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It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you are made aware of an article that you just know will become a new and critical tool in your search best practices toolbox (thank you, now forgotten LinkedIn contact who first made me aware of this gem). That is exactly what I thought when I read [...] Why is it that candidates ALWAYS seem to get a review, raise, additional responsibilities right before your client is about to make them an offer? Alright, it doesn’t ALWAYS happen. As recruiters we tend to exaggerate just a bit, but it happened again this week to not one, but to two recruiters I know and have great [...] In his excellent recent article The Future of Recruiting: The More Things Change…, Glenn Cathey, aka BooleanBlackBlt wrote: “The Information Era of recruiting enables recruiters with solid e-sourcing skills to no longer be limited solely to candidates with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. These recruiters can find and attract the best candidates, regardless [...] Yesterday Bill Vick posted an article titled “Traditional RESUMES Are Worthless” on EmploymentDigest.net. My first reaction to the title of the post was, well, I have heard this before, and despite trying to use resumes that were not “traditional” with my candidates and clients, the resistance to that change has and continues to be most surprising to [...] In a Conference Board Report released today: http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressPrinterFriendly.cfm?press_ID=3820, (also see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34691428/ns/business-careers/) researchers have found that employee satisfaction is at the lowest point since they began measuring this in 1987. Employee satisfaction in 1987 was 61%. In the most recent survey it was only 45%. Surprisingly, the authors do NOT believe that this lowest ever employee satisfaction measure is just a [...] |
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Jeff Skrentny CERS, Jefferson Group Consulting, AskJeff@JeffersonInc.com, 773.463.1362 |
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