November 2009 Blog Posts (221)

What is Professionalism and how to Judge it?

Professionalism, a term commonly used for managers and has difficult meanings in the dictionary (Don’t even want to go through them). I derived a completely new definition of professionalism based on my experience. Ok, I know, many of you may not agree but this is the best definition to me and helps to keep my selection criteria clear and focused to my organizational goals. Initially I thought of it as “The ACT that makes the body or mind used to an… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on November 4, 2009 at 1:50am — 6 Comments

The Future of Work

One of my favorite fellow bloggers is Chris Wilson who is also located in Oklahoma City. While his blog focuses on digital marketing strategies for businesses, many of his posts are relevant to those in the job hunt as well as the human resource industry. A recent post of his discusses, a revealing Slide Share presentation by Jeff Brenman of Apollo Ideas discussing the future of the workplace.

With Chris and Jeff’s posts in mind, it is important for us to understand that how we as… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell on November 3, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Here's Who's Hiring in New York City

In today's Here's Who's Hiring I had to look no further than the shirt I was wearing. So I went to ResuWe.com and used the job search feature typing in What: Marketing, Ralph Lauren and Where: New York, NY. I want to help Ralph Lauren by giving them qualified candidates and fighting unemployment by giving you the direct hiring manager's email.

Their website states, "Polo Ralph Lauren is a leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in four… Continue

Added by Dan Boersma on November 3, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Tips for Job Seekers: How To Work With A Recruiter In Your Job Search

I'm a Career Coach.

I know, I know. . . many of you probably think that makes me "the bad guy." Afterall, as a group we spend a lot of time dissing recruiters and teaching job seekers how to "work around" recruiters. The truth is, Career Coaches have their place in the HR recruitment process, just as recruiters do. Not everyone will work with a recruiter, nor should they. In fact you probably would appreciate it if FEWER job seekers sought out your services. As a recruiter you are… Continue

Added by Sean Harry on November 3, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Wes Kussmaul/Digital Authenticity

Threats to our personal privacy grow worse every year. From aggressive marketers to data miners to botnet operators to identity thieves, intruders help themselves to our most sensitive personal information.

The reality of the situation is in many ways worse than the worst fears of the privacy activists. In his book Own Your Privacy, Wes Kussmaul shows how tables of data about you from different sources mate in the middle of the night in third world outposts, producing "offspring,"… Continue

Added by Mark Berger on November 3, 2009 at 11:48am — No Comments

The Ultimate Interview Secret

How many interviews would you say it takes to secure a job? 1, 2, 5000? The truth is that when it comes to securing a job, the interview doesn't end until your last day at the company. Everyday that you engage with an employer is an interview day. And given this logic, your first "interview" is also your first workday. This is a secret that… Continue

Added by Pedro S. Silva II on November 3, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments

Why job boards need branding

Branding often gets a bad rap – as if there is something inherently bad in trying to create a unique, persuasive persona for your job board. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Think about it: most of the truly successful job boards out there have built successful brands. Monster. CareerBuilder. Dice. The Ladders. RegionalHelpWanted. Of course, a brand won’t replace solid technology, good marketing, and SEO. But in combination with these, branding will help push your job board… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 3, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

INSPIRED TO PERSPIRE COMPETE and COMPLETE

INSPIRED TO PERSPIRE COMPETE and COMPLETE

After two years of preparing and telling everyone that I was going to run in the 2009 New York City Marathon, qualified by completed all the preparatory qualifying races and volunteerism necessary to be guaranteed as an entrant then; could not enter for several reasons.

Though not competing, but love the excitement of the event, decided to volunteer again, first spot was at the "EXPO," at the Javits Conference Center, for… Continue

Added by Charles Pixley on November 3, 2009 at 6:53am — No Comments

An Interview with NY1

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Added by Charles Pixley on November 3, 2009 at 6:50am — No Comments

Job Boards don’t find people jobs. People find people jobs

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We are going to recover from this downturn, and when we do, the talent shortage is going to be more severe than anything we experienced a year or two ago. Finding talent, connecting with those talent and building talent communities is going to be what separates the winners from the losers in the recruitment industry, in my opinion.

Sourcing talent will become… Continue

Added by Greg Savage on November 2, 2009 at 9:47pm — No Comments

Job Seeking Success Depends on Your Personality?

by Gary Kustis, Ph.D.

In the most recent issue of Personnel Psychology (Fall, 2009), Prof. Dan Turbin and his co-authors, Cynthia Stevens and Felissa Lee, found some interesting relationships between job seeking success and the personalities of the job seekers. Specifically, the more conscientious you are the more likely you are to be successful in the early stages of the job search. However, it is your emotional state that has… Continue

Added by HiringSciences on November 2, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Getting All Your Candidates to Apply to Your Careers Page and Automatically Tracking Their Source

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an applicant tracking system that would store resumes in one place that you could search easily any time? How great would it be have applicants apply to one place? You could finally get rid of all of those email folders. And, how helpful would it be to be able to automatically track where all of your applicants are coming from?

Make it easy for applicants to apply for jobs right on your company’s website. Sign up for… Continue

Added by Joel Passen on November 2, 2009 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Me & My iPhone at Work

Honestly, I’m not sure if I remember what my life was like before my iPhone or if I even want to. I have access to maps, internet search engines, social networks, and a variety of applications to fulfill almost every want, need, and desire. A recent study by Ball State and the Institute for Mobile Media Research found that college students are the fasting growing smart phone market segment. Not surprisingly students are using these powerful mini-computers for both their personal and academic… Continue

Added by Jessica Miller-Merrell on November 2, 2009 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Everybody Loves....interviewing!?

Everybody Loves…..interviewing.

Okay, let’s hear it from those of us who love to interview candidates or be interviewed for jobs……(crickets chirping)……

The reality for most people is that whether you are a job seeker or a hiring manager, you probably don’t like to interview. Yes, I’m referring to both being interviewed and conducting interviews!

Why is that? Why do such communicative, cordial, outgoing, even loquacious (yes I’ve been on Thesaurus.com…..really)… Continue

Added by Trevor Smith on November 2, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

October online recruiting news summary

October was slow for sales but booming with news. With the help of some fellow job board operators, we put together a summary of October's online recruiting news for you.

Some of the highlights include:

• First of thousands .jobs sites launched by JobCentral

• Taleo job board launched in partnership with SimplyHired

• Dice.com and Monster.com quarterly… Continue

Added by Eric Shannon on November 2, 2009 at 8:18am — No Comments

A Heart-felt Thank You to Contingent Recruiters Everywhere!

Much has been written of late about the many flaws in the contingent recruitment business model. Last week I experienced first-hand just how seriously poor the model is. Those that promulgate it and try to run their recruitment businesses with it will ultimately fail their businesses, clients and candidates. They also act as the best advertising money can’t buy for those recruiters who operate with better proven exclusive and ideally, retained models. The case story… Continue

Added by Aaron Dodd on November 2, 2009 at 4:52am — 2 Comments

The Gen Y Job Seeking Geeks

The college years was all about sleeping in and playing Madden 9 hours a day. Some poor students had to work while others lounged around the dorm waiting to party around midnight. Life was easy except for the occasional projectile vomit moments.

I work with a bunch of trendy IT Nerds. They are the new crop of Java programming Gen-Y geeks that have replaced the old Baby Boomer Cobol Dorks .

Meanwhile, Gen X Nerds are moving into management roles. Now it’s their turn to be… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on November 1, 2009 at 10:48pm — 1 Comment

Why clients give out orders in competition… and why it’s wrong for everybody!

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There is an elephant in the room when it comes to the basic business model of our industry. People don’t talk about it much, yet it’s a fundamental flaw in the relationship between client and recruiter, and it drives poor service and lack of satisfaction for all parties.

Multi-listing of job orders across multiple agencies, and recruiters accepting… Continue

Added by Greg Savage on November 1, 2009 at 7:46pm — 3 Comments

Welcome to the REAL World

Those of you in the biz – don’t laugh: I received this response to a LinkedIn referral request for a specific type of position that this gentleman would know (I had also attached the link to our RPO client’s career site listing) :

Thanks for reaching out to me. Don’t take this personally, but I generally do not work with recruiters because 95% of them do not deliver. I really have no respect for any organization/business who cannot come directly to me.

There is no… Continue

Added by Shannon Russo on November 1, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Impossible? = I'm possible

Busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

I love that saying.....

Is wanting it all a bit much? I want the work life balance. The real thing, not a 60/40 split. Something always gives. Option a) You spend too much time in the office to deliver stuff and the family suffers, Option b) you leave early to look after family stuff and eyebrows in the office are raised. Especially the higher up to food chain you travel.

I've been… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on November 1, 2009 at 8:27am — No Comments