Tag: recruiting
Mental Health And Recruiting: A Little Honesty
I’ve been thinking of re-launching my blog, and today I think I have something important enough to start writing again. Yesterday, at #truStockholm, I got in to a bit of a conversation with someone about mental health, and how to best support someone suffering with depression from an HR point of view. I’m passionate about this subject because it is very close to home,…
Could Moocs be the next big thing in college recruiting?
If you follow the learning and development community, then Moocs, or Massive On-line Open Courses won’t be a new concept. They have been gaining momentum, popularity and adoption since first appearing in 2008. .Wikipedia defines a Mooc as: “A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC; /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course…
Moving Past Smile and Dial: 5 Ways to Build a Recruiting Function Your CEO Will Love
The recruiting world has grown in complexity with each passing year. Staying on top of the macro trends (mobile, social, etc.) and the moving target related to how candidates find jobs (aggregation, job boards, referrals, etc.) is a full time job. Throw in the difficulty of measuring the effectiveness of your recruiting spend and it’s enough to make you say, “No Mas.” Never fear,…
Greenhouse and Glassdoor to Deliver Tips for Recruiting Collaboration in …
During this complimentary webinar, Greenhouse head of Talent, Caitlin Wilterdink, and Dina Rulli, manager, Talent Acquisition for Glassdoor, will explore the challenges that recruiters and hiring managers face when working together throughout the …
My Big Fat Recruiting Dilemma!
Have you had an employee who had to stop working because they became too fat? Just wait, you will, it’s just a matter of time. I remember when my biggest nightmare as an HR pro was going to tell an employee they need to bath and wear deordorant. I can’t even imagine having to go tell an employee, “Hey Bro, you have to go…
How to solve one of the America’s Toughest Recruiting Challenges
Hey, Tech Recruiters your job is really hard isn’t it? Do you want to know a recruiting job that is about a hundred times harder than yours? Try recruiting Truck Drivers! The Truck Driving recruiting industry is insane. It’s reported that right now there are 36,000 Truck Driver open position in the U.S.! Go to any major corporation that has a shipping component that…
Spamming To Fill Jobs: Idiots peeing on telephone poles
“im really hoping there is a opening or other possibility to get a chance to prove my competence. As you will see in my resume I have a broad experience and knowledge in this line of work and im confident it will be worth your time reading it. I am excited to hearing from you.”
Reductionist Recruiting: A short history of why you can’t get hired
LinkedIn gets paid even when you don’t land a job, and when jobs don’t get filled. Why? It’s important to know the short history of reductionist recruiting — layers of matchmaking technology designed for speed, distribution, and handling loads of applicants. I can’t wait for employers to start paying job boards only when they actually fill a job.
Airbnb's 5-Star Recruiting Twist: The Competitive Power of Nice
(Dig back far enough on the career site Glassdoor.com and there's a post by a disappointed Airbnb job-seeker recounting a series of “disorganized” Skype calls with recruiters in which “not a single one looked at my résumé.”) Candidates were so …
Google Says You Should Throw Out Your Hiring System
It’s time for HR to wake up and smell the coffee: Your recruiting methods are killing your business, and now Google has told the world. Not that this will change anything: HR is entrenched in decades old cement shoes…
7 LinkedIn Tools for Recruiting New Employees
In his book Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business, search engine optimization and online marketing expert consultant Ted Prodromou explains how you can use LinkedIn to quickly engage with ideal customers, partners, and employees, showcase your …
Running Numbers: The Social Recruiting Shell Game
As someone who’s more or less grown up with the commoditization and corporate adoption of social media, and as someone who gets paid to do this stuff, I’ve seen a huge shift in the way analytics play a role in informing that particular marketing function. In fact, because it’s more or less a fire hose […]