Scott Williams, founder of The Stonehaven Group (TSG-HR), believes in putting his money where his mouth is. This dynamic speaker and former Human Resources VP for Coca-Cola doesn't expect his clients to take risks when they contract with his HR advisement firm. Unlike PEOs and typical third party consulting agencies, the experts at Stonehaven back their advice with a 5 million dollar insurance policy.
"We have our own legal team in-house" Scott confirms. "If a client is ever sued because of an error or omission on our part, we stand by that client to closure. Outsourcing firms just gives ...
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An Interview with Scott Williams on the Future of HR
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Special Thanks to the Fans
(This post was written by iCIMS Marketing Intern, Christina Assini)
It would be nearly impossible for a rock star or movie star to have any fame in this world without giving back to the fans. Whether it is signing autographs, giving concerts, or just saying "thank you", the rich and famous know that in order to keep their status, they must care for the people who keep them popular.
Why should businesses be any different? In this competitive age, consumers have many options. As such, they find themselves plagued with the same old question...Why choose your product? And, with ...
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Mobile Job Seekers
So let's talk mobile applications for employment. Why? Well quite simply because I'm tired of hearing people say that job seekers aren't ready to apply for jobs via their mobile. And I think I'm to the point where I just have to call it out and say, "that's crap." If done right, I can't think of a single reason a job seeker wouldn't want to submit interest for a job via their mobile device. After all, we're being honest and talking about what the job seeker wants and not the limitation of ... -
Is your job site positioned to grow?
Doostang just announced that they've landed $1.25 million in new funding. That's not a huge investment compared to the boom years, but it is a signal that our industry may have reached bottom and is beginning to rebound.
So you've survived the worst. Now what are you going to do?
Do you have a plan for growth? If not, now is a good time to start - because if you don't, your competitors will. The job board industry is like any other; you can grow, or you can fade away. There's not an in-between.
See ...
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How Do You Run Staffing Meetings?
I'm gonna be real honest here. For the 10+ years that I was a corporate recruiter, I ran lousy staffing meetings.
If you're anything like me, you'd rather be talking to people about jobs, fixing problems, or best yet, filling jobs rather than playing with spreadsheets. I loathed entering data on Friday afternoons just so I could get a report to my boss. The data was accurate, right? Sigh.
Staffing meetings were the bane of my existence (other than "turn downs" of course). I always felt a little defensive during staffing meetings. The quality of my work ...
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SWE Puts On a Neurologically Stimulating Career Fair
Had a great time on Saturday at the Society of Women Engineers career fair in Richardson, TX.If I said it was "neurologically stimulating" would it seem to be a reference to our company?Probably. But that's ok.Thanks to UTD for sponsoring the event and to the incredible students and grads for coming out on a Saturday. -
Recruiting is Sales. Please Get Over It!
I'll be in your area tomorrow. I could see you at 10 or 11. Which would you prefer?
If I could show you a way to increase your salary by 50%, would you be interested?
I was given your name by someone who highly recommended that we speak.
I've been working a confidential search for a direct competitor of yours.
We've all either used or been on the receiving end of these ancient and hackneyed lines. Back in the bad old days, when aluminum siding was new, pretty much every sales person used lines like these. Sales ...
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Let the Good Times Roll
Mark and I have completed our numbers crunching for about 180,000 hires we collected from 40+ firms last month and we will publish our 9th Source Of Hire whitepaper probably by the end of next week- we're writing it now.
An early peek at the data will be discussed privately in an "open mike" webinar with survey respondents and CareerXroads colloquium members before the end of the month but an ERE webinar next week (2/17) will be the first public look at the current SOH data.
In addition to collecting data about how firm's hire, we ...
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Will a 6-month resume gap ruin your career?
The other day, Melanie Benwell of Poly Placements tweeted:
What do you think of candidates who take 6-12 months off to travel or re-energize before starting their job search? Does it question drive?
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1 or 2 months I can understand but anything over 6 months I see as a red flag = lack of focus/drive etc.
I was surprised by Mel's take on work gaps, and since I know her to be a successful, experienced recruiter, it got me thinking.
Are resume gaps a red flag?
A couple of years ago I read an article which said that ...
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What didn’t I learn in 2009…
Read more about the Urban Recruiter.
Postmortem 2009 – Like most of us, we can act as if 2009 did not happen and that last year was just a bad dream. We would like to believe that we were hibernating in 2009 like Han Solo in the movie Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and we had just been recently thawed out from our nightmares. Sounds like a sci-fi movie, hardly.
A few days ago, I was sitting in my living room watching one of my usual TV stations (ESPN, Travel Channel, Discovery, Food Network, & CNN) when anAllstate Commercial came ...
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Consultants’ Controversy: Blatant Fakery, or an Intern Gone Awry?
A controversy is brewing between one recruiting consultant, Jeremy Eskenazi, and another, H. Martin de’Campo, who Eskenazi says took his work on a significant corporate recruiting project and passed it off as his own. De’Campo says this was merely a mistake by an intern.
First, a rundown of who’s who here. De’Campo is the endearing executive searcher, passionate diversity speaker, and consultant whose company is called Humanatek. He has written and spoken for ERE and commented on the ERE.net site. On LinkedIn, he is “connected” to many of the big names in the recruiting field ...
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EQ: Durability For Your Career
Read more about the Urban Recruiter.
Tired and burnt out? Trying to keep your drive and always reminding yourself to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, always seeing the light in the distant future can feel like you are running on a hamster wheel and getting nowhere. As many of you know, the nature of recruiting is like a roller coaster. It has its highs and lows, twist and turns, and you sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears. And if you give a damn, there will be tears.
Trying to overcome disappointment, challenges and even boredom ...
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Committing the Crime of a Mis-hire: Who is Really to Blame?
by Nanci Lamborn - Writer/Blogger/HR Practitioner - BrightMove Recruiting Software
The forbidding yellow file lurked in my chair as I walked into my office, a file made all the more daunting by the Pink Form of Woe just visible from the corners within the folder.
Bob’s personnel file. I knew it sat on my chair for one reason only. Bob’s manager had given up. Today would be Bob’s separation day, and could feel myself beginning to grow defensive as I sat down and read over the notes written on the Pink Form of Woe from Bob’s ...
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Podcast: 10 pt. Inspection to Determine if Your Employees are Fairly Compensated
In this installment of The Proactive Employer, Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division (EEA/LS) of Minimax Consulting, outlines ten tips for examining the question of whether your employees are ‘fairly' compensated. While these tips cannot replace a comprehensive self-audit of compensation, they provide a launching point for collecting the information required for the audit, and open the dialogue of compensation equity.
About Minimax Consulting:
Minimax Consulting is a full service consulting firm providing quantitative services across a wide variety of industries. The Equal Employment Advisory and ...
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The Hidden Costs of Non-Compliance in Hiring
As an HR professional, you have a good grasp of the basic rules surrounding compliance for your new hire paperwork collected during the onboarding process. You have many different deadlines to meet depending on the form in question (I-9, W4, etc). Each document has to be checked for errors and omissions before you submit it to the appropriate agency or file it in case of a future audit.
The question you may not have asked yourself is (or may not have asked yourself recently): "What happens if my organization doesn't get these steps right?" In this blog, we'll ...
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More evidence on ROI of Engagement
Business success in the 2009 economy? Yes...and here's why.
By Paul Austermuehle
What drives business prosperity? Is it new ideas? Better ideas? Customer-centric ideas?
And what kind of culture works best as a springboard for new ideas? Especially in a business climate that is both volatile and dynamic?
In a broad-based research study conducted by Bernard Hodes Group during the latter half of 2009, we heard loud and clear that companies see employee engagement as a key driver of new market solutions.
The survey data is remarkable in that more than 30% of the organizations responding were actually ...
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What's Your Budget for Failure?
The year was 1994 and something called a job board was being launched- specifically CareerMosaic, named after the web browser credited for popularizing an old thing called the Internet.
In a meeting with top executives, Bernard Hodes, a brilliant marketeer and the CEO of the agency that bore his name, shared his rationale for creating the pricing structure for his new category of recruitment advertising.
"We’ll price the postings as a $100 add-on with any newspaper ad” he said. (At the time a 1” by 3” classified ad in the NY Times on Sunday was probably about $1,500 ...
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20,000 Reasons Not to Hire Someone- WW this is for you !
Wendell Williams loves to talk about how expensive the wrong hire can be, but this article from the New York Times points out a real, direct, measuarable cost that is a multiple of a person's salary or wage.
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Looking at the Application Process from Both Sides
I was reviewing my job search log for the past 12 months and could not believe that I had applied to over 150 jobs in that period. It then occurred to me that very few recruiters actually followed up with me other than sending the Thanks for your Resume e-mail. My frustration grew. "How could recruiters be so inconsiderate?"
It seemed to me that recruiters should, at a minimum, let a candidate if the company was interested. After all, it's common courtesy. Companies say that employees are their greatest asset, often making job seekers complete exhaustive job applications and ...
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Build Your Brand Today in Recruiting
If you are looking for a role or a promotion in today's economy you must understand how to make yourself stand out.Developing a personal brand could be the key to making yourself more marketable. Noone is more brand conscious than celebrities,just like corporate brands recruiters must leverage themselves and their names.
Creating a signature brand that is recognizable and uniquely yours can put you on the map.So,if you are not Trump,Oprah or Diddy how do you establish your personal brand?
Establish a personal brand by:
- Define who you are and who you aren't ...
