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May31
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This one is a little interesting, since I am and outsourced recruiter. But, for the good of the community at-large, I'm passing along some snippets from a great article written by Kevin Wheeler, found at ERE today: Will Your In-House Recruiting Be Outsourced?
...If your goal is to not be outsourced, here are a few things that you will have to do to remain successful.
- Know What You Offer That Is Unique
- Learn to Build Internal Relationships
- Suggest Outsourcing When it Is Appropriate
- Improve Your Recruiting Processes
These are all good nuggets, which you'll have to read the whole article to appreciate. The rub? At first glance, these will all seem too common, too ordinary, and too common-sense.
If that's what you think when you see them, look closer. Afterall, most companies know they should be doing these things, but they hardly ever do.
I aint complaining--that's what keeps me in business!
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May31
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Can you tell that I've found a treasure-trove of great stuff over at Electronic Recruiting Exchange today? Jerry Land chimes in with an insightful piece about keeping your newly recruited recruit just that--your recruit. One of the biggest parts of helping defend...
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Kevin Wheeler writes about a very interesting question perplexing recruiters and managers alike: What is Talent? As he mentions, many people have the wrong impression: For many recruiters, talent is synonymous with "anyone who says yes." For others, it is any...
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Many times, in consulting my clients, I determine that a barrier to their finding, hiring, and retaining top-talent is not so much that the wrong people interview--it's that they (the company) doesn't do the things that would attract the top-talent....
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May30
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The greatest reason my clients use my services as a contingency recruiter is because they need somebody--now. It's gone from "nice" to "urgent" to "critical" and now "mission critical" But the thing to be careful of is that can also...
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Steven Rothberg at College Recruiter shares this advice for recent graduates (and anyone on their first day at work): Take advantage of the employment help offered by your school. Understand your value. Proofread everything you use to present yourself. Involve...
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The following note came across my desk today, noting how good a time it is to be in the staffing industry: Staffing industry employment set a new first quarter record, according to data released today by the American Staffing Association....
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If you're in the USA, welcome back to work after your three-day Memiorial Day weekend. I hope you relaxed, got some nagging chores out of the way, visited friends or relatives. Either way, it's gone now, and you've got some...
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May29
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It's not just booming in the big cities. Thanks to big-city problems and accessible, fast Internet, job-growth in small towns are moving at a torrential rate. BizJournal explains it this way: "A lot of people and businesses want to be...
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More and more companies are using bonuses to reward employees for sticking around.Culpepper's Global Trends and Benefits Surveys had this to say early in May: Results from last month's Culpepper Trends Survey on Retention Bonuses indicate that about a third...
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With the market for talent as tight as it is (in the US, and here in Utah), many college grads are walking out of the processional, right into the cubicle--and many with cushy paychecks to buy a USB Lavalamp for...
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I am amazed whenever I learn deeply about the people I already know. Often, I smack my forehead (figuratively), realizing someone with a skill-set I have been searching for is, quite literally, right in my backyard. Ilumino, a new social...
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Schwag. The word is as cool as it sounds, and it's getting hotter by the minute. (Anything on Technorati's Top Ten Searches is something to pay attention to.) And, while it's a funny word, it's much easier to say than...
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May27
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It's not about what you know, it's who you know... and how much you genuinely care about helping out the people you know.
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Anthony points us to a great article by Forbes noting the top "exagerations" in resume writing these days. Considering that a résumé is usually a single sheet of paper, there are surprisingly many opportunities for yarn-spinning. Recent college grads will...
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Don't get me wrong, I love web 2.0. I ugraded a long time ago. But, if there's one thing I have just gotta ask: Will anything ever come out of BETA? You see it everywhere. It's almost a joke now. ...
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May26
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As a recruiter, I should know better than to ask direct questions and not expect a direct answer. Here is a dialogue I shared with my three-year old last night: Daddy: Are you hiding anything? Daughter: No. Daddy: I can...
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May25
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Recruiting Mythbusters continues with: Hire Only The Best I overhear this every once in a while. People sometimes drop this advice as with as much forethought as recommending a movie or a place to eat. The problem is, it makes sense...
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May24
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I like this cartoon, pointed out by Dennis Smith at Recruiter's Dumping Ground: (photo from Gapingvoid)...
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May23
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It bothers me that scammers and phishers are using jobs to attract information from people these days, but I guess it only makes sense. Microsoft published this helpful guide last year, emailed to me by my co-recruiter Patrick Wiscombe. I...
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Fellow KMM blogger, MarketingBlurb blabbed this tidbit of news about Nike making shoes and apparel designed to work with the Apple's iPod (via Reuters & Yahoo News). Using a Nike+iPod Sports Kit, expected to retail for about $29, consumers will...
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Use Jungle Disk to store, backup and share any files you want. Period.
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May21
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I expect that the day will come soon where I'll see a resume with a link to a personal interview uploaded to YouTube or Google Video. Even more interesting, I expect to see companies looking to recruit Gen Y'ers that will...
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May18
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I just got a coupon to share with you for $15 off a subscription to TheLadders job board tool for $100K+ and up jobs. Here it is: Get $15 off your first month's subscription to TheLadders $100K+ jobs premium...
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I hear it everywhere. Sometimes I even here it from people in my own shop (I won't ever admit that publicly though) that the really great people are just nowhere to be found.
Oh, please.
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In the spirit of the Mythbusters TV Show, I am creating a new series, published once a week called "Mythbusters". This will focus on my opinion against current thought-processes that I see out there in the marketplace.
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May15
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Programmers get intense when it comes to tracking and killing bugs in their system.
The developers at Skype are no different... except maybe a little over-zealous about tracking and fixing everything... even their community coffee maker
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I was re-listening to the Never Eat Alone (see at Amazon) interview with Keith Ferrazzi this morning from the Monster Podcast. I like the idea in there about not keeping score in your relationships. Don't worry about how many times you've...
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SOS Technical, the company I work for, is hiring at least one new Technical Recruiter! If you are in Utah, or looking to relocate, this may be a good opportunity for you. If you love I.T., and you love working...
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May12
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Microsoft Tech Recruiter Jenna Adorno admits to being as human as the rest of us when working with one of many candidates for a position: Then I neglected him. I did not reply. I was busy. I was like all...
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May 9
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I'm sure the old-school recruiters laughed when recruiters started using email to communicate with their candidates. Now, as connectedness moves from bulky, boat-anchor desktop machines to teeny-tiny mobile devices, SMS (Short Message Service - Wikipedia) is joining the fray of tools...
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My most-recent favorite application is Anagram. With it sitting in your Windows XP Taskbar, you can select any block of text containing someone's contact information, and hit your hot-key combination (by default, it's CTRL-C-C) and it sucks the information into...
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May 5
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Mozy is a very cool, free service that allows you to download a small, thin backup client and use it to seamlessly backup all your computer "stuff" online. What got me clicking to download Mozy was the free 2 gigs...
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If there's any blog post I want you to read, it's this one. Yesterday, I took a fascinating journey down an incredible new road of thought presented by Economist Dr. Richard Florida, via Landed Radio's excellent podcast series. Florida spoke at the Human...
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Seth Godin notes that companies who are really focused on their customers are so passionate about it, they let the customer tell them what to do:
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John Sumser identifies key "storm fronts" that are converging in our ever-tightening labor market in his post today, The Perfect Storm: Remember the movie "The Perfect Storm"? It's the story of a fishing boat caught at the intersection of multiple...
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May 4
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Michael Eager, Biz Dev guru at Provo Labs (one of my favorite companies), posted this tidbit on his blog a few days ago about handling employee struggles: Good article in Inc. magazine Nov 2005 edition on how to handle Employee Struggles. Here...
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May 3
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With the job-market tightening, it can't be any easier to fill jobs in Katrina-devastated areas of the country. Anthony J reports this to be true via recruiting.com: This is the toughest (employment market) I've ever seen, and I've been in...
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As a follow-on to my post the other day, Hire or No Hire, talking about managers being ready to make a decision after an interview, this one goes out to the job-seekers out there. Now may be the time to...
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May 2
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When attracting people to your company, it's not as important what you say, but how you say it
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If you're not locating the talent you want, or the people you've hired recently aren't quite working out, maybe you need to start with the up-front decision on what you really want, and commit to it, completely.
...That's how you'll get what you want.
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May 1
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CNN Money lists seven trendy new jobs: Director of mobile computing Director of internal controls Business continuity director Chief people officer Parent coordinator Residence concierge Blog editor Time to update your resume! (Anthony J., already has)...
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The most important rule about interviewing:
Make A Decision
At the conclusion of the interview, you have to be ready to make a sharp decision about the candidate.
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