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Jobs Rated 2012: HR Managers Rock, Lumberjacks Roll
Landing the job that’s right for you – that’s a good match for your skills and interests – requires soul-searching, some trial and error and lots of research. Fortunately, if you're working as a human resources manager, you've already made a very smart career choice. According to the 2012 Jobs Rated Report from CareerCast.com, HR manager ranks as the nation's third best job, just behind software engineer and actuary. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of 200 different jobs – from Accountant to Zoologist – ranking each profession based on factual analysis and hard data.
Handling Those Initial Telephone Screening Interviews
In today’s busy world of business the notion of doing things faster and more efficiently makes telephone interviewing an attractive tool to help screen candidates for job openings. Telephone interviews also save travel costs, while serving as a powerful initial screening tool. The individuals conducting telephone screening interviews include in-house human resources staff, typically members of the HR department’s recruiting team, as well as outside recruiting services, and even industrial/organizational psychologists, such as the individuals employed in our firm. Telephone interview questions are straightforward and designed to determine the suitability and fit of a candidate for particular job.
Recruiters: 8 Ways to Control Time (and Not Let Time Control You)
Do you have a course map for the busy race known as your day? When you get to the critical intersection of your day, do you know which way to go? Are you running ragged without a clue how to get to the finish line? Are you controlling time or is time controlling you? Try the following eight strategies and you’ll be much more likely to stay on course with your plans and your day.
Timing Is Critical in Recruiting
In the recruiting profession, timing is critical. Whether you are a third party recruiter or a corporate recruiter, the competition for top talent is fierce. The market has changed to a candidate-driven market, but many hiring authorities don’t realize the competition for top talent. When you are discussing an opportunity with hiring authorities, you need to clarify timing by asking the right questions.
Recruitment Sourcing Magic: What’s in a Title?
When you are sourcing candidates, do you source by title, skills, or both? When recruiters tell me they search by titles only, they may be attempting to recruit the wrong candidates. Why? In the US we sometimes seem too concerned about titles and not enough about the work to be accomplished. Therefore, janitors become maintenance engineers. Then maintenance engineers in LEED Certified buildings become Directors of Green Facilities (I made that title up – I think!). Sales professionals become Business Developers, Account Representatives, Account Managers, etc. At Microsoft, recruiters become Staffing Consultants.
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SUMSER'S TECH TALK
The subject of Big Data is on everyone’s short list. The trend beneath the buzzword is so important that is as hard to imagine as the web was in 1993. It’s driven by smart tools, cloud architectures, cheap processing, cheap storage, broadening access to data and the search for new ways to gain productivity.
The idea is big enough to support an array of conflicting notions. A scan through the search results finds topics that range from analytics to large scale data integrations to novel correlations. The Big Data tent includes all of these somewhat contradictory ideas.
John Sumser keeps you on the cutting edge with each edition of Tech Talk: Startups, new techniques, impending changes, opportunities, and the critical trends that drive recruiting effectiveness. More here...
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A Multitude of Hope: A Novel About Rediscovering the American Dream by Peter Weddle traces the experiences of three laid-off professionals – all Baby Boomers, but they could be Americans of any age. Their search for reemployment feels like a journey through a modern heart of darkness.
Along the way, however, something extraordinary happens.
