Posts Tagged with "Recruiting Industry"

Types of Recruiters: Corporate vs Agency

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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A post over at JibberJobber got me thinking about how agency recruiters and corporate recruiters often have a different view of the world and, for a job-seeker, knowing the ropes here can make a world of difference in the success (or failure) of your career search. Corporate Recruiters Corporate Recruiters generally get paid a salary [...]

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Re: Gen Y — ‘The Kids Are Alright’

Thursday, December 27, 2007

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Thanks to Shannon Seery Gude for twittering about a great read on Gen Y (aka “Millenials” or “iGen”) being really just the same as all other generations. Stephen Lynch writing at the NY Post got fed up with everyone complaining about the entitlement and know-it-all-ness of the globe’s next generation of leaders, movers and shakers, [...]

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Monday Munchies — Dec 10, 2007

Monday, December 10, 2007

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Monday Munchies — Five interesting reads gleaned from the web last week: Recruiting Cheat Sheet Your Corporate Website is Boring Applicants 25% of all Canadians are on Facebook Get more done by turning your daily work into ‘Crankable Widgets’ How Gen X-ers and Millenials perform Job Searches — Interesting Differences! Related Posts:Types of Recruiters: Corporate [...]

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Calendar: Personal Branding Summit – Free Nov. 8 2007

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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Got a phone? Get registered for an incredible Personal Branding teleconference happening Thursday (two days from when I am writing this) and includes an incredible lineup of speakers from all over the world. This conference is FREE, but you must register, and then get on the phone during the section you want to learn. From [...]

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LinkedIN: Im Gonna Have to Block You

Thursday, August 30, 2007

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Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health. Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected.  I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the [...]

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What Must I Change?

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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This is an intentionally OPEN question, and I am seeking brutally-honest feedback. I am reading Ram Charan’s Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t, and I admit it’s got me thinking.  … really thinking. Just getting into it now, but I am deeply curious about exactly what’s going on [...]

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Oops. We don’t know you as well as we wish we did

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

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Hm. Part of me wants to laugh, another wants to cry. Google’s recruiting department is in the middle of a bloggosphere mud-slinging fest thanks to some less-than particular attention they paid to Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist, Jeff Barr. Today, he notes how the company seeking to organize the worlds information is actually a little disorganized [...]

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If Colleges Blog To Recruit, Why Don’t You?

Friday, May 18, 2007

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I don’t think Steven Rothburg is bitter: Virtually all employment-related blogging is coming out of the offices of job boards and third party recruiters. With very few exceptions, virtually no corporate recruiters are blogging. That’s a real shame as those same corporations are crying the blues about how hard it is to recruit the best [...]

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Dot Com Hiring Frenzy Back?

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

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Thanks to CM Russell of RecruitingFly for pointing me to this USA Today article about the dot com recruiting craziness: “I remember the ’90s hiring boom, and I thought that was the peak. I would say this time hiring is even more aggressive,” says Barbara Massa, recruiting services director at EMC, an information management and [...]

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Technical Recruiting Dictionary

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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I’m always explaining the nomenclature of technical recruiting. It’s not necessarily a well-formed language, but it does have various constructs that are helpful to understand. To make it a little simpler, I’ve gathered some definitions and placed them in a group here on the website called Glossary of Recruiting Terms. Current definitions I have made [...]

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