“The Recruiting Department is where data goes to die.” This sentiment was shared with me during a recent conversation related to one of the many sourcing technologies flooding the market. It was the opinion of this person, that the idea of data driven recruiting and the reality of data driven recruiting simply don’t match up. Ultimately, his point was that only a very small percentage of corporate recruiting departments have the resources to analyze the [...]
Somehow it seems that job scams and social media are all too often turning up in the same articles, if not sentences. While job scams exist and can be devastating to your personal identity and finances, the reality is that they are few and far between. There is much more fear about scams than there are scams. And although that is certainly true, we all know that it only takes one bad experience with a [...]
Here are some pivotal tips to help make sure you make a great impression. If you’re serious about landing that perfect job, the following advice will help get you noticed.
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).
This was just passed internally to our company from a person I think very highly of, and I thought it was worth anybody’s two minutes to read- though I don’t know where it originated (OKAY, SINCE POSTING THIS, I HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS, AND HAVE BEEN ASKED TO GIVE PROPER ATTRIBUTION, WHICH I’M HAPPY TO DO: Law of the Garbage Truck Based on the book by David Pollay: http://davidjpollay.typepad.com/ One day [...]