Recruiting.com

Over the past months I have been very vocal (and critical) about how I believe many in the recruiting profession have become lazy. So much talk about “The War for Talent” but I have witnessed most

Let me start with this, HOO RAY!!! Another company gets it!!!

These past months a trickle of companies have started implementing ways to further engage and enhance communication among employees and internal business groups. A trickle is of course a start but I do wonder how long until a small but steady stream is running.

Employee selection is an important activity of HRM. For the small business owner or especially those who are starting-up, getting the right employees to join your venture is imperative. Your employees may break or make your business. The very word selection implies the choice of the one best-qualified individual from among a number of available qualified candidates. Hence, there should be a relatively large number of job applicants from which the final candidates are chosen. Click the title to read more of the article.

As a follow-up to my first and second post on the Spring Kennedy Information Recruiting Conference last month, I mentioned I would be taking a look back to the first national staffing and recruiting conference I attended almost 10 years ago to see what’s new and what’s not.

Below is a press release I just received from my friends at Arbita. Surely this will make some noise in the Recruiter and HR industry.

Way to go Don and Shally!!!

May 21st 2005 I started this little adventure of mine. Does that make it a birthday, because it was created or an anniversary because it is more like a relationship?

I am going to go with anniversary...

This Tuesday, May 20th 2008, I will be presenting for the second time at the StarTribune Career Expo. Here is the information on my presentation:

40+ Recruiters and HR professionals attended the Minnesota Recruiters April 28th event with Jason Alba of JibberJobber.com hosted by JobDig. Post has information on the event with a few pictures and short video.

220+ Minnesota Recruiter and HR professionals will be at Best Buy May 9th, 2008. The event is sponsored by JobDig Tracker, Oberon, and Jobs2Web with ongoing group support from Arbita.

I'm hosting a webinar on using Facebook to recruit candidates. It will be a live walkthrough of a real job search, and covers, sourcing, interviewing, and referral generation. -

Students who graduate from today's universities, business schools and MBA programs have worked long and hard to develop themselves as the ideal candidates for progressive careers in business and technology. University curriculum in this market requires not only courses in strategic financial management and integrated business and marketing communications, but also seminars in career and personal development such as resume building, interview skills, and the construction of an individual career strategy. Business technology in the 21st century demands that job applicants prepare for the webcam interview as a component of their career training. Click the title to read more of the article.

Not to toot our own horn, well, maybe a little, but our revenues were up during the first quarter of 2008. Our revenues increased by 22.4 percent in the first quarter in 2008 as compared to the same period a year earlier.

Those engaged in college and university recruiting recognize that as winter transitions into spring, another transition is also taking place. But rather than being driven by rising temperatures, the other transition is driven by the type of recruiting effort.

Minnesota Recruiters and JobDig are pleased to host an event with Jason Alba of JibberJobber.com.

Topic: Social Tools and Technologies for Recruiters.

Jesse Stay, an in-demand IT guy, rants about getting an impersonal e-mail from a recruiter (I got the same one). Is it time to get more personal, and try and develop relationships with individuals?

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Bill Vick and talking about one of shared passions: how recruiters can and should use social networking sites. Well, Bill was in Dallas and I was in Mi

Here are my ideas from my side of the desk as a career coach:

1. The person the coach is working with doesn’t do the necessary work on him/herself to find a reasonable job goal.
2. The coachee lies.
3. The coach also lies. Click the title to read more of the article.

Today: 'Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com'

Anyone who has been around the online water cooler -- the community blogs where a caravan of recruiters come to gargle and spit -- will know that Jason Davis [aka Slouch] and John Sumser never you leave you dry.

My views on the Recruiting.com Domain Name for what it's worth

Why is it that saying yes—even when it means changing our entire schedule, canceling other plans or doing something totally unpleasant—feels so much easier than just saying no? For me, saying yes was also a lifelong habit. I often said yes because I didn’t know how to say no. But over the past year I learned how, and the benefits have been amazing. Saying no to things you don’t want to do creates more room in your life for the things you do want. Plus, it is a major stress reducer. Click the title to read more of the article.

On this April Fool's Day to some in the Minneapolis area is the not so funny 5-8 inches of snow that fell yesterday. I instead embrace it and introduce to you "Short Timer", the Minnesota Snow Man. I

To celebrate hitting 15,000 Linkedin connections, 1,000 new contacts in 2 weeks, - I want everyone to benefit. Visit SixDegreesfromDave.com today to add contacts from thought leaders,
recruiters I admire, and people who above all give back to the industry.

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I'll probably get a parking ticket the next time that I'm at the campus as a result of writing about this, but then so will my MN Headhunter buddy. News from our alma mater is that the University of M