Henning Seip's Blog (24)

Boolean Logic finds "recruitable" candidates. Nonsense!

I came across this recent blog post from Boolean Blackbelt Glen Cathey. Glen is an expert in formulating Boolean Logic queries, no doubt. He receives a lot of credit from the community about his advice.  Since he is viewed by the community as an expert I am holding him to a higher standard. That's why I am writing my critique here.

 

If you believe his…

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Added by Henning Seip on April 20, 2011 at 1:24pm — 4 Comments

US Job Market grows 4.1% in March 2011

The job market in the United States grew 4.1% in March as compared to February. The expansion in March did not meet our expectations. We expected a higher increase in labor demand for this time of year. The moderate growth may be a reflection of the significant developments in Japan and the Arab countries.

United States Job Openings

January 2007 – March 2011…

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Added by Henning Seip on March 29, 2011 at 2:59pm — 1 Comment

The most important Activity in Search: Filtering Information

Finding the best candidates for a job opening is a process of elimination. Information filtering is used to bring candidates or aspects about them to our attention. Specifically in recruiting, filtering information with a computer introduces a high risk of losing the best candidates. Here I discuss the filtering of candidates from an available pool generated i.e. through marketing or from an existing resume database.



The search process is a path of four stages from a potentially… Continue

Added by Henning Seip on March 24, 2011 at 11:07am — No Comments

US Job Market grows 6.1% in February 2011

Okay, here we are in March 2011 and the job market in the US has finally begun to expand again. After a promising start in 2010, activity was fairly lackluster during the second half of the year running up to the mid-term elections. When we entered 2011 employers did not increase their postings for the first two weeks and we thought the recession may come back (has it actually ended yet?). Then, towards the end of January things started to move and postings increased. It continued through…

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Added by Henning Seip on March 1, 2011 at 10:14am — 2 Comments

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