Jan 17 2008
- Recruitment Tools from Cybersleuthing to High Tech Solutions
The Recruiters Lounge » How NOT to Post Your Resume on Craigslist
I was searching through the resumes posted on Craigslist today to find candidates for a sales position we have available. I found some pretty pathetic attempts from job seekers looking for jobs, so I thought I’d share in the hopes that you won’t make the same mistakes these people are making, just in the headlines alone!
Some of the top resume mistakes are covered in my free report and in my book.
Bad headline #1: “Seeking Work”
Similar bad headlines: “Looking for employment / career”, “Seeking immediate employment”, “seeking a job”, and any number of variations.
Key mistake made: Stating …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Where are the Recruiter jobs?
I get phonecalls (a lot of calls and tweets, but mostly emails) from Recruiters looking for opportunities. As everyone knows, its not too pretty out there. Well, I wanted to give an assist where I can so I decided to do a bit of research. This is by NO MEANS a scientific survey, just a bit of a glance at the Recruiting job market. All my data comes from one of my favorite websites – Indeed.com. (Maybe after reading this post you will see why.)
The first thing I wanted to do was confirm the obvious, so I did a search …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Understanding Cultural Dynamics and Cross-Cultural Communication
Introduction
We each belong to an entire collection of cultures, which includes, national cultures, subcultures (based on regions, tribes etc), organizational or corporate cultures, industry cultures, professional or functional cultures. For that reason, culture can be defined as a shared system of values, beliefs, and attitudes. It affects our own actions and the way we distinguish the actions of others. Culture is not a product of a single individual’s personality, nor does it usually change significantly from one generation to the next.
Various descriptions have been used to portray the process of understanding various layers of culture:
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The Recruiters Lounge » How to find a job overseas with Google
If you are open to expanding your job search to other countries, I highly suggest that you take advantage of Google’s translation services; even if you are fluent in another language. Why? Well, if you are an employer in say… Mexico. You might post your jobs in English, but more often than not they will be posted in the dominant language of your country – Spanish. That being the case, logic dictates that there will be jobs posted in spanish that are not neccessarily posted in English. Make sense?
To search for jobs posted in Spanish (or any other language for that …
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The Recruiters Lounge » How important is your professionalism?
How important is your professionalism? If a customer is rude to you, how much do you allow before severing client relations? Consider the video below, how would you have handled situation?
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The Recruiters Lounge » Social Networking jobs are steadily rising
According to Indeed.com, jobs featuring the term “social networking” have been steadily climbing for some time now. Below is a job trends graph showing the percentage of jobs posted in their system containing the term “social networking.”
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The Recruiters Lounge » Social Media and the Employment Disconnect
Lately I’ve noticed an interesting trend when it comes to social media and the employment process. Everyone in the hiring world seems to have something they need, be it a job seeker looking for a job or a hiring pro looking to fill a position, and from both sides, I keep hearing that there is no one out there to fulfill these needs. Somehow there aren’t enough jobs, and yet when there are jobs, there aren’t people to fill them.
How can that be?
I spend a lot of time on the main social media sites. I joined as a career …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Is your co-worker a co-stalker?
What are the signs that your co-worker has turned co-stalker? Check out this funny bit of advice from “Cube News 1!”
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The Recruiters Lounge » Improving Employee Retention Before and After Downsizing
by: Amy Nutt
In a down economy organizations sometimes forget that retaining employees is an important issue. When organizations go through the difficult process of downsizing it’s natural to overlook the need to develop retention programs meant to keep the remaining people happy and productive.
Shouldn’t the employees who survived a downsizing be thankful their jobs were saved? Perhaps, but employees who see their friends and colleagues let go will be fearful and disconcerted. They will wonder if the company is still the best place for them to pursue their careers. Given a chance to go someplace they think is more …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Solid Suggestions From a Human Resources Director
What The Interviewer Expects:
The following transcript is from our “Effective Interview Techniques” (CD-2) and offers insightful observations by a Director of Human Resources for a major international company. Her outlook from “the other side of the desk” helps job seekers plan and prepare for their interviews. Here’s what she has to say:
“Often, the biggest challenge is the ability to sell yourself. You must demonstrate on personal and professional levels why you’re the best person for the job.
“Those candidates who do not invest the necessary time to prepare for the interview are most likely to …
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The Recruiters Lounge » POEA Accredited Agencies – The Licensing Process For Recruitment Agencies in the Philippines
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency or POEA is the government arm in the Philippines that accredits would be private overseas employment agencies.
The POEA is tasked with weeding out the many “phony” recruitment agencies” that take advantage of Filipinos seeking greener pastures abroad. Illegal recruitment is rife in places where there is an outflow of migrant workers, so the POEA has its hands full staving off and catching these heartless pretenders here in the Philippines
Many “recruitment agencies” operate without a license and/or pose as migration experts, leading people to believe that they have a license to furnish jobs abroad when …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Hey Jobseekers! This is (another) reason to use Linkedin
If you do not have a profile on Linkedin, I strongly suggest that you create one now. Why? Did you know that when someone does a search on your name on Yahoo, your Linkedin profile appears in the search results? Check out what happens when I do a (vanity) search on my name.
(By the way, you also want to create a Google profile as well.) The advantages to this (I would hope) are obvious:
It makes it easier for Recruiters, Hiring Manager, et cetera to find your professional information when they are doing a background search. (No matter … [Link]
The Recruiters Lounge » The Six Biggest Applicant Lies!
Although statistics vary widely, there is widespread agreement that a substantial number of resumes belong in the “fiction” section of the bookstore. The rate of fraud can be as high as 40% and higher according to different sources. Applicants certainly have the right to put their best foot forward, and puffing their qualifications is an American tradition. But when puffing crosses the line into fabrication, an employer needs to be concerned. When you hire an applicant who uses lies and fabrication to get hired, the issue is that the same type of dishonesty will continue once they have the …
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The Recruiters Lounge » PODCAST: How To Outsource Your Job Search
How to Outsource Your Job Search
In episode #127, Jim Stroud flies solo in this episode of The Recruiters Lounge as he talks to Jay Martin of JobSerf. In a nutshell, fill out a form and JobSerf will research jobs that fit your background and (if you like) will apply to those jobs on your behalf, then send you a report once its all done. How cool is that? Oh! How much stress would that take off of you? Tune in to hear the success stories! (wow)
Be sure to follow Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen on Twitter. …
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The Recruiters Lounge » A Big List of UK Job Sites
Agency Seeker Ltd – Search vacancies by keyword, industry sector, location, salary and contract type. Features CV registration and email job alerts. All Executive Jobs – Find jobs from agencies and employers by level, sector and salary. Features candidate registration and new vacancy updates via email. British Jobs – Jobs classified by sector and location. Includes a section with links and local information. Caravan Jobfinder UK – Searchable database of jobs on caravan parks. Careerjet – By Sector and job type search engine. Links through to relevant website. Careers – Jobs Ltd – Search for jobs from a number of … [Link]
The Recruiters Lounge » Job-Hunting While Pregnant
It’s happening all over: A woman is laid off while she’s pregnant and finds herself job-hunting as her due date approaches. Another woman’s organization tanks, and she finds herself out of work just as she realizes that that she’s expecting. A third finds her consulting business too slow to sustain her financially, so she starts a job search during her second trimester.
The important thing to know about pursuing a job search during pregnancy is that it can be done. While your pregnancy is a factor in your job search — and more of a factor if your due date is …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Doostang Connects Elite Young Professionals With In-Demand Jobs
I had the good fortune of chatting it up with a pal of mine – Chuck Taylor, CEO of Doostang. Among other things, I had to know what was up with that name! These are the highlights of our talk.
Chuck! Wazzzup?!
Wazzzup!
So tell me, what is Doostang?
Doostang is an exclusive talent network that connects the most talented young professionals with the most prestigious jobs.
What does the word Doostang mean? Why did you pick that name for the company? (I gotta know)
Doostang is derived from Latin …
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The Recruiters Lounge » PODCAST- Alexandra Levit discusses Millennials in the Workplace
ATTENTION: RECRUITERS – How to Recruit with YouTube. Click here to download the video.
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Millennials in the Workplace
In episode #126, Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen discuss free speech and Millennials in the workplace with nationally recognized business and workplace author and speaker – Alexandra Levit.
Be sure to follow Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen on Twitter. (Length: 42:21)
INSIDE THIS PODCAST
01:35 – Check out her website – Alexandralevit.com 02:45 – If I take away their right to say it, I take away my right to hate it 05:26 – The goal is to retain …
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The Recruiters Lounge » 100 Useful Job Search Tools for Recent College Grads
Graduating from college can be a great experience. It can also be a scary one, as leaving the comforts of a college campus and community for the real world can be a big shock. Part of that transition is finding a job that will utilize your new skills and hopefully start you on a successful career path. Here are 100 places where you can look to find a little help in getting the job you want.
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These sites offer jobs in a wide range of fields. No matter what you’re looking for you should be able to find something …
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The Recruiters Lounge » Facts About Age Discrimination
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age. The ADEA’s protections apply to both employees and job applicants. Under the ADEA, it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his/her age with respect to any term, condition, or privilege of employment, including hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments, and training. The ADEA permits employers to favor older workers based on age even when doing so adversely affects a younger worker who is 40 or older.
It is also unlawful to …
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