The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week. Millions of people from Morocco to Malaysia will fast everyday from sunrise to sunset for 30 days. Among these will be significant numbers of Muslims working in offices in Europe and North America where Ramadan slips past unnoticed. This lack of awareness can and does cause inconvenience, stress and unhappiness to [...]
In episode #3 of Searchology, Jim demonstrates how to source leads from the source code of computer programs. Want more? Subscribe to The Searchologist and get instant access to exclusive content designed to take your lead generation skills to a new level. Click here to view the archives, but you must be a paid subscriber to read the archived articles [...]
In episode #3 of Searchology, Jim demonstrates how to source leads from the source code of computer programs. Want more? Subscribe to The Searchologist and get instant access to exclusive content designed to take your lead generation skills to a new level. Click here to view the archives, but you must be a paid subscriber to read the archived articles [...]
It is a well known fact that humans are an imperfect creation. Should you ever doubt it, consider the popularity of the crucial software function commonly known as spellcheck. Should you ever mistype a word or phrase, more often than not, that word will be underlined in red and suggestions will be given as to how to spell it correctly. [...]
The Searchologist presents Socialism, the recession and recruiting in Canada In episode #130, Jim Stroud, Karen Mattonen and (special guest) Geoff Web discuss socialism, the recession and recruiting in Canada. Plus, what is “The Boolean Dance?” And what does it have to do with Recruitfest? Tune in to find out. All this and more, in another action-packed episode of The [...]
In episode #2 of “Searchology,” Jim Stroud demonstrates to Recruiters how to find passive candidates on the popular Instant Messenger service – ICQ. Want more? Subscribe to The Searchologist and get instant access to exclusive content designed to boost your resume sourcing and lead generation efforts. Click here to view the archives, but you must be a subscriber to read [...]
So far in this series I have covered lead gen using ICQ, Skype and now… (drumroll please) Yahoo Messenger. If you do not have Yahoo Instant Messenger, you can download it for free by clicking here (or on the image below) There are a couple of ways that I was able to crack the code of tracking people by their [...]
San Francisco CA. – Newton Software, a provider of intuitive, applicant tracking software, announced the debut of Newton® Analytics, a powerful reporting platform that will enable organizations to quickly analyze large volumes of real-time data and make rapid hiring decisions using powerful visualizations. As the first of several planned releases of highly-interactive analytics technologies for recruiting, Newton® Analytics arms its [...]
Working for long-hours and staying in the office for long-hours are two different things but it seems that not many people / professionals are able to differentiate this. Few years ago, one of my ex-bosses told me that working for long hours can be interpreted in two ways and unfortunately both the interpretations are harmful for the business as well [...]
In the last episode of Searchology, I showed you how to generate leads from ICQ. In this installment, my focus in on the ever popular Skype. And just in case you do not know what Skype is, here is a heads up from the company website. Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use [...]




