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Sep29
Engage Your Applicants
Hiring is a waiting game.

With all the prospecting, sourcing, and job-posting you can do, when it comes down to it, you can't hire the right person until the right person is located.

How can you consistenly keep the good applicants around until you need them?  The answer is more simple than you think.  A job-seeker reminds us how.
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Sep28
Google Reader Gets Facelift
I track a lot of websites and blogs--both from people in the recruiting industry, and from business leaders I follow, businesses in the local area, and top-talent in the area that I like to track because I respect their opinions.... Continue Reading
Hiring Options: Retained Search
Retaining a search firm to help you locate candidates is an option often best-used in conjunction with an exclusivity agreement, and where a long-term, consultative hiring process is needed.Retained search firms often focus on the high-level, top-tier management hires needed... Continue Reading
Hiring Options: Contract, Contract-to-Hire
Contracting talented people works in more situations than people often think of.  Where technical or specialized skills are needed, contractors or consultants are both a good way to bring in top-notch candidates while having the luxury of a try-before-you-buy relationship...... Continue Reading
Hiring Options: Exclusive Agreements
Initially, the thing which I find most companies hesitant about when it comes to working with a recruiter/agency are the fees.  Many agencies will agree to discount their fees somewhat if the client is willing to sign an exclusivity agreement. ... Continue Reading
Hiring Options: Direct Hire, Permanent Placement
Direct hire, a.k.a. permanent placement hiring fits the standard model of recruiting and hiring: Talented person leaves company A... ...to go work for company B If a contingency recruiter is involved in the transition, that recruiter is often paid a... Continue Reading
Sep27
Compare Salaries By Location
I am still jiving over Indeed's new tool for Salary Search.  I was just mashing up some results when I realized the tool nicely allows comparison of salary among localities, or globally (as far as Indeed's system is concerned, anyway).I... Continue Reading
Salary Comparison Tool
Back in April, I bumped into Indeed's Job Trends tool and I analyzed six hot job categories to see their frequency in the indeed job-posting world:
  1. Engineer
  2. Customer Service
  3. Sales
  4. Receptionist
  5. part time
  6. Human Resources
Now, Indeed has launched a Salary Comparison tool which attempts to show how much certain jobs are paying.  I tagged the same six keywords as-above, and got the following salary results:
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Sep19
Where Do Top Talent Come From?
If you wanted to take on a company like Apple, it only makes sense that you would possibly want to recruit the kind of people they recruit, boosting your company's brainpower while shortening the supply for your competitor.As LinkedIn Kung... Continue Reading
New Recruiting.com
OK, I am probably the last to know this because I read everything in my newsreader, but I really like Recruiting.com's facelift.Very nice theme--easy to read and very Web 2.0.  I like it.Still a great source of information on the... Continue Reading
Recruiting 2.0: Location Based Recruiting
Though many people think the Internet was supposed to make recruiters obsolete, the opposite is (of course) true.  The internet is a means, not an end.But the new "Where 2.0" set of technologies is enabling even more location-enabled conversations for... Continue Reading
Sep15
Tough Crowd, Tough Crowd...
I just hung up the phone with another one of my candidates who was hired on-the-spot for another company after an interview they setup on their own.That's four five this week.Don't get me wrong, I don't have any problem with... Continue Reading
Sep14
LinkedIn Enabling Spam
LinkedIn Jobs is helping to fill your inbox with spam these days in the name of networking.  Dave Mendoza says it like this: The manner in which Linkedin:Jobs is configured allows for abuse in the amount and redundancy of emailed... Continue Reading
Sep 5
Why Labor Day is Different
The following was passed along to me, which I like: "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor.... Continue Reading
What is a Contingency Recruiter?
I found an incredible article titled Getting the Most From Your Relationship with a Contingency Search Firm, written by Bob Marshall, Recruitment Educator at Recruiter.com. If you're a hiring manager (or you might be) keep this handy! Like any successful... Continue Reading
Capture a Recruiter's Attention
CareerJournal has a great article: How to Get a Recruiter's Attention. Many unemployed executives feel stonewalled by recruiters who don't acknowledge resumes or return phone calls. While there's no doubt executive search is hot... there's a fact of life every job... Continue Reading
Sep 4
Business Stereotypes That Need To Change
We all have them -- Stereotypes.  Certain thoughts or feelings that pop into your mind when you hear a word or phrase. I think the workplace is becoming much more talent-focused (as it should be), with more and more of... Continue Reading

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