September 19, 2011 at 8:19am — No Comments

5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 9.9.11 to 9.16.11

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about selling your company, employee recognition, personality tests, Google + and companies hiring unemployed workers.

 

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

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Added by Chris Brablc on September 19, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Axe the Losers to Hire more Winners

Seems so simple but very few companies seem willing to act on one of the leading causes of why good candidates do not want to work for their company: incompetent and unprofessional managers. Believe me word gets around and when it does it sure makes a recruiter and human resource's task more difficult.

I cannot tell you how many times I have received calls or emails from great potential candidates about the terrible experiences they have had during an interview. Managers endlessly…

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Added by Francois Guay on September 19, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

I like long walks and foreign films...

I’ve been in recruitment for a long time, a helluva long time……. Not quite as long as it’s been since a Tigers premiership, but a long time nonetheless… (apologies here to any interstate, or international readers, but it is AFL finals and I needed to vent of behalf of downtrodden and anguished Richmond supporter base….).

I don’t know the accurate stats, but let’s say that the number of interviews I’ve conducted during my time in recruitment runs into the thousands. I consider myself to be a… Continue

Added by Craig Watson on September 19, 2011 at 7:00am — 5 Comments

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