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Yesterday Dawn owner of Trans-logic, Heather of Ranstad, Doreen of WWWworks, Tracy, owner of The Job Route; Brian, owner of Campbell Morden and I took time out of our busy schedules to attend…

It’s that time of year: Halloween! Time to dress up and pretend to be someone else for the day. A perfect time to have your recruiters to try on a costume they haven’t done in a while: Being a candidate to your company!

When was the last time that you actually went through your recruiting process from soup to nuts from a candidate’s point of view? I hope the answer is every month or quarter. But if you…

The recent closure of SpamIt.com in Russia has successfully reduced global spam by 20% over the past few days. It's bad enough that spammers are shilling ED drugs - as if sexual potency were the solution to the world's ills - but I've recently seen an uptick in jobseeker spam. This is simply insidious and unconscionable because the senders…

OMG! As most everyone in the staffing industry heard on Thursday, October 21, 2010, Bond Adapt out of the U.K. acquired VCG out of Atlanta. For the staffing industry here in the U.S., this is the biggest Staffing Software M&A news in years. In…

Recently I sat down with William Wechtenhiser (formerly CTO of SonicBids, VP of Engineering at Goldman Sachs and Zoom Info most recently) to…

***Before going any further, I should mention that you MIGHT want to be familiar with Kanye Wests' "Runaway" to understand the pop culture reference. Click here…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Intern Blog.

As we all know, a significant portion of candidates viewing your available jobs will not fully commit to applying – even if they are at least somewhat interested. It could just be that some people aren’t in a

position to make a major career decision whether it’s because they don’t feel qualified yet or…

Metrics based goals- made simple- what you really need!!…

We receive a lot of questions from employers asking us essentially the same thing, “what recruiting channels should I use?” The answer to this question is always “It Depends.” It depends on the job position, it depends on your company’s employer brand, it depends on the resources you have on your recruiting team, it depends on how much recruiting budget you have, etc. We listen to their situation and then provide recommendations.…

After hearing Joe Navarro speak and then reading his book What Every Body is Saying, I decided to seek him out to ask him some pointed questions about what he has learned about non-verbal communication…

When you think about the full cycle of a job placement, you should have 5 main concerns. Without them, long term success in unachievable. This is true for third-party recruiters (fee based), corporate recruiters (HR based) and for educational career services professionals (placing graduating students).…

In a recent study that was part survey, part focus group, IBM researchers surveyed 707 HR leaders of companies of all sizes around the world; 600 of them were interviewed face-to-face. According to IBM’s senior VP for HR, J. Randall MacDonald, “HR leaders expect their businesses to remain focused on two equally important goals during the next three years — the need to drive growth yet, at the same…

It’s fun bashing job boards (ok, it’s fun bashing…