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Illegal Job Interview Questions and How to Handle Them

As posted on the MN Headhunter blog:

Guest post from Communicating Your Way to Success

Interviewers and interviewees alike are often unaware that certain questions asked during a job interview are considered illegal questions. Now by "illegal", it doesn't mean that someone will get arrested for asking such a question, but it does mean that the interviewee is not required to…

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Added by Paul DeBettignies on July 19, 2008 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Tax Professionals - an enigma

What's up in finance today my friends? Why can't a Recruiter find a good Tax Professional? Are they buried in numbers and afraid to come out? Do they find social networking boring? Could it kill them to post an occassional resume out there?

Maybe its just that no one wants to move to Florida, we have fun here, really... I am throwing out the white flag. I'll clean them up, make sure their ear hairs are shaved and eye brow hairs get trimmed.

Have a lovely month my… Continue

Added by Christine Hampton on July 19, 2008 at 11:48am — 1 Comment

Job Search Tip: Keep a Brag Book

If you’re looking for a job in medical sales, clinical diagnostics sales, laboratory sales, DNA sales, medical supplies or equipment sales, pharmaceutical sales, or biotechnology sales, marketing, or tech support (or you will be soon), it would help you tremendously to have a brag book.

A brag book is a list of your accomplishments (stories for behavioral interviews, right here), new skills and training, stack rankings, performance reviews, e-mails or letters from satisfied… Continue

Added by Peggy McKee on July 18, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

please find the rek of Red Hat Linux Admin position in Stamford CT We have an urgent Direct Client rek of Red Hat Linux Admin at Stamford CT Position : Red hat Linux Location : Stamford CT…

please find the rek of Red Hat Linux Admin position in Stamford CT

We have an urgent Direct Client rek of Red Hat Linux Admin at Stamford CT

Position : Red hat Linux

Location : Stamford CT

Duration : 3-6 months Contract or CTH or Full time

The client is looking for someone who has HP-Ux flavour also in his CV

Please send resumes for immediate interviews with contact… Continue

Added by SUMITA HALDAR on July 18, 2008 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

URGENT NEED OF SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER AT RI FOR A 8 MONTHS + CONTRACT

Position title – Server Infrastructure Engineer

Location – RI (providence)

Duration – 8 Months + contract

Required Skills:

Must Have-Hard Skills :

• Windows Server Environment-preferably Windows 2003 and Active Directory controlled domain

• IIS version 6

• Expertise with java application servers and JVM configurations is key (Web sphere, Tomcat, Geronimo)

• Understanding of network… Continue

Added by SUMITA HALDAR on July 18, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Social Networks and Job Search

Just thought I'd share this with the group. Check it out. Also.. I checked the web address at the end and ... unless you read French.... it is useless. However, the slideshow is interesting. You may need to click the SlideShare logo in the bottom right of the player to view it on SlideShare where it can be pushed to full screen.... so that you can see the labels in the charts. I look forward to your comments. - Jim…

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Added by Jim Canto on July 18, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Sudip Ganguly, Sr. IT Recruiter in Altius Consulting Inc.

Hi All,

I am Sr. IT Recruiter in Altius Consulting Inc., We are working with very good clients and also we are try to build new client also, if any body like to work with us please contact me sudip013@gmail.com/sudip013@yahoo.com or you can add me in Yahoo messenger sudip013@yahoo.com. I have currently a very hot requirement, if any body matching all skills like to send resume please send me on sudip013@gmail.com with his contact details and rate.

Skills: Oracle Data… Continue

Added by Sudip on July 18, 2008 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Contingencies on an offer aren’t a joke

I heard a mortgage horror story the other day from a friend as he was buying a new house and selling his town home. He had arranged to have back to back closings to make it easy, but as it came time to close on the sale of his house the buyer was a no show…it seems that he had just lost his job and now was not in a position to qualify for the loan, much less make the payments. He very quickly was put in the position where he was being pressed to make a decision on signing his closing papers… Continue

Added by bill martineau on July 18, 2008 at 10:50am — 2 Comments

Tony Snow Teaches Recruiters

Kris Dunn learned this from the president's press secretary:

Critics should prove they can do better

Tony criticized the president's communication policy and was willing to step in to to fix someone else's mess when asked. (Don't criticize unless you can do better?)

If you're nice, your enemies will be nice, too.

Tony took the "high road" when he could have… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on July 18, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Captain-Save-A-Candidate to the Rescue!!!! ("Up, up, and away!")

Ok, well . . . not really. In putting on my cape this morning, I looked in the mirror and realized I more resembled these lil' fellas than the Superman cartoon character :P

Which leads me to ask . . . do you think a candidate would more trust one of these guys or the super-buff, super-slick, original Superman?

How about Gen-Y versus a Boomer?

With all the time spent on the art of neuro-linguistics programming,… Continue

Added by Joshua Letourneau on July 18, 2008 at 9:25am — No Comments

Scour

Anybody checked out Scour?

It's a new social search engine that employs the power of the top 3 search engine giants: Google, Yahoo and MSN. What's interesting is that you can gain points to redeem for Visa gift cards.

You get points by....searching. Hmmmmm. Seems to easy....I'm sure… Continue

Added by Dennis Smith on July 18, 2008 at 8:18am — No Comments

"It's me. Can you hear me?" The VoIP argument.

Re: For those using VoIP for your home and/or office lines: are you having issues lately?

This is a really interesting subject to me. I hear the argument all the time from would-be telephone sourcers who want to use VoIP.

"Go ahead," I say.

"But it works just fine!" they insist.

"No it doesn't," I reply.

"Yes it… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on July 18, 2008 at 7:27am — No Comments

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Added by sugarcane on July 18, 2008 at 3:20am — No Comments

Strategic Positioning for Recruiters

Have you thought about WHY a company would use YOU..................rather than the myriad of alternatives to find and secure their next player?

Is it because you are better?

Do you do it faster?

Are your candidates Better? Who says? ..................................You?

Or do the statistics report that when you make a placement that the company objectives get met?

Is it that you are totally enthralled with finding your client the next key… Continue

Added by Margaret Graziano on July 18, 2008 at 12:30am — No Comments

Digging Into RecruitingBlogs,com v1.12

The Stats and The Hot Spots

Last week, 102 New Blog Postings. This week, 111. Week over week growth = 8.8%
Last Week 11 video clips. This week 14. Week over week growth 27%
Last week, 10,000 members;This week 10,551. Week over week growth 5.5%
This week,…

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Added by John Sumser on July 17, 2008 at 9:30pm — 7 Comments

"Want to be a Big Biller?" - One minute ideas

"Do you keep magpies in your office who like chasing after the next shiny thing?"

If you want to be more successful working a desk its important that there is a level of discipline during the working day. How often do we make or receive a call which "feels" more important than the task at hand, the sure fire fee from a new job order, the most placeable candidate you've ever spoken to (but not right for the current… Continue

Added by Gavin Chase on July 17, 2008 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Chicago- Professional Search Manager needed

We are one of the top Staffing Companies in the world and because of growth are looking for a Professional Search Manager to lead, develop and train a large team of Professional Search Recruiters. The position will be based out of our downtown Corporate offices and will report directly to a VP. The right candidate will have a successful track record of professional placement delivery and will also have led teams in a similar environment. Please contact me for more information and specific… Continue

Added by Thomas J. Aikman on July 17, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Are "Social Media Experts" the old black?

John Sumser's daily roundup linked to Louis Gray's "Social media experts are the new webmasters" post with which I disagree on just about everything except the punctuation.

I won't argue that the title of "webmaster" carries a tinge of the information-age equivalent of a locomotive fireman, but unlike that example, it's not because the work has disappeared. Most webmasters in their heyday… Continue

Added by Colin Kingsbury on July 17, 2008 at 3:26pm — 1 Comment

Partial Transcript for Talent Talk cafe Jul 15th with Paul DeBettingies -

Talent Talk Cafe - partial transcript from Recruiting 101 with Paul DeBettingies

MN Headhunter 08 07 15-1.txt

Added by Slouch on July 17, 2008 at 1:28pm — 3 Comments

Employee Retention - Reasons and Maladies - Jobsabode.com

With every business slowly becoming knowledge-based even in this economy, it has become imperative for CEOs to preserve the

only dynamic repositories of learning in their companies: employees. That's why, across sectors, sizes, and statures, corporate India now deploys myriad techniques to retain its people. From sharing the CEO's vision and career-counselling to welfare-management and conflict-resolution programmes, there is little that companies will not do today to keep their people.… Continue

Added by Pranav srihari on July 17, 2008 at 12:23pm — No Comments