The Recruiters Lounge
Exploring the wacky world of employment.
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PODCAST: Should you go to college during a recession?
The Searchologist Magazine presents: Should you go to school during a recession? In this podcast, Jim and Karen talk about the wisdom of investing thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours into an education when there are no jobs at the end of the process. For that matter, why is a degree necessary for some jobs and not for others? [...] |
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The Legalities of Employee E-Mail Monitoring
Recent studies show that three quarters of companies do monitor employee’s usage of company owned communication devices and resources. This includes surfing the internet, reviewing employee phone calls and employee e-mail monitoring. Monitoring devices and software aids your company in protecting it from abusive employees and legal liabilities. But you should also be aware that monitoring employee’s activities through monitoring [...] |
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Recruiter Training Video: How to automate Resume Sourcing
Jim is in a very good mood. In addition to demonstrating how to automate the sourcing of resumes, he gives much respect to USA veterans. God bless the American soldier!!! FYI: The quickest (and easiest) way to find missing email Ids for Linked-in Profiles –> bit.ly/find-emails Related PostsRecruiter Training: The Searchologist gets a new coat of paintVideo Tutorial: How to [...] |
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INTERVIEW: May I introduce you to Irina Shamaeva?
Karen Mattonen and I had the good fortune of chatting with Irina Shamaeva, Founder of the Boolean Strings Network. Tune in to hear the chatter. Hello, Irina! Welcome to The Recruiters Lounge Irina! Thanks, glad to be a guest here! I have always been a fan of yours. One of my first experiences with sourcing as a discipline was reading [...] |
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The Five Most Idiotic HR Policies Ever
Ask a company recruiter the state of the job market, and she’ll tell you that certain, key jobs are always hard to fill. A great marketing chief, a terrific CTO or other pivotal ‘value creator’ is not born every minute. So which companies end up with the talent? The ones that treat people like adults, rather than like irresponsible children. [...] |
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Steps To Take – How You Can Survive A Layoff?
What you do immediately after receiving word that your current job is gone can make a big difference in how you will be able to support yourself and your family. Making the wrong decisions can have dire consequences over the long term. Employees leaving their employers, either on their own terms or on the terms handed to them, can greatly [...] |
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Employee Handbook – Protecting at Will Employment
At Will Employment – What Is It? “At Will” employment is the term used for the basic employment adage that an employer can fire any worker for any reason or for no reason at all… for good cause or bad cause; an employee is employed “at the will” of the employer and the employer determines how long to employ a [...] |
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What is the point of a diversity niche job board?
The other day I received a call from a potential advertiser who asked me a very pointed question: “What is the purpose of a diversity job board?” At first, I was a little taken aback because the answer seemed so obvious to me. But more important, I quickly realized, is that it was not so apparent to him. When it [...] |
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10 Strategic Tips For Employee Retention
Lots of Model Survey are being used nowadays for the purpose of HR-benchmarking such as the classic Cross-Sectional Surveys, Longitudinal Surveys and other copyrighted Management Model Survey such as Engagement Model Survey, David Ulrich Models etc… but because of the complexity of human behavior a scenario of one survey conducted in one specific place is not applicable in another place. [...] |
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The Worker Identity Theft Crisis (And How You Will Save The Day)
The Price of Admission to the Digital Age Identity theft is everywhere. It’s the crime of the millennium; it’s the scourge of the digital age. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s happened to someone you know. Using Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data, Javelin Research estimates that about 9 million identity thefts occurred last year, which means that about 1 [...] |
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Top Reasons Resumes Are Rejected – You’re Overqualified
It’s very discouraging to send countless resumes out into the world, and hear absolutely nothing back. It’s hard not to take it personally. Yet if you talk to hiring managers about why they reject most resumes, the reasons are pretty predictable. One of the most common is that the resume shows the applicant is overqualified. In other words, they’re too [...] |
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How To Recruit with Text Messaging
This article was originally published in the April 2010 issue of Staffing Industry Review Magazine. It is republished here by permission of the author. *** Recruiters (and Staffing) Text Messaging, SI Review April 2010 By Julie McCoy Dane Taylor, a senior executive recruiter with SFN Group’s professional services division, The Mergis Group, takes a three-step approach to reaching candidates. First, he [...] |
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What Makes Employees Loyal?
In past generations it was very common for an employee to remain with one employer for his or her entire work life. These people were loyal to the companies that they worked for. They believed in what their company did and stood for. For this to happen today would be a rarity. Studies show that the typical person entering the [...] |
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What is the Most Important Question You Can Ask in a Job Interview?
Over the decades I have asked many job seekers which questions are most important in the interview. Many answers come out, such as: · Why is this position open? · Is this a new position or a replacement? · What are you looking for in this position? · What are the long-term potentials of the position? · What are the [...] |
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How to Fire an Employee – The Right Way
Many persons view termination of an employee as “no big deal,” however nothing can be further from the truth. Most managers are not all too happy about the aspect of firing an employee due to the ill side-effects such an action may cause. For example, firing an employee may result in a) The employee suing the company (if inappropriately handled); [...] |
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COMIC – Don’t blame me for training you
Dr. Woo is a HR Guru! Worship him, you unworthy ones. Related PostsCOMIC – I knew the recession was serious when…Recruiter Comic: Its a Facebook WorldMAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Geektech International is now hiring! No experience neccessary…COMIC – The Recruiting Life – Who is looking at your resume?COMIC – A surefire way to get a recruiter’s attention?Send article as PDF to |
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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 [...] |
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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 [...] |
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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 [...] |
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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 [...] |