Almost everyone is back to school or soon will be, and right behind the students will come the corporate recruiters. Unfortunately for the corporate … Read more
Search Engines: A View From the Bridge
The Internet, with more than 500 million Web pages, is a vast database with few signposts. It’s incredibly easy to lose your way, but searching it … Read more
Disabled but Not Unable Part II of II
A well-selected workforce is essential to the running of a good business. Crains New York Business in “Giving disabled workers a new start” … Read more
Give Yourself The Midas Touch: Stay in Touch After They Leave
Most of us look at retention as a closed issue. People either choose to stay with our company or leave. As many of you know by now, I always take the … Read more
Reverse Searching: An Idea That Might Stick
It’s Monday. Again. Maybe this morning you woke up tired of the hunt. And even though thousands of new pages are added to the Web each day, … Read more
Recruiting as a Long-Cycle Process
It is a simple fact that there are shortages of people with good skills looking for jobs, and a REAL shortage of people with programming and other specific … Read more
Creative Searching
Complex search queries have their place, to be sure. But so, too, do the advanced search features of Alta Vista . Take a moment to think about what … Read more
Disabled but Not Unable
A well-selected workforce is essential to the running of a good business. Crains New York Business in “Giving disabled workers a new start” … Read more
How To Pick a Web-Site for Your Recruitment Ad
As in print publications, recruitment advertising on the Internet usually has several objectives. Obviously, the first and most important is to locate high … Read more
Recruiting & Turnover – Part II
Last week we discussed some theories of the causes of turnover. We referred to research done by Peter Hom and Rodger Griffeth. Many of you have asked for … Read more
The Two Rules of Searching
If you find that searching the Internet isn’t producing the candidates you want, maybe it’s time to change your ways. Let’s consider two … Read more
Recruiting from Welfare to Work Programs Part II of II
We are a society that lives by standard expectations, norms and procedures. You want a job-you write a resume, read the paper, network, fax, call, and … Read more
Turning Over Rocks … Without the Work
“Recruiters spend half their days searching for resumes and not doing the job for which they were hired: to recruit.” That’s the downside … Read more
Searching the Internet: People Tools
Need a high tech exec? Consider the people finder tool at Corporate Information Technology Services at www.corptech.com. Corp Tech has a database of 45,000 … Read more
Are Candidates Clicking?
Pssst. I’ve got a job for you. “Banners that whisper are more likely to be listened to than banners which shout.” That’s the view … Read more
Retention and Turnover Part I: Theory of Causes
Why do people choose to come to a company in the first place? Why do people stay at a company or leave? What motivates each behavior and how can employers … Read more
Searching the Internet: Using Chat Events
If you think that chat on the Internet is only for those with super-charged hormones, think again. Talented people race to join colleagues in discussions … Read more
Recruiting from Welfare to Work Programs
“We are creatures of habit and many people, recruiters included, are risk averse?” (from Gately@compuserve.com July 1, 1998 ). Recruiters often … Read more