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A mistake in hiring is more than just a bad hire.
It’s actually a chance to improve your recruiting processes, rather than blame yourself or someone else, says consultant Steven Balzac.
We talk about this in the video below, as well as about the part of the hiring process (screening, assessment, job description, job ad, interview) that’s the source of the biggest mistakes. keep reading…
At last month’s ERE Expo in Florida, Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads assembled a panel of four of today’s sharpest young job seekers. Among the findings:
Click below to watch the video and read more.
Want to hire someone who’s led a team, managed a huge project, saved lives, mastered technology, learned to handle pressure, and dealt with adversity, all by age 23?
Navy veteran Ted Daywalt, of the job board VetJobs, suggests you employ a veteran and that you don’t stick them in a menial job way below their worth. keep reading…
Jennifer Way, who consults with companies to improve the effectiveness of their recruiting efforts, talks about the rather imperfect experience job candidates are having when they apply for jobs, and what can be done about it. keep reading…
On Wednesday, October 27 at noon Eastern, we will be privileged to have a brief LIVE chat on our sister site, SourceCon.com, with the “personal branding guru” himself — Dan Schawbel. Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the author of the #1 international bestselling career book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future. Me 2.0 made the New York Times summer reading list for job seekers, was one of three social networking books recommended by Shape magazine, was the #1 career book of 2009 by The New York Post, is a #1 bestseller in Japan, and is also being translated into Chinese, Korean, and French. Recently, Schawbel was named to the prestigious Inc Magazine 30 Under 30 list. Additionally, Dan’s blog, the Personal Branding Blog®, was ranked the #1 job blog by Careerbuilder in 2008 and 2009.
Starting today at noon Eastern, the sourcing world will turn its attention to Washington, D.C. as SourceCon kicks off from the International Spy Museum. I don’t think anyone can argue that there is a more fitting venue at which to host the premier sourcing event than the spy museum.
If you can’t make it in person, you can still catch much of the great content by watching the live stream carried here on the ERE.net homepage or at www.sourcecon.com.
Things will get kicked off at noon Eastern on Tuesday, September 28th and will continue on Wednesday starting at 8:45 a.m. Eastern. You can find the full schedule of sessions here.
You can watch the stream online right here on ERE.net, or you can watch on the SourceCon homepage, participate in the live chat, and follow the event on Twitter using the #SourceCon hashtag. Just click the ‘play’ button on the uStream box and you are all set!
Unknown to many, but a household word to bargain-lovers, one of America’s fastest-growing businesses has been hiring salespeople and others — by the dozens. Groupon, a Chicago company, says on its website that “character, enthusiasm, perspective, and ridiculous baking skills are all highly valued.”
This morning I caught up with one of its recruiters, Dustin Carper, at the #socialrecruiting summit in Seattle to talk more about Groupon’s hiring. keep reading…
Yahoo, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Hyatt each handled the recession and the prospect of layoffs differently. Hyatt, says branding/culture speaker Lizz Pellet in the video interview below, deserves a big thumbs-down.
Companies are getting “very comfortable” with the idea that they don’t need to spend a lot of recruiting dollars, says Bayard’s Ann Troxell, in the video below.
Troxell says this comfort stems from the “frightening” belief among senior management that turnover will stay low.
Steven Toole doesn’t seem as high on social media recruiting as we are. But he is upbeat about employment, saying that a “perfect storm” is brewing for recruiters in 18-24 months as Americans begin a game of job-hopping musical chairs.
Below, Toole talks about these job-market trends, and the upcoming need for a lot of recruiters who have left the profession to come on back.
David Szary says financial services companies are hiring — a lot. Here, he talks about hiring and retiring in the banking sector and in healthcare. keep reading…
You’ve heard that employment is a proverbial “lagging indicator.” Companies wait to hire until they’re sure an economic recovery is underway. Actually, that’s not true, says Stephen Lowisz, founder and CEO of Qualigence. keep reading…
Chris Forman of AIRS talks about the economy, how his company is doing, and what’s going on with the recruitment outsourcing business. keep reading…
Though so many recruiters have been laid off, hiring still goes on, with maybe 3 million U.S. jobs open. Jeremy Eskenazi talks about who’s doing the recruiting work now, and who might be doing it in a year or two.
How would you brand a newly minted London firm that recruits intellectual property attorneys for jobs all over the world? With a video of a wedding photographer kicking a goose, of course. How else?
Amazingly, that’s what Fellows and Associates has done. And just to make sure you get it, the firm issued a press release over the weekend discussing the video. keep reading…
In case you missed the Summit people are talking about up at Google last week, or just want to go back and take another look, here are some videos and recordings Brendan (poor guy had to stand all day) took. We don’t have all of the videos. Also, since this was live, streaming, video, it’s not going to be the picture quality of regular filming.
We’ve got the Fall conference in Florida well stocked with social recruiting sessions, if you missed the event we just had. Marvin Smith of Microsoft will be presenting; there’ll be a couple of legal-related sessions about recruiting using Facebook and other sites; Knowledge Infusion is talking about putting together a social-media strategy; and we’ll be adding another social media session in the coming days. Shoot me an email if there’s specific information on the topic you’d like. In the meantime, a few of the videos are below.
Earlier this week, I and 224 of my closest friends attended the first ever Social Recruiting Summit at the Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. We were also joined by thousands of you who caught the live stream in your office and at home.
If you missed any of the sessions, several of them have been archived here.
Also check out this video put together by our chairperson Susan Burns and ERE’s Production Manager Brendan Shields, which kicked off the summit. The video tracks the evolution of the recruiting profession and the tools available to our industry from its primitive beginning to where we now stand. We don’t know what’s next, but we do know it isn’t too far away. keep reading…
We interrupt today’s wall-to-wall social media coverage to bring you this bit about something old school in the way of promotion: The human billboard.
We’re not talking here about the sandwich sign guys or even the athletic sign spinners you see on street corners pointing to check cashing businesses, tanning salons and new home developments. (Though you would be surprised at how much the jobs pay and just how cutthroat the business is.)
Nope. We’re talking about the president and founder of a technology sales lead company wandering around the showroom floor at SHRM’s upcoming conference in New Orleans handing out $100 bills. All you have to do is find Clay C. Scroggins, a/k/a Claydough, walk up to him and say “Hi, Clay” to get one of the five hundreds he’s going to be handing out. keep reading…
ERE’s CEO, David Manaster, recently caught up with Ted Elliott of Jobscience, a proud sponsor of the upcoming Social Recruiting Summit. Elliott, the CEO of Jobscience, took some time with us to discuss the increasing importance of social recruiting, what Jobscience is doing to take advantage of these trends, and how they are utilizing tools such as the iPhone to revolutionize candidate relationship management. Watch the interview below to learn more and don’t forget to watch our live stream of the Social Recruiting Summit on June 15th!
Change is a difficult thing. Oftentimes we are comforted by routine, but when situations arise that call for a drastic change, they are frequently met with resistance. With cutbacks and structural changes due to the recession and other factors, many organizations have had to undergo huge changes. As a result, effective change management strategies are in higher demand than ever.
Riviera Advisors consultant and former ERE expo chairman, Jeremy Eskenazi, joined us at at the ERE Expo 2009 Spring to moderate a panel discussing the challenges and strategies of change management. The panel also included Rodney Moses of Research In Motion/Blackberry, Vicki Perry of the Avery Dennison Corporation, and Aziz Chowdhury of the Baker Hughes Corporation.
Throughout the course of the session, the panel discussed the various changes they have encountered over the years, as well as what has worked and what hasn’t. Rodney Moses brought up an excellent point about how issues can arise when the focus is placed on why the change must happen rather than how the change will happen. Moses emphasized that communication, role responsibility, and openness are crucial during the process.
Another major change that many encounter in their organizations is the change from a decentralized business model to a centralized one. Vicki Perry addressed some of the challenges and resistance faced, especially regarding role responsibilities. Perry found the “myth of the month” strategy to be especially effective, helping to dispel rumors about the new system.
Aziz Chowdhury spoke on the same subject, discussing some of the mistakes that were made and things that were overlooked during the change. He also stressed the importance of communication and dispelling rumors during the process.
The panelists were all in unison regarding the importance of communication during the process, as much of the discord is a result of false expectations. Watch these highlights from the presentation for more!
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