Posts Tagged ‘job seekers’

Hiring Managers: Bad Buzz Travels PDQ on the WWW—Mind Your Ps & Qs!

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

If you are in the middle of the very stressful hiring process, don’t forget that how you treat candidates reflects on your company’s reputation.

Keeping Up With the Hiring Trends: Fashionably Hip Edition

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Riding out the economic downturn has not been easy. People and businesses (even the many famous and successful ones) have cut back on their spending, learning to prioritize and make due with what they have until things looked up again. That said, is your company using the latest, best hiring techniques to locate and attract the best talent from the current sea of applicants looking for work?

(What? This is a human resources blog. What did you expect? Kardashian updates?)

Is Facebook an Employment Crystal Ball?

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

A recent article posted on line by the Wall Street Journal suggests that your Facebook profile might be very telling to potential employers about your future job performance. The article reports on a new study from Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University where a professor and two students were presented with [...]

Not Sure How to Use Social Media to Mine for Talent? Have No Fear. NetSourcing Is Here!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

So you think social media is nice and all, but it’s not really a big deal in the competitive world of recruiting? Maybe you should think again.

The Three P’s of a Successful Hiring Persona

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

There’s a lot of advice out there for applicants and job seekers on how to present yourself during the hiring process. In this post, we’d like to take a moment to talk about how employers and their hiring staff ought to come across. Sure, you are offering a new career opportunity for the lucky applicant who gets your offer. But, if you want to reel in a prize catch, it would help to lure them in with your best behavior during the hiring process.

A Poor Pre-Hire Process Promotes Problems (Try Saying That 10 Times Fast!)

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Everybody agrees the company needs to fill that position ASAP. Everybody agrees that hiring the right person is critical. Nobody questions the job description or salary and benefits package or even the timetable for hiring a new employee. Great! You are all set for hiring success. Let’s go to lunch.

Or not.

Never Underestimate the Power of Good Background Screening

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Yeah, yeah. We know. Conducting proper background screenings is expensive and most companies these days needed that new hire yesterday. Does that make it OK to bag the screening process when a candidate looks, you know, pretty legit? Or maybe do a “light” background screening? In a word: No! Any bad hire is costly to [...]

Bummed Out by Benefits

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Health insurance coverage today is a big bummer. A new USA Today/Gallup poll tracking 13 specific job aspects indicates that, when compared to how they felt before the global economic collapse in 2008, American workers today are most unhappy about their health insurance, followed by their chances for promotion and on-the-job stress. The poll results [...]

Small Businesses Benefit From Applicant Tracking Systems Too!

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Securing a great hire is a huge victory for any company. Nobody is going to deny that. That’s why successful companies of all sizes spend so much time, effort and money in acquiring their talent.  Unfortunately, sometimes financial limitations can prevent good organizations from using valuable resources that exist to help with this task. Point [...]

Hiring and the Double-Edged Sword of Social Media

Monday, March 7th, 2011

By now most of us are aware of the influence social networking sites have had on the hiring process. We’ve heard the stories about what sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook have done to help or hinder candidates in the job application process. Some of those stories are doozies, too. But that’s not the [...]