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Dawn of the Robot Recruiter

"A pretty mechanical toy"—Lord (Herbert) Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War, assessing the newly introduced World War I weapon, the tank "It seems to me that the Japanese society (government) is preferring the robot-option to others, since the government is not making major reforms to increase children and immigrants" —Shinji Yamashige, Associate Professor, Graduate...

Sweet Spot Suburbs

As a recruiter, part of the job is encouraging job candidates to relocate for a terrific job. Once the excitement of landing the job drifts away a bit, the question for the new employee becomes, "where am I going to live?" Recruiters may be noticing that more and more people are choosing to live in first-tier suburbs, close to the cities where they will work. Trends suggest that many workers...

No Progress in Helping Poor Families

"Back when I was a kid, winter was really winter . . ." These types of reminisces cloud adulthood. It's hard to tell how much of your memory you can trust. Sometimes, statistics help clarify the disparities. In the case of the economy, we all know that we are facing hard times, but how do current programs to help destitute families compare to twenty years ago? Have the programs become...

Wrong Turns on the Road to "Green" Cars

Do you represent any cutting-edge companies? Do you think that their popularity is sustainable, or will their innovations quickly be replaced with something better? As recruiters, you may want to investigate what experts are saying about the cutting-edge fields you help every day. You might find some surprising information that might cause a diminishing need for you to find new employees to...

Skimboarding Physics for Recruiters (Part II)

"There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch"— title of 1977 book by Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winning economist A handbook of "Skimboarding Physics for Recruiters" would be quite thick. It would have to include applications to recruiting of the key physics principles that make all of the following and other skimboarding orientations, techniques and maneuvers...

Recruiting Internationally? Think Local.

Recruiting in your own backyard is hard work; accessing a qualified candidate pool in another country can seem like insurmountable challenge. Try to use the approach below to recruit internationally as well as if you grew up in the town over. The largest companies in America developed comprehensive approaches to international recruitment over the past twenty years. Recruitment on a large scale...

Are You Engaged in Social Media Marketing and Online Self Promotion?

If you are currently unemployed or maybe just want to position yourself for a better opportunity while currently employed you should realize that "A large majority of companies are moving away from job boards and toward social media as their primary recruiting tool. It is estimated that 92% of companies who are actively hiring this year, will "currently use or plan to" use social networks...

Skimboarder Physics for Recruiters (Part I)

"L = mvr, where L is the angular momentum, m is the mass of the small object, v is the magnitude of its velocity, and r is the separation between the objects."—from a physics webinar, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville You don't need a Ph.D. in physics to be a good recruiter. But knowing something about the skimboarder physics of surfing over thin films of...

Consumers Face Changing Prices

Here's the good news... It's a good time to buy some curtain rods. A terrific time to quit smoking cigarettes. A lovely time to explore your neighborhood instead of going anywhere exotic. A fine time to join a tennis club and a decent time to buy some new underwear. Unfortunately, we all need to eat, and those prices are going up, alongside the price of gasoline and medical care. The...

Wisconsin Workers Rally for their Rights

What lessons can be learned from the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Wisconsin? Men and women are rallying to try stop a bill in which unions would lose their right to collective bargaining. Some of the workers spend their days helping children learn U.S. history and algebra. Others climb twenty sets of stairs to put out fires. Other demonstrators work nights in hospitals caring for...

Women Workers Push for More Flexibility

One way to think about improving the condition of every worker is to begin by improving the quality of the workday for traditionally oppressed groups. If life got better for these workers, the changes would trickle up to people with more access to hegemonic power. These week the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau hosted a conference on best flexibility practices for hourly-wage...

Prices of Both Imports and Exports Rise

Next time you meet someone from another country, and you are looking for common ground for a conversation, try kvetching about the price of imports. The price of imported products went up all over the world during the past fiscal year. Shopkeepers struggling to stay in business surely aren't the cause for these high prices. Most of the hikes in cost are attributed to the spiking costs of ...

Recruiting Software: Six Questions to Ask Vendors

Selecting a new recruiting software system for your company doesn't happen very often. Additionally, recruiting software can be expensive, difficult to implement, and (most egregiously) force a high learning curve on already time-strapped recruiters. When you do have the chance to change up your technology, it's important to do it right. It is easy to have your selection process mired in...

I'm Like...Not Getting the Job?

"Like, oh my God!..Like—totally.. Encino is like so bitchin' .. There's like the galleria.. And like all these like really great shoe stores.. I love going into like clothing stores and stuff... I like to buy the neatest mini-skirts and stuff ..Its like so bitchin' cuz like everybody's like super-super nice... Its like so bitchin'..."—Frank Zappa's song "Valley Girl",...

Hush-Hush Trade Agreements

As representatives of the U.S. government compete to gain voters' confidence that they are in favor of governmental transparency, it seems that the government does not think the public need to know the ins and outs of international trade agreements. Recruiters, whose business practices may be affected by these agreements, may want to know the details of these proposed agreements before they...

The 12 Commandments of Job Search

I was asked today after making a comment on salary negotiations, "How do you answer the money question?" I thought it funny at first as I reflected on the question and took a moment to think about the current state of the employment sector and a lot of talk that I have been hearing as of late. After taking time to sit and ponder, this is what I came up with in the big picture... First,...

Sizing Up Recruiter Commission Plans

The complexity of recruiter commission plans tends to rival both ontological arguments and mortgage refinancing documents. Recruiting commission plans even work their way into corporate talent acquisition, as there are often performance based bonuses and required metrics. Compounding the difficulty of compensating recruiters is that there is no agreed upon vernacular. Every recruiting agency,...

The Secret to Job References

When you're looking for a new job, most employers want to get job references from your current position. However, it is (obviously) almost impossible to get references from your current management. Obtaining professional references for a new job becomes a catch-22 that can complicate a job search. If you've been with your current employer for quite a long time, it makes it all the more...

OSHA Envisions a Country where Safety Creates Jobs

The buzz about the creation of new American jobs often involves "sacrifice." But in the hustle to better the economy, some law-makers and advocates are making sure that workers' safety is not sacrificed in order to quickly form new jobs. Naturally, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is among the most powerful voices urging that safety for workers be a top priority. Dr....

The Wisdom of Using the "3-Rule" in Recruiting

"Three on a match is bad luck"—infantryman's and sniper's wisdom "Three strikes and y'er out."—baseball rule "Under Islamic law, a man may repudiate his wife simply by saying 'I divorce thee' three times. Islamic religious scholars have now decreed that a text message is a valid way of ending a marriage."—Dubai news report, the Telegraph, June 27, 2001 "On...

Cold Weather Accounts for Mass Layoffs

When winter blew in this year, snow wasn't the only thing that fell. The country's employment figures suffered from the mass layoffs in the fourth quarter of 2010. Employers informed nearly 300,000 workers that they were out of work. Hopefully, many of these jobs will be revitalized in the near future, as many of these layoffs are attributed to the weather. Construction firms recorded 673...

Men's Wages Dwarf Women's Across All Areas of Labor

Although it's common knowledge that women continue to bring home paychecks much smaller than men, the details of this breakdown are lesser known to many of us. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released illuminating statistics about women's pay. The information portrays not only what professions women work in, but within those, how women are compared in comparison to males within the same...

Finding the Right Career

Are you ready to use your passions, skills, and knowledge to invest in finding your dream career? Are you ready to embark upon a journey of finding the right career for both you and your family? If so, you need to understand our changing world and how technology, the economy and finding a career has quickly changed. There are amazing tools that will allow you to peer into new fields and...

Best Careers for People with ADD

Finding the best careers that align with your unique strengths is essential for job satisfaction and central to the overall quality of your life. Likewise, leveraging your gifts, strengths, and skills to overcome perceived weaknesses is perhaps even more vital to achieving career success. Individuals with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) often do not realize the expansive range of career...

Career Skills for a Job Transition

Many people find that they will need to sharpen their career skills as they transition in to a new line of professional work. If you have been out of work for a while or feel that it is time to do something different, changing careers might be just what you need. While you might feel a sense of trepidation while making a career transition - especially if you have never been faced with...

Four Tips for Planning a Career

Great careers begin with a strong, well thought out plan. Contrary to popular belief, most people don't get ahead by luck or even by just working hard - a lot of success has to do with your initial career planning efforts and structure you envision for your professional career. Planning a career should be taken seriously. When you are first starting out your career plans should be clear....

Bad Recruiter? Five Career Alternatives

Recruiting is the most dynamic, creative, fast-paced, and exciting career on earth - for some. Recruiting is one of those professions that you have to love to do it well - if you're not committed, it's not worth doing at all. Everything we do on this site is to help recruiters make better decisions and progress their careers. But if you feel like you're a bad recruiter and just can't get...

Recruiter Lessons from Valentine's Day and Plato

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."—Warren Buffett "We are all special cases."—Albert Camus, Nobel Laureate "The only way to be special in this culture is to think you aren't."—M.Moffa "A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them."—H. L....

The Curious Case of the Cookie: Social Media and Popularity

"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit," warned William Penn, the noted colonist of Pennsylvania. Should modern markets heed Penn's advice? Recruiters have been among the quickest to tap into the potential of social media to transform the way business is conducted. Using social media, they have managed to transform hiring practices. Companies have been trying to...

Delta CEO Distributes its Profits among 80,000 Employees

Although chocolate is delicious, recognition is also pretty sweet. On Valentine's Day, 80,000 employees of Delta Air Lines received a rosy memo. It came from the CEO of the company, Richard Anderson. "Sharing our success every step of the way" was the subject of the memo. The message announced that Delta is going to pay out $313 million in profit sharing and is will continue to provide...

100 New Recruiting Jobs in California

Although based in Switzerland, the company Adecco Staffing US is now hiring in San Jose, California. Suffering from an unemployment rate above the national average, the creation of any new jobs is worth taking a moment to appreciate. Adecco Staffing US focuses on recruitment and workforce solutions. It continues to see numerous job opportunities for qualified human resources professionals...

Free Job Boards

The current economic situation has impacted not only the public but the business sector too. Finding cheaper methods to accomplish recruitment goals has become a necessity of doing business. Finding qualified candidates does not have to be an expensive process. Recruiters can now post open positions to free job boards like Craigslist and other major consumer sites and find the quality...

Interviewing with a Recruiter? Here's Some Advice

The current economic situation has caused loyal workers venture into the modern job pool. These workers have found that previous skills and qualifications no longer make them a lead in the recruiting field but just entry level possibilities. After months of search and only a few grueling interviews, now may be the time to consider giving staffing services a try. They employ recruiters which find...

U.S. Department of Labor Requests its 2012 Budget

How much money should the U.S. Department of Labor be allotted during such difficult economic times? On the one hand, budgets are tight. On the other hand, people need to be trained to contribute in new ways to the economy. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Labor requested what its budget look like in 2012. Recruitment firms may be interested to determine where their interests align with the...

Lessons from 23-Year-Olds

"Be cool-- stay in school!" is the familiar saying; however, one might co-opt the expression to something a little more tangible: "Be Employed-- Stay in School." The image of the employed may not be as alluring as the image of all things cool, but it does drive home the message that people who finish higher degrees are more likely to be successful in the job market. The Bureau of Labor...

Week of Global Action Demands Respect for Mexican Workers

As recruiters know, improving one's work can mean many things. It might mean hiring the best people to work with. It might mean arriving to work well-rested. It might mean taking a class on the newest software program that everyone seems to be talking about. Improving one's work might also mean trading in job safety for the potential to gain better working conditions. This Monday has...

Working with Recruiters

Working with recruiters is the next best thing to working with hiring managers. Recruitment professionals know their clients and they pride themselves on knowing their recruits in the hopes of making the right connections. In order to make this happen there are a few things you need to know: TELL THEM EVERYTHING: When building a relationship with a recruiter this is no time to be shy....

The Opportunity Cost of Being a Recruiter

"13-1071: Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialists...198,190...$54,530"—U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics data: sector code/job category/number of workers/average annual income, May 2009. If you are what the U.S. Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics categorizes in its 2009 occupational survey as a "recruitment specialist", an "employment...

Linkedin Updates: The New Recruiter Magazine?

We all know that Linkedin is a great sourcing tool for recruiters. However, with the new Linkedin Updates feature, you can now think of Linkedin as customized recruiter magazine. Custom Business News It is imperative for recruiters to know everything that is going on in their area of recruitment. For example, if you recruit around the NYC metro for accountants, you had better know...

The "Human Resources" Misconception

"People are like fractions—the more you multiply them, the smaller they get."—M. Moffa, freshman-year college journal "We'd love to have you for lunch."—cannibal credo To anyone hearing the phrase "human resources" for the first time, it must sound like the ambiguous cannibal credo, "We'd love to have you for lunch." The latter ambiguity was rivetingly...

Unflinching Figures for Labor Turnover

"Nothing endures but change," wrote Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher. When perusing the statistics for job openings and labor turnover the past month, it's easy to think that there is no change. It is up to a creative analyst to try to understand where flux is occurring within this seemingly predictable stagnancy of the U.S. economy. Recruiters may wish to approach the figures from the Bureau...

Burdened but Generous: Younger Members of the Workforce

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth," said Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But one need not be the world's wisest wizard to value the importance of young people's convictions and efforts. To know what young people about the economy is easy enough. If you ask any of them looking for a job, he or she is sure to give you an earful about the...

Kentucky Receives Federal Grant

Daniel Boone called Kentucky "a second paradise." But even in paradise, sometimes you need a job. Nearly a thousand workers have recently been laid off in Kentucky when 21 companies closed shop. The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it will try to assist these workers with a large federal grant of $4,883,709. "Layoffs are traumatic events, but the Department of Labor can help ...

Career Degrees – Why to Get Them

Career degrees can sometimes make the difference between getting that job promotion or career advancement opportunity, or losing out to someone else who does have a specific career degree. Especially during tough economic times and rising unemployment, the job market becomes highly competitive and those with career degrees often receive preferential consideration over those who have not chosen to...

Choosing a Career Path

When it comes to choosing a career, everyone wants to be sure they have chosen the right path. So how can you be sure that you have chosen the right career path for yourself? While the answer to that may not be that you can be one hundred percent certain you will be happy with your chosen career for your entire working life, there are ways to ensure that you start out on a path that is right for...

How To Not Lose Your Job Because Of Facebook

Facebook is a great social networking platform for connecting with friends and family. However, as a professional, you have to be careful what you post to Facebook. Many employers are using social media outlets like Facebook to check on employees. Facebook can be one of your biggest assets, but also one of your biggest downfalls in the professional realm. Many believe that the only time to be...

Work Stoppages in 2010

Where do recruiters' loyalties lie? When there are strikes and lockouts, do they feel compassion for the workers, the bosses, neither, or both? You can decide for yourself as you react to the newest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They have announced that in 2010, there were 11 major strikes and lockouts involving 1,000 or more workers and lasting at least one shift, the...

The Resume Graphics You Think You Don't Like

"Sugar and spice, and everything lice"—miscopied ditty Spice, or lice?—Graphics added to resumes seem to be, according to a kind of Net (net) consensus among recruiter and resume sites I've reviewed, more like lice than spice. Although more visibly obvious than lice, the typical graphics add-ons make many a recruiter's skin crawl as they crawl across the monitor screen. In...