Strategic talent management is about making one decision and making it right. Today I am going to show you how this key decision can be improved by … Read more
Business Leads Entry-Level Jobs; Base Pay Stays Modest
The top five industries for entry-level workers, according to MonsterTRAK, will be filled by graduating students with diverse interests and unconventional … Read more
What Is Your Hiring Batting Average?
I am an unabashed follower of the HR philosophy of Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. He is a proponent of a “business-like” approach to HR that … Read more
Monster Spam, By the Millions
Money was the motive in the Monster data mash, analysts say. Patrick Martin, a senior product manager with Symantec, the company that first discovered the … Read more
Dow Chemical Adds Social Networking as Latest Recruiting Tool
Like a tether that binds current and past employees, The Dow Chemical Co. is hoping its soon-to-launch in-house social networking plan will build real … Read more
Glam Your Curb Appeal to Attract Employees
The best companies are having trouble attracting employees. Not only are companies in different industries vying for the same candidates as the current … Read more
Memo to My Hiring Manager
Dear Hiring Manager, Now that summer is almost over and vacations are ending, the challenges you face at work are beginning again, and in earnest. Although … Read more
WAHBoom! Job Fairs, Niche Boards Vie for Older Workers’ Attention
Older workers — many self-employed and working part time — are not anxious to leave the labor market. That’s why think-tanks like The … Read more
Career Site Branding on a Budget
A brand is a promise. An employment brand, then, is a promise about what job seekers can expect from your company when they apply and if they become … Read more
CFO Shuffle at Kelly, Resources Connection, Salesforce, Monster
Kelly Services announced that its executive vice president and chief financial officer of nearly 10 years, William Gerber, will retire at the end of the … Read more
Creating Interest Among Passive Candidates
In today’s competitive search market, it may just take a bit more than a creative voicemail or a tasty phrase in your cold-call in order to entice a … Read more
TMP Revisits Virtual Job Fairs on Second Life
Don’t look for Time magazine to be one of the employers vying to get onto TMP Worldwide’s virtual recruiting hot spot on Second Life, TMP … Read more
Monster Powers Ahead Globally
Lost in the announcement last month that Monster will lay off some 800 workers was the amazing news of the company’s rapid growth abroad. For at … Read more
The Housing Crisis, the Economy, and Their Impact on Recruiting
Over the course of my nearly 40-year career in human resources, I have witnessed almost a dozen recruiting booms (where recruiting budgets ballooned) and … Read more
Country-Fried: First Magnus Succumbs to Mortgage Mess
The First Magnus Financial Corp. website isn’t sugar-coating anything these days. A visit to the company’s revised one-page website shows a … Read more
Building the Workforce of the Future
The Business Week cover story, “The Future of Work,” for their August 20 edition is must reading for all recruiting and HR leaders. The basic … Read more
CareerBuilder’s Test of Video Resumes is First by a Major Job Board
Launching in late June with little fanfare, CareerBuilder is the first major job board in the United States to offer video resumes. Now, not even two … Read more
Money Won’t Hold Them
Turnover at one mature organization I have spoken with recently has reached close to 100% for its key engineering talent. This is not because the company … Read more
Countrywide’s See-Saw: Employee Base Up 1,159 as Shares Plummet 13%
When the Dow closed below 13,000 Wednesday afternoon, amid bad housing news and a surge in the price of oil, Countrywide Financial’s new workers were … Read more
MBA Hopeful Works to Connect Disabled Grads, Employers at Virtual Job Fair
A 21-year-old business administration major at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego is helping to organize the first-ever virtual online job fair … Read more