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When To Test
Selling Power’s Hiring Newsletter takes a look at assessments used in the hiring process. This is a topic near and dear to our hearts in that we assess sales candidates with online tests. On...
Funny Resume Title
I had to share this one: Offshore Employee - No Accent. Excellent. Memorable....
2 Jobs In 1
The Wall Street Journal offers an article about companies combining 2 jobs into 1 and then hiring based on the lower level job. The author explains it better than me: Some job hunters have been enco...
The Resilient Economy
If you think of the obstacles that have been thrown at our economy over the past few years (oil prices, housing market, credit crunch, ongoing war, etc.), you start to appreciate just how resilient it...
Stupid Candidate Tricks
Here is a new one - candidates who use provocative usernames in the online resume submission software. From abcnews.com: …a candidate who entered his resume in the company’s online datab...
Looking To Increase Productivity
In a survey conducted by LifeCare they asked employees to name the one benefit program that would make them more productive on the job. Their response, in a landslide, was a flexible work schedule...
Casualness - The Candidacy Killer
I remember having a sales job (pre-computer days) where I was expected to wear a suit every day. One day I showed up with a navy sportcoat, tie and khakis and I actually was a bit nervous about what...
Cyberslamming And Social Network Checks
Using social networks like Myspace and Facebook as part of a background check currently falls into a legal grey area. Apparently this activity is lacking any precedence in the judicial system which ...
When Hiring, Expect Success
Have you ever worked with a “glass half empty” person? They are something to behold especially if you are a bit of an optimist. We get the chance to interact with many leaders of both ...
10 Mistakes Companies Make In The Hiring Process
The title of this post caught my eye from US News & World Report. The insightful list made me laugh; I believe I have watched companies make all 10 of these mistakes in the past 12 months. ...
Weekend Hangover…For Ads
The days of posting your employment ad on the weekend are over. I think the whole weekend approach is a hangover from the Sunday paper days of job hunting. Nowadays, few - few - people look for a ...
The Migration To Niche Job Boards
One of the points we always push when it comes to sourcing is to use multiple channels that still includes online job boards. In fact we use them during our sourcing efforts, however if you talk to...
Multi-Channel Sourcing
We preach to our clients that simply placing an onlie ad is not a sound sourcing strategy. Managesmarter.com has an article that gives 3 good, quick tips for leveraging the Internet to fill open po...
A Database Of The Discarded
A headline from the Wall Street Journal - Employer Alliance Aims To Streamline Recruiting. “Streamline” is one of those overused business terms that I find annoying. Yet, the article i...
Countercyclical Market Segments Are Hiring
The Career News (sorry, no link) references an article regarding job market growth in 3 specific sectors (my bold): While hiring in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors has clearly been im...
Outside Managers Running HR
Here is a trend I have not heard of - managers without human resources backgrounds being moved into HR Manager roles. From the Wall Street Journal online: Of the 15 large-company chief HR officer ch...
Online Ads Down Again
I’m not sure the implications of this information, but Inc.com reported that the sheer number of online ads has decreased from last month and last year. The number of new jobs posted online in J...
Mileage Reimbursement Increasing
In case you missed it, the IRS is raising the mileage reimbursement rate from the current 50.5 cents to 58.5 cents starting July 1, 2008. “Rising gas prices are having a major impact on individu...
Quality Of Hire Requires Objectivity
Ere.net offers up an excellent Kevin Wheeler article that explains how gut-level hiring occurs. Here is the crux of the problem: Interviews are examples of how easy it is to abandon the tools of obj...
Employment Branding
We work under a premise that my father is fond of saying, “They typically don’t need longer to say yes.” This is a truth of life that plays out time and again. There is one group...
Fourth Quarter Comeback
We have been talking to many of our customers and have seen a consistent trend among our small sample size - Q4 is going to be a good quarter. Of course, that doesn’t do much for the last few ...
Hiring On The Rebound
The hiring outlook from the Manpower survey looks far better than a year ago which is a good sign. Although there is weakness in areas, the hiring trend is still positive: “While overall softness ...
The Highest-Level Verb
It isn’t always clear what the exact number is, but more than 50% of jobseekers lie on embellish their resume. Forbes offers up an article titled Overachievement Without Achievement that conta...
Parsing The Unemployment Number
The Herman Trend Alert enewsletter (sorry, no link) takes a look at last week’s unemployment numbers. Some interesting items in there (emphasis mine): This increase in unemployment continues t...
The Commute Question
We are sales recruiters so we have been fairly immune to this question, but it is even appearing in our world. For salespeople, the question is some variation of “How often will I be expected ...
Definition Of Insanity-ATS And Sales Hiring
According to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. According to a recent post on Recruiting Trends and a 2007 surve...
Recruiting Buzzwords Exposed
Well, this is only fair - ERE offers up an article with the real definition of common recruiting buzzwords/phrases. Some of the buzzwords from the rather extensive list: Ad-hoc (adj.) Usage: “...
The Need For Speed In Hiring
ERE’s daily article hits a chord with me today - Understanding Why Fast Hiring Is Critical to Recruiting Success. We have been beaten down of late due to some slow-moving hiring processes. T...
Gen Y Is Empowered
Not my words, but rather a quote from this Selling Power article: “If I had to use one word to describe Generation Y, it’s empowered,” says Ann Fishman, president of Generation Targeted ...
14 “Top” Interview Questions
CareerBuilder.com has put out another link-bait article titled Top Interview Questions. I wonder if they send this version out to their employer customers and a modified version out to the jobseeker...