Thank you listeners for downloading 41,952 episodes of “The Recruiters Lounge” and growing that number more and more each month! (Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!) – Jim Stroud *** I invented Outsourcing! And other strange tales… Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen discuss plagiarism, IBM’s attempt to patent outsourcing, Google (allegedly) giving an old guy the boot and sleazy recruiter [...]
How well do you manage your social network? As evident from the article below, there is a lot of buried treasure out there. (Smile) *** How Networking Got Me a New Job © 2007 Amybeth Hale www.amybethhale.com Based on my most recent post, it’s pretty obvious that I’m big into using social networks to their fullest extent. As if [...]
Something to think about… *** Talent: What is it? by: Yvonne Catino (C) 2007 In my last post I closed with the thought about expanding hiring managers’ definition of talent. I’ve been thinking a lot about that….. First, I think talent is subjective. Just because someone is successful in one role at one company does not mean that the person [...]
A British intelligence agency is seeking spies in cyberspace. GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games such as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent. GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, said it was looking to reach “an Internet-savvy generation of graduate groups.” In [...]
With a B.S. in computer science, an M.A. in information systems management, and 20 years of experience, Rennie Sawade would appear to be a strong candidate for a job as a software development engineer. But all the 44-year-old can find these days are short-term, temporary jobs—like the 15-month contract he’s currently on at a Seattle-based medical device company. At Microsoft, [...]
Great video on how finding information has changed over the years, sort of from Dewey to Decimal. Neat! I also like how they factored in one of my favorite tools – Diigo in it as well. Enjoy… Related PostsHow to source leads from software source code (Video) Searchology #3200 Million Asians are looking for workVideo: Searchology #3 – How to [...]
Things are tight out there and about to get tighter. Check this out… The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner. Across the nation, Americans [...]
Karen Mattonen shared an interesting post with me the other day and after reading it, I had to share it. Here are the highlights… 6 Reasons to Hate Recruiters 1. Managers hate recruiters because they are after their best people (and it took forever to get the team just right.) 2. Ego-geeks hate having to use a recruiter to find [...]
The Day In Recruiting presents… My fab15 for the week 1. Jason Goldberg, exit stage right 2. Not sharing your salary is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (Wow! I did not know that.) 3. Employment depression by the numbers (and recruiting is not listed?) 4. When recruiters will not network 5. Somebody kidnapped the JobX mascot 6. [...]
How many ways can you track a resume once a candidate has applied for a job? Well, at least 80 judging by the list of Applicant Tracking Systems. If anyone has any experience with the following and can make a recommendation (or can let me know in the comments section what I have missed), I would really appreciate it. Acclaim [...]
