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9 Ways to Effectively Use Technology For a Smart Job Search

9 Ways to Effectively Use Technology For a Smart Job Search »

New York: Searching for jobs? But still following traditional ways? It’s time for a change. It won’t be easy to enhance your chance of getting a job if you cling to the older ways of job search. The technologies available today can double the chances of getting a preferred one, but they should be used in the correct way at the correct time. “Technology is a job hunter’s friend, but only if you use it correctly”, says Kate Wendleton, President of The Five O’Clock Club, a U.S.-based career coaching and outplacement network.

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The Advantages of a Flat-Fee Recruitment Website

The Advantages of a Flat-Fee Recruitment Website »

The economy isn’t suffering as badly as you’ve heard. After all, employment is always available from your friendly neighbourhood recruitment agencies. There are always open positions in the fields of sales, engineering, finance, insurance, I-gaming and industry. A flat-fee recruitment website can provide work for contract workers, temp workers, and even fulltime employees.

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Managing Talent in a Changing Business Climate

Managing Talent in a Changing Business Climate »

Businesses can’t afford to operate as ‘usual’ as the landscape continues to dramatically change; organizations need to ensure that the talent activities stay relevant and targeted in a way that will support growth.

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Broadbean Partners with DirectEmployers

Broadbean Partners with DirectEmployers »

Broadbean Technology, the international provider of candidate sourcing technology, is happy to announce its recent partnership with the non-profit trade association, DirectEmployers. In an effort to provide the best recruiting resources to its clients and members, a relationship between Broadbean and DirectEmployers proved a worthy endeavor.

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How Much Do Executive Search Firms Help MBAs?

How Much Do Executive Search Firms Help MBAs? »

If you think an MBA will maximize your career mobility, you may be interested in research by Monika Hamori, a Professor at IE Business School in Spain, on the constraining role that executive search firms play in job transitions.

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Present yourself with SlideShare

SlideShare is also a great place to keep up with an incredibly wide assortment of presentations and information specifically related to Careers and Recruiting, since they have a category specifically dedicated to the Careers topic.

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SlideShare as a career resource

I am sure most of you are familiar with SlideShare.  If not, you should be.   According to their website, Slideshare is the best way to share presentations, documents, and professional videos.  They also bill themselves  as the world’s largest community for sharing presentations.

What  SlideShare can do for you

SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. SlideShare features a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter. Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them. The site is growing rapidly with over 25 million monthly visitors.

What you can do with SlideShare

  • Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
  • Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
  • Synch audio to your slides.
  • Market your own event on slideshare.
  • Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests.
  • Download the original file

SlideShare is also a great place to keep up with an incredibly wide assortment of presentations and information specifically related to Careers and Recruiting, since they have a category specifically dedicated to the Careers topic.  They feature a number of presentations every day, and many are really good sources of technical and topical information.   Here are some of the topics that I found today:

A pretty random selection, and just a few of the many resources you can find on SlideShare.   I encourage to explore, and if you have never used SlideShare, think how you could use it in your recruiting effiorts.

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Catherine Sacks Joins Korn/Ferry as Managing Principal for Leadership and Talent Consulting

Catherine Sacks Joins Korn/Ferry as Managing Principal for Leadership and Talent Consulting »

Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY), a premier global provider of talent management solutions, today announced that Catherine Sacks has joined the Firm as Managing Principal for Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Consulting in the firm’s New York office.

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Job Interview Feedback Is Practically Nonexistent

Job Interview Feedback Is Practically Nonexistent »

Ever have an interview or series of interviews and never hear back from human resources or hiring managers when you do not get the job? You are not alone. Over half–52 percent– of respondents on an October Dice survey said they’d love to receive feedback from companies they have interviewed with for positive and negative information, but never get a call returned.

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Legal Headhunter Sued for Stealing Confidential Data about the Portability of Partners’ Law Practices

Legal Headhunter Sued for Stealing Confidential Data about the Portability of Partners’ Law Practices »

The legal recruiting business is not immune from Computer Fraud and Abuse Act lawsuits. Sharon Mahn, the former Managing Director of the legal headhunting firm Major Lindsey & Africa’s (“MLA”) Partner Practice Group, was fired after MLA discovered that she had allegedly emailed to a competing legal headhunter MLA’s computer data about its client attorneys who were seeking positions in new law firms.

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StaffingSoft Applicant Tracking System Works Efficiently

StaffingSoft Applicant Tracking System Works Efficiently »

If you are a recruiter or a hiring authority you probably have considered that the hiring process is an easy aspect and you just have to create your requirement(s) and post to a job board. Well, basically you may be right but try to be sure you that is all you have to do. The complex recruitment software can help the companies to be more efficient and profitable in the most competitive industries.

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Stay An Expert With Recruiting Daily

I wanted to offer a quick thank you to everyone that joined the conversation yesterday regarding my Human Touch post. There was a great exchange with many of our followers on Twitter and also some great comments here on RD. We encourage others to spread the word and keep the conversation going. We also moved the discussion over to our friends at RecruitingBlogs.com for additional feedback.

I also wanted to offer a quick reminder to some of our new RD readers- if you have not checked out some of the other section on our site we encourage you to explore a bit more. We often use the phrase ‘stay an expert’ here at RD and that is exactly what we try to offer here daily. Not only with the posts from Noel and myself, but also great information from all areas of the recruiting landscape.

Our popular Around the Industry section is a daily news feed that contains information from all areas of the staffing world; press releases, news articles, and great posts from the blogosphere. It is updated throughout the day and we encourage recruiters to stay on top of all the latest going on in our field.

The RD Network is another source of great information to be checked out of a regular basis.  We maintain and manage a large Twitter list of recruiting professionals from all sectors.  The RD Network allows you to get great information from these indviduals in real time via Publitweet. We also gather the best of the best daily and serve it up to our readers twice a day via paper.li.

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Education Executive Search Firms

Education Executive Search Firms »

It would not be very difficult on your part to look out for education executive search firms over the net. The frequencies of finding such firms have increased in leaps and bounds mainly because people are realizing how important it is to manage the education industry.

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Blackstone Buys U.K. Health-Care Staffing Agency, FT Reports

Blackstone Buys U.K. Health-Care Staffing Agency, FT Reports »

Blackstone Group LP is buying Pulse, a U.K. staffing agency for doctors, nurses and social workers, from HgCapital LLP for about 75 million pounds ($121 million), the Financial Times reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter.

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