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COMIC – Don’t blame me for training you
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The Recruiters Lounge - Sun, 08/08/2010 - 10:11

The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you don’t have to…)
The Searchologist Magazine presents: 1. When You Need to Recruit for a Bad Manager… 2. Recruiting via Social Networks on the Rise 3. Staffing Execs Skeptical About Job Losses 4. Hewlett-Packard stock plummets on CEO scandal 5. Employer misuses worker contributions and pays dearly 6. Anniversaries Matter. Jobs Matter More. 7. Employers should ‘not fear’ end to default retirement age [...]

The Recruiters Lounge - Sat, 08/07/2010 - 12:01

Minnesota Recruiters Conference 11 | Summer 2010 | Recap
On July 30th, 2010 the 11th Minnesota Recruiters Conference brought 200 Recruiter and HR professionals to a new location and a new format. Thanks to Rebecca Warren, General Mills Recruiting Manager, and their team for hosting us. I was a bit nervous as after doing 10 of these at Best Buy (where we will be doing more events at) as there are always those things that are specific to a location. But this was as smooth as it gets. The other change was the format. Our first couple...

MN Headhunter - Sat, 08/07/2010 - 01:41

Podcast: The Secret Sexting Lives of Workers
The Searchologist Magazine presents: The Secret Sexting Lives of Workers In this podcast, Jim and Karen start off well, then (as always, or at least, most of the time) they veer off the road into some very bumpy side roads. It all begins with the (growing?) trend of sexting in the workplace then goes to (in no certain order): It [...]

The Recruiters Lounge - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 16:47

Converting passive candidates to join your talent pool
The Talent Pool. The holy grail of recruiting. Many recruiters claim to have one yet in reality very few do. But the technology has been out there a long time and the concept is not new. So what should you be doing? You have to think like a marketing department rather than a recruitment business. There are so many stats about the percentage of active job seekers versus passive job seekers but either way, people are at different stages of their job hunting and the passive candidate is going to...

Hire Strategies - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 06:55

Using Networking Groups To Your Advantage
The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: I know what you’re thinking: walking into a room full of strangers and announcing that you’re unemployed is as far from your comfort zone as you can get. Networking is awkward and makes you feel desperate. Do you really have to do it? The answer is no. Some people do find work without assertively networking. It just generally takes them a lot longer than those who are out actively saying, “I have a...

MN Headhunter - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 03:59

JOB INTERVIEW TIP: "Know your sh*t and go with the flow."
SEATTLE, WA - Ecommerce recruiting is a pretty cruel business: I will handle 120 searches this year, and for even the searches I don't close, there is only one winner – and everyone else goes home with a T-shirt. Just like the Final Four. Naturally, all of my losing candidates want to know how to improve their game for the next time. What could they have done differently? What could they improve? What did they do wrong that they shouldn't do again? Was it something they...

Marketing Headhunter - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 01:05

#FollowFriday Goes .com (again)
I haven’t seen TechCrunch or Mashable cover the quiet release of www.followfriday.com yet, so I’m not quite sure if that means it’s not newsworthy. Either way, I think it will be interesting for anyone who likes to participate in Follow Fridays on Twitter. So, a little history here to begin: apparently, last year a website called www.followfridays.com was launched to help people manage their #FF’s and see who the most #FF’ed individuals are. Clicking...

Research Goddess - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 20:17

Minnesota Recruiters On KARE 11 TV Give Job Seekers Advice
Last week during our Minnesota Recruiters Conference we were visited by Scott Goldberg @ScottGoldberg of KARE 11 TV (local NBC affiliate) who was curious about our event and how we could get some information out to job seekers about the job search and some additional tools they could be using. That was easy enough after all we had 200 of us at the event and many companies who are doing some really cool things to better interact with candidates. Interviewed: Steve Lewis, Executive Director,...

MN Headhunter - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 13:04

Remember the Teeter Totter?
Do you remember the Teeter Totter that was in the playground behind your elementary school? The fun came when you and a friend jumped on opposite ends of the long wooden board and took turns being “up” and then being “down”. The trick was getting off, this is what required the skill, one rider needed to slide off but not let go of the teeter board since they had to let the other person down slowly. Without this consideration the other person would be sure to hit the ground with a THUMP.As...

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 10:35

The Corporate Recruiter Survey 2010: How effective is your direct resourcing?
Pretty much every employer wants to recruit people direct yet so many are failing to make any real impact instead forever fire fighting the deluge of urgent vacancies. So what's going wrong and what can you do to fix it? Take our 5 minute survey and in 4-6 weeks we'll share the overall results with you in a FREE report. Compare your activities against others by company size and industry sector. Find out what volume of vacancies you should be managing. See if others have the same attraction challenges....

Hire Strategies - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 07:52

It Costs How Much to Replace an Employee?
Retaining your good employees The Right People in the Right Places Studies show that the average cost to replace a worker in the US is $17,000.00 (AVERAGE!!). Some HR managers use the rule of thumb that whatever the person’s annual salary is – it will cost that much to replace them. One study evaluating the effects of the US Family [...]

The Recruiters Lounge - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 02:05

Marketing Headhunter - Thu, 08/05/2010 - 00:05

HRO Announces “The Bakers Dozen” 2010
The 2010 results are in! HRO Today Magazine today announced the carefully watched results for its annual Bakers Dozen ranking of major recruitment process outsourcing firms. After 2 years running, The RightThing was pushed out of the top spot by SourceRight Solutions (formerly Spherion). The RPO Baker’s Dozen List, was developed from information culled on [...]

The Talent Buzz - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 22:50

Looking For Jobs One Job At A Time
The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: “I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it” - Albert Einstein A rather uninspiring title today, but it was actually suggested by a friend. Not overtly suggested, but he was frustrated in his search and was looking for advice. And, like today's quote, your job is out there even if you're not looking for it. Of course it will become someone else's if you don't find it. Ah, but how to find...

MN Headhunter - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 10:08

Researchers' tool: eGrabber eMail-ID Extractor
This I thought is a very handy tool for anyone Researching/Resourcing for email ids and then perhaps for mailing campaigns. This extractor is basically a plug-in to capture email ids from web pages and is free of charge. The Plug-in installs in your browser toolbar. Clicking it extracts email IDs from the page, de-dupes, sorts and displays them for you in an Excel...

A recruiter diary - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 10:05

ATS vendors - where next?
Following on from the Stepstone acquisition of Mr Ted what else may be on Mr Parkers shopping list? Is it just acquisition for growth or acquisition to expand the depth of their product offering. The likes of Amazon and Tesco have expanded way beyond their roots and Stepstone appear to be following suit. But the focus for most of the ATS vendors has been downstream of the application process into the talent management space whilst the likes of Success Factors are trying to push upstream. But I...

Hire Strategies - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 07:41

3 Years And A Cloud Of Dust
My apologies for co-opting Woody Hayes’ saying, but I am from Ann Arbor and couldn’t stand the guy anyway. I’m wondering what the Great Recession is going to do to resumes. What I mean is this – many people have shortened tenures nowadays (especially Gen Y). 3 years is turning into a fairly good tenure for a worker. This recession has cost millions of people their jobs. Some will have to start their work career over, essentially taking a “lesser” job and working their way up...

The Hire Sense - Tue, 08/03/2010 - 16:58

Hi. My name is Amybeth. I am a workaholic.
the most relaxing porch ever! I recently took a week off to vacation in New Hampshire at my aunt and uncle’s home. They live in a little town called Newbury in the western part of the state, and I had no cell phone reception where they are located. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I was able to (almost completely) disconnect for the majority of my week and enjoy spending time with my family going kayaking, hiking, visiting some special places with great...

Research Goddess - Tue, 08/03/2010 - 11:30

4-Year vs. 2-Year College Degrees: How Does the Pay Compare?
With the rising cost of four-year colleges, people may ask themselves whether the salary promised by a bachelor’s degree is really worth the time and money required to complete the program. Why not complete an associate’s degree program, and enter the workforce sooner and (mostly) free of debt? Using the extensive PayScale salary database, in this post we will examine [...]

The Recruiters Lounge - Tue, 08/03/2010 - 08:38