Recruiting Strategy: From the Boardroom to the Trenches

Recruiting is not an easy business. While some may argue that it’s simple, that viewpoint is often skewed by the position a recruiter finds him or herself in. For third-party recruiters, the maxim, we find people for jobs holds true and the interaction may stop one to two weeks after the candidate’s first day. Meanwhile the corporate recruiter is not only expected to interface with marketing to create an employment brand but to sort through employee referrals, job board advertisements and a complex legacy system to find the right candidate. But even these examples don’t begin to cover what recruiters all over the world do day in and day out.

Massive Influx of Resumes Prompts Companies to Handle it with Technology

Changes in the Approach to Retention Are Also Evident — Despite improvements in the economy, hiring still lags behind the rise in resumes received by businesses, according to results of a survey recently released by NuView Systems Inc., a global HR & payroll software platform provider. The scenario creates new challenges for employers. Surveying companies [...]

Is LinkedIn Actively Preventing Recruiters from Searching Profiles via Google?

Recruiters often like to use the site: command on search engines to find LinkedIn profiles (a method we first described five years ago) because search engines avoid the 100 results per search limit imposed on queries done within LinkedIn’s own Advanced search (for free LinkedIn account users) and because they reveal unblended profiles of people outside your three-degree network (only LinkedIn corporate account holders can view virtually all users), especially handy when you’re sourcing in new areas where you don’t have a strong network.

Antisocial Recruiter Networking

Like every Sunday morning, I like to skim through the New York Times before being summoned complete my weekend “to-do” list. However, I came upon an article in the Sunday’s Fashion & Styles section that caught my eye and made me think and think really hard (for a Sunday). The title of the article read “Antisocial Networking?”

Small Business Owners Are Thinking Big Again

Nearly two-fifths of small business owners are expecting an economic turnaround in 2010. Another 44 percent think a rebound will occur in 2011, and only 17 percent are unsure. These encouraging findings regarding small business owners’ morale come from the latest Business Confidence Survey by Administaff, a provider of human resources services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Recruiters Get Ready…Here Comes Health Reform

While reform is likely to significantly increase demand for health services, it will not have a particularly significant impact on the supply of clinical professionals. The new law acknowledges the shortage of health care professionals and takes some steps to address it. For example, the law calls for redistribution of a number of physician residency training slots that are not being used to training facilities where they will be used. Currently, there are 121,000 medical residency positions available at teaching facilities throughout the U.S, but only 109,000 are being used. Only a limited number of teaching facilities, however, have the funds and infrastructure needed to absorb redistributed slots. It is projected that redistribution of residency positions will only lead to several hundred more physicians coming out of training each year, when most experts agree that several thousand are needed to address current and projected shortages.

Attract, Retain, Repel: How Employment Branding and Organizational Culture Can Increase the ROI of Recruitment and Retention

There is a recording of this webinar available.

Attract, Retain, Repel: How Employment Branding and Organizational Culture Can Increase the ROI of Recruitment and Retention
While organizational culture has been touted since the early 1990’s as essential for business success, there has been little connection between culture and the employment branding process. We have found that having the knowledge of “who you are and who you are not” from a cultural perspective, you can create an employment brand that will increase the ROI of recruitment and retention programs. By paying attention to congruence, alignment and fit, organizations can attract and retain the “right” employees and repel those that just won’t fit.

Is Time Management Even Possible?

We all have the same 168 hours in each week, but there are some who seem to accomplish so much more than the average person. Often we connect this to their ability to manage their time effectively., but are they really managing time? They have the same 24 hour days as everyone else, but what they are managing are their actions.

The Job Market Is Over, Under, Sideways, Down

Where’s the job market headed? Just ask The Yardbirds, and they just might answer you with one of their greatest hits from the ’60s, “Over Under Sideways Down.” And they’d be right. According to data from several sources we’re either over the recession, under the pall of it still, or looking sideways to healthy job markets elsewhere, and against this backdrop, employees are feeling down in key markets.

Volunteer Screening – What to do…what to do?

We have been surprised by the diverse opinions surrounding the question of whether Volunteers should be treated as employees for purposes of conducting background checks per the Federal Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and state laws. This article seeks to highlight some of the questions organizations who engage Volunteers should ask themselves in determining an answer to this question.