You call them ‘clients’ and you think they see you as a business partner. Take this quick test and maybe… think again! Tick each statement that applies to you.

1. They won’t meet you to provide a new job brief. It’s emailed, or given over the phone, or maybe its just a few lines in an email.
2. They give you jobs in…

I had an interesting conversation with a former candidate this week. This is someone who got the position I recruited him for and by all accounts is doing a fabulous job. Nothing unusual about that, until you understand that recruiting this candidate just about drove me nuts.

When I first sourced him, he was terrific. Had the skills and education (very specific, prestigious university grad) my client wanted. Excellent culture fit – really brought the right “start-up…

The #tru carnival is continuing this week, with events in Johannesburg  on the 9′th November and CapeTown on the 11′th. I’m really looking forward to this first venture in to Africa, and to what the local recruiters will have to say about the market. We have close to 150 booked for Jo’burg and 70 for Cape Town, so it is going to be a very busy and interesting 2 days, with mostly third-party and corporate recruiters attending.

Having spoken with a number of the track leaders today…

Do like airing your opinions in public?

Do you have the guts to let us ask you questions?

I need a guest for the Recruiting Animal Show on Wed Nov 9 at NOON EST.

Maybe the one we are waiting for is you.

If so, let me know

Here is my twitter address

Here is my email:…

As a company, I’m sure you are working hard to create positive relationships with all of your customers.  We all know how important it is for future business and possible referrals.  You might even be making a huge investment by engaging a public relations or marketing firm to assist with your market positioning.  Did you ever consider that your applicants are customers too?  Are you giving applicants the same respect and creating a positive experience for them during your application and…

The nature of the global workforce has rapidly changed.  The idea of getting a job from one company, working their for 30 years, and then retiring is long gone.  Companies need to scale their workforce up and down in order to stay competitive and job seekers have to be more flexible and mobile as well.

This has placed a premium on the need for companies to increase their agility in staffing.  Companies need to source, screen, select and on-board the right talent at an accelerated…

Author: Vanessa Alcorta

You’ve gone through the resumes, sat through the interviews, extended an offer to the top candidate and a start date is set, what do you do next? Few companies realize the importance of having a plan in place that lends to an intriguing, interactive first day, week and even month. Now, we all know most company’s standard procedure goes something like “Sit behind this desk, here is a print…

Amazing that most companies still look for talent the traditional way. In a world topsy-turvy with change, rampant new technology, social media, new competitive entrants and a global economy, companies are still hiring the old-fashioned way. Most companies are still embracing the status quo, slumbering thru the new talent management changes shaking this industry.  If you're…

NOVEMBER 2011 BY ROB33TALENT

I often get asked by the slightly less experienced and slightly more nervous recruiters I meet (online or offline), how we can compete with corporate…

With winter slowly drawing upon us and the weather starting to get colder, it is time for the resume writing team at RedStarResume to provide our college student readers with the best winter jobs. Each new season brings about different seasonal jobs and although you may only be looking for a part-time role to get through the winter, there are plenty of fantastic…

Social Recruiting news is reported by Jim Stroud. In this episode, Jim discusses LinkedIn's stellar performance as a company, Google as the most attractive employer and Facebook comments being indexed by search engines. Plus, Jim gives a shout out to the people of mobile recruiting camp.

Another VC firm of interest to green job seekers: VantagePoint Capital Partners.

They've invested in 31 cleantech companies, and we have 16 of the 31 setup on The Green Job Bank, with all their jobs. As of today, they had a combined total of 134…

Social Media

Architecture/Framework!!!!!! Part 1

This will be the first in a series of

posts about Social media architecture/framework. Ensure you read the prelude to

this series posted last week.

Note some of this info will be repetitive from

post to post, this is done to ensure the info is emphasized.

NOTE: THERE ARE OTHER TOOLS, SITES,

AND WAYS THIS CAN BE DONE, THIS IS…

California has passed a new law prohibiting employers from using credit checks in most cases, according to Workforce.  

Starting January 1, employers will only be able to only use consumer credit reports for:

• Managers
• Positions in the state Justice…

One of the advantages of working within the staffing world is that you get the ins and outs of the client side, as well as the job seeker side.  Here at Dawson, we know what a client is looking for, what the job seeker expects and we get the make the perfect match.  So, in so many words, we are “all knowing.”  Not to give ourselves a pat on the back, but we are a wealth of knowledge and I have decided we should share some of it.  The information I continuously plan on sharing could…

Like many of us, I stumbled into recruiting (I was a golf professional teaching some of these “headhunters”). Two years later I was sitting at a desk, staring at a phone, terrified I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I worked for a large, successful company with a few of “those guys” in the environment. You know the ones I’m talking about – the Bobby Big Wheels and the Johnny Shooters who knew it all.

Bobby and Johnny would walk around the office doing the wink and the…

A great business adage is “Give all the credit; take all the blame.” Very few leaders really embody this principle, because too many people hold on to the credit, and never want to be “blamed”. However, business leaders can gain a great deal of respect by stepping up and owning a problem. Most bosses really appreciate someone who thinks creatively and will volunteer to solve a…

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The search for tech professionals has become less urgent this year — but that doesn’t mean it’s less important...