October 2008 Blog Posts (295)

New Retail Career Board

Hi all- I am helping a friend launch a new job board he has extended a very nice offer to recruiters to post and obtain access to free resume search for retail positions

on his website for Free for the first 35 days...

Introducing www.retailcareercenter.com

(find us under google)

Free 35 day Trial- free Job Postings/Resume search

• 1/4 Page Print Ad for Five Weeks

Includes custom designed, 4-color print ad.

• Unlimited Web… Continue

Added by Pam Kortekamp on October 22, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Contrarian Hiring - Plucking Top Talent from the Droves of Job Seekers

Recent article on this great topic:

Rick Fecteau runs a chain of automobile dealerships in New Hampshire & Massachusetts. One would think that his dealerships are suffering like many other dealerships during this tough economic time. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel that is causing his business to hold it’s own and even improve - the availability of top performers from other dealerships that lost their jobs.

Instead of waiting around for the market to… Continue

Added by Jennifer Porter on October 22, 2008 at 10:34am — No Comments

Animal Show Wed Oct 22 NOON Eastern Time

Lance Haun - Recruiting Animal Show - the only online call in show about recruiting in world history

GUEST: LANCE HAUN, HR BLOGGER

Lance on Linkedin, lancehaun.com, YourHRGuy.com, HRMToday.com,… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on October 22, 2008 at 10:12am — No Comments

October 22, 2008

Claudia's Wednesday Wisdom

In this week's column Claudia tackles the tricky issues around relocation in The Relocation Runaround. Add your thoughts to Claudia's advice for this frustrated recruiter!

Happy Wednesday! Ami G.

Added by Amitai Givertz on October 22, 2008 at 8:26am — No Comments

The Relocation Runaround

Dear Claudia,

I am sick, sick, sick of hiring managers who won’t pay to relocate candidates, and candidates who won’t consider relocating to take a great job. Everybody wants what they want they way they want it – aren’t we in a tough economy right now? What ever happened to adjusting to reality? I need some suggestions to sell both sides better, because begging just isn’t cutting it. What do you recommend?

Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

Dear… Continue

Added by Claudia Faust on October 22, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Experienced Technical and Business Recruiter seeking new opportunity, Virtual or On-Site, dshannon1@gmail.com

Professional, results oriented, customer focused Recruiter.I am experienced in all methods of direct and indirect recruiting and knowledgeable in numerous applicant tracking systems. Industries include Information Systems and Services, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing, Banking, Sales, and Clinical Laboratory, Life Sciences, Food Sciences and Healthcare. I am also trained and knowledgeable in EEOC and OFCCP employment law, recruitment and compliance issues, Behavioral Interviewing, Targeted… Continue

Added by Dennis on October 22, 2008 at 6:13am — No Comments

Application Engineers Needed in Texas

The Opportunity: 80-100k salary, We offer a 50% split fee to partners

This position will support and contribute to our activities within the Sales division. Ideally, this team member will be located in the Denver, Colorado area, or Dallas, Texas, or Houston, Texas area, and have previous experience in a Technical Sales Support role.

Candidate Attributes/Qualifications:

1. Must possess an understanding of the Oil and Gas Market, both Pipeline… Continue

Added by Jeffrey Calannio, CPC on October 21, 2008 at 5:53pm — No Comments

too much to say, too much to type. Today, through my eyes

Well, well, well, the market has changed once more, how bad will this be? I pity the younger people who have never seen a slightly less optimal market. They could be likely to believe all the hype, all the doom and gloom and just keep staring at their screens wondering which bit of sky will fall next.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not making light of the situation, from what I can understand, things do seem a little dire. But to quote the lion king, there is a circle of life,… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on October 21, 2008 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Question

I am working with a client who utilizes Remedy Staffing. Does anyone have any information on them? I have only heard of them a few times.

Thank you!

Added by Julia Parks on October 21, 2008 at 4:25pm — No Comments

It’s all in the Details baby – how your job hunt is like event planning

Details details details…. Everyone recognizes the importance of details when planning a party, but they are also more important than you realize when job searching. Just like planning an event that you…

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Added by Heather Gardner on October 21, 2008 at 4:14pm — 5 Comments

Words to the Wise: Hedge Fund Trader Writes Farewell as "So Long Suckers!"

Makes you think in many different directions .... some pleasant many not:

"So long, suckers." Millionaire hedge fund boss thanks 'idiot' traders and retires at 37

The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.

Andrew Lahde's $80m Los Angeles-based firm Lahde Capital Management in Los Angeles made a huge… Continue

Added by Dave Mendoza on October 21, 2008 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment

Recruiter open for job in pleasanton california

If anyone out there has a job opening for a recruiter in pleasanton california. Please contact me
yangmichell@gmail.com
my website
http://www.michelle-elaine.net

Added by Michelle Yang on October 21, 2008 at 3:13pm — No Comments

Growing....

Wow, I did not realize that connecting LinkedIn with different profiles would help me grow my network this quickly. Thank you to everyone that has reached out to connect to me in the past few days.

Added by Matt Hilleary on October 21, 2008 at 12:43pm — No Comments

McCain and Obama Unite on H1B Issue

November 5th is rapidly approaching us. With so much talk in the news lately about the difference in opinions between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, I thought it would be good to address an issue that they both have similar views on – they both support argument that H1B Visa’s issued in the United States per year to be expanded.
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Added by BINC Search on October 21, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Sick of below standard recruitment websites

Enough is enough! I am totally sick of visiting recruitment agency websites to be faced with disastrous job-seeking experience. This must improve!

Making the web work can increase candidate levels, reduce advertising costs and deliver a better service to the online job seeking community.

Using our expert insight to recruitment sites of all shapes and sizes across the UK and metrics showing user interaction / application levels we have developed a details site review… Continue

Added by David Martin on October 21, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Mainframe Programmer

Need Mainframe Programmer with The required skills will be; COBOL, Assembler and Insurance background EXCELLENT communication skills.

Duration: 12 Months +
Location: RI

Please send me resume to sudip@atlassoft.com

Added by Sudip on October 21, 2008 at 11:29am — 1 Comment

Death of Contingent Search

I read an interesting article over the weekend. It's called "The Death of Contingency Search", written by Adam Robinson, Founder & Editor of Better Hiring Today (http://betterhiringtoday.com/2008/09/10/the-death-of-contingent-search/). He makes some interesting points. One of them is - "Recruiting is no longer about who you know. It's about throughput". I thought this paragraph was particularly relevant:

"Which brings me to the issue at hand - the massive change going on in the… Continue

Added by Mark Bielecki on October 21, 2008 at 10:00am — 38 Comments

Job Interview Tip: Turn off your cell phone!

Cell phones are an incredible convenience for all of us, but also a major source of irritation when people don’t remember their manners while using them in public places. One of the biggest blunders you can make? Answering your phone while in a job interview!! Seems obvious, I know, but believe me, it happens. If you answer your cell while in an interview for medical sales, pharmaceutical sales, laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics sales, medical supplies sales, pathology sales, imaging… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on October 21, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Future Historians on Social Branding

The other night I was reading a bedtime dinosaur book to my two "older" boys (ages 7 and 3). Looking at the vibrant illustrations in the book, my adroit 7 year old asked, "Dad, if Paleontologists learned about the dinosaurs through fossils, then how do they know what colors they were?" "Good question!" I replied proudly. "Mostly they don't. They can guess and estimate about the color of the creatures from what they know about their feeding habits and their environment. But they don't really… Continue

Added by Craig Fisher on October 21, 2008 at 9:21am — No Comments