If you’ve been tasked with recruiting the next great batch of employees that your company has ever seen, your first instincts might be to load up the corporate website with all manner of career ads, job postings and little links where visitors can drop off their modern resumes. While this tactic might be the way…
Back in the day – you know, when your grandparents would walk 17 miles in a blizzard or fire just to get to school – job interviews were a one-way street. That has all changed. In today’s world of progressive people, potential employers no longer have candidates sit there so that they can be subjected…
Developing recruitment strategies doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to promise high salaries and make other promises you can’t keep. In fact, rather than focusing on compensation, it might benefit you more to turn your attention to the aspects of the job that make people want to come to work. For instance, ask yourself if employees…
Before the Internet phenomenon, allowing employers to connect virtually with their staff, companies that needed to inflate their numbers were restricted to the people who applied locally or were willing to commute. In the rare occasion that someone voluntarily relocated, businesses might have been able to lure hard workers into town from afar, but in…
If you’re having trouble connecting with the right people, you might not be using the appropriate tools for the job. The same way a contractor wouldn’t approach a building project with a toolbox full of pool noodles instead of the hammers and wrenches that will put a house together, you’ll be hard-pressed to do a…
Over the years, job searching has transformed from a cold, overall person-to-person process, to a warm, mostly convenient, technological experience. In the past, the ambitious would wait for the Sunday paper, scan the jobs of the week, re-craft their resume and cover letter (sent via snail mail), reach out to their network in hopes of…
One of the most popular pieces of employment advice that recruiting professionals seem to be giving job seekers is to reach out to professionals and potential employers via Internet channels so that they can make valuable industry connections. That being said, if you’ve seen a recent story of a LinkedIn networking initiative gone awry…
No matter what consumers like doing, businesses appear to take a hint and adjust their operations so they can accommodate the general public. While you may think this habit only applies to portions of their organizations that are more directly linked to people’s personal tastes, such as product development and marketing, the unlikely field of…
As a recruiter the last thing you would expect me to say is, “Don’t cancel your interview.” Whenever I have a candidate in final stages of an interview process I always commit them to saying that they will cease all search activities, cancel all upcoming interviews and conversations when an offer is extended. In my…
Over the course of your job search, you may begin to think that you’re on a carnival ride, thanks to all the ups and downs you’re feeling in terms of anxiety. While heading into an interview may be one of the most stressful tasks ahead of you when it comes to trying to land a…
