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 process. If your company attends career fairs, you and your team conceive the design for your displays and staff the booth [...]
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. These fairs are growing, and we’re seeing participation from businesses from all sectors. It’s been our belief, since our site started in [...]
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 service to job seekers, and providing tips and advice to job seekers. These bits of wisdom (okay, so humility may not be my [...]
Thanks for taking a look at the first post from the front lines of the recruiting market. This week, I visited the University of Maine, Orono campus to exhibit and promote our state-specific employment resource to juniors and seniors seeking higher education in this school, probably best known for it’s engineering program and division I hockey team. I also traveled to Warwick, RI to exhibit and network to support our RI-based job board at the [...]