Recruiting Blogs (24,038)

Viva La Revolucion!

In his recent article Let’s Revolutionize the Standard Recruiting Model Mark Bielecki aptly sums up the frustrations that many of us Contingency Recruiters experience on a regular basis in his very first sentence:

“THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS.”

While it’s true that we have the power to select the types of companies we do business with that’s no guarantee that they… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 24, 2008 at 1:06pm — No Comments

5 Unique Ways To Get FREE Advertising

1. Give Testimonials

When you purchase a product or service and it exceeds your

expectations e-mail the business a testimonial. Tell them in the

testimonial the benefits you got from the product or service.

Give them permission to publish the testimonial on the web site

if they include your sig file at the end.

2. Leave A Message

When you visit a web site with a discussion board leave a

message. You could post a question, interesting content… Continue

Added by Lisa Simpkins on April 24, 2008 at 12:28pm — 2 Comments

SHALLY’s SOURCING SUMMIT, Las Vegas May 16th - Biggest Sourcing Event of the Year

SixDegreesfromDave.com Announces SHALLY's SOURCING SUMMIT, Las Vegas May 16th The Biggest Sourcing Event of the Year! Friday, May 16, 2008 — 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Kennedy Expo, Las Vegas, Main Conference and Expo Admission*: (May 14 -15, 2008)

If You Want to Become a Cybersleuth Come to Vegas. Register, Reserve your Hotel and Flight or drive down… Continue

Added by Dave Mendoza on April 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Googletopia - You Really Need to Work Here!

It started out two years ago with a viral email that was sent around China showing pictures of the Google offices in Beijing.

They looked pretty much like this first set below. No one is sure who sent the original email but it did a better job of building a Recruitment Brand than all the initiatives that internal HR is likely to have taken in Google China over the past few years.

A conspiracy theory approach would… Continue

Added by Frank Mulligan on April 24, 2008 at 10:43am — No Comments

April 24, 2008

Bill Vick's XtremeRecruiting.tv

Featuring Dave Staats, Headhunter, Flamethrower, Judge and Jury...

You know Bill Vick, don't you? Bill is one of the seminal figures in online recruiting, one of the first to write about internet recruiting techniques as early as 1996. And Dave Staats, you know Dave, right? The Fordyce Letter, prototypical… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on April 24, 2008 at 7:41am — No Comments

Interview With Amanda Lacey - FuseJobs

Last year FuseJobs launched to the UK market. The site has an interesting business model, which is a cross between a niche job board and a vertical search engine.

This week we took the opportunity to speak to Director Amanda Lacey about the site, why the company selected the ‘entry-level jobs’ sector and the challenges in aggregating job…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 24, 2008 at 7:01am — No Comments

Has anybody made the conversion from Contingency to Retained Search?

Although I have been a contingency recruiter for almost 297 years, OK maybe not quite that long, I have of recent been seeing less commitment from hiring managers to contingency recruiters. I have given serious thought moving my agency to retained in it's entirety or at least in part. Has anybody made this transition? If so what caveats, models to follow, tools etc can you advise me to look at and possibly incorporate into this process? I'd appreciate all responses, pros and… Continue

Added by George Mancuso on April 23, 2008 at 2:17pm — 8 Comments

job fair attendees.....

i went to a job fair /career expo (full disclosure: i work for Jobing.com) and i am always interested how recruiters plan for their attendance at job fairs. i know that i prepare extensively for our job fairs from 10-12 days out from the event.

i use resume search heavily before the event and utilize our job postings/videos/company website information to excite candidates about the opportunities available with our organization. i am extremely… Continue

Added by Recruiterdude on April 23, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

How to not win friends and influence people

Sometimes you just have to laugh at how people approach trying to secure employment. The following was posted at the top of a candidate's resume on Dice:

No Recruiters, DIRECT HIRE ONLY!

If you are a recruiter or work for a recruiting company, please read carefully.

You DO NOT have permission to submit me to jobs EVER!

You DO NOT have permission to add my information to your database.

If I find out that you have used my name or resume… Continue

Added by Dave Templeman on April 23, 2008 at 9:30am — 9 Comments

Newsflash: Dull Jobs Really Do Numb the Mind

I know it's hard to believe. But here's the quote from the article:

"Boring jobs turn our mind to autopilot, say scientists - and it means we can seriously mess up some simple tasks."

But, here's the cool part of this research:

Monotonous duties switch our brain to "rest mode", whether we like it or not, the researchers report in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

They found mistakes can be predicted up to 30 seconds before we make… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on April 23, 2008 at 8:37am — No Comments

Hump Day Humor 4/23

Today’s cartoon comes to us from Grantland. For over 20 years, they’ve been creating buiness cartoons (specifically for the workplace) as a unique way to reach large audiences and their work has been used by thousands of organizations with great results.

With 2,900+ cartoons in their archives give them a call today to get their permission to use their materials if you need help spicing up your presentation, newsletter, or… Continue

Added by Jeffrey K. Radt on April 23, 2008 at 8:21am — No Comments

Candidate Segment Knowledge - Are You 'Synthesizing' It?

Working in the Talent Acquisition arena, I remain in awe about how we march on with circa-1930s marketing processes despite the fact that if there is any business function that knows so much about their given 'customers', it's us.

I often ask the following question of Recruiters, Recruiting Managers, and even Directors of Talent Acquisition:

"What kind of information do you observe and store on the attitudes and… Continue

Added by Joshua Letourneau on April 23, 2008 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

April 23, 2008

Claudia’s Wednesday Wisdom

Claudia Faust advises on tricky situations, answers members' questions...

Last week's post on hairy candidates raised a lot of eyebrows, hackles even. If you missed it, too bad -- we're moving on!

This week Tektree Gopi asks:

If time is the constraint, how can you analyze a candidate’s level of commitment? I work mostly on corporate-to-corporate contract…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on April 23, 2008 at 7:33am — No Comments

MN Headhunter Blog Has 100,000th Visitor

As posted on the MN Headhunter blog

To be honest, I have not much to say about this milestone. Not much because it feels sort of “enormous” that so may people have found their way here and have continued to come back.

The term “visitor” is each time someone comes to the site. So if you have come here two times a week for the almost three years since the blog started you would be .3% of…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on April 23, 2008 at 3:13am — No Comments

Minnesota Recruiters (un)Conference | Spring 2008 | Event Announcement

As posted on the MN Headhunter blog

The next quarterly event for Minnesota Recruiters is set for May 9^th, 2008 at Best Buy Corporate Headquarters. Format is the same as previous events with three presentations and networking from 8 am – Noon and lunch and networking from Noon – 2 pm.

Presenters, topics and sponsors will be announced later this week with…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on April 23, 2008 at 2:01am — No Comments

Effects Of A Recession on Employment

I keep being told that the economy is in a recession and that it is going to be tough for everyone currently looking for employment. I do not believe that. This is a country of opportunity and it always will be. The resolve of the employer and employee will be tested today more than ever. Employers will have to start focusing on the employee who is the number one asset in a company. While the employee, will have to prove there value more than ever.

Tips for an… Continue

Added by Mark Hamade on April 22, 2008 at 9:43pm — 3 Comments

Wednesday Wisdom: Speed Dating

Dear Claudia,

If time is the constraint, how can you analyze a candidate’s level of commitment? I work mostly on corporate-to-corporate contract positions (temporary placements), and I need to submit the resume to the preferred vendor or client within a couple of hours of the requisition opening. How can I avoid vanishing candidates?

Tektree Gopi

Hi Gopi,

I’d like to tell you that speed… Continue

Added by Claudia Faust on April 22, 2008 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

You're not qualified

Most recruiters by nature aren’t trying to offend people as they go about the job of recruiting candidates for their client customers. However our quest to find the perfect person leads us to find many more really talented “close but no cigar” candidates that after showcasing our opportunity to and gaining their sincere interest we must now let them know that they just aren’t a good fit (insert reason here).

Of course, some people take this better than others, but generically… Continue

Added by bill martineau on April 22, 2008 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Podcast 54: Salary Is Sacred

The lastest born podcast is out.

We've a great show for you this week, including an interview with Amanda Lacey of FuseJobs, news on Indeed's new search criteria and Borrell's predictions for the recruitment industry growth.

All this news, and more, this week on…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 22, 2008 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Top 10 Ways Matzos Resembles Today's Job Market

1. Both are flat.
2. Both apparently have no hope of rising.
3. They have no spice.
4. They're full of holes.
5. You don't want to be involved with either of them anymore than absolutely necessary.

Read remaining five at http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/weblog/2008/04/top_10_ways_mat.php.

Added by Steven Rothberg on April 22, 2008 at 3:39pm — No Comments