Winning the War for TalentEmployer career fair tips for attracting the very best candidates every time for every position in your company.
The following tips have been culled from literally thousands of conversations with job seekers at career events. If you are serious about attracting and engaging the very best candidates, be sure to discuss [...]
Human Capital Management
Attracting the Best Candidates for Every Position Every Time.
JobSeekers
RFL: Digital Resumes, URI Career Fair, and Job Seeker Story of the Day
DIGITAL RESUMES
Okay job seekers, here’s the best kept secret in Digital Resumes: YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE RECRUITER IS GOING TO SEARCH FOR! Searching a resume database to find a candidate is often very similar to searching any other database- you enter a key word or phrase that you’re searching for, and the database [...]
JobSeekers
JobsInME- Connecting in South Portland
The properties of JobsInTheUS have launched a focused initiative to reinforce strong and lasting connections with the local communities they serve in AL, LA, MA, ME, MS, NH, VT, & RI. Unlike most internet resources, these companies are participatory in local business and trade associations, HR Associations, career centers at colleges, universities, trades schools, and [...]
JobSeekers
JobsInAL – Face to Face in Birmingham!
The properties of JobsInTheUS have launched a focused initiative to reinforce strong and lasting connections with the local communities they serve in AL, LA, MA, ME, MS, NH, VT, & RI. Unlike most internet resources, these companies are participatory in local business and trade associations, HR Associations, career centers at colleges, universities, trades schools, [...]
Employment Branding
Top 5 Ways to Fail at Hiring
If you’re in the majority of businesses out there, you handle most or all of your recruiting in-house- no recruiters or staffing agencies in your hip pocket… or wallet. That is, you write your own job postings or advertisements, you research and make your own media buys, and you handle the pre-screening and interview [...]
Attention All Job Fair Exhibitors!
STEP UP YOUR GAME
While organizing 4 job fairs in different states this month, I’ve been keenly aware of our need to differentiate our events from the rest. When it comes right down to it, all that really matters is that local job seekers find good opportunities, and the local employers who exhibit connect with [...]
Employment Branding
Hosting your own recruiting open house- YES YOU CAN!
As I spend more time focused on the processes and strategies that the best local businesses use to attract the best local talent, and how the best local talent finds the best local career opportunities, it’s clear to me that a face time is one aspect of the recruitment process that is absolutely vital, and [...]
JobsInTheUS
Have Career Fairs Lost their Value?
At JobsInTheUS, we are taking our web-based employment advertising resource from the net to the neighborhood. We’ve launched an initiative to host 4 career fairs in September- one each in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Alabama. In the spring, we’ll be hosting 7, including those 4 states, plus Mississippi, Louisiana, and Vermont. [...]
JobSeekers
On the recruiting frtont lines in Augusta, ME
Wow. Some days really make you wonder about the future, and about the real employment adversity faced by many Americans.
I spent the better part of the day on Monday, March 10th, at the August Civic Center exhibiting at the Augusta Job Expo. The company I work for was there promoting our [...]
JobSeekers
Community College of RI Job Fair
On March 5th, the Community College of RI hosted a career fair for their students. I attended to speak with students about career opportunities in the state, and promote our website. The event was well run and organized, held in the cafeteria during mid-day. This allowed for good traffic, maybe 125 [...]
