This past weekend, my family and I celebrated my father's 70th birthday. For those of you who don't know me well, my parents are included in my Pantheon of heroes right next to the person who invented Twizzlers. So I thought that I would share some of the wisdom and gifts of my family over the next couple of blogs starting with my dad.…

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This week, I'll be speaking on market diversification best practices at the TechServe Alliance Annual Conference in Orlando. For those that cannot attend, this will provide you an IT market demand update.



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Demand for IT talent continues to climb, with the need for the top three job types edging towards the… Continue

Return on Investment (ROI), Explained!!…

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Everyone’s familiar with internships, right? They’re pretty straightforward, typically available for college students (traditionally rising juniors or seniors) and give a person an inside look into a company. Gone are the days of the interns serving as the company “go-for”, getting coffee all summer, and picking up the boss’…

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In August, I began gathering data from job seekers, HR professionals, recruiters, and job board employees and operators on the future of job boards and the methods for finding jobs and candidates. Now, 275 responses later, we have some results.

Each survey respondent identified him or herself as a job seeker, a HR or recruiting professional, or a job board employee or operator. Based on their response to that question, they then answered a series of questions specific to…

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Where are the EPIC Certified Consltants hiding? angel.artiles@ACSICORP.COM

Social Media has become the new hub for posting job opportunities and attracting potential candidates, including those who weren’t necessarily “searching”. I don’t believe we will ever get away from the core of finding the hidden gems of job/career opportunities, it has been and will always been a world where who you know or who knows you - puts you in the lead. But now it has grown, social media has expand this…

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While I try my best to not be overtly promotional in this forum, every now and then our software developers come up with something so compelling that I would be doing you a disservice not to announce it.



Of course, there are many useful applications for the iPad for HR, recruiting and staffing professionals to stay informed, up to date and functional – while mobile. See below for a list of our favorite 7 iPad apps for business.



1. Bond eEmpACT Staffing… Continue

While gratitude for current circumstances and successes is prudent, being satisfied is quicksand for recruiting professionals. Satisfaction becomes a trap that keeps you cemented to your doorstep and allows your competitors to grab more market share. I asked a recent workshop participant, who was resistant to ideas for enhancing her business, if she was satisfied with her current business model and she replied, “Yes!” When asked if she was also satisfied with her… Continue

Over the last 18 months, we have seen 5,348 consultants leave the recruitment sector, however at the same time we have seen an increase in active recruitment agencies. There are currently 1,720 recruitment consultant jobs advertised on seek alone. A question I believe is worth asking is how will these new and existing agencies bring…

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Through my experience as the owner of a recruitment business, corporate management and ownership of various trading companies, as a business consultant and executive coach I KNOW I haven't always 'got the brief right first time'. Even when I was hiring for my own companies, it was easy to 'fill a chair', to be so busy as not to put the right time into the strategic thinking as well as the operational thinking about, 'what worked and what didn't work' about the last person, the last job… Continue

No matter what happens from here on out, I know that I made a positive impact on a complete stranger. On those days when I question why bother with the phone calls? ‘Because’ now leads to concrete evidence that smiles, laughter and listening truly do matter and do make a difference.…

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