If you’ve launched an external search for a world-class business or nonprofit executive, you may have already been frustrated by the process, the cost, and the results (or lack thereof). Your search must be led with a sense of urgency.
A growing number of companies are exploring RPO as a vehicle to take advantage of recruiting techniques and technologies, while keeping costs down. It sounds great in concept, but is it really working in practice?
Does sourcing seem hard to you sometimes? I’d like to share five sourcing hints that, I hope, will make it easier, more relaxed and more efficient.
Over the last 20 years, one of the most significant trends in the staffing industry has been the shift from being a small supplemental workforce agent to being embraced as a key component to businesses’ workforce strategy.
Facebook recruiting for individuals who are looking for employment on a professional level is nothing new. There are many individuals who are on Facebook as well as other social networks online who are there to network with others for employment opportunities as well as professional reasons. Social recruiting firms use these outlets to bring the most talented individuals to employment recruiting firms as well as businesses.
Want to find the next outlet for recruiting talent? For starters, stay clear of recruiting communities, HR sites and your recruiting industry peers. Step “outside of the box” and your comfort zone with those in recruiting and HR, and get a completely new perspective. I was an early adopter of popular recruiting destinations today including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
It’s true; most employers prefer passive candidates. A passive candidate is a gainfully employed professional who is open to hearing about career opportunities and would actually accept a new job if it made sense to them and their family.
Jobvite recently released the results of their Social Recruiting Survey 2010 in which they surveyed over 600 human resource and recruiting professionals. Below are some of the highlights of the survey.
Although we all know it’s important to try to look your best for an interview, unless the job you’re after is a modeling gig, you’re not going to get it based solely on how you look. Yes, you need to pay attention to what you’re wearing and not show up right after your last workout session without bothering to change, but you also need to know how to mesmerize potential employers with your intriguing personality.
Last week we debuted RD Recommends and showcased An Interesting Look At The History of The Recruitment Industry written by Ken Sundheim, President of KAS Placement, LLC. KAS Placement is a national firm focusing on the placement of Sales and Marketing professionals although there has been more emphasis on sales of late. “We get a lot more sales recruiting calls ” Mr. Sundheim stated when Recruiting Daily spoke with him.
The idea of retracing the history of the recruiting industry began as a simple conversation among KAS colleagues and stemmed from an effort to to keep an edge in the competitive landscape. After a great deal of time and research the end result was Mr. Sundheim’s article. Continue reading “Tips From A Biller: Ken Sundheim”
Legal firms and companies that are looking for legal staff would definitely cut back time and expense if they would retain legal recruiters. Apart from the fact, that legal recruiters are good in analyzing the skill and personality of legal candidates, there is no need for the law firms and companies to…
I’ve been discussing how a strategic approach to sales may involve standing still for a while in order to create solid future growth. In order to achieve that the strategy must contained two defined processes.
Data extraction is key to a sourcers job. Gathering leads in a fast efficient manner is often the difference between making a placement and losing a fee. Check out this Firefox add-on called OutWit. It’s serious and can change your desk in a serious way.
We’ve talked before about how recruiting with FireFox is a good idea. It’s flexible, customizable, and you can built it into a tool for recruiting. Another great Firefox Add-on that I simply cannot recruit without is called OutWit. It’s easy to use and simply saves time. OutWit comes in 3 versions that are described below and if used properly will seriously impact your daily routine. OutWit is similar to Down the All, but it goes much deeper.
Here is why I love it. There are 3 main applications:
OutWit Docs and OutWit Images
OutWit docs will help you to rip out documents, spreadsheets and presentations saving your results to your system. This will allow you save, store and review your results in a faster more efficient manner.
OutWit Hub is an all-in-one application for extracting and organizing data from online sources; a powerful automation engine that explores for you large series of Web sources and brings back the answers instead of telling you where they are.
Here is quick demo from my friend Ami Givertz better known as the G-Recruiter and The Brown Bag Recruiter.
Make your recruiting a little easier by customizing your main browser. After all, we use the Internet all day in our jobs. Adding functionality like Outwit will help you extract candidate data, search and source for keywords, and keep you organized.
A lot of us get stuck in inaction –procrastinating, doing a lot of unimportant tasks to avoid the important stuff, worrying about failing or about being perfect, having a hard time starting, getting distracted, and so on.
It’s time to start forming the Action Habit instead.
And it’s really not that hard if you focus on it for a little while. Like any other habit, start in small doses, little tasks, just short bursts, and then build on that momentum.
Continue reading “Recruiting Business Success Tip: Get in the Habit of Taking Action”
With billions of dollars of stimulus money heading for the economy , the call for engineering jobs will be massive and competition for those jobs will rage . Whether for designing new highways, bridges, water systems, transit lines or green buildings, the stimulus spending will see a huge shift in how engineering staffing models are utilized and employed by the construction and building design industries.
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