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For Gen-Yers, the Conversation?s the Resume

The Brazen Careerist has launched an interesting experiment in social recruiting, introducing what the site and its founder Penelope Trunk call a “social resume.” Aimed squarely at the young Gen-Yers for whom Brazen Careerist was designed, the social resumes allow these early career professionals to offer hints at their potential. Besides all the usual biographical stuff [...]

Reports Evidence Job Growth About to Begin

“Job growth is about to begin,” The Conference Board declared Monday. In the second quarter, says Manpower. “We are already seeing evidence,” insists the Association of Executive Search Consultants. Even coming upon the heels of a robust labor report last week (that fueled a Wall Street mini-rally) these pronouncements probably won’t do much for the pessimists, [...]

Characteristics of the Craft

Recruiting is clearly not for everyone. Its demands can be extraordinary and its customers unrealistic. Its candidates not entirely truthful and its reward often just the self-satisfied glow of a job well done. By its very nature, recruiting often creates a sense of contrast and contradiction. Hiring managers want the perfect candidate for the lowest price; [...]

One-to-One Recruiting: The Importance of Personalizing All Aspects of Recruiting

The most powerful recruiting advertisement I?ve seen in the last two years didn’t originate from Google and it wasn’t found on a social media site; instead it was a ?take your breath away? billboard designed to attract a single person. Usually billboards are a complete waste of money, but this one dared to go where no [...]

Sneak Peak At the Week Ahead

Here is what is going on around the ERE.net world this week: Sign up for this week’s free webinar on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, Going from Good To ‘Elite’!: Becoming an Elite Recruiter, led by David Szary from the Recruiter Academy. David will discuss the competencies, skills, attributes and work habits of elite recruiters. We are [...]

Unemployment Holds Steady As Jobs Growth Appears Near

9.7 percent and holding steady. Net job loss in February 2010: 36,000. Net job loss in February 2009: 726,000. That’s the top line of the monthly Labor Department’s employment numbers for February. The results surprised most economists who had been expecting a higher job loss because of the snowstorms that crippled big parts of the U.S. [...]

Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter

At the ERE Expo in San Diego, March 15-17, 2010, I?ll be describing what it takes to be a true corporate headhunter. This is a recruiter who can go head to head with his or her external rivals without compromising quality of hire or time to fill. To pull it off though, you?ll have to [...]

Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting VIII: The Games

Up at 6am. 15 points. Hit the snoozebar once. Minus 5 points. Brush your teeth for three full minutes. 50 points (with a bonus from the toothpaste maker). Right-sized healthy breakfast. 25 points. Arrive at work on time. 25 points. Attend all meetings on time. 75 points. Make meeting contributions recognized by peers. 100 points. Return [...]

Array of ?Soft? Economic Reports to Please Any Wonk

If you are wonky about economic indicators and labor market stats, this is your lucky week. No fewer than than three reports came out today; one came out Monday; a fifth — the highly anticipated monthly unemployment report — is due out Friday morning. Today’s reports, considered a harbinger of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ unemployment [...]

Mobile Recruiting, Being Quaint, and The Big Disconnect

Did you know that ERE has a group on LinkedIn? Check it out! Here’s what’s going on in the ERE community this week: The only danger in mobile recruiting? Is your recruiting quaint? Talent acquisition metrics The big disconnect Whose responsibility is it to check references? Featured group of the week: Recruiting leadership forum 1. The danger of mobile recruiting? Not doing it. Kristine [...]

Toward a Sustainable Recruiting Model

I have spent days with clients who are struggling to find a balance between the demand being placed on them and the resources they have. While this is a very old story, it is being written in a new way. Prior to this recession, most organizations were willing to add people — whether [...]

Let?s Be More Human

I saw a tweet this morning: Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol. It got me to thinking (as many Twitter remarks do). Both are types of fuel and both can be argued to be drugs. My mind raced across the words to pull some lesson about telephone [...]

.Jobs Sites Go Offline

Where have all the .JOBS job boards gone? Gone to enhancements and improvements every one. DirectEmployers took down its job boards a few weeks ago, while it makes changes to the platform. Bill Warren, executive director of DirectEmployers Association, blogged about the changes his team is making to the platform listing four specific areas — social media [...]

The Best-Time Recruiting Strategy Avoids the Pitfalls of Coincidence Hiring

Spock of Star Trek fame was famous for pointing out things that were completely illogical, which leads me to believe he would have had a field day examining corporate recruiting practices. Of all the things that we do in corporate recruiting that are difficult to logically justify, my vote for the least logical is use [...]

Is Pre-employment Assessment Right For You? 7 Questions

While assessment can be beneficial in most situations, it is better suited for some scenarios. I?m going to highlight a few situations for which I feel assessment really is a good fit. There are all kinds of assessments (anything used to evaluate an applicant and make decisions using the results of this evaluation is considered an [...]

Former Jobster CEO in Feud With Citibank Over Gay Network

Update: Citibank issued a statement this afternoon apologizing for the blocking of fabulis, saying: “Citibank sincerely apologizes to Mr. Goldberg for this misunderstanding. This situation had nothing to do with the content of his web site and any comments by our staff to the contrary were incorrect; we are reviewing what happened. This was a [...]

Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting VII: The Pandemic

For a nice overview of the scenario planning process and this project, take a listen to this podcast. Then, brace yourself. This scenario is somewhat disturbing. The Pandemic In the beginning, they thought it was the flu. As the school year started, complaints of fever and respiratory problems stretched the capacity of the health care system. [...]

Role-Based Assessment: A New Way to Know

This week we took a look at role based assessment and how new tools can help you determine if a candidate is right for your organization by classifying them into team based roles. Dr. Janice Presser explained how each role can be determined and what they can contribute to your team. For more podcasts, webinars, [...]

The Recency and Primacy Effects in the Talent Acquisition Process

In the April 2010 Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, I have an article about two very important bias factors in the hiring process. I?ll talk about them in detail and give you ideas for preventing them. For now, I wanted to give you just a quick overview. The two biases are the recency and primacy bias effects. [...]

Why Recruiting Good People Will Get Harder and Harder

Bill Wall was faced with two choices: take a job he didn?t really find interesting, although he was well-qualified to do it, or continue to try and build up his fledgling Internet design company. In the end he was able to do both by convincing the boss-to-be that he could do the majority of his [...]