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Higdon Partners Announces Name Change to HigdonBraddockMatthews LLC

Higdon Partners Announces Name Change to HigdonBraddockMatthews LLC »

Higdon Partners LLC, a leading executive search firm focusing on the asset management and financial services industries, announced today that it has changed its name to HigdonBraddockMatthews LLC, effective immediately, to reflect an expansion of the firm’s senior leadership team to include Managing Partners Derek R. Braddock and William R. Matthews. The firm is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Boston and Los Angeles.

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Concorde Staffing Launches Job Mentoring Program

Concorde Staffing Launches Job Mentoring Program »

As part of its ongoing Concorde Cares Campaign, Concorde Staffing Group announced the launch of its Job Mentoring and Training Program, through which Westchester-based companies can hire a qualified candidate
at no cost until the end of the calendar year.

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Career Services Expands with Addition of Law Firm Recruiting Director

Career Services Expands with Addition of Law Firm Recruiting Director »

Last month, Patrice Hayden ‘02 joined the U.Va.’s Career Services Office as Director of Law Firm Recruiting after eight years at Bryan Cave in Washington, D.C. This week, she spoke with Law Weekly about her new role, and the path that brought her back to Charlottesville and the Law School.

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Develop Training Partners with Cognisco to Launch Specialized Assessments

Develop Training Partners with Cognisco to Launch Specialized Assessments »

Cognisco, a global employee assessment company, is partnering with Develop Training (www.developtraining.co.uk), one of the UK’s largest technical skills training provider, to launch a series of specialised assessments to improve the skills and competency levels of three million Utility sector workers involved in public highway works or street works and help them meet new industry standards being introduced in April 2011.

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Benefits of Working for a Health Care Staffing Agency

Benefits of Working for a Health Care Staffing Agency »

Are you a health care professional seeking the opportunity to find great assignments in your area of expertise, but are not sure where to start? Why not consider working for a health care staffing agency? These are staffing firms that are geared specially towards helping health care professionals, like nurses, physicians, x-ray techs or medical assistants; find the kinds of assignments that are both professionally and personally rewarding.

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Jobscience Teams up with Software Allies to Provide Premium Recruitment Management Solutions

Jobscience Teams up with Software Allies to Provide Premium Recruitment Management Solutions »

Jobscience announced today that it has partnered with Software Allies, a leading CRM and cloud computing consultancy, to help customers most effectively customize and integrate its Force.com-based HR and talent management applications into their organizations.

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Six Ways to Spot a Talented Executive Recruiter

Six Ways to Spot a Talented Executive Recruiter »

A good executive recruiter is an invaluable resource for attracting top talent available for a company’s most critical or hard-to-fill positions. But how do you know what to look for in hiring an executive recruiter? Not all recruiters are created equal. Here are six ways to tell you are working with the real deal:

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Inactive Doctors Re-enter Medical Practice As U.S. Economic Woes Continue

Inactive Doctors Re-enter Medical Practice As U.S. Economic Woes Continue »

Many physicians who retired prior to the current economic downturn — or became inactive through other circumstances — are taking steps to re-enter the medical profession, according to a special report published in the current edition of the monthly Jackson & Coker Industry Report.

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Monday Morning Inspiration – When The Job Is Done

It is the start of a new week for us recruiters. I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. Can you guess what I did? Yes- for the fourth time in the last month I ranked leaves once again. Well at least I had some help from my son, but it got me thinking about something. Raking leaves is a lot like recruiting in that at times it appears the job is never done. As you are packing up the last bag you turn around and already see the next batch beginning to accumulate. Sure there is a sense of satisfaction when a placement is made, but that is for the instant and then it is back to the grind. What would it even feel like for a recruiter to have the job done? Is there even such a thing? If anything I suppose it really reinforces the importance of goal setting. As goals are achieved there is a great sense of satisfaction to be found there and often those very same goals have a direct impact on the position of your desk. So what goals do you have set for this week? Are you on pace to hit them?

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.  The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale

Make it a great week recruiters and don’t shy away from what might feel like the small jobs (ie: raking leaves). Always give your best and remember what they say- take care of the little jobs the best that you can and the bigger ones will tend to take care of themselves. Continue reading “Monday Morning Inspiration – When The Job Is Done”

SMS and Text Candidates from your Desktop: 8 Top mobile carriers for your #socialrecruiting needs

I do not consider sms and texting candidates to connect mobile recruiting. Texting is a tool to use to connect much like Twitter is a tool to connect. If you call a candidate’s cell phone is that mobile recruiting?

Connecting with candidates on the go is an important measure to the success of most recruiters. Mobile recruiting is a big topic but this is something a bit different. This is about short message Texting. I do not   consider sms and texting candidates to connect mobile recruiting. Texting is a tool to use to connect much like Twitter is a tool to connect. If you call a candidate’s cell phone is that mobile recruiting?

I guess technically it is, but the big difference here is that a full scale mobile recruitment program involves significant dollars and planning.

But this article is about SMS and Texting candidates. How often do you find partial contact info for a candidate? Maybe you have the candidate’s cell phone number but not their email, maybe it’s in the reverse.

*Warning* This process can be invasive so use it at your own discretion and certainly ask the candidate if it is ok to use this method to contact them.

How I use this method:

  1. I recruit in an RPO format so this is high mostly going to be of a high volume nature depending on the project. I use this much less on Director and Executive / Leadership roles.
  2. I contact the candidates as normal. Once I establish contact I ask if texting is ok to share quick info regarding the jobs they are being considered for. If yes, than I add them in. I am not running grand scale campaigns here. Each candidate is a separate case.
  3. I use my email address to send all of my text messages.

How to send the text via email:

  1. You need to get the carrier they are on
  2. The email address format should be: [10 digit number without dashes or spaces]@the carrier’s text exchange. [see below]
  3.  Open up your email carrier and use the format below to send an email. This is swapped and displayed as a text message and only text message rates apply.

The industries main mobile carriers and their text / email extensions:

ATT:

Verizon Mobile

 

  • Maximum message length: 160 characters, including the sender’s email address, subject line, and callback number
  • [email protected]

 

 

Virgina Mobile:

T-Mobile:

  • Maximum message length: 160 characters (including email address, subject line, and body of the message). The subject line is limited to 16 characters and the body of the message can be no longer than 140 characters.
  • [email protected]

Boost Mobile:

Spint PCS:

  • Maximum message length: 160 characters, including the sender’s email address, subject line, and callback number
  • [email protected]

Nextel:

  • Maximum message length: 500 characters (including letters, punctuation and system-generated characters).
  • [email protected]

All Tel:

  • Maximum message length: 200 characters [according to commenter Edward, below].
  • [email protected]

Do you know you Texting Short Speak?

 

Search Engine News: Blekko: Trying to Slash the Competition

For better or for worse Google introduced a simplistic method of search. This has rung supreme eating more than 60% of the search market and could be the reason for Blekko being overlooked by everyday users. It happened to Cuil another engine that I liked

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Search Engine News: Blekko: Trying to Slash the Competition

Now that it is in public beta we can share some of our initial thoughts on Blekko. I’ll start by saying that I am certainly not the foremost expert on search engines, but I will say that this is why my view is important. I’m a user and I depend on these tools to provide results.

I love innovation as much as the next geek but when results are hindered by complexity I lose interest. This is what is happening with Blekko. Let me clarify that Blekko is still beta and when a tool is in beta you expect  to not get perfect functionality. The trouble I am having with Blekko is that they are trying to introduce a completely new way of search to users that is potentially complex and requires users to learn a new process. It leverages what they call Slashtags. Slashtags according to Blekko’s site “allows users to slash in what they want and slash out what they don’t want”.

These slashtags work like filters and are built by you or others around the web. The idea is that the filters should contain the top rated sites bringing back only relevant results.  In my opinion they’ve slashed out a large chunk of search users based on the fact that they have to learn a new way. I still find value here and we’ll share that in an upcoming post.

Based on the sites strengths and the people I’ve been able to speak with on Blekko it’s better used for quick research, SEO metrics and statistics. Sourcers and Market Mappers, this may be a nice addition to your suite of tools.

Blekko CEO speaks about the new release:

 

For better or for worse Google introduced a simplistic method of search. This has rung supreme eating more than 60% of the search market and could be the reason for Blekko being overlooked by everyday users. It happened to Cuil another engine that I liked but ultimately has failed to live up to its initial buzz.  I am sure they’ll see some great traffic and buzz in the first few months but in the end I think we can chalk this one up to just another search engine.

Did you know who rules Search Engine Market Share?

  1. Google: 62.9%
  2. Yahoo!: 19.2
  3. Bing: 12.5%
  4. Ask: 3.4%
  5. AOL: 2.0%

I’m not sure yet who the target audience is but it’s surely not the everyday browser.

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Analysis: U.S. Demand for Temp Workers Seen Broadening

Analysis: U.S. Demand for Temp Workers Seen Broadening »

Another large jump in U.S. temporary help payrolls last month, coming amid the strongest private hiring since April, suggests U.S. employers increasingly prefer to take on contingent or contract workers as an alternative to permanent hiring.

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