Building a More Sustainable Hiring Process

CH2M HILL, Which Is Helping the 2012 Olympics in London, Improves Candidate Selection with Automated Reference-Checking

According to Manpower Group’s annual survey of employers, engineering jobs are chronically among the toughest jobs to fill. Despite this challenge, CH2M HILL, a full-service consulting, design, design-build, operations, and program management firm, has found a way to improve the quality of its hires—even while reducing its days-to-fill and cutting costs associated with checking references.

The Most Discriminatory Part of the Hiring Process? You.

The traditional resume is the most discriminatory part of the hiring process today because it relies on hiring managers to interpret a job seeker’s experiences in order to make a hiring decision – and not on a job seeker to present his qualifications in a more dynamic and meaningful way.

Chapter 1: A Multitude of Hope

I don’t want to adopt an alternative lifestyle. Or, to search for my inner bliss. I’ve never checked out and moved into a commune. Or, backed away and lived off the grid. I’m an independent person, yes, but I’m no separatist and certainly not a troublemaker.

The world I’m about to describe, therefore, isn’t of my own making. Nor is it an affinity into which I was born or fell into through inheritance. It is, instead, an assembly I was invited to join.

Job Opportunities on the Rise for Graduates

According to the April 2012 Salary Survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the overall median salary for the Class of 2012 college graduates has risen by 4.5% from 2011. NACE also reports that employers plan to increase spring graduate hiring by 10% over last year. While down from last year, the same survey finds employers are expecting to increase college graduate hiring by 21% compared to the class of 2010.

Can Video Hiring Replace In-Person Hiring?

Recruiting is a tough job – probably the toughest job at any organization. People are what make an organization great. The people who put in the hours, express the passion needed to win, collaborate and tend to details are what separate excellent companies from mediocre ones. But finding those people can be like searching for that proverbial needle in a haystack.

Even in a job market that’s tough for candidates, recruiters can have a hard time finding the right people for their openings. Often the perfect candidate is not right down the street, but rather in a different city or country altogether.

Prologue: A Multitude of Hope

Recruiting Trends Exclusive ~~ It was a quiet, contented Sunday evening in August. The shore traffic had cleared on Sound Beach Avenue, leaving only the hot pavement and the dreary rivulets of air conditioner condensation to mark its passing.

A brick, two story elementary school demarked the end of the street’s passage through the residential area. It was flanked on one side by a pedestrian crossing and on the other by the exit way of a circular drive that, on a school day, would be filled with mothers dispatching children from tony BMWs and Mercedes sedans. On this day, however, there were only empty, faded parking spaces to look up at the half drawn window shades of the final weeks of summer vacation.

Are You Overwhelmed by Email? 8 Tips to Handle Email Overload

The amount of email in your inbox is probably increasing each month. Have you ever tracked how much time you’re spending answering email? Are your unanswered emails costing you frustration and stress?

Your challenge is to read, sort, organize and assimilate the massive amounts of data you’re exposed to daily. It’s easy to understand how you can become overwhelmed.

Employers Very Concerned about Retaining Top Talent

According to Right Management, nine out of 10 employers are finding it harder to fill key jobs despite ongoing high unemployment – and, of those employers, more are experiencing difficulty more frequently than last year (at 27%). Right Management also finds that 77% of employers rely on a combination of internal talent development and selective external hiring to fill key positions.

Recruitment Sourcing Magic: Proper Attitude

When I listen to recruiters discuss sourcing some have an amazing attitude. They are like Labrador Retrievers on the search – pant, pant, pant, There! Other recruiters act almost like sourcing is an imposition. They want to try to find the easiest way to “screen out” candidates.

Leveraging Social Media and Social Networks for Effective Technology Recruiting

Social media and social networks have been used longer and more frequently in technology staffing than other industries. We as agencies, human resource professionals and internal recruiters, should be using social media more effectively in recruiting and staffing initiatives because doing so will help maximize results in terms of candidate engagement, building relationships and placements.