When Colleagues Become Unfriendly Recruiting Competition
If you've been in the recruiting business for even just a year, chances are good that you've already seen some turnover among the recruiters in your office. Maybe it's a little, maybe it's a lot, but it's there. It can be a sad occasion with office friends moving on. Other times it can be a relief...the guy with the bad attitude is finally out the door. But either way, there's a...
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What Recruiters Can Do For You...And What They Can't
Recruiters find themselves in a complicated and often misunderstood role. Job seekers are attracted to their services and industry expertise - yet at the same time repelled by the seemingly fickle relationships, the possibility of failure and rejection, and worst of all - job opportunities that may never fully materialize. Before working with a recruiter, job seekers need to come to terms with...
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Gag Clause
What is a Gag Clause? A gag clause is often used as part of an employment contract as a way for an employer to protect special and/or proprietary corporate information, trade secrets, and confidential employee information. In legal use, a gag clause refers to the situation when individuals are ordered not to speak of certain information. Use of Gag Clauses Employment contracts will...
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Company Culture
Company Culture and Recruiting Company culture, also called organizational or corporate culture, is the sum of the business values, routines, work environment, management structure, branding, symbols and objectives of a company. Corporate culture can be easily summed up by the phrase "how we do things around here," and it can be a very important thing for recruiters to understand. The...
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Mass Email your Resume: Resume Distribution for Job Search
Give your job search a boost. Get your resume in the right hands. Send your resume to the largest network of recruiters on the planet today! SEE IT IN ACTION If you are looking for a new job, you are probably applying to a huge amount of jobs online and emailing your resume to any recruiter and employer that you can think up. Employment sites, job boards, niche sites, social...
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The Power of Project Simplicity
The Power of Simplicity As a project manager, you have to hold a million details in your head, tailor your approach to every new project and manage complex relationships between teams. Especially if you're managing many projects at once, your job may seem to encourage complexity. Sometimes we will also make things more complex in order to stay challenged, but it can be equally challenging to...
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Tips for Using Employment Agencies in Your Job Search
Whether it's your first or second career, employment agencies can be helpful to you in your job search. Career employment agencies tend have many job postings you may not find online or in the newspaper. An employment agency can act as a liaison between you and a prospective employer. Employers rely on employment agency recruiters to refer to them the best possible candidates. The agency...
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Flex Time
What is Flex Time? One of the newest trends in business today is the concept of flex time, and anyone who works in human resources or recruiting should be aware of how it affects companies and employees. Flex time (sometimes spelled flextime) is basically a way of working that values achieving set goals more than actual time put in at the office. Work time is flexible, and employees can come...
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Retention
Retention Strategies for Recruiters Employee retention strategies are the ways that companies try to keep their employees working with them in order to reduce turnover. While it may seem like recruiters only need to know about ways to get candidates hired at a company, being aware of retention strategies is very important. Recruiters should know and use the same kinds of strategies big...
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HCM Systems Market Expected to Grow Rapidly
MarketResearch.com - a leading provider of market intelligence products and services, has recently announced the addition of a new report entitled, "Global Human Capital Management Systems Market 2010-2014." The report, published by Technavio - experts in market research for emerging technologies, reveals that the global Human Capital Management (HCM) systems market is expected to grow at a...
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Applicant Tracking System TargetRecruit Unveils Host of New Features
TargetRecruit.net, known for their namesake applicant tracking system designed for staffing firms and internal corporate recruiting departments, has recently launched a series of new features for their ATS that aim to increase the speed and efficiency of recruitment professionals. Built on the widely popular Salesforce.com platform, TargetRecruit provides a combination CRM and ATS solution that...
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Kenexa Implements Employee Assessments for Global Aluminum Provider
Kenexa, a global provider of HR technology, content, and services, has recently been selected by Norsk Hydro, a Norway based Aluminum provider with with activities throughout the value chain, to implement a worldwide employee engagement assessment. Hydro has over 23,000 employees in more than 40 countries representing a wide range of processes - including aluminum products and systems, renewable...
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