5 Vital Steps in the Recruitment of a Board Member
As a corporate recruiter your ability to recruit the top talent is pivotal to your future career success. And the tasks don't come much tougher than recruitment of a new Board member. Do a good job and you have an ally in the Company, your boss loves you for a day or two, and the President finally knows your name. It's not a traditional recruitment process, and the stakes are higher. Get...
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The Truth About UK Recruitment Agencies
We all know that recruiter to recruiter collaboration in the US can be tenuous at best. Is the UK any different? We asked a UK Recruiter: Collaboration. A word that causes most UK agency workers to spit out their coffee, especially when it comes to working with other agencies on fee split arrangements. As we all know, the global recruitment industry has suffered an unprecedented fall...
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TechPoint's Innovation Summit names Co-Creator of 'Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) as Third Keynote Speaker
TechPoint's Innovation Summit is set to have Jody Thompson as its third keynote speaker at its conference on November 8, 2011, at the Indiana Convention Center. Thomson has proven herself to be a leader in changing the way people experience work and how productive they are. She is the co-creator of Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), which is a management strategy that has proven...
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Business Careers on the Rise
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Report, in the past month business employee growth has increased by 48,000, as the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent. Since hitting a low spot in September 2009, business careers have grown by 897,000. This rise in numbers has led to Rasmussen College adding two additional business degree programs for...
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How to Conduct Winning Interviews
When a company places an ad for a position, its objective is clear: it needs someone to fulfill a certain role. To land the best talent, however, you have to do your job as an interviewer. Although more emphasis tends to be placed on the interviewee rather than on the hiring manager, both roles are equally important. As the interviewer, the employer is looking to you to hire the right person for...
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ApplicantStack Exceeding Expectations among Small to Mid-Sized Engineering and Construction Companies
A well known provider of application tracking software, ApplicantStack is committed to assisting small and mid-sized companies become more efficient when it comes to recruiting and managing staff. Lately, they have announced that they have specifically exceeded expectations in both the engineering and construction field. Recruiting and staffing can be time consuming with tasks such as job...
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Getting Results the Agile Way now available on Kindle
Kindle has recently released "Getting Results the Agile Way", which is a time management system for those who want better time management skills and better results. Created by J.D. Meier, this system combines principles and lessons learned from "project management, software engineering, and personal development." The system is centered around time management tips and helps achievers...
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Five Secrets to Buying Staffing Services
What you must know before you buy staffing agency services. According to the American Staffing Association, there are over 17,000 companies in the United States offering staffing services. Services include a variety of temporary, contract, permanent placement, and HR consulting services. The skill sets range from labor and office work to professional and technical work. Americans are...
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Background Screening Providers Team Up For Innovative Post-Hire Screening Solution
Data Facts, a leading provider of comprehensive background screening and credentialing services, has recently teamed up with Innovative Enterprises, an expert in research information products and smart data solutions, to launch a new post-hire employee screening solution for the health care industry. The tool, called Infinity Screening, lets HR professionals monitor employees on an ongoing...
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RPO Provider Offers Free Self-Evaluation Assessment For Recruiters
Novotus, a Texas based provider of recruitment process outsourcing services, has recently unveiled a new online-based tool, the Novotus Recruiting Self Evaluation Assessment. This resource allows recruiters to analyze the current state of their company's recruiting efforts and gives feedback on where performance improvements can be made. The tool is currently being showcased at this year's Fort...
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Is Refusing to Hire the Unemployed a Waste of Human Resources?
The feeling that there is something grossly unfair about openly or surreptitiously refusing to hire the unemployed is widespread, as a visceral and/or cerebral response. Addressing and motivated by that sentiment, the American Jobs Act, strongly endorsed by President Obama, proposes that discrimination against the unemployed merely for being unemployed shall be prohibited and...
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Unemployment Still Soars in Nevada, Recedes in North Dakota
The national unemployment rate (at 9.1 percent) doesn't always give a good picture of the employment highs and lows that individual states are experiencing. Many states have unemployment rates significantly different from the national average - either much higher or lower. The graph below looks at the states with the highest and lowest unemployment rates, with the U.S. national average...
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Vacancy Qualification Webinar Provides Crash Course For Recruiters
Recruitment Software provider 2LS has recently announced an upcoming webinar aimed at recruiters that will focus on the methods of properly qualifying a vacancy. The first in a series of proposed best practices webinars, this session will go over the essential steps of qualifying a vacancy while introducing new ideas and thought provoking material for hiring professionals to consider. Led by...
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Cornerstone OnDemand Recognized on North America's Fasting Growing Companies List
Cornerstone OnDemand, a leading provider of learning and talent management software, has recently announced that it has been placed on Deliotte's 2011 Technology Fast 500 list as one of North America's fastest growing companies. This year's Technology Fast 500 award winners are recognized based on their percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2006 to 2010. Cornerstone achieved the impressive...
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CEO Recruitment: Taking your Skills to the Top
Recruitment has been survival of the fittest for the last few years and as agency recruiters, we still have to dig deep for inventive ways of outshining our competitors. Fee pressure remains downwards. Added to that, employers' savvy use of referrals, social media, and efficient corporate recruitment has eroded some of our more traditional ways of agency recruitment. So how do we...
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Retro9 Makes I-9 Auditing Easy
JobApp Network is a pioneer in the development of automated hiring systems and has recently introduced Retro9, a product that digitizes the I-9 form. Using Retro9, an employer can now manage their audits easily and efficiently, making the job much less stressful. Ever since the federal government's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) decided to more strictly regulate employment...
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The Logic of the AJA 'Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011': Compelling?
The recently promulgated American Jobs Act (the "AJA") comes down hard on discrimination against the unemployed, and attempts to justify proposed prohibition of refusal to hire the unemployed solely on the grounds of their being unemployed. Irrespective of whether you believe that such discrimination should or should not be allowed, it is important to determine whether the specific...
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eHire's Latest Survey Depicts a Favorable 2012 for the Retail Sector
With Retail Salespersons comprising up to 3.3 percent of U.S. employees, and the struggling economy forcing major retail chains to call it quits, eHire has completed a survey to better predict what 2012 will look like for the industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 4 million people in the U.S. work in retail, and the number could decrease with major chains like Borders and...
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Your Recruiters Want a New CRM – But Will They Use It?
Embrace a team selection process, incentivize user adoption and teamwork, and act quickly and you may just get a phenomenal result! Adopting new technology in any organization or even in your personal life is a challenge. There is huge risk in changing a technology platform which people are used to using every day at work or at home. Look at how much fanfare Facebook gets when they change...
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The Making of a Bad Recruiter
I've been an Agency Recruiter for a long time now. I like what I do and I know how important a service recruiters provide to both their candidates and their clients, whether internal or external. It's actually a fantastic profession for people who are personable, driven and ambitious, yet thrive on challenge and change. However, more and more the industry is being filled with...
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New Recruitment Module from SaaShr
As a top-notch provider of Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaShr.com has announced the release of its recruitment module for HR applications. This unique software provider provides efficient help for those in HR, Time and Labor Management, and Payroll. This particular recruitment module is designed to assist small to mid-sized businesses with recruiting. Smaller businesses may not have the...
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A Conference for MBA Veterans
Military Veterans who retire from their service often wonder what to do next. Two such veterans and MBA graduates David Chonowski and Chris Petersen recently joined together to conduct an annual veteran's hiring conference. David and Chris got their MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They formed the MBA Veteran's Network in 2009 and conducted the MBA Veterans...
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Recruiting More Active as Turnover Rates Continue to Decline
The latest survey from BenchmarkPro shows that turnover rates for businesses have been slowly declining and were at 14.4 percent from 2010 and 2011. With the economic forecast being somewhat dim for Americans, it is fairly common knowledge that the unemployment rate will be high for awhile. In fact, some economists believe that it may even take several more years before the unemployment rate...
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Recruiters Tap into eJobMate for Help
It looks as if eJobMate will be part of a rising trend in recruitment, as many recruiters are taking advantage of screening applicants using social media. An estimated 89% of recruiters use social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn to screen potential employees. EJobMate.com uses creative matchmaking technology to screen applicants by tapping into their social networking sites. It...
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Should Recruiters Start Reporting into the VP of Sales?
Organizations today are in a productivity battle unmatched at any other time in history. In order for a company to succeed in today's volatile and competitive environment, companies have to have the right people, doing the right jobs, all in record time. On the outside it must look like recruiters can just breeze through their hiring requirements while barely rolling on in to work. They...
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Federal Contractor To Pay $600,000 to Job Applicants For Hiring Discrimination
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has recently announced that federal contractor Caviness Beef Packers Ltd. - also known as Palo Duro Meat Processing Inc. and Caviness Packing Co. - has agreed to a massive settlement after an investigation reveled that that the company discriminated against job applicants because of their race and gender. In total, 746...
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Jobvite Teams Up With Workday To Offer Integrated Recruiting and HR Solutions
Jobvite, a leading recruiting platform for the social web, has recently announced that they will be combining their services with Workday, a leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources, payroll and financial management. Under the new partnership, Jobvite will integrate their social recruiting and applicant tracking solutions with Workday's Human Capital Management system,...
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5 Job Search Strategies You Need To Start Using Right Away
Job seekers are often their own worst enemy when it comes to finding and landing a new job. They may be extremely qualified and bubbling with potential, but if they can't present themselves in the best possible light, they lose out to the next candidate. They can easily blow it all with a bad interview, a lousy resume, or outdated marketing tactics. As a great job candidate, it's your job to...
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Three Corporate Recruiting Challenges
Over the years in this business, I have a spent a great deal of time interacting with Hiring Managers, Executives and HR. But often, I am brought in to speak to the folks currently handling all of the hiring and recruiting...the internal Corporate Recruiter. Now this meeting is often fraught with challenge; after all there is a perception that I, the Agency Recruiter, am being brought in after...
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U.S. Labor Department Teams Up With Facebook to Connect Job Seekers With Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Labor has recently announced a unique partnership with Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers to help unemployed Americans connect with job opportunities through the use of social networks. With the combined strength of the various agencies and organizations, the...
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Mobile Interview Solution Updated For Faster, More Efficient Hiring
InterviewStream, a leading provider of online video interviewing solutions, has recently updated their on-the-go offering and released InterviewStream Mobile v2.0, a mobile interview solution. Previewed earlier this month at the HR Technology Conference and Expo, the mobile interview app is now fully available to the general public. Optimized for iPhone and iPad, the app also touts new features...
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SumTotal Voted Best Talent Management System By Customers
SumTotal Systems, an innovator in Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, has recently been voted "Best Talent Management System" in the 2011 Best of Elearning! Awards by HCM customers. Hosted by Elearning! Media Group, a leading provider of enterprise learning and workforce technology news and research, the awards aim to honor best-in-class products that provide exceptional service. SumTotal...
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Leading a Dual Life as Recruiter and Agency Sales Professional
To sell or to recruit? Do I have to choose one role? Can I successfully handle both? Many recruitment and staffing agencies hire blended staff or revolving staff to handle all of the aspects of agency recruiting. Agencies prospect and develop a client base as well as handle the sourcing, screening, interviewing, matching, and presenting of qualified candidates. In contractor or...
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How to be a Bad Recruiter
Today was just like any other Monday. I came into the office, checked my email, caught up on interviews, candidates and clients that I needed to follow-up on from Friday and started on my second cup of coffee. Then one of the dreaded time-killers occurred: a client of mine reached out to me to share the frustrations of his job search. "Oh no" I thought. "It's only 9AM" Now, any...
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Make Resumes Stand Out with JobLander
With at least thirteen million Americans unemployed and with stiff competition for each job out there, an iPhone app called JobLander is doing its best to help. JobLander is an application for the iPhone that takes an ordinary resume and utilizes creative infographics to make it shine. Users can download the app and watch their resume transform right before their eyes. The app does this by...
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PageUp People Opens New Office, Extends Global Reach
Pageup People, an international provider of talent management solutions, has recently opened a new office in Atlanta, Georgia. With sights set on a greater international market presence, Pageup People will use the office to establish a U.S. foothold and strengthen their ongoing leadership in talent management solutions. The company currently boasts over 90,000 users in more than 180...
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Fear: Good for the Job Market?
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"—Franklin D. Roosevelt, inaugural address, March 4, 1933. FDR's oft-quoted mid-depression inaugural rallying cry, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself",...
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BranchOut Launches New Search Tool For Recruiters
BranchOut, one of the largest professional networks on Facebook, has recently launched a new tool for recruiters and hiring managers that allows them to source and build talent networks through Facebook. The tool, RecruiterConnect, is the first enterprise software product available on the Facebook platform. While previously focused on the job seeker experience and solutions for professional...
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iCIMS Ends Third Quarter With 14% Increased Revenue
iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service talent management solutions, has recently announced the close of another successful quarter. Revenues for Q3 2011 were 14 percent higher than the same period of the prior year. The talent technology provider also saw the addition of 84 new customers over the quarter, pushing their substantial client base past the 1,000 member milestone. iCIMS has...
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Universum Expands U.S. Presence, Sets Sight on Ambitious Campaign in 2012
Universum, a global leader in employer branding, has recently opened a new branch office in New York City. This North American expansion - coupled with the acquisition of a new team for the office - lays the framework for a strategic campaign aimed at North American and South American markets in 2012. "I am very pleased to announce that we are expanding in the U.S. with better service and an...
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The 2011 Recruiting Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2011 Recruiting Awards were announced this week after much anticipation at the LinkedIn TalentConnect Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards are designed to honor those select individuals who exhibited exemplary drive and passion in their recruiting practices, and who strove to set the high watermark in innovation and candidate experience. The three categories of the...
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Career in Transition? Consider Volunteer Work
Many active job seekers overlook volunteering as an avenue for discovering new job opportunities. With bills and other expenses piling up at home, finding steady work with a paycheck is usually their first priority. But volunteering is rarely a 40 hour a week commitment, and typically there's time for both regular job hunting and additional pro-bono efforts on the side. The benefits of...
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Reference Check Software Available Free for 3 Months
ERC Dataplus, a leading provider of integrated recruitment solutions and talent surveys, has recently announced their new Selectech 360 reference check software system will be made available to all customers free-of-charge. The offer extends to both preexisting clients and new users for the first 3 months of use. The reference check software module streamlines the reference process for both...
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In Defense of Recruiters
Lately there have been quite a few articles, comments and statements made about both Recruiting as a profession, as well as Recruiters as individuals. Over and over, we have seen statements from candidates, clients and even other Recruiters that shine a negative light on this profession. Well, a few of those statements gave me pause. While looking through a few of the complaints and...
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Talent Acquisition Solution from Lumesse Updated
Lumesse, a global leader in integrated recruitment and talent management solutions, has recently launched the latest version of their talent acquisition solution, Lumesse TalentLink v11.2. The updated SaaS recruitment tool is available now and features a number of new enhancements aimed at helping HR professionals build career websites, interact with search technology and connect with candidates...
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The New-New Challenge: Recruiting the Modern Mass-Produced Professional
There once was a time when the old and the new had something in common: They could both be special. When the Great Wall of China was new, it was special, one-of-a-kind; now that it is ancient, it is still—and perhaps even more—special. Jobs and technology used to be like that too: Once upon a time, when gunsmiths first appeared, they and their molds and lathes were special, in the...
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Build Your Web Presence and Let Recruiters Come to You
Your typical recruiter is inundated with a flood of resumes every day. Many job seekers get lost in the mix and it's extremely hard to stand out. As a valuable candidate (like yourself), how can you avoid getting drowned out in the noise? One strategy is to stop chasing after recruiters. Let them come to you. Job seekers need only market themselves in the right way to enhance their exposure...
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Grants Help States Boost Their Re-Employment Services
The U.S. Department of Labor has recently awarded more than $7.6 million in grants to help five states develop tools and resources for improving re-employment services for the unemployed. Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York and Oregon will receive funds for creating an integrated workforce customer registration process, improving data integration, helping workers assess their transferable...
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