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Candidate Development is especially critical in recruitment. Even if it's an entry level position, candidates still need to be developed, coached and prepared. Some candidates need hand holding. Some need to be groomed. They can have top notch skills but interview horribly. Or they can have a hard time quantifying and qualifying their experience. At this point some extra hand holding comes in handy. This section holds article addressing all these nuances. Also find updated information on the recruiting trends, insights, tools or resources.
Written by Jesse Ohayon
Today’s professional staffing service providers need to look beyond merely compiling resume databases to fill positions. In a time when matching the right person to the right job is critical for clients looking to save money, building talent communities allows staffing providers to not only have the talent on hand, but to build relationships with the talent.
Written by Ian Welsh CHRP
If you want to fill a job, hire someone with the skills to do it. If you want a companion, go to eHarmony – in your own time!
Written by Tracy Smejkal
There is so much talk about why employers won’t consider those who are unemployed.
Here are a few reasons why they should.
Unemployed workers are generally:
Written by Jeremy Eskenazi, SPHR
I love this time of year. Now that we’re through the year-end buildup, talent acquisition professionals look bright-eyed to industry trends to see the latest and greatest to execute their 2012 plans. Like every other year, there have been predictions and promises about where we’re going, so I’m taking this opportunity to share my predictions. I don’t have a crystal ball, but after 20 years in this industry, watching the patterns and taking the journey, more than a few of my inklings have rang true, and some have certainly not…
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Written by Greg Savage
There has been a great deal of criticism of Agency recruiters lately, quite a bit of it from me.
But a recent theme is emerging where Corporate HR managers and internal recruiters have launched some scathing attacks on the process followed by recruiters. A recent blog, Dear John, from Katie McNab being a case in point – albeit a very constructive and fair one.
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Written by Daniel T. Bloom
To begin with on this first day of a brand new yea, may I wish you and yours a great new year.
I was reading the local newspaper this morning and a column by Bill Maxwell caught my attention. The column was entitled "White doubt reserved for black professional and it dealt with an effort of the local school district to enhance the number of black teachers that are hired.One of the members of the school board who is white is quoted as saying after the effort was announced who said the effort should be to hire quality over numbers.
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Written by Carol Martin
Over the past two years, I have connected with many professionals who are using the internet to promote their businesses. Every now and then someone emails me a tip, a website, or a fun tidbit they have come across in their own internet research. My thanks to Jarrett Galloway for the following tidbit.Page 1 of 14
In 2007, there were 27.1M nonfarm U.S. businesses, employing 117.3M persons and generating $30.0T in business revenues. Firms with paid employees accounted for 5.7M or 21.2% of these businesses & $29.1 trillion or 96.8% in receipts. Firms w/o employees accounted for 21.4M or 78.8% of these businesses and $972.7 billion or 3.2% in receipts.
