A job interview is a high-stress experience. You have a limited amount of time. You need and want to make a dazzling impression. You are likely to be outside your comfort zone. And the stakes are high. Yet everyone tells you to “relax,” to “be yourself.” Yikes.
Robin Judson, a 25 year financial services recruiting veteran, today announced the launch of her firm, Robin Judson Partners, which is located at 708 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. The firm specializes in hedge fund recruitment, private equity recruitment and investment banking recruitment.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA), the first professional association for the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) industry, today announced the appointment of Jennifer Ilko as Executive Director.
Every generation has its own music, its own fashion and…its own jobs. Case in point: These days there is an exciting fresh crop of careers that are coming of age that combine new uses of technology with some tried and true skills.
MaxHire Solutions Inc., the global leader in connected front-office recruiting software, is set to launch version 4 of its award-winning software for recruiting and staffing firms at the TechServe Alliance conference in Orlando Florida on October 6, 2010.
On Tuesday, September 28 at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Shally Steckerl gave an interesting presentation at SourceCon, one that covered competitive intelligence.
I really liked this article from Brad Remillard at Impact Hiring. Here he is really honest about how he, as a recruiter, reviews a resume. He says he doesn’t give a resume in 20 seconds to make an impact. He actually reviews an entire resume in 20 seconds. He gives you and your resume 5 – 7 seconds to pass the first cull.
InSource, a leading provider of staffing and professional services, today announced the official launch of its Accounting & Finance practice. The new practice focuses on everyday solutions critical to performance and productivity, including accounting, finance and internal audit.
By no means am I claiming to be an expert. But I have worked in recruiting long enough and did enough hiring and training of recruiters to know when mistakes are being made. Some of the best and some of the worst recruiters make mistakes and this is a short list. Let us know what you think of our TOP TEN…and please share yours!
10. NOT ORGANIZED ON THE DETAILS OF WORK-FLOW – Keeping it all together is a key. Try working with files that have all content and communication organized by the client or candidate. Utilize Evernote to quickly store information on the run. If you are always looking for information you will quickly appear unimportant to the process.
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Through my work with #tru, I get to look at a lot of applications, tools and channels that can be used for recruiting, HR and internal coms. Most of them have atleast an entry level free version that you can try out, play around with and determine if they work before you
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This is the first of a series of posts that I’m going to be posting for Ryan over the next few months, and i’m going to do somthing different. 
Through my work with #tru, I get to look at a lot of applications, tools and channels that can be used for recruiting, HR and internal coms. Most of them have atleast an entry level free version that you can try out, play around with and determine if they work before you make an investment. (some will stay free for ever!). I also read a lot of blogs that point me towards these applications. Twitter is like on on-line mall for these things.
In each of these posts I’m going to share 5 cool tools that I’ve found that you can go and have a look at.
You can read all about these topics elsewhere. Just google them!
I’m not paid by anyone to promote them, though I will accept Beer or simmilar donations!
My 5 for this week:
Wordle.Net – Produces a word cloud from any document you copy and feed in. Bios, Job descriptions, resumes, profiles etc
Linked In Job Insider – discrete toolbar that works with Li and 7 job boards. shows your connections to the company, relationship to the hiring manager, share and lots of other functionality.
Twitteranalyzer– Comprehensive range of stats on twitter use by named accounts and their following
BranchOut – Turns facebook in to a Linked In type network, with added job posting/sharing function.
Addict-O-Matic – Aggregates web content from multiple channels on a target name or company.
That is this weeks 5. let me know how you get on, or recommend your own.
Remember to play nicely with each other!
Bill
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The extent to which UK businesses are having to expend on departing staff has been revealed by newly published research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
One of my first military memories is an instructor ripping an “Irish pennant” (piece of string) off of my uniform shoulder and asking me why I had such poor attention to detail. It took me many years to realize that the guy wasn’t out of his skull. While the Irish pennant on my uniform wasn’t, by itself, going to hurt anybody or get in the way of the mission, it still revealed my lack of attention to detail.
Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online social networking.
A common question raised these days by senior HR leaders and business journalists pertains to the reality of social media empowered recruiting. By asking if it is “real,” I presume they want to know if it is a fad or something that will dominate recruiting in five years. My answer is simple: using social media to support recruiting is not only not a fad, it is the most powerful tool added to the recruiter’s tool box since the invention of the telephone.
Gold Certified Partners are the top level of Microsoft solutions partners and have access to the tools and support they need to help them stand out in the marketplace. At this level you have the opportunity to build the closest working relationship with Microsoft, and are guaranteed, at minimum, telephone-based account engagement from Microsoft, along with other top-level benefits such as a priority listing in the Microsoft Resource Directory.
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