Talent HQ

by @jjbuss. Calling all job seekers and recruiters! #JobHuntChat started on twitter 2 months ago, and is quickly growing.  You can experience the chat every Monday night at 10 pm EST. I had the opportunity to attend and contribute last night, and would highly recommend this venue.  5 questions were tweeted, follow-up questions were submitted [...]

Online job listings plunge October job listings nationally fell 20% to their lowest level since January 2006, according to Monster Worldwide Inc.’s Employment Index; listings in New York fell 25%. Join the discussion on RecruitingBlogs.com If your Job Boards disappeared tomorrow, how would you get your candidates? Monster now trading (MWW) on the New York [...]

8 Ways Twitter Will Change Your Life People are using the microblogging service that allows posts of 140 characters or less for bigger, more important tasks; here’s how it’s evolving. Standout Jobs Announces General Availability of its Recruitment Communication Platform Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today [...]

Employers Lurking Online We know employers and recruiters use social networking sites to vet job candidates and even see what current employees are up to. Now we have a better insight into how they’re using that information, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since 2006, there has been a 17 [...]

Company diversity hiring practices lack depth. Your company’s website might boast, among other things, the variety of its employees, and the atmosphere of community that pervades. But public relations angles aside, just how committed to achieving a diverse workforce is your organization? Many companies’ current efforts are deceptive in their effectiveness. The underlying problem with [...]

Companies Keep Spending on HR Technology Despite the global slowdown, large companies continue to invest in human resource (HR) technology systems. Although HR executives have mixed views on the effectiveness of certain technologies, particularly for talent management, technology investment overall remains a clear focus for organizations in 2008. JWT INSIDE Recognized with Ten WebAwards JWT [...]

Hiring Decisions Miss the Mark 50% of the Time First of Its Kind Study Reveals Experiential-Based Selection Techniques Improve Recruiting Outcomes Organizations or their new hires regret their hiring decisions 50% of the time, costing the average organization millions in the way of lower performance, less engaged new hires, and higher turnover. The Recruiting Roundtable, [...]

Job Hunting Is, and Isn’t, What It Used to Be When I think back to my job-hunting days, my methods seem as quaint as comparing a Victrola to an iPod. Prescott Perez-Fox, a graphic designer from Brooklyn, says he knows he faces a great deal of competition when he searches online job sites. First, there [...]

Despite Financial Meltdown, Financial Firms Urged to Continue Campus Recruiting In the wake of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, campus recruiting is probably the last thing on the minds of executives at financial services companies. But shelving such recruiting activities might put these firms at a severe disadvantage when markets pick up again, consultants warn. Companies recommit [...]

Diversity Recruiting – Efforts to recruit a more diverse array of jobs at Harvard are good, but not excellent. Although the Wall Street crisis might have job-seekers in a panic, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) is countering the downturn with a new philosophy and a new interim director, Robin Mount. Many graduating seniors are [...]

50 Ways to Take your Blog to the Next Level Blogging is as varied in its applications as using the telephone or taking a picture. The tool doesn’t predict the output. You might be using your blog to post recipes, or to inform the local community about information you find elsewhere on the web. Maybe [...]

Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don’t Use Social Media Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word “twitter?” Are you trying to reach [...]