Archives for: September 2006
The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you won’t have to)

My Fab15 for the week… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBGODdzzVw[/youtube] 1. Hmmm… So I guess everybody wasn’t Kung-Fu fighting. 2. Jobster said give the kid a break, we’re not all morning people. 3. Naughty, naughty! If you’re not going to play nice, I’m going to ask you to leave. 4. That’s it, I’m blowing this popsicle stand! 5. On second thought, maybe I’ll stay [...]

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CLASS: Headline Recruiting – Part 5 of 5

RECRUITING.COM presents… Free Blog Class: Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resources!) (C) 2006: Jim Stroud [ Part 5 of 5 ] Yesterday I showed you how to search Yahoo News and save them in RSS. Today, something else… *** Are you familiar with podcasts? (Ahem, like “The Recruiters Lounge,” for example.) Podcasts are audio [...]

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CLASS: Headline Recruiting – Part 4 of 5

RECRUITING.COM presents… Free Blog Class: Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resources!) (C) 2006: Jim Stroud [ Part 4 of 5 ] For the past 3 days I have been focusing on MSN News as a good source for passive leads, now I’m going to switch gears a bit. *** The best and sometimes aggravating [...]

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CLASS: Headline Recruiting – Part 3 of 5

RECRUITING.COM presents… Free Blog Class: Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resources!) (C) 2006: Jim Stroud [ Part 3 of 5 ] Yesterday I discussed MSN News as a good source for passive leads, same as the day before that. Today… something else. *** I want to backtrack just a bit. In the last lesson, [...]

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CLASS: Headline Recruiting – Part 2 of 5

RECRUITING.COM presents… Free Blog Class: Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resources!) (C) 2006: Jim Stroud [ Part 2 of 5 ] Yesterday I discussed MSN News as a good source for passive leads so today, well… more of the same. (Smile) *** QUESTION: What if you wanted to use MSN news to source passive [...]

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CLASS: Headline Recruiting – Part 1 of 5

RECRUITING.COM presents… Free Blog Class: Headline Recruiting (Or… How to source passive candidates from online news resource!) (C) 2006: Jim Stroud [ Part 1 of 5 ] Do you use online job boards? Perhaps after my last class, you’ve become a boolean bandit on the ‘net and are feeling quite comfortable with your online research skills? As skilled as you [...]

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The Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you won’t have to)

Attention fans of “The Week In Recruiting!” For the forseeable future, myweekly recap of the recruiting blogs and news will be featured in Recruiting.com‘s newsletter which is published on Tuesdays to its subscribers. It will then appear on my blog, the following Friday. If you are not already a subscriber to Recruiting.com’s newsletter, I highly recommend them. Cheers… Jim Related [...]

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Recruiting is good, but retention is better…

It’s like clockwork. Every year a portion of our top talent decides it’s time to move on. Once those bonus or holiday checks are cashed, the flood gates open and the resignation letters start flowing in. I work in a large company and this is a problem that we have with our IT and Sales groups in particular. I reached [...]

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Web 2.0 – Si habla espanol?

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed a translator? But hey, who has time to learn a new language? No matter… check out this cool tool – Polly Glotto. On the left hand side, you’ll notice you have two options – Translate and Speak. If you choose the translate option, you could type in a sentence and [...]

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The Old Dog is Blogging

Bill Warren is blogging! Click here to check out the “Old Dog’s” blog. In case you don’t know who he is, check out his bio below. Bill Warren, Executive Director of DirectEmployers Association, is a former corporate human resource executive with Rockwell International and former President of Monster.com, who is widely recognized as the founder of online recruiting. In August, [...]

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