KellyOCG, the Outsourcing and Consulting Group of Kelly Services , a leader in providing workforce solutions, will be sponsoring THE RECRUITING CONFERENCE, a global summit designed to stimulate beneficial partnerships, discussions, and debate among recruiters and HR professionals, at the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont/Chicago from November 1-3, 2011. This is the third year KellyOCG has sponsored and participated in the conference.
Corporate recruiters have a new tool — social media gaming. Once, a recruiter needed only a newspaper ad, now it’s a Facebook page and a computer game.
While permanent hiring is on the up in the HR sector, recruitment processes to hire HR staff are still “marked by hesitancy”, according to the May Talent Spotlight, published yesterday by recruiter Badenoch & Clark.
Temporary staffing agency Snelling Staffing Services has opened a full-service Silicon Valley office in the San Jose suburb of Milpitas. The new location, which will focus largely on light industrial and office/clerical staffing, is the company’s first in Silicon Valley and third in the greater San Francisco Bay region.
Link Staffing Services was recently named one of the top “Military Friendly Franchises” by G.I. Jobs Magazine for the second year in a row. Featured in their May issue, the list honors franchisors that offer the best incentive programs aimed at recruiting United States military veterans for franchise ownership.
The Massachusetts Regional Extension Center has recruited more than 2,500 physicians in helping them adopt electronic health records and achieve meaningful use, according to a Government Health IT news report.
Recruiting Daily is please to welcome back guest blogger Geoff Newman of Recruitment Genius:
New research has revealed that showing the right attitude during the recruitment process can sometimes work to a candidate’s benefit more than the skills on their CV.
In a survey of 1,000 employers carried out by recruitment group Reed, 96 per cent said that they would opt for a candidate who may not have the complete set of skills they were looking for but had a perfect mindset, over one who ticked every skill box but whose attitude was not quite right.
Firing also reflected similar priorities as hiring. When the employers were asked about who they would let go first if they were forced to reduce their workforce, two-thirds said that they would prefer to keep someone with the right attitude over someone with a perfect skill set.
Geoff Newman from flat fee recruitment agency RecruitmentGenius.com believes the survey’s findings are nothing new.
“Companies have always hired and fired based on attitude. Likewise candidates have also resigned because of a poor managers’ attitude rather than a poor company. Ultimately someone with a great attitude always makes up for lack of skills, product or industry knowledge. They inspire confidence to train and invest in, as well as making the business environment better.”
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Oracle is so focused on recruiting and retaining talent that it has created a ‘talent academy’ and dedicated centres to help its employees realise their true potential.
A significant number of employees in the US are likely to switch to a new job in the next one year for better growth opportunities, says a survey.
ManpowerGroup, (NYSE: MAN), the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, has introduced and is executing an extensive strategy for developing and aligning China’s manufacturing workforce as the country modernizes its industrial sector and expands operations into new inland hubs.
Top legal recruiting firms services act as mediators between your job applicant and the companies searching for employees. These types of services specialize in legal needs and legal requirements of lawyers and companies trying to find legal staff like attorneys and counsels, senior legal officers and legal management officers. They’re very effective as they pick from the best lawyers produced annually. This can be very efficient for fresh law graduates for that recruiting services can help all of them with your competitors over getting positions in big companies and lawyers. However, companies and law firms have different needs and requirements depending on the situation and the nature from the business.
Businesses have found that one of the biggest challenges to staying afloat and achieving growth is attracting and retaining key talent.
Sequence is the premier executive search and staffing firm committed to providing employment solutions to the environmental, GHG/climate change, energy, engineering, construction, and light industrial industries throughout the U.S. and worldwide. We are a team of highly skilled and experienced professionals dedicated to supporting the core industries responsible for building and maintaining the world’s infrastructure, natural resources and environment.
If you’re a healthcare recruiter in the United States, there is plenty of good news these days. Healthcare jobs are plentiful, demand is predicted to be strong for the foreseeable future, and salaries are on the rise. Healthcare recruiters will have their hands full with abundant positions and a scarcity of available talent. The salary increases mean a correlating increase in recruiter fees, so there is definitely money to be made.
Terrible as the job crisis might be, not all job markets are created equal. And certain cities have seen particularly notable improvement.
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