As a Boomer I shouldn’t admit this, but I like reading The Daily Muse and the Savvy Intern. While this admission is likely to cause of few of my more opinionated folks to publicly guffaw, no worries…

Job boards proclaim the promise of making it easy for both employers and employees to find each other.

When built correctly and maintained, job board websites hold true to that pledge. However, not all job boards are worthwhile the time and effort it takes to post or apply for, a job.

As the following article shows, here are the criteria that will help you…

Star Wars, an epic tale of good vs. evil and a fountain of recruitment management tips. Check out HRS’s recruitment management tips from a galaxy far, far away…

1. Don’t underestimate the competition

No matter how big your organisation or how highly skilled your consultants are there will always be competition…

Once in a while I run into a post outlining a sourcing tip that I didn't know about, or hear a new tip in conversations. Today I'd like to point to some of those tips and thank my colleagues for sharing them.

1) The Facebook #Sourcing Tutorial by Balazs Paroczay . It's not "just" a tip but a whole methodology of constructing Facebook Graph…

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Skillpages

Skillspages is a professional community were people create a profile that will list their skills. Some of you have heard of Skillpages but only a few have used it to source. Well to do this without worry you need go no…

There is an explosion happening. Mobility has blasted its way into the world of recruitment and there is no stopping it. So, as a recruiter, it’s your job to know exactly how mobile is weaving throughout the hiring process. Candidates want to be able to search, apply, and upload their resumes through their mobile smartphones. If your career page can’t do that – if …

In his book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins said that one of the keys to building a great company is getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats. In 2013, U.S. corporations took seat filling to the next level, spending…

Stuffed! If your Human Resources department is full of overflowing filing cabinets, it's time to go paperless. Employee file management software can get you there fast.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many take the time to stop and reflect on what they are most thankful for. If your Human Resources department has…

Theoretically, I shouldn't be doing another roundup of new sites so quickly after the last one - but you know what? There is so much happening in our industry right now, I thought, to heck with that! I'm gonna do another one anyway! So join me as I take a look at some of the…

 Just today I was reading an article about an HR Mangers frustrations with novice recruiters and their lack of training and their inability to ask questions to probe deeper to see what the needs of a role truly are. This immediately brought me back to my rookie days of recruitment. I’ll never forget when on my very first technical…

Like it or not, millennials are changing the face of recruitment as we know it. As the candidate talent pool becomes flooded with millennials (people born after 1980), traditional recruitment methods are falling flat.

Millennials now make up between 47 and 50% of the world's working population. And in the space of a decade, this will increase to a full 75%. They’re…

Facebook is a widely used Social networking site, yet how many of us can say that we know everything about Facebook? Isn’t this ironical, I mean we spend approximately most of our time interacting with friends and relatives both near and far. We virtually live our lives on Facebook either interacting with our contacts or playing games. It’s kind of like a fad, yet a…

How many times have you come to the end of the day only to think to yourself ‘what on earth did I actually achieve?’ It happens to the best of us but the good news is that there are ways you can manage your time more effectively and increase your productivity levels, not only through the likes of effective…

In a world that is influenced increasingly by social media, it should come as little surprise that knowing the ins and outs of social media can pay off handsomely for job seekers.

As it turns out, the benefits are numerous, starting with the help that social media savvy can provide in finding a job, whether the position itself requires any social media skills or…

For many clients, a PSL is designed to be a small list of suppliers who are signed up to terms, who can deliver on assignments, who understand their brand & EVP and can represent that effectively in the external market, and who can engage, compliantly, with them as an employer.

Most people are familiar with the recruiting and sourcing terminology, but how often do we as Recruiter’s and Sourcer’s stop to 

think about the techniques and increase our knowledge about the latest developments in our chosen field.

We have chosen our preferred profession and we also use the terminology but how many of us can…

When it comes to recruiting and keeping employees, employers may wonder about which is more important salary or benefits? Which is more popular, and which is more likely to inspire employee loyalty?

The truth is, when it comes to getting and retaining an employee, salary may play a bigger part, at least in the short term. When it comes to keeping an employee, however,…

There are ads on TV featuring turkeys spinning dreidels; carols are piping through the shopping malls; people are wearing those crazy reindeer antlers in the streets; it’s already snowing in parts of the USA while temperatures continue to soar across Australia …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas …

Last week I even…

We have all been there. Stressful recruiting situations demand the quest for finding fit. It is the essence of all we do. Regardless of what fit is defined as, the real truth is there are so many with a different understanding of what it truly means, the reality of the process is that quest for fit really comes down to a few factors quite honestly. And defining "Fit" in your organization is really the backbone of each and every hire, fill, and staffing outcome…