Archive for 2009

CollegeRecruiter.com - June 17, 2008: Keep Your Resume Under Cover

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

“The first thing I learned when I started going over the responses I received to my query about resumes is that there is a consensus of what is acceptable and what isn’t. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but don’t count on finding one of them during your job search. If you [...]

Tina Hamilton on Front Page of Yahoo!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Here are some secret tricks that real recruiters and hiring managers use to weed out candidates:

They inspect your car.

Tina Hamilton, of hireVision Group, knows a corporate president who would find out which car belonged to the candidate he was interviewing. “The receptionist … would then go outside and look in the candidate’s car to see how neat and clean the car was, if there were food wrappers … how well maintained the car was,” says Hamilton. “The owner considered this a definition of the candidate’s character.”

AUGUST SEMINAR EVENT

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

INTERVIEWING SUCCESSFULLY IN 2009

A Modern & Progressive  Interviewing Process
CHOOSE YOUR DATE Aug. 3 or Aug. 19, 2009
8:30 AM- Noon
1275 Glenlivet Drive; Suite 100
Allentown, PA 18106
$135.00 per person - Continental Breakfast Included

Presenter:  TINA HAMILTON, PHR, President and Founder of hireVision
The learner is taken from identifying the need to strategic interviewing and finally making the right hire.  This workshop [...]

Yahoo! HotJobs: The Most Dreaded Interview Question

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

“What’s your biggest weakness?”
If your resume is good enough to get you an interview, you probably won’t escape this question. Hiring managers inevitably ask it, and job candidates invariably loathe it.

Some uninformed job seekers, however, do a complete face plant in response, giving answers like these real-life ones supplied by top hiring professionals:

HRGuru.com - Jan. 15, 2009: Where is the “Human” in Human Resources?

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Tina Hamilton, founder & CEO of hireVision (an HR and hiring management firm) and a colleague of mine, asked the question, “Does the ‘human’ in Human Resources still exist?”
She’s worried about “the emotional element of HR. The empathetic approach to dealing with employees as living people versus machines that we control and maneuver to produce [...]

MSN.Careerbuilder.com - October 2008: When You’re the Youngest Person on the Team

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Find your place
Part of establishing your role on a team comes with understanding what you can learn from others and what you can offer them.
“While it is important to be knowledgeable, it is more important to understand your status,” advises Tina Hamilton, president and CEO of hireVision Group, a human resources firm. If you show [...]

MSN.Careerbuilder.com - October 2008: Finding a Job When You Don’t Know What You Want to Do

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Tina Hamilton, president and CEO of HR company hireVision Group, offers some tips for job seekers still trying to find their direction.
· Look for jobs that align with your education.
While you don’t want to limit yourself too much during the job hunt, don’t apply for a job as an investment banker if you’re about to complete [...]

NY Daily News - Oct 7, 2008: Ask the Interviewer a Tough Question - Or Three

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Hamilton contributes to this NY Daily News Article about the importance of interviewing the interviewer http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/10/07/2008-10-07_ask_the_interviewer_a_tough_question__or.html?page=1

MSN. CareerBuilder.com - July 1, 2008: Is Job Hopping the New Norm?

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The new reality
Job hopping isn’t necessarily a self-serving tool of “Generation Me.” It’s necessary for survival in the current job market.  “The fast moving pace of this century does not embrace staying still, and this includes staying still in one job,” says Tina Hamilton, founder of human resources company HireVision Group…read more http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1576-Job-Search-Is-Job-Hopping-the-New-Norm/?sc_extcmp=JS_1576_advice&SiteId=cbmsn41576

Eastern PA Business Journal - Responding to evolving client needs drives hireVision to new heights

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

“Really, our clients have changed the way we’re responding to the economic issues that they’re experiencing,” says Tina I. Hamilton, PHR and President of hireVision Group Inc., in Whitehall.
During an economic recession, hireVision says that a company’s organization and efficiency become even more critical. The current news surrounding companies’ human resource (HR) departments has served [...]