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BRIGHTON, England and Waltham Massachusetts— Madgex, the UK’s leading supplier for commercial outsourced job board and resume software and services, signed an agreement with the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) to develop and host the job board for NEJM CareerCenter, the physician jobs companion website of the New England Journal of Medicine.

NEJM CareerCenter specializes in physician recruitment and offers a full suite of job searching tools, including automated job alerts and search functionality that includes specialty and geography. NEJM CareerCenter also provides physician-employment resources in the Career Resources center, offering helpful articles on physician careers, physician job-hunting tips, physician ...

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Cuts to marketing budgets seemed inevitable in the wake of the new media explosion. Part of the initial appeal of social media was— supposedly—that it was faster, cheaper and easier than traditional forms of marketing. 

With this, marketing teams raced off in different directions to figure out how to do the same things they’d always done, just through new channels. They set up Facebook pages and Twitter accounts and got to some furious blogging. Everyone was happy. For a while. 

A few years on, and as marketers and businesses started doing the math, something wasn’t adding up ...

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Executives often try to hire great sales people, but they should be looking for something else. In this episode of the Sales Management Minute, learn what you should look for in sales candidates.

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The candidate is just thrilled with the offer and says this is the nicest employer they’ve ever dealt with.

How can you not be incredibly happy for this candidate and excited for them in their new position?  How about when you’re dealing with someone that you placed there 7 years ago and he’s been through a couple of promotions and is now the hiring manager, having a solid impact on the company.  And then there’s the person you know needs a job and a change, a new start, and you place them in just the right ...

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My husband and I watch a fair number of television shows and movies. When my friends and family began investing in high-definition TV, I found myself wondering if the resolution in our television was lacking. Our satellite provider is always encouraging us to upgrade our package to include HD. A walk through any electronic or warehouse store reminds me of the vivid pictures available for my viewing pleasure. As I evaluated whether I wanted to pay more every month for this service, I asked myself one question: what current problem or issue with my TV will HD solve? I don ...

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Managers are required to consistently respond to shifts in customer expectations, competition, technology and global markets—as well as to changing employee expectations. 

Consequently, change occurs more rapidly and more often—and it’s more complex than ever. But left unattended, the impacts of change reduce employee and organizational productivity, contribute to burnout, negatively affect the quality of products and services, damage customer relations and reduce employee morale. 

Managers who fail to lead employees through change in their organization may end up with a staff lacking trust in its leaders and/or unwilling to embrace future change. Those who resist ...

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Many companies have a hard time determining what their employment brand is. What makes you a satisfying place to work? How are you different from competing organizations? Why should candidates upend their lives and make the move to join your team?

You can't simply make this up. You can't throw out some clichés ("you can make a difference here") or reiterate your values (respect, collaboration, integrity) if you are going to seriously communicate what makes your company special to candidates - and why it is worth their serious consideration.

You need to do discovery. Here are some great ways ...

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Contract staffing was bright spot for the recruiting industry once again in 2011.  As the economy tried to forge ahead, it appeared that many companies shifted their traditional direct-hire placements to contract placements.  

As a result, Top Echelon Contracting experienced a 22% increase last year in the number of commercial contractors placed on long-term contract assignments in the technical, professional, and healthcare arenas.   This represents 17 years of growth since 1992. 

We tracked our contract placements throughout the United States in 2011 and determined the following hottest industries for contract staffing:

• 32% - Healthcare (Professionals: PT, OT, SLP, Pharm, Nurses, but ...

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It's true-you may not need to scour the classifieds, haunt job fairs, or pound the pavement with a backpack full of resumes to land your first job. Social networking, a playground for many, is also evolving powerful new ways to find a job. The web is becoming the crucial place for job seekers to begin their careers, and for employers to seek information about applicants.  This evolution of social networking is exciting, but also sobering; it should add a note of caution to a job seeker's on-line activity.

Many employers do search on-line for added impressions about an ...

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Very interesting article in the current edition of The Economist around the engagement of gay employees. The piece focuses on some research from the Center for Work-Life Policy which suggests 47% of gays who have come out in the workplace feel ‘very trusting’ of their employers, in contrast to just 21% who have not. More tellingly, 52% of those who remained in the closet felt their careers had stalled, in comparison to 36% of those comfortable with their sexuality in the workplace.

Perhaps no surprise then that (gay) employees who feel they can be truly themselves at work are getting ...

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Eany, Meany, Miney, Moe, which staffing Model should we use!!

Staffing models, wow there are a lot of them, or so you think. The reality is there are only a few.

Full service-you have a Staffing Professional (SP) or Recruiter doing A-Z, the whole Staffing Lifecycle (SLC).

Hunter-Gatherer-basically you split up the full lifecycle into the hunter or finder-sourcer who may or may not screen and the gatherer-SP who does all the rest once the hunter has handed it off.

Committee-basically, you use several different people, each performing a different part of the SLC to get the job does. This ...

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Recently we published a whitepaper discussing the relationship between recruitment effectiveness and the use of assessments. As part of that discussion, we examined some reasons driving the increasing adoption of talent assessment solutions. The growing use of assessments is being driven by several factors ranging from technological innovation to the ability to standardize a process that is often ad hoc and open to variance.

1. The growth of cloud-based applications is one technology factor driving the adoption of assessments. The technology benefits from cloud deployments allows assessment content providers to easily deploy assessment content, connect platforms to create interoperability, and ...

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Hello and good day!

Brian, your Inbound Recruiter Trainer reviews the book, "Headhunter, Secrets Of The Executive Recruiting Firms - Be An Irresistible Recruiter And Have Your Clients Addicted To Your Services".

Book Link: http://www.amazon.com/Headhunter-Secrets-Executive-Recruiting-ebook/dp/B00738THAQ/ref=sr_1_11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329567388&sr=1-11

VLOG LINK: http://www.johnstonsearch.com/inbound-recruiter-blog/bid/72266/Amazon-Kindle-Book-Review-Headhunter-Inbound-Recruiter

Key takeaways:

* Retained vs. Contingency Recruiters
* Telephone scripts
* Customers should come to you (Inbound Recruiting Principles)
* Dealing with diverse personalities
* Ability to adapt
* Become "Content Creator" in your niche via associations, publications, etc (Even write a book)

Until you watch ...

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San Francisco based Mecruit has put up a launch page at mecruit.com. The Founder and CEO of the startup, Lola Soto, sold her first startup as a junior in Rice University's Honors Program so she already has success as a startup founder. The landing page states that they are "A new way to find and connect with professionals in your area".  A bit more detail is provided on betali.st: "Mecruit shows you everything you need to know about nearby professionals and opportunities". I assumed based on the name and these descriptions that it would be a Social ...

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Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we'll be talking about #Linsanity, employer branding, sourcing on social media, challenge in careers and employee shelf life.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

What Does Good Look Like?  Lessons from #Linsanity by Hung Lee (@Wise_Man_Say)

Hung shares some great recruiting takeaways and lessons to be learned from Jeremy Lin's meteoric rise in Gotham.

How to ...

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Subsidized yoga classes, flexible hours, tuition reimbursement, oh my! How important perks are like these? In a word: very. It's no secret that top talent is your company's most valuable asset. The question is how do you retain it? Simply offering employer-paid health insurance and paid time off no longer does the trick when it comes to staying competitive and retaining high-quality workers. Benefits are not only valuable for companies to hire and retain top talent, but they also boost company morale and assure that employees to produce their highest-quality work.

A study by Canadian Life suggests that ...

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It’s more than likely that the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis will continue to exert considerable economic and fiscal pressure in 2012. But, just how this will materialize for individual countries will vary, and is detailed in our new Global Market Brief and Risk Index, compiled with the Eurasia Group. 

Many of these countries face both a debt problem and a growth problem, and the potential solutions to one may exacerbate the other. Many governments—including in the UK, France, Italy, and Spain—are pursuing austerity programs in an effort to reduce their deficits and contain sovereign debt levels ...

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Of all aspects of HR and recruiting not much has a worse reputation than the proverbial black hole. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, back in the mid- 90s when Monster.com was “the monster” of the digital recruiting space, job boards were an amazing and efficient delivery tool for both companies and candidates to exchange information.

As an early adopter, I remember how excited I was to be (as far as I knew) the first person from my company to post a job online rather than place an ad in the Sunday newspaper. That was no easy ...

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This article contains actual statements made during post-interview debriefings

Each time one of my candidates goes on an interview, I receive feedback about a client organization, their job opening, and the personal impression they create. I generally hear good things about my clients, but I am sometimes surprised to hear that they make a few very basic errors.

Most hiring managers think of interviewing as a chance to gather information about a new potential hire. They also recognize that they represent their organizations, and want to create a great impression with candidates. If you avoid some obvious pitfalls and follow ...

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Business leaders want guidelines in place for regulating employee use of social media outlets on personal and company accounts alike. But while regulation-focused policies protect an organization against any potential social media blunders, they cast a shadow over the shoulder of every employee who uses the internet on a daily basis (shudder). This approach often prevents the company from seeing any benefits whatsoever from employee use of social media. My suggestion: If your employees are already using social media while at work, why not make the most of it?

Though there's certainly more than one way to skin this ...

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