We’ve all fallen prey to resting on our laurels, but as recruiters, staying stagnant is a recipe for failure. Between workforce generational gaps, skills gaps and gaps in …
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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 7, 2015 at 9:46am —
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Love it or hate it, email is here to stay and so are those lame sign offs. You know the ones, the signatures that make people cringe and clog spam filters or worse make the same corny joke over and over. Are you guilty of any of the…
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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 6, 2015 at 9:24am —
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Today will be a very practical post that covers what I recently did for research when a hiring manager said he was open to hiring in other locations (anywhere in the US) and asked for suggestions on which locations to target that might have large talent pools.
This can be done…
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Added by Eric Putkonen on October 6, 2015 at 8:00am —
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It only takes a few cowboys (and girls) to change people’s perceptions of a profession. Head over to Google, type: “recruiters are…” and take a second to look at the search predictions. The results don’t make for great reading (although recruitment is not alone). For the thousands of great recruiters there are a select few that continue to damage the industry’s…
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Added by Mike Robinson on October 6, 2015 at 4:33am —
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Image source: Shakespeare comparisons via Wikicommons
Here is a Shakespearean riff on the recruitment process.
The Bard: A Surprising Source of Hiring Wisdom
To those who have been mentally scarred and tortured by studying Shakespeare at some point in their school or college…
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Added by Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon on October 5, 2015 at 11:30am —
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Looking for a way to lower attrition levels and encourage company-wide loyalty? Want to improve productivity levels among your employees? Here are some ways video conferencing can help make that happen:
1. Attract Great Talent
According to B2B Marketing’s “…
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Added by Rob Morgan on October 4, 2015 at 2:30am —
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Are you a Recruiter looking for talent online? It didn’t use to be some years ago, but now searching for online resumes on Google is a bit of a pain. We need to use advanced operators (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) and add keywords. Then, we need to exclude job posts (-job -jobs -careers …). Need to exclude resume…
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Added by Irina Shamaeva on October 2, 2015 at 12:13pm —
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In the digital age, references seem quite easy to obtain. An employer can simply log onto LinkedIn, read the bevy of recommendations and move on. Not so fast. Those recommendations could be friends, family and even strangers with nice things to say about the person. They may not represent the candidate's work style, ethics, or values in any way. The old way of doing…
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Added by Catherine Hess on October 1, 2015 at 5:20pm —
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If you've been hesitating to post on RecruitingBlogs for any number of reasons, just don't - ok?
I'm not sure what everyone's opinion is of our site, but I can tell you what I've learned managing this community over the last few years. The most important lesson? We need your voices for this blog to be a great community, not just another recruiting content…
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Added by Katrina Kibben on October 1, 2015 at 11:11am —
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We’ve all had days at work where you clock in before the sun rises and clock out after the sun sets… but hopefully it’s not a habit. For organizations where it’s more common to eat dinner at a desk than a table, promoting workaholic behavior on a…
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Added by Chris Arringdale on October 1, 2015 at 10:00am —
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According to experts of many reputed IT agencies in London that handle recruitment requirements of small, middle and big sized companies, finding and hiring the right person for a job is a tough task. They say that though it may sound simple, it’s pretty difficult in reality. After all, finding competent candidates who either become an…
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Added by Ben Karter on October 1, 2015 at 6:03am —
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