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Apr29
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I've been impressed with the new additions LinkedIn has released recently. One of them is the new dashboard when you login that tells you things going on in your network.
It has been interesting to me noting who of my connections are actively adding people to their networks. As I have been passively watching, the number of people who seem to be grooming their connections is going up.
To me, this is yet another sign that the marketplace is responding to the tighter job market. Many of the talented people that have been cocooning* over the last few years are actively out there, seeing who they know (and who knows the people they know) and pinging the waters to see what thenew boundaries are.
If you're not actively grooming your network, you should be. No matter if you are looking for your next move, or looking to hire a superstar, your network is growing around you. This is not the time to be eating alone!
* "holding tight" at a job you may not want, because the market isn't right for you to move.
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Apr29
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I don't personally like "fisherman" who constantly test the waters to see if there's a bigger fish out there. Those candidates don't do well for my clients, hence don't do well for me. Corporate Philandering is not appreciated in my book.
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Dennis Smith at talent bloggers mentioned this worthy bookmark to peek into what jobs people are searching for there these days on the jobster network: The jobster folks look at all the people searching on Jobster.com over the past 7 days...
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Apr28
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There's something going on behind your back that you should know about. And, unfortunately, by the time someone in the Executive Suite notices, it will surely be too-late. If you're having a hard time recruiting right now, there's good news...
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Apr27
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What would it take to have your employees be your salesforce? What would that look like?
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Looks like I've been tagged by Jim Durbin. Here we go: 1: Four Jobs I've Had:Usher (and Marquee Changer) at movie theatre, Corporate Trainer, Web Developer, Technical Recruiter 2: Four Movies I Can Watch Over and OverOceans 11, Thomas...
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Apr26
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I'm constantly browsing the job boards looking to see what my competitors are hiring for. I'm amazed at the quantity of companies still posting ads with the clear disclaimer: NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Are these the same companies complaining that...
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Apr21
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Quick: name a soda/soft-drink company: _____________________ Which one did you name? Chances are, the company: Had products placed in 2 of the last 3 movies you watched in a theatre. Sold their product in the lobby of that theatre. If...
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Apr20
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I'm blogging this from Las Tarascas, a mexican resturaunt in Provo in the Albertsons strip-mall, near 24 hour fitness. See its location on Google Local -- Closeup, hybrid view. Good grub and good wireless (by Digis, I think). Not the place to...
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Apr19
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Take a page from the Internet Marketer's Handbook here. How can you get people talking about you in enough locations, and enough places, and enough times that good, talented people keep "bumping into" references about you.
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I can't say I loved Simply Hired when they launched. I liked their idea, but I liked Indeed.com's feel better. But time and time and time again they keep showing up to the party cooler and more confident than everybody...
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Anybody who doesn't believe that the war for talent is back isn't even on the battle field. Though I personally believe the challenge to locate, recruit, train and retain excellent people will never end, and can only get more complicated,...
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Apr18
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Sometimes, it is all about the money: My blog is worth $31,614.24.How much is your blog worth? My blog may not be worth enough to buy me the dream house I've always wanted, but it is nice to see what...
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I just had the pleasure of paying out some significant cash to a great business partner who went out of her way to referr some good business to me. While I don't necessarilly recommend waving money in front of someone...
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I recommend you make a list of 8-10 possible questions to draw from and have them with you in the interview so you can listen to the candidate's responses (spoken and unspoken) to your questions--instead of thinking about your next question (so you sound smart)
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Apr17
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Hiring is a tricky subject, one that requires many data points in order to make a worthwhile conclusion. And, surely, if you are at the C-level in your company, the candidates that make it to interview with you have been around the block a few times and may have picked up some habits along the way to try and smoke-screen you from a shady past.
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Nobody's doubting that blogging is changing the way we all communicate. Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations, blogged today about how Blogs are Changing Recruiting. "I am becoming convinced that recruiting may be one of blogging's 'killer apps', Israel says. "A...
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One time I strongly recommend you (the candidate) bring up money/salary first is when you know you're asking for way more than the company wants to pay--in that circumstance, you'd better be up front about this at the VERY beginning of the cycle.
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Apr 6
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How can you recruit the best people if you don't know what 'the best people' think about your company? How can you find out?
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The book, not the band, though I like both. Canadian Headhunter points us to a great post on Basic Instinct at Hiring Revolution where a client dropped a candidate after extending the offer because the candidate started being fishy. Sound a little...
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Being prepared is half the battle. A comment on a post here had me digging for this list of 25 tough job-interview questions. If this is overload for you, the most-important thing to do is be yourself. If you haven't...
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Apr 5
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Mike Makler posted an interesting outline of how you could host a successful conference call for recruiting. This type of call will not work for all companies, but if you're recruiting sales people or direct marketers, this is a good,...
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Here's the tale of a guy in Canada who started looking for work, but wondered why technology firms had such miserable recruiting practices.
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James Richards in the UK got me looking at a BlogSurvey put together by Backbone Media. On page 43 of the blogger survey results, I found this interesting note showing the age distribution of corporate bloggers who responded to the survey:...
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... please wait. A blog posting will be here in a moment...
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Apr 4
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Stay up tonight for this…..at 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that minute in the fourth...
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Apr 2
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To me, the most-important element to create this is clear requirements--given in a constantly/publicly accessible format--at the beginning of the definite qualification period. These requirement must be based on a well-defined set of accomplishments that can not--in any way--be subjectively altered.
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