The young captains, many of whom don’t know they’re way around seas, and lacking the knowledge that only comes with age and experience, are ill-equipped for fishing in the open waters. Yet that’s where they’ll soon be sent. And quickly, they’ll find that those exotic fish are harder to find in the open ocean than they anticipated.

Ideally, a well developed employment brand strategy will include activities geared toward attracting both the active and passive candidates. Active seekers can be attracted with traditional job posting advertisements and by posting jobs on your own website, and making them search engine optimized (you’d be shocked by how many job searches start in a Google search field).

The report below, published in 2008 by the Governor’s Workforce Board of RI, outlines the issues facing the hospitality industry in that state- a state which relies heavily on this sector of the economy (who doesn’t love Newport?).  What’s disconcerting, however, is that it’s now been a year since this was originally published, and there [...]

New Hampshire Business Review
Building your employment brand
By Jason Blais
Friday, October 9, 2009
I was told once that the way to determine whether the glass if half full or half empty is to know whether your filling the glass or emptying it. If it started out empty, it’s easy to see the glass as half full; if [...]

In this week’s look back: social media in vacationland, the art and science of winning negotiation, eLearning for HR, and thoughts on the economy.  Read on for quick hits on these topics, or follow the links for more in-depth coverage.
On september 24th, the SocialMediaFTW conference erupted at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.  Yes, [...]

As an industry leading recruitment resource for the past decade, JobsInTheUS has worked with thousands of hiring managers and HR professionals, read through tens of thousands of employment advertisements, and spoken to hundreds of thousands of job seekers through our outreach and education programs.  Learning from this experience, along with participation in local SHRM chapters [...]

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As I mentioned in my earlier post from the ere.net expo and the IAEWS Annual Member Congress, I will be writing 7 posts in 7 days related to those events.  This is number two of these seven.
After an absolutely exhilerating day participating in the Annual Member Congress of the International Association of Employment Websites, I [...]

As I mentioned in my earlier post from the ere.net expo and the IAEWS Annual Member Congress, I will be writing 7 posts in 7 days related to those events.  This is the first of these seven.

One of the primary topics for discussion at the Annual Member Congress of the International Association of Employment Websites [...]

Jobs, Talent Acquisition, & Money: The Insider’s World.
Beginning on September 9th, hundreds of the most influential profiles in talent acquisition descended upon the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, FL to shape the future of how people find jobs, and how employers find people.  Two of the most powerful associations in this world held [...]