Ten Video Interview Technology Companies
Put on your game face. If you haven't already started some kind of video interviewing practice in your recruiting department, chances are you will soon. Hopefully, your game face doesn't look like our friend to the right. Some "trends" are more like guesses or even science fiction. Agency recruiters never went away, the same ol' job boards still have all of the job search traffic, and...
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How IT Recruiting Firm AVID Utilizes Social Recruitment Technology
AVID Technical Resources - a leading Information Technology contract and direct hire recruiting firm, recently announced their support and use of Jobmagic, a comprehensive social recruitment platform. AVID will be using Jobmagic as its go-to resource for posting jobs and attracting talent. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, AVID specializes in staffing for applications development and...
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Global Tech Firm Moves into Talent Management Software
The big boys are coming to talent technology. Infosys, the $6 billion dollar global provider of technology, consulting and outsourcing services, recently unveiled their latest offering - TalentEdge, a new talent management software platform. The cloud-based solution promises to addresses the entire hire-to-retire HR life-cycle and is aimed at reducing operational costs and...
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Choosing a Recruiter: How to tell the Good from the Bad
Recruiters often get a bad rap. 9 out of 10 times you hear a friend or family member recounting some grisly horror story about how recruiters are all heartless monsters - chasing after commissions and kicking innocent candidates aside on a whim. Most likely, the storyteller was one of the hapless candidates once upon a time. But let's be honest here. There are a lot of bad recruiters out...
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Who are the Largest Outplacement and Recruiting Firms?
Right Management - a division of ManpowerGroup, was recently ranked the largest outplacement firm in the United Sates, based on new report and rankings by Staffing Industry Analysts. Using 2010 revenues, Staffing Industry Experts estimated Right Management's market share of U.S. outplacement revenues to be at 37 percent, with Lee Hecht Harrison at 16 percent and Drake Beam Morin coming in third...
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Executive Search Software Vendor Crosses Client Milestone
Dillistone, one of the leading providers of executive search software and recruitment technology, recently announced the 50th order of their latest offering, FileFinder 10. Released March of this year, Filefinder 10 is the latest generation of Dillistone's executive search recruiting software. The FileFinder software is made by Dillistone Group Plc, which is one of the few "pure play" publicly...
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Beating Job Search Depression
As anyone will tell you, looking for a job feels like a full-time job. It's easy to get depressed after an unsuccessful day of job searching because it feels like all your effort has gone unnoticed. There may not be any tangible results for you to appreciate. You might start to question whether you've been wasting your time. Before you know it, your fruitless days of searching have turned into...
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Take Pride in What You Do
On Recruiter.com, we'll often discuss all of the fun positives of working as a professional recruiter. We talk about the flexibility, fast-pace and great opportunity. We joke about the off-time, the compensation and the competition. A lot of other times we discuss the negatives...the difficult clients, kooky candidates and all around frustrations of recruiting. But there's something that...
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LinkedIn Sees Significant Second Quarter Growth
LinkedIn, the social media giant that brings business professionals together, recently announced their second quarter financial results ended June 30, 2011. Revenue for the second quarter was at $121.0 million, an overall increase of 120% compared to $54.9 million posted for the second quarter of 2010. Net income for the second quarter rose to $4.5 million, compared to $4.3 million for the...
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HR Software Provider OCI Sees Increased Demand for Leave Management
Options Choices, Inc (OCI) - a provider of data integration and software services that focus on HR, employee benefits, risk management, and IT programs - recently announced their growing client base for their LeaveXpert platform. Launched in 2010, LeaveXpert delivers a total leave and absence management solution for Human Resources departments. "Over the past several years, OCI...
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Good News on Unemployment while Dow Drops Almost 500
Today (8/8/2011) has been a terrible day for stocks; the Dow is down almost 500 points as of 2:22 EST. Are we headed into another financial disaster or recession? With all the doom and gloom, it's good to hear some good news on the hiring front, even if it is a modest improvement. The unemployment rate dipped slightly in July to 9.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in a recent...
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ATS Vendor Newton Software Improves Recruitment Workflow
Newton Software - a provider of SaaS based applicant tracking systems, recently announced the launch of their new and improved job requisition approval manager. The new feature allows streamlined functionality in the creation and implementation of online job requisition approvals. Recruitment workflow and process engineering that includes automated job requisition approval is typically...
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