JobSpeek Answers Call for Mobile Recruiting
The JobSpeek App has an innovative solution for posting jobs on the go. If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad 2, you can download the JobSpeek mobile recruiting app for free and start posting jobs with pictures and audio to all the major job search engines. "Recruiters can now create a compelling job ad that differentiates their company and syndicates the job in one click", JobSpeek...
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Job Titles
Job titles are bogus. There, we've said it. What is a "Senior Software Engineer" anyway? It tells you nothing. If you're a candidate, you can't tell anything from that job title. As a recruiter, you can't count on the title to tell you anything. If job descriptions were "real," it might be better. But they aren't. Job descriptions are usually collected from stock job posts from HR or...
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Referrals
The Power of Referrals Recruiters often look to their talent pools, on the Internet and within their business networks for candidates to fill a position, but referrals can also be a powerful tool in the recruiter's arsenal. An employee referral is an industry term for when a current employee supplies a candidate to a recruiter from their own network. If they are serious about their careers,...
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Improving Trade to Spur the Economy
The U.S. trade deficit is one (of many) economic bogeymen that economists and politicians point to when explaining our slow economic recovery. On Tuesday U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, on behalf of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), released to Congress the 2011 National Export Strategy: Powering the National Export Initiative (NEI), as a way to deal with the trade imbalance....
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TIGER Grant Program – More Job Creation from the Dept. of Tranportation
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced yesterday that $527 million will be available for a third round of the highly successful TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) competitive grant program, which funds innovative transportation projects that will create jobs and have a significant impact on the nation, a region or a metropolitan area. "Through the...
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Recruiter Jobs
For people that like a fast-paced career, a job in recruiting can be a good career path because you are constantly on the move, learning from companies about the positions they need to fill, searching out the perfect candidates for the position and seeing your candidates through the hiring process. Recruiting can also be incredibly rewarding, as your candidate's success becomes your...
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Employment Marketing
What is Employment Marketing? The recruiting industry used to be considered just another aspect of human resources management, but things are beginning to change. Businesses and recruiters alike are beginning to recognize that recruiting has a lot in common with marketing and sales. Employment marketing is one of the newest buzzwords in the industry that captures this connection. For many...
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Qualities of the Best Recruiters
The best recruiters possess an uncanny ability to match people with careers. It's an intangible quality, and one that is hard to pinpoint. Recruiters are the human resources professionals responsible for getting the word out about great job opportunities and getting qualified candidates to fill these positions. There are many different types of recruiters out there, from those who work as part...
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Best Practices in Recruiting
Best practices refer to the leading thinking in any industry. It's a bit of a corporate buzzword - consultants typically charge lots of money to "bring a company up to speed" with the "best practices" of their industry. Recruiting is no different - best practices refer to the often simple wisdom derived by practice. However, if you are leading a recruitment department or company, it is a good...
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Lackluster Maternity Care
Although people have been fighting for a long time for better rights for working mothers, maternity care is still limited for many insured workers. New statistics from 2009 suggest that the situation can be pretty bleak even for insured women trying to bring another person into the world. Two-thirds of participants in both fee-for-service health care plans and health maintenance...
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Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For
Chicago is the next city to announce its companies most beloved by workers. The National Association for Business Resources (NABR) has announced "Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For." Winners will be honored at a symposium and awards luncheon on Mon., Aug. 1, 2011 at the Chicago Oak Brook Marriott. What makes people value the company that they work for? The NABR...
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Pesticides and Language Barriers
In your line of work, how many languages are spoken on a daily basis? What measures are being taken to make sure that everyone can fully participate in all aspects of work? Some modifications might seem unnecessary, but others seem entirely commonsensical. Public Citizen is looking into what materials should always be in multiple languages. This consumer advocacy group is urging the...
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