Archive for the ‘Candidate Experience’ Category
Wanted: A Few Great Recruiters
Posted by JasonWe’re looking for a few great Recruiters… Recruiting and advising talent takes talent, and while there are enough opinions (and content) in the recruiting and job seeker space - a majority is driven by self proclaimed experts or an agenda to sell a product. There’s also enough of the“sky is falling drama”.
This is where you fit in. “Job Search 911” will launch soon and has plans in place to become a leading network providing connections and content for both job seekers and recruiters. We’re looking for a few rockstar recruiters / career experts to complete an amazing line-up of writers.
Recruiter Reality TV Series
Posted by JasonTop Recruiter TV, a Recruiter Earth Production is live, and Tiffany Crenshaw is the talent scout on stage.
What’s the buzz about? Both Human Resources and Executive Recruiting are as important to corporate America as athletic scouts are to professional sporting teams. They can literally change the very fabric of a company with the people they bring to the forefront.
In the debut, Tiffany Crenshaw is a shining example of this and a true specialist in her field who has impacted countless lives throughout her illustrious career. This is a story of hope and how a mother against-all-odds fights through the trials and tribulations of keeping her family in tact.
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Online Recruiting and Job Pollution
Posted by JasonI had the opportunity to present at the Minnesota Recruiters Conference last week on Online Recruiting. A big thanks to the co-founder of the group, Paul DeBettignies, for another great event.
I focused on this topic as a follow-up to an article I wrote a few weeks ago called “Job Seekers Beware“. These are a few examples to consider as a result of that artcile.
The slides are included below - via SlideShare. Please contact me if you are interested in learning more about the session.
Some additional context on the session when viewing the slides:
- The main focus of the session was on “owning” your own content, and controlling the candidate experience.
- The inference to the examples used again was on partnering with these organizations to stop the job pollution that’s taking place - primarily the sites that are using your content without your knowledge.
- Put YOUR strategy together based on your organizations needs. As a specific example, during the session we looked at twitter as a recruiting tool, and the pollution taking place with thousands of jobs channels. It’s not that an organization shouldn’t consider - or use twitter (or social recruiting for that matter) - it’s about finding out who has your content, where candidates are being driven to, and the results.
- It’s also about outsourcing what makes sense. Do you want to manage your organizations twitter channel and followers - or does it make sense to leverage the established job boards already in place? The answer is different for everyone, but again, you need to own the content and clearly know the candidates path to completion - on all sites.
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An Apology to All Job Seekers and Candidates
Posted by JasonWe call it the candidate experience. You call it BS. We call it employment brand. You just want respect.
The first job board was launched in the early 90’s. Some experts state there are now more than 40,000 job boards. Add in publisher networks, blogs, and communities and the number quickly surpasses 100,000. To me, it’s job pollution and borderline corruption (depending on the site and their business practices).
Ask A Recruiter: College Degrees, Feedback, and Networking
Posted by JasonIt’s the “Ask A Recruiter” series on The Talent Buzz. This post contains 3 questions from job seekers, along with answers from Recruiters. Job seekers, click here to ask your question. Recruiters, click here if you want to assist with answering.
Job seeker question on college degrees:
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Employment Brand? We Don’t Need a Stinking Brand!
Posted by JasonWritten by Alan Plantikow, PHR.
Branding. As Talent Acquisition professionals, we live it every day and we fully understand the importance of a strong employment brand. We even preach “personal brand” to job seekers. But how effectively are we communicating this to our hiring leaders, and more importantly, are they listening?
Here is an email I received from a good friend, Robert (not his real name), yesterday after his experience (as a job seeker) from an interview he had that morning.
Job Seekers Beware
Posted by JasonA simple concept… You think you found the perfect job online, you’re going to apply, and wait for a Recruiter to call. Right? Not so simple.
Job seekers beware of job postings from third party sites. They’re being referred to in the industry as “job jackers”. If you remember one thing from this post, remember - GO DIRECT. Yes, direct to the company. Read on to find out why.
With the explosive growth and use of search engines, social, and professional networking sites job seekers can quickly find themselves on a job aggregator site. A couple of popular examples - SimplyHired and Indeed.
Six Sigma Recruiting
Posted by JasonGoogle it, and you’ll return 9.5 million results… Six Sigma was pioneered by Motorola in 1981, and is one of their registered trademarks. As of 2006, Motorola reported savings in excess of $17 billion – as a result of Six Sigma.
Six Sigma’s implicit goal is to improve all processes to that level of quality or better, and can be applied to recruiting. While the methodology doesn’t come without criticism and certainly isn’t new, in general and within recruiting, we know improvement opportunities exist in a majority, if not all companies recruiting and hiring process.
Top Job Boards for 2010
Posted by Jason
It’s that time of year again - where the top job boards are announced. It’s the annual user’s choice awards, where both recruiters and job seekers pick the top job sites on the web.
Each year, WEDDLE’s conducts a year-long ballot of recruiters and job seekers to determine which employment related sites they like best. The 30 sites that accumulate the most votes during the year are named WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Award winners - and they are coined as the “elite” of online employment sites.
Simply Hired Goes Social
Posted by JasonWith more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired is the world’s largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network, and yesterday announced it’s going social.
Today’s web-savvy job seekers are turning social applications into professional job hunting tools by embracing social networks to expand professional connections, tapping into twitter for real-time alerts about job openings and leveraging blogs to increase their online presence.
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