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Monster.com and HotJobs Come Together
Monster has concluded it’s agreement with Yahoo, and is making plans now to transform itself into the worlds largest online career resource. The deal is positioned as providing both employers and job seekers more reach, breadth, talent, and local presence. The combined presence of Monster and HotJobs is expected to provide access to more than 43 [...] |
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2010 Corporate Diversity Report
Diversity Recruiting continues to be on both Executives and Recruiting minds. It’s also on the mind of Senator Robert Menendez, our only Hispanic Senator. Menendez recently stated “As Chair of the Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force, one of my top priorities has always been promoting and expanding diversity at all levels of our [...] |
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Recruiting in Minneapolis: Flyover Country or Diamond in the Rough?
Written by Liesl Batz, Executive Recruiter. Recruiting for the Twin Cities Asset Management community: Flyover country or diamond in the rough? As an executive recruiter focused on senior investment and distribution placements for Asset Management firms, one might think that I would naturally call one of the coasts home. Actually, I am happily established in [...] |
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Twin Cities HR Networking Event : 9/9/10
The Talent Buzz is hosting the 2nd annual premier networking event for HR & Talent Management professionals in the Twin Cities. The event will be held on Thursday, September 9th, from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, aboard Al & Alma’s Bella Vista Yacht. What this event is: An opportunity to discuss leading-edge trends in Human Resources [...] |
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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 [...] |
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Top 10 LinkedIn Job Search Tips
The LinkedIn network represents 70 million members from 200 countries, on all 7 continents. It’s powerful, and growing. Some recruiters think it’s a powerful force behind the tipping point in agency recruiting. Regardless, the site continues to add new features, benefiting both job seekers and recruiters. LinkedIn also continues its’ growth as a major component of [...] |
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15 Competitive Intelligence Tools for Recruiting
Competitive Intelligence. It’s the systematic gathering of open information and analysis to provide a better understanding of a competitor firm’s structure, culture, behavior, capabilities, and weaknesses. While competitive intelligence as a practice is not new to the recruiting profession, it can be a key component to a competitive recruiting strategy when deployed properly. Here [...] |
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Wanted: A Few Great Recruiters
We’re looking for a few great Recruiters… Recruiting and advising talent takes talent, and while there are enough opinions (and content) in the recruiting and job seeker space - a majority is driven by self proclaimed experts or an agenda to sell a product. There’s also enough of the“sky is falling drama”. This is where [...] |
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Recruiter Reality TV Series
Top Recruiter TV, a Recruiter Earth Production is live, and Tiffany Crenshaw is the talent scout on stage. What’s the buzz about? Both Human Resources and Executive Recruiting are as important to corporate America as athletic scouts are to professional sporting teams. They can literally change the very fabric of a company with the people they [...] |
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70 Million Needles in the Haystack
Written by @erincarlson. Have you ever stopped to think about how much LinkedIn caused a tipping point in both agency and corporate recruiting? What use to be the private commodity of agency recruiters, their database of people now resides freely accessible by corporate recruiters via the web. There is no control over the candidate and what [...] |
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Ke$ha and Social Recruiting: Blah, Blah, Blah
There are many opportunities for both HR professionals and Recruiters to engage in (and leverage) social media (coming out your mouth with your blah blah blah) – both personally and professionally. But buyer beware, don’t just fall for the hype (zip your lips like a padlock)– and be sold worthless goods. If you filter through a [...] |
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Top 20 HR & Recruiting Pages on Facebook
Search HR pages, over 500 results. Search groups, another 500. The same goes for recruiting. With all the clutter, there are few I have found that add value. Like a lot of things, you’ll get out of it what you invest into it. In random order, here are 15 worthwile HR and Recruiting Pages (and Groups) [...] |