Blogs / Tags / Hiring

ULTIMATE BENEFIT: Used alone or in combination, Success Insights™ and Workplace Motivators™ have given managers much needed tools for developing performance strategies specific to individuals and teams and in hiring and placing personnel. Success I... More...

WHiN Professionals, a talent acquisition company is keeping up with what's happening now and what is anticipated for the future while reflecting on the job market trends. Companies are gearing up to hire top talent as competitiveness is essential for... More...

You may have heard before that you should look for a job before you need one. The same can be said for recruiting: look for recruits before you need them, especially for those hard-to-fill positions. LinkedIn Recruiter is a great tool to use, and so ... More...

New Paradigm-People are Not Your Most Important Asset—the RIGHT People Are. Successful CEO’s have always understood that the recruiting selection process must be systematized and linked to revenues and profits. Are you confident your company is ... More...

Employees are our biggest asset and investment, so shouldn't we expect to get the greatest ROI from their service? Many business struggle with the issue of keeping employees (whether old or new) engaged in their jobs, but few seem to have answe... More...

The second highest priority for HR departments throughout 2010 according to a recent report on global assessment trends is external recruiting/hiring. But where do companies fail in their recruiting/hiring efforts? How do companies find and retain ... More...

Social Media has changed the way people use internet. With exponential growth in registered users and an even higher one in content shared over the social networks like Facebook, social media presents a lot of opportunity for different business funct... More...

Hiring? Some Factors You Should Consider When your company prepares to hire its next sales or marketing employee, there are some factors you should consider. When all these variables are considered properly, you could be looking at your next sales... More...

One day Steve Pruneau was thinking about work and his future. He'd done both traditional employment and project/contract work, and of course he knew about other options that just seemed unacceptable (staffing agencies, temp work, etc.). Steve liked t... More...

Talent isn't always easy to identify. Sometimes half the battle is coming to agreement on what exactly talent is . Executives might identify their top talent as innovative individuals who take risks and increases profit. A... More...

by Nanci Lamborn, SPHR. (This article first appeared Oct. 2009 on the Brightmove.com website blog and generated a large volume of reader comments both pro and con). One of the most interesting aspects of recruiting is the human interaction an... More...

by Nanci Lamborn, SPHR Recruiters are very likely to have heard recently about the new Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (H.I.R.E.) Act which was signed into law in March (http://tinyurl.com/yaz4akc) and which offers what could amount to a f... More...

After six long years, we're finally experiencing a return to growth, pointing to a sustainable recovery. Now we have three questions for you: 1. Will your company be ready to manage rapid growth that can happen at a heartbeat? 2. Do you have enou... More...

As a recruiter, you've more than likely run into a hiring situation that involved a quota. Whether you support the idea of hiring quotas or not - they are a lightening rod issue. The problem they try to solve is legit: the representation of ... More...

Recent Headline: "Two companies pay civil penalties to Settle FTC Charges; Failed to Give Required Notices to Fired Workers and Rejected Job Applicants." Legal compliance in the background screening industry is very important. Failure to comply c... More...

Best Practice organizations that have achieved low early stage turnover continue to rinse and repeat the processes outlined in this paper. These organizations use an Employment Lifecycle approach that revisits the hiring process via systematic data a... More...

FurstPerson announced that two of its solutions, 1stSolve and 1stHire , were named winners of the 2009 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation ’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine, which is the leading pub... More...

by Nanci Lamborn - Writer/Blogger/HR Practitioner - BrightMove Recruiting Software We’ve seen several articles recently about the rise of unconventional recruiting methods and off-the-wall interview questions that are now gaining notoriety... More...

by Nanci Lamborn BrightMove Recruiting Software "I'm sorry. I really need to stop you there." I was right in the middle of an interview, explaining in detail the job description, work environment, and company culture to the candidate. On paper ... More...

When designing your organization's online employment portal, how much effort was put into mazimizing the "Applicant's Experience"? Certainly, the top priority when implementing online recruiting tools is to electronical... More...

We hire for experience and fire for attitude. Why not therefore make attitude the basis of our hiring decisions? Clearly experience is the one thing that we can give any candidate coming in to the business. Attitude is one thing that for sure we can’... More...

Have you ever wondered how you come across to the candidates you interview? Here are 9 interviewer types. Work out which is most like you and you’ll know just what your candidates go through at interview. 1. The Stickler. The Stickler is someone... More...

by Nanci Lamborn at BrightMove Recruiting Software Two of the worst interviews I can recall in my recent history were both referred from one of my most successful, highest producing employees. Both candidates were abrasive, arrogant, and unfriendl... More...

Do mistakes on resumes and cover letters really matter? I am unashamed to admit it; I am a grammar freak. Maybe it can be blamed upon genetics (my mother used to diagram complex sentences for fun) or upon my authoritarian yet somehow endearing Eng... More...

By: Patricia Collins, an Associate at Antheil Maslow and MacMinn, located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania www.ammlaw.com While technology improves employee productivity and accessibility, it also creates new challenges for employers in hiring and c... More...

Tags

News

ASSESSMENTS ADD A VALUABLE DIMENSION

Hiring Madness

How to Recruit Top HIres

Recruiting and Selection Risk Management

Do you hate your employees? Do your employees hate you?

How your company can hire more effectively - Part 1

Social Recruitment

What You Should Know Before You Hire

New Way to Go to Work

Identifying and Retaining Top Talent

Bridge out ahead: Applicants burning bridges before they've been crossed?

WHY SOME MAY NOT PLAN TO HIRE ANYTIME SOON: thoughts on the H.I.R.E. Act.

Hiring to Sustain Growth in a New Economy - 2 Things You Should Look For When Hiring New Employees

Quotas: The Messy Truth

Free Webinar on Adverse Action: How to Avoid Lawsuits under the FCRA

Driving Hiring Performance Improvement: 8 Steps to Great Contact Center Hiring -- Step 7

FurstPerson Wins 2009 Product of the Year Awards

WHERE’S YOUR PEANUT BUTTER? Unconventional interview questions that uncover key skills

OVERALLS, ANYONE? What's happening to our work ethic?

Online Applications: The Candidate Experience...

Why is “attitude” to often overlooked in favour of experience when hiring?

How Do Your Candidates See You?

INSIDE REFERRAL CANDIDATES – birds of a feather and all that fluff

STRADDLING THE EVER WIDENING SKILLS GAP

“GOOGLING” “TWEETING” AND OTHER BRAND NEW VERBS: WHAT EMPLOYERS CAN DO TO KEEP UP WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash