Candidate Acquisition
The secret no-one EVER told you!
Resume Rules
What a recruiter looks for in a resume
Two-Way Video Interview
Ten ways to survive it
Contract Employees
Giving contract work a second look
Candidate Acquisition
The secret no-one EVER told you!
Resume Rules
What a recruiter looks for in a resume
Two-Way Video Interview
Ten ways to survive it
Contract Employees
Giving contract work a second look
How can Vineyard Vines get away with charging $38 for a shirt with a whale on it, when there’s something on Amazon for half that price? And, when there are countless shirts at Walmart for $6?How can Tiffany’s charge twice the price for diamond rings that are the exact size and quality as their competitors? How can Whole Foods charge more than other grocery stores for similar product
It’s a well-known fact that recruiters have A LOT of tech tools to help them do their jobs better – option paralysis! The challenge is knowing what order you should be using them in. (Knowing how to use them effectively – that’s another blog for another day!).
Thanks to the competitive nature of IT jobs, it's not uncommon to get sucked into the "black hole" of IT applications. You know the drill: You send off a cover letter and resume, never to hear from the company again. By teaming up with an IT staffing firm, you increase the chances of getting noticed and eventually scoring the job. IT staffing firms often work directly with hiring managers to get details of the actual job needs. A firm often has access and insight to ensure the candidate's resume and profile gets in front of the right person.
Anyone who has worked in HR, particularly the recruiting field, can easily categorize hiring managers for various clients with whom they have worked. There are the friendly managers, the grouchy managers, the overly talkative managers, the straight-to-the-point managers…and then there are the picky managers. While each type of hiring manager is worthy of their own blog, or at least a paragraph, let’s focus on the typical picky manager.
Every time I hear someone talk about anything involving stupid, specious concepts in recruiting, which is to say pretty much the entire response to that “join the conversation” cliché in our little industry, I get a little nauseous. I’m no etymologist, but I’m pretty sure if you can’t define a buzzword without using another buzzword, it is complete nonsense.
‘How did you hear about us?’ The answer to this question reveals a great deal about the effectiveness of your recruitment efforts, in terms of your good-faith efforts to recruit and hire a diverse workforce. Those organizations fighting to survive today’s employment environment simply want to recruit and hire the best workforce related to their organizational goals, but need to ensure that efforts are compliant and / or legal. Are you confident that your recruiting efforts are effective?
Fact: Competition for programmers is extremely high! When I was speaking at TMA’s Social Recruiting conference in New York last week, I asked, “Who recruits techies?” and nearly every person in the room raised their hand.
What are your plans for 2015? For recruiters, we usually hit the New Year running, as it is a busy time for most recruitment agencies. Both clients and candidates return from the Christmas break with plans for success; whether it’s finding a new job or growing the business
I have been leading hundreds of job interviews in my career. I have met amazing people, aliens or people not connected to this planet, during these interviews. People are individuals, but what impresses me? How do you win at job interviews? I quit my old job in November 2010, and this company is currently downsizing and laying off somewhere between 100 and 150 former friends and co-workers. I hope this will inspire some of you guys to go get that dream job.
A great team of skilled, dedicated employees is vital to the overall success of any business. Whether your company is large or small, you will need to be consistently recruiting top talent, and social media recruitment is one of the best ways to effectively attract qualified professionals. Here are some of the reasons why social recruiting needs to be an integral and ongoing part of the way you fill job vacancies.