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How to Make the Most of the Fresh Start of a New Year

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Good morning Recruiters.  How is your month going?  As we draw January to a close (so fast!) this is the time to reflect on your years goals.  If you are off track, find your way back.  If you are on target, keep shooting.   And if you have not started yet, no worries, that is the great thing about life….you can start anything, anytime…

The following post is from Leo Babauta of ZenHabits.  I think it will serve many of us as a reminder on how to build a “success” habit and stick to it.

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ~ Buddha

Post written by Leo Babauta of zenhabits

We’re several days into the New Year, and many of us are still basking in the glow of a fresh start.

Every year, January brings renewed optimism for change, for a better life, for a better you. And that’s a wonderful thing.

It’s wonderful, because this fresh start gives us a chance to reinvent our lives and ourselves. It allows us to reinvigorate ourselves, to shed the baggage of the previous year and do anything. Anything is possible!

That is a gift, my friends, and I suggest we make the most of this gift. Not just by creating and sticking to resolutions, but by reinventing the way we live.

Here’s how.

1. Let go.
Many times we are held back by the tangled web of previous failures, commitments, emotions, barriers. We cannot change careers because we’re used to what we’re doing and it’s too hard to change. We cannot find time to get healthy and fit because we have all these other things to do. We cannot find time for our loved ones because we have too many commitments.

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Ryan Announces Securities and Exchange Commission Hits Staffing Firm with Substantial Fine

Ryan Announces Securities and Exchange Commission Hits Staffing Firm with Substantial Fine »

Ryan, the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently levied a $200,000 fine against a professional staffing firm for failing to maintain appropriate controls relating to its sales tax responsibilities, perhaps serving as a cautionary tale for public companies.

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Armstrong Franklin and Liberty Staffing Place Over 300 New Jobs in Less Than 2 Years

Armstrong Franklin and Liberty Staffing Place Over 300 New Jobs in Less Than 2 Years »

Amongst the negative employment stories of 2010, there are some success stories. Search firm Armstrong Franklin (www.armstrongfranklin.com) and staffing firm Liberty Staffing (www.libertygroupstaffing.com) provided employment for over 300 people in only their first full year of business. Both firms are affiliates of Liberty Capital Partners (www.libertycapitalpartners.com), a Providence, RI based private equity firm.

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Anchor Planning Group Introduces Next Generation of Executive Associate Search

Anchor Planning Group Introduces Next Generation of Executive Associate Search »

Anchor Planning Group, a human resources consultancy with global outreach experience helping organizations systematically improve productivity while reducing cost, today unveiled a number of innovative, valued-oriented programs designed to expedite the talent acquisition process, source better candidates and reduce cost, with each program accompanied by a first-of-its-kind guarantee.

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Cross Country Healthcare to Present at the UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference

Cross Country Healthcare to Present at the UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference »

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq:CCRN) announced today that it is scheduled to make a presentation on Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time at the UBS Global Healthcare Services Conference being held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City.

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Job Search Strategy Unlocks Key to Finding Work in Tough Market

Job Search Strategy Unlocks Key to Finding Work in Tough Market »

Yes, you can rise above the weakest and toughest labor market, and get the job you are aiming for, says Chris Pires, a professional job hunter who authored the book “Shred Your Resume and Find a Job Fast.”

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Burnett Staffing Specialists Closed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Burnett Staffing Specialists Closed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan »

Burnett Staffing Specialists, a Houston-based staffing and placement firm, closed at the end of the year on an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Burnett is now the 16th largest employee owned company in the United States, as ranked by the National Center for Employee Ownership.

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Premier Specialized Talent Firm 24 Seven Inc. Expands to Chicago

Premier Specialized Talent Firm 24 Seven Inc. Expands to Chicago »

24 Seven, Inc., the leading specialized talent recruitment firm for Fashion, Retail, Marketing, Advertising & Creative teams, has opened a location at 440 North Wells Street, Suite #600, Chicago, IL 60654.

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iMetaSearch: A Powerful new Windows search tool #recruiting #sourcing

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is what stands between Google and iMetaSearch. Now I won’t profess to be a expert in this area, but I will say that I have had

 

Group, cluster, sort extract, export, filter: and search keywords, phrases, search results and candidates. This is what iMetaSearch lets you do for free.

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is what stands between Google and iMetaSearch. Now I won’t profess to be a expert in this area, but I will say that I have had a productive time gathering relevant information on my areas of research. The pure definition of LSA or LSI (Indexing) is that the system is analyzing documents to interpret the underlying meaning or concepts of those documents rather than matching word for word.  Here is a great visual that breaks it down rather nicely.

If however you just want to assume it works and try this bad boy out you can download the free version HERE from PuffinWare.

See the videos below to help walk you through. We did nto create these videos as they have already been posted and created on the Puffinware website. Here they are. Pay them a visit and try out the tool.

Here is a set of tutorials on the tool. Be sure to visit there site: iMetaSearch

 

Text from Puffinware site:

This video covers the basics of how to do a search. It also briefly covers the 4 main areas of the user interface.

  • Groups of Results – each search result is put into a group made of similar results.
  • Search Results – a list of all the search results.
  • Selected Result – the details of the currently selected search result.
  • Extracted Words – a list of all the words and phrases from all the results.

 

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This video covers how to explore search results by taking advantage of:

  • Sorting results by column
  • Looking at groups of similar results
  • Updating relevance scores by marking interesting results
  • Going to the webpage of a result
  • Exporting results to a CSV (Excel) file

Text from Puffinware site:

This video covers using the extracted words and phrases in the following ways:

  • Doing quick searches on any extracted words or phrase
  • Finding all phrases that start with a certain word
  • Filtering extracted words to find people and websites
  • Exporting words and phrases to a CSV (Excel) file

Text from Puffinware site:

This video covers how to use groups of related results in the following ways:

  • Sorting groups by description, color, or relevance
  • Controlling the number of groups, from large general groups to small specific groups
  • Marking groups to find related groups, and also related search results and words

Things Job Candidates Do To Peeve Hiring Managers

Things Job Candidates Do To Peeve Hiring Managers »

One would think that in an economy where unemployment is high, applicants for the few job openings would be on their best behavior. But many people just can’t help but show their true selves, even when so much is at stake, according to a new nationwide CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,400 hiring managers.

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2011 Job Outlooks: Trending Upwards

2011 Job Outlooks: Trending Upwards »

Now is a great time to mention that the economy is slowly trending upward. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the overall unemployment rate decreased in December and employment increased by 103,000 especially in markets like leisure and hospitality and healthcare.

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