Sean Pomeroy's Blog (144)

Useless Resume Words That Make Recruiters Roll Their Eyes

Recruiters...bless their hearts. As if reviewing hundreds, thousands, a LOT of resumes isn’t grueling enough, the same, tired, infuriating and …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on February 3, 2016 at 10:31am — No Comments

The 7 Candidate Types You Need in 2016

Hindsight is 20/20, and managers aren’t immune. Managers regret a new hire 50% of the time costing their organization great deals of time and money. If you’re looking for a way to avoid hiring mishaps, it might be useful to stop looking solely at…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on January 26, 2016 at 9:41am — No Comments

Top Exec Secrets to Hiring Unleashed

How can you hire better? It’s true that there is no one answer to this question, but it’s easy to see that continuing the same practices is not the solution. Today we have sourcing technology,…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on January 19, 2016 at 9:30am — No Comments

4 Things Your Candidates Wish You Knew

It’s not uncommon to find articles about what employers want and expect from …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on January 12, 2016 at 10:00am — No Comments

Feeling Stuck After a Candidate Rejects You? Here's the Realistic Next Step

It was love at first sight. The job experience, the education, the morals, this candidate couldn't be more perfect for your job opening. But there's a problem, they rejected your offer. Now you're standing there, alone at the alter (office) without a…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on January 5, 2016 at 9:46am — No Comments

How to Train Your Employees to Combat Distractions

Everyone gets distracted at work. We take breaks from intense projects, use diversions to help us refocus, but everyone has times when these tangents go on for too long. When it comes to …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on December 31, 2015 at 9:55am — 1 Comment

Don’t Celebrate Success or Failure, Celebrate Learning

More often than not, we judge employees and colleagues on …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on December 22, 2015 at 9:29am — No Comments

What’s Keeping Your CEO Up at Night?

“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.” - Pope John…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on December 15, 2015 at 9:42am — No Comments

Hate the Game, Not the ATS Player

Hunting for a job isn’t easy and candidates are very frustrated with the process. Candidates that are in the large percentile that …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on December 8, 2015 at 9:28am — 3 Comments

Why Boring Work is Subjective and Necessary

Your employee, Jill, wants to talk. She sits you down, darts her eyes around the room nervously, and comes out with it: she finds her job boring. You’re taken aback — you thought she loved her job! You might scramble to fix the problem, but you need…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on November 17, 2015 at 9:49am — 1 Comment

Top Barriers for On-the-Job Training

I recently came across this chart listing some of the most pervasive problems leaders have in …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on November 10, 2015 at 11:02am — No Comments

Employee Training Needs to be Strategic and Here’s Why

We recently came across a startling statistic: almost half of companies in the United States …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on November 3, 2015 at 10:30am — No Comments

5 Things to Consider Before Purchasing an Applicant Tracking System

You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and get an ATS. Good for you! With all of the different …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 27, 2015 at 10:04am — No Comments

4 Ways to Train Your Team for Better Time Management

The availability of Facebook updates, innumerable cat videos, and the fascinating GIF-based Buzzfeed articles have exacerbated the problem some organizations have with the company water cooler effect. It is, after all, fairly easy to get distracted…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 13, 2015 at 10:56am — No Comments

How to Recruit the Under-Sourced Veteran Talent Pool

We’ve all fallen prey to resting on our laurels, but as recruiters, staying stagnant is a recipe for failure. Between workforce generational gaps, skills gaps and gaps in …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 7, 2015 at 9:46am — No Comments

The 10 Worst Ways in the World to End Your Email Signature

Love it or hate it, email is here to stay and so are those lame sign offs. You know the ones, the signatures that make people cringe and clog spam filters or worse make the same corny joke over and over. Are you guilty of any of the…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on October 6, 2015 at 9:24am — No Comments

4 Ways HR Practitioners Can Continue to Grow

The world is not going to …

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on September 29, 2015 at 9:39am — No Comments

Adjust Your L&D Program to Meet Changing Workforce Needs

Learning and development programs will change, or at least they should… that’s the reality. Your workforce isn’t the…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on September 22, 2015 at 9:54am — No Comments

Don’t Forget the Hiring Managers - Hiring and Training the Best

We spend so much time thinking about the candidate and how to hire them; what about the person who hires all of the candidates? How do we hire and train these personnel? They certainly don’t poof into their profession. While it may be commonplace to…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on September 15, 2015 at 10:53am — 1 Comment

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