Face It Recruiters…Interviews Suck
There are three simple reasons interviews suck, and it doesn’t matter if you are the recruiter, the recruitee, or someone else who’s been sucked into the process.
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Recruiting
Identifying Transferable Skills
Although there’s a lot of talk about transferable skills, identifying and articulating skills that are transferable beyond a position or industry can be challenging.
Recruiters: One Ugly Question That Can Save your Life
There’s just too much work and stress in recruitment. Without a wholehearted appreciation for the human aspect of what we do, one will find it difficult (sooner or later) to survive, let alone thrive, so ask yourself “…do you really want to get into recruitment?”
Effectively Manage Expectations
The greatest way to motivate your team and improve morale is to teach your sales team how to increase their level of success. Individuals in our profession are consistently approaching me to find out why they or their teams are not meeting their expectations. When I asked what those expectations are the most common response was, “To do better than they’re currently doing!”
Talent Acquisition and Compliance: What’s the big deal anyway?
We have all experienced a dramatic change in our landscape in the past few years, and we as recruiters have battled through the deepest recession in decades and worked towards bettering our fragile industry. Over, the last few years we have even had to develop compassion for those that we would usually consider our competitors. For many of us in the industry we are seeing some improvement and starting to set a better path as we move forward.
Enduring Brands – Flying High Despite the Recession
The aviation industry has always exuded glamour and interest, however; with the recent recession, diminishing business travel and debated carbon dioxide emissions have delivered serious punches to the industry. Through it all the aviation industry has still managed to remain an employer of choice for students. The employers have turned their nemesis into a tool for strengthening their recruiting efforts. Long-term employer branding commitment, even when recruiting has slowed, is the primary reason they boast such durable employer brands. In this article, five aviation employers shared some of their brand building tactics with Universum Quarterly.
Recruiters Give Job Seekers Guidance and Glimmer of Hope
Today with 1 in 10 Americans unemployed, and countless others underemployed, we are buried with resumes of candidates that fit, are desperate and or just shooting for any attention. That type of resume tsunami, compounded with processes that take time in the most efficient operations, have brought job seekers to a level of frustration not seen before. It has truly stress tested the networking ideas since we all know so many in this situation.
Listen To Understand
Have you ever hired a great candidate only to have their evil twin show up for work? During the interview process you met an individual with great credentials who you knew would fit into your company culture, but this is not the person who is now working for you and you find yourself questioning your ability to screen and hire.
Great Recruiters Tend To Be Great Networkers and So Can Organizations!
We are seeing talent management and talent acquisition professionals working together to define and create a combined talent strategy with the ultimate goal of pulling together top performing teams by retaining key players and hiring best of breed candidates from targeted resources. These same teams have come to realize the importance in leveraging the networking capabilities of their current talent to develop and a list of “soft” targets – which develop over time for future opportunities. So moving forward, let us not just think about how recruiting was done before these activities became commonplace, but let us think of what the future can hold for us.
Doubt Social Recruiting Works?
So..I will ask you…are you still living in the dark ages waiting for social media? are you a nonbeliever in the social media/recruiting craze? If not…I quote Andy Dufrane (Tim Robbins character) in Shawshank Redemption, “Get busy living or get busy dying” Maybe that is extreme, but think about it….if you and your hiring managers want to stay in the dark ages, have high time to fills, wait for people to apply via job boards you are a dying breed of recruiter.
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