Please note: This article originally featured on the RecruitLoop Blog.

If you measured every metric that every article on the web suggested you should measure to confirm whether you are employing effectively or not, you would end up spending most of your time measuring recruiting activities…

Sourcecon 2013: Creating a Self-Sustaining Sourcing Team

The Session was about creating a self-sustaining sourcing team. Mark Tororici ran this session, and started it in a very interesting way. “First the good News” which was the market for sourcers and recruiters is hot. You can imagine the cheers on that one. Of course if there is good…

Hi everyone,

I have been into the recruiting field now for almost a year, but I can see that the resources for finding candidates is getting worse, with zip-recruiter payment so high and the candidates are of no quality... So I was doing a research on finding candidates and I found a site called OnMyWay their fee is so good, has anyone heard of it or tried it??? If someone did please advice.

Frustration, anxiety and uncertainty. Yes, we all have it! What to do next?

As recruiters in the federal government community, we are also confronted with a large community of job seekers who are flooding you with resumes and applications. When the ball gets rolling again, you will need to hire -and fast- qualified cleared talent. What do you do while at a standstill?

Here are some recommendations on maintaining your employer brand and keeping your talent pipeline…

Social media has changed the hiring process immensely, particularly for those seeking job interviews. Hiring managers who search an applicant's name will most likely discover at least one active social media profile.



Even if your resume paints you to be the perfect candidate for the position, your social media activity could prevent you from getting a job interview. While it may be fun to share your adventures with your family and friends on Facebook or Twitter, you may not want…

The demand for ‘online survey’ jobs has increased what with the amount of reviews, advertisements, suggestions and comments that has spread over the Internet. Even for a fresher there is a storehouse of information which will encourage him/her to jump into this job profile. Since all the knowledge required for this job is already available online, registering followed by afflicting oneself with any one of the ‘survey providers’ is extremely to start with.…

The best way to describe a career in oil and gas engineering is to call it adventurous and rewarding. The oil and gas industry is growing and this growth has boosted the requirement of good and efficient oil and gas engineers. There is a steady rise in the need of energy resources around the world. This means the industry requires skilled candidates. Those employed in the roles of oil and gas engineer need not be concerned about job security and stability with a generous compensation…

The environment and air of an organization and workplace becomes the basis of the attitude of people, towards each other as colleagues and towards the work that they are assigned. Hence, it is vital to create a positive and healthy working environment.

Following factors should prevail in a positive working environment and help business…

Sourcecon 2013: The State of Sourcing – 2013

To start off Sourceon, we had a “state of Sourcing” by Sourcecon Editor Jeremy Roberts. In this session he talks about the characteristics of a sourcer in 2003 and compares that to how the role has evolved and is today.  In 2003 sourcers…

In offering some advice today to a family member who is job hunting, I came to the realization that the cover letter is all but dead. The family member’s query was how to write a compelling/ interesting cover letter because he was looking to find ways to get his resume noticed by the hiring managers.

His inquiry wasn’t a bad one – he wanted his resume to stand out against the rest. It’s no secret that hiring/HR managers see hundreds of resumes per opening and only a small percentage…

Hiring managers receive many resumes for each job posting. Candidates who want to get a jump on the competition find creative ways to make their resume stand out. A creative resume can help you get noticed and increase your chances of getting an interview.



But sometimes candidates go too far with their creativity.





Making your resume stand out from the crowd can be a difficult task.



The main purpose of a resume is to help you get an…

Best Practices for New Employee Onboarding

Rich Peterson says, "Most new hires fail within 18 months on the job."

Smart Onboarding is critical in making career transitions much smoother.

Why Onboarding Matters?

It s proven that new hires without an effective onboarding program will fail over the course of their short lived career with your organization.

One of the important ways that HR can impact the workforce and…

Sourcecon 2013: Five Easy Steps to Building Winning Boolean Search Strings

The Session was a Boolean operator/search string 101. John Childs who ran the session went through the most common operators; AND, OR, wild cards, and more.

Johns 5 step…

I know this might seem like a strange one especially if you have no idea who Igor Ansoff is. Let me explain more. I am lucky enough to be doing a job I love and getting paid for it. What is even better is I get asked to train people on marketing and sales. A couple of weeks ago I was running two days’ training on marketing aligned to business growth. We also had a lecture where the speaker shared the top two marketing tools that had come out of a recent high level event!…

In a previous post I mentioned how the ansoff matrix was a way to focus on the marketing side of your recruitment business, because it might just be the missing part that you have not…

This year has been a year of many conferences for me, most of them being dedicated to sourcing: speaking at SourceCon in Atlanta in February 2013, at Sourcing Summit New Zealand in May, at Sourcing Summit…

Now that we have our segments, let’s use a real world example to examine how we can use them to develop a Target Company List. Since I live in the NYC Metro area I’ll choose a local company: PepsiCo.

1. Competitors: A quick search of the Beverage – Soft Drinks industry on any Finance and Investing website gives us our list for this segment: The Coca-Cola Company, Dr. Pepper Snapple, Monster Beverage Corporation, Jones Soda Co., etc.
2. Industry: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG).…

SourceCon Seattle 2013: An interview with Glenn Gutmacher

While I was at SourceCon in Seattle, I had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the top sourcing professionals in the country, Glenn Gutmacher, to discuss SourceCon, sourcing and more.

Dean: So, Glenn, how do you…

Featured Guest Post by Gerry Crispin, Principal & Founder, Career XRoads

During the last three years TalentBoard, a US non-profit overseeing the Candidate Experience Awards, has been collecting data that the organization’s volunteers…