Talent Acquisition by Design

 The Good The Bad The Ugly of the Recruiting World

…are more precious than most people realize.

If you sell, you have only that amount of time to capture a buyer’s attention. What you do with it will determine if he or she gives you another nine seconds, and then another and then another. You are always nine seconds away from a conversation continuing or ending.

If you lead, nine seconds determine if employees stay engaged or disconnect. Will you use those precious moments to invite motivation or incite apathy? What you ask or…

I’ve been stimulated by something I read earlier: – “Up to a few years ago, Google would have employees go through a 12 – 14 meeting process. This would result in dreadfully long staffing cycles, loss of top talent to competing internet companies and overall inefficiency when attempting to…

You have joined a new school and you are finding it pretty difficult to adjust to the surroundings. That happens, sometimes when you do not know how to handle pressure and your professor you might end up at the bottom. Today’s educational system is such that students are already pressurized into performing at the level best when writing research papers.

Sometimes, you get to see students not being able to handle the pressure and doing a lot of things that necessarily need not happen.…

It is very difficult for the recruiters to enroll top talent who have the right skill and experience. At the start of the New Year here is a huge pass out of fresh graduates that are ready to become the active part of the society. However rolling the fresh and new talent is something many would consider however it is difficult…

Corporate ladder climbing is a skill.  A lot of the times, it means going the extra mile and taking on more work than necessary in order to get noticed and seem indispensible.  Being a go-getter, furthering your education by taking classes like PMP certification classes, making connections, and learning a skill that no one else can do are great ways to make yourself primed for a move up the corporate ladder. 

Be the Go-Getter Everyone’s…

On Wednesday, the big news at Talent Connect was that LinkedIn had gone mobile.  But mobile access wasn't the only upgrade that LinkedIn's Recruiter product received, although this one received very little fanfare:  recruiters who occupy a LinkedIn Recruiter seat can now post status updates directly onto the Company's Career Page.  On its face, it makes sense.  There's a 94%…

This year I had the absolute privilege to help The Candidate Experience Awards as a member of the CandE Council. It’s been 3 years now and as someone who has followed this program since inception, it’s absolutely tremendous to see how much it’s grown in such a short time (credit is due to founders…

Sourcecon 2013: Building a Global Sourcing Team: Making the Business Case for Sourcing

This Session was on making a case for creating a global sourcing team. Melissa Harper of Monsanto ran this session. One of the key slides of this presentation…

by Rob Kelly

We had a really bad experience with an agency recruiter the other day.

It started with a cold-call and a resume to me.

The recruiter caught my attention with his subject line (implying that he and I had some previous relationship) — it worked. I opened this email:

…the…

Oh the fickle world of HR and recruiting practices, processes and tools. With tools and technology, you’re in one day and out the next. No sooner had we embraced professional resume writers and eye scanning technology to better the art of the resume, than came along LinkedIn and their fancy application technology.

LinkedIn is quickly killing the resume. They have a new…

In this article you will find out how accomplished writers write term papers.

When writing your term papers you need to include:

• Choose your topic
• Search on the internet for information on your given topic
• Outline your paper
• Edit your paper
• Proofread your paper

The above pointers are easier said than done.…

I am beta-testing a tool called Star Finder (http://www.starfinderplugin.com/) - a Chrome Plugin that scores every LinkedIn Profile you open in your Chrome browser. The score is based on a number of factors: the number and quality of their recommendations, connections, and endorsements from other high-score individuals; the number of their followers at Github and AngelList;…

Are you making premature assumptions about applicants or candidates? Here’s a few common categories focused on finding the right fit. Do you see anything potentially wrong with these ways of assessing talent?

Personality Predictions

Once a person’s hard skills are confirmed through visually examining on paper or on screen or verbally over the phone or in person, soft skills almost always become a more prominent factor. Many people place a tremendous amount of credibility…

This Session was on Competitive Intelligence (CI) and was ran by Michelle Geocaris, one of the very best  and most knowledgeable CI people I know.

First she defines CI as “The action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing Intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in…

We have been hearing for awhile now that mobile is where it's at, and today?  LinkedIn announced they agree.  A big part of the product announcements are focused on their mobile users. Makes sense, since somewhere between 70-80% of job seekers report using mobile to find their next career move & 30% of LinkedIn views happen from a mobile device, according to…

I just might be the least athletic person I know. I am surrounded by sports. My nephews and their wives do cross-fit competitions. My husband (in his youth) took part in body building competitions. My niece grew up on the soccer field and my boys have always played baseball with a little soccer and football thrown in as we wait for spring training. That leaves me and my two…

I had to write a post on video interviewing, because somehow, this has become an integral part of HR Technology, and that’s the beat I pretty much cover. And I've been hearing for two years how my skepticism can be overcome, how I just don't understand the technology behind video interviewing (really complicated) or some other boilerplate product marketing solution selling…