In the recent wake of layoffs and downsizing now is the perfect time to find those refined hard to find candidates. If you already aren't checking the popular layoff sites (which doesn't cover all the companies) try checking the WARN notifications posted on the state sites.

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Job Hunting Scams

In Times of Peril, Don�??t Hide in a Carrel

Just the other day I was replying to some emails and I had one show up in my inbox titled �?? Program Manager.  I opened it without a second thought as I frequently receive job leads to pass on and apply to interesting positions and sure enough I did apply for this position directly. As I was skimming the details of the email I received, it seemed like a great dot com to be with  �??selling at the biggest online auction eBay.com since 1999, and earned thousands ...

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MySpace (2007) 60,104,000 (2006) 55,256,000

Facebook (2007) 22,574,000 (2006) 13,110,000

Classmates Online (2007) 10,748,000 (2006) 11,406,000

Windows Live Spaces (2007) 8,856,000 (2006) 8,703,000

AOL Hometown (2007) 6,853,000 ...

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Okay, so here is a tidbit about me. I have 10 best friends, yup 10 best friends. So you?re probably wondering how that works right? Well I happen to have SME?s (Subject Matter Experts) for various parts of my life (Professional, Spiritual, Family, Social, Shopping, Academic, Reality, Sports, Travel, and Sounding Board) but they all act as my ?general council?.  It?s known ?Wisdom is from the Council of many ? Unknown?  What does this have to do with Grokker.com? Everything!

Every recruiter generally has a primary resource (mine happens to be Google) and now Grokker is my ...

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So many precautions have been mentioned in many forums seesawing back and fourth why joining these non-professional groups ...

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With the launch of the new org chart builder on Forbes (http://orgchart.forbes.com/) it confirmed my practices of what I?ve been doing for years. Building org charts of the resumes I?ve sourced from competitors of my clients.

In a nutshell, normally recruiters go out grab a resume, add it to their ATS and call it good, sometimes they add the info to their CRM and do the general follow ups or now they just invite them to be connected via LinkedIN or Xing, 60secondNetworking, etc.

Why not ...

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Psychosocial Factors: Creating a Well-Balanced Work Environment

A study published by the Surgeon General of the United States in 1966 warned US companies and industries of the dangers in creating workplaces filled with stress and unpleasantness. The study reported that 13% of workers from different industries were showing signs of stress that was affecting their health and well-being. By 1993, over 40% percent of workers reported they were under too much stress (Galinsky, Bond and Friedman 1993).

Today, stress at the workplace has become an even bigger problem. Taking a closer look at the roll of employees, training procedures, productivity ...

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Understanding and Applying HR - Recruiting Metrics

While you do not have to implement all of these metrics at once, choose one or two that will help your recruiting system immediately and work from there. Over time, you can add more metrics ...

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It can happen to any recruiter at any time, seasoned or new. Hiring an employee who turns out to be less than what you expected is a pitfall of the human resources field. When this happens, you will begin processing what has happened by asking yourself what went wrong in the recruiting process, how might a person who is less qualified slip through the cracks? Were they misleading? Did you miss important signs?

There are probably a few reasons why the wrong people get hired from time to time. But when this happens too ...

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BRINGING INNOVATIVE THINKERS INTO THE FOLD

If you noticed that a lot of the people you have been interviewing over the past few months or years for employment with your company have been, well, average, you may want to take a look at your screening metrics, interviewing procedures, and the company?s hiring philosophies. ?Innovative? is a buzz word in recruiting lately, but where are the ?innovative? people and why aren?t you interviewing them?

Altering Hiring Metrics

One of the reasons you may not be interviewing the candidates you want is because the hiring ...

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The old maxim, ?It?s not what you know, but who you know,? really is a good way to sum up the importance and relevance of networking in the life of the job-seeker. Thus, it would not be a stretch to say that networking is the most important activity for a job-seeker to get a handle on to achieve success while searching for a job.

You may have already realized during your job search exploits that there are more jobs available than are listed in your local paper ...

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"Everyone is business today must be a trainer and mentor, not just the training department."

- Gregory P. Smith

Training is a value addition to the mankind. Imparting any skills to a human being is a contribution to the society. Moreover, there are hundreds of examples in the Corporate world where the permanent employees also  have ungratefully left the organization after getting trained on various skills, at high costs.
 
Providing training to temporary staff can be a blessing in disguise, because they can take up those positions in the organization, which fall vacant due to attrition (rampant these days ).

Consider the ...

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'Recruiter Etiquette' - something that is not STRESSED enough in the field of recruiting! You send a resume to an open position ? no response (okay, so their ATS does not have an auto responder ? fair enough), but then you send the resume directly to an individual. How could they not have two-seconds to respond and say, Hey Dakotta, thanks for sending me your resume, I?ll look it over and get back to you about the position. Or if you had 10 seconds, hey Dakotta, got your resume, but it doesn?t look like you?re a fit because you?re ...

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Today the job market requires people who are multi-talented and multi-skilled. Technology has played a big role in inventing such a need. Take the case of tax professionals. One of their basic jobs was to help the salaried class to fill out the details of their income tax return. With the availability of various user friendly tax calculating software, an increased number of people can now fill in their details without the need to consult a tax professional. This has seriously undermined the traditional role played by a tax consultant. The focus has now shifted to professionals who can deliver ...

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 The above fact emphasizes the need for having and creating personal contacts and networking. In an age, where job seekers outnumber the available jobs, it has become imperative to be at the right place at the right time. But how will you know where to be at and at what time? Someone has got to inform you. And this is where 'networking' assumes importance.

Networking is not a new age phenomenon ...

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The international business community is closer now than ever before. This presents numerous opportunities for companies to pick from the cr�me of employees from the world over. Political and geographical boundaries hold little resistance if an employee has the right qualifications and experience and a company offer great opportunities for growth and expansion. For a company that wants to have the best employees it needs to consider building an international recruitment department. The basic requirement is to understand how important this department is to the company and to make focused attempts to make it successful. Too often international recruitment ...

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    Currently, Google is both the most utilized search engine and largest public information database. Google is an  important access tool  and its toolbar plays a key role in the job market; specifically, helping employers search for the right candidate.

    Employers do not submit their offers and job descriptions to Google, as it  is an independent company, serving only to find things that are already posted on the internet. In short, Google is not an agent; but, through its innovative search functions, has replaced the need for many roles in the job searching process.

    Approximately 80% of all Internet searches are ...

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