Podcast - The Recruiters Lounge - The Best Companies To Work For and Why
Jim and Karen discuss the best companies to work for and what makes them so special, a new trend in outsourcing - childbirth and how employee discrimination affects a company’s bottom line. And in all this, Jim manages to talk more than Karen. (As if that were even possible - amazing.)
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01:34 - Name that tune
02:06 - That’s a dangerous thought…
03:40 - Most popular methods used to recruit employees in 2007
06:16 - Number 3 was internet search - Yay!
10:06 - 90 days of work then I can apply for college?
12:11 - They are known for having the friendliest working environment
15:32 - Do you think (companies) are afriad of the cost, or don’t see the long term effects?
18:20 - Employees volunteer time with terminal patients
22:55 - No one in their company earns 10 times more than anyone else
25:39 - People are outsourcing their pregnancies (to india)
29:00 - But people are also “paid well” to sell their daughters too
31:50 - That was around time of that movie.. Kramer vs Kramer, right?
35:45 - In the movie Gattaca there was no racism, or classism, the new “ism” was elitism
38:07 - It was proven that the more diverse your workforce is, the more profitable it will be
39:33 - Workplace discrimination costs employers 64 billion annually
39:53 - Employee discrimination is on the rise?
40:30 - Now that is amazing
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ABOUT THE HOSTS
Karen Mattonen
As a recruiter, entrepreneur, and public speaker, Karen Mattonen is a voice of reason and sensibility in today’s recruiting community. Her doing-well-by- doing-right philosophy is shaking up the status quo in an industry that needs to be shaken. She does this with conviction, leadership, and a distinctive voice that cries out for change. Karen has a new and future oriented vision of what recruiting can and should become: a profession we can be proud of for its ethical standing, professional conduct and ability to build great organizations.
Karen participates very actively in recruiting discussions relating to ethics, legal issues, and industry self-regulation. Her passionate and tireless advocacy has led her to create Recruiting Standards Solutions, LLC, a company dedicated to providing training to the recruiting and staffing industries, with a special focus on the ethical and legal dimensions. She lives on the west coast with her husband, her swimming pool and her passion to fix what is broken.
Jim Stroud
Jim Stroud is a “Searchologist” with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.
Jim Stroud was nominated (and a top 10 finalist) for a “Best Blog Award” for his blog – Jim Stroud 2.0, by Recruiting.com in 2006 and cited in Bullhorn’s Research Report: Tools of The Trade 2007 as being among the best blogs on the recruiting industry (50,000 staffing and recruiting professionals were surveyed). His podcast series – “The Recruiters Lounge” recently aired its 50th episode. His comicstrip series – “The Recruiting Life” has also celebrated its 100th edition and was nominated for “Best Ongoing Comic Series” and “Best Newcomer of 2006” by Gnomz, a community of Comic creators. Jim Stroud also trains recruiters on how to source the internet for passive candidates and has trained recruiting organizations worldwide. His experience in using the internet to find hidden talent spans a decade. Jim Stroud can reached via his website: www.jimstroud.com
Jim Stroud can reached via his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstroud
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