The recruiting roadshow “Las Vegas” is over but its influence is certainly nowhere close to being over.  I was not disappointed in what I experienced.  Let me give you a rundown. First we saw an engaging presentation by Doug Geinzer from www.recruitingneveda.com about the recruiting landscape and what it meant for Las Vegas.  Listening to him and looking at […]

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I am so thrilled to be here in Vegas. The MGM Grand Las Vegas is so huge and beautiful. Even at this late hour there are so many people around and you just can’t but feel the excitement in the air. It is quarter to one in the morning and can’t still sleep. I am […]

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I found an interesting article thru Recruiting.com posted by a blog called JobMob the article was titled Did Scott Adams get David Steward fired?about a man who got fired from a casino for posting a dilbert cartoon on a company bulletin board.
What struck me was the length to which Scott Adams the author of the Dilbert comic […]

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Every so often I hear a request for a degree and wonder why? Why is the degree necessary?
We don’t have to have a degree to be a professional engineer, one can be a P.E with experience; in fact some states you don’t even have to be educated to be a lawyer, so why do we […]

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1 Sales Recruiter *and* 1 Researcher/Sourcer

A well-funded startup business services company based in Evanston is looking for a “rockstar” recruiting team to join the organization. This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly-growing startup, led by a three-time CEO. The Sales Recruiter will recruit “A-Player” sales representatives on behalf of our […]

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Anyone that knows me, knows that I love sourcing, linkedIN and my IPhone. I phone this cool article About how linkedIN just went mobile. It just made me drool.
I just thought some of you might appreciate this as much as I.
Tags: recruiting, LinkedIN, IPhone, sourcing technology.

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A few days ago in an article titled “The recruiting Treadmill” I made fun of the reasoning that companies need to get fit. Colin Kingsbury COO from HRM Direct, in an article titled Getting on the recruiting treadmill says that in fact there is a recruiting treadmill. He calls it “competition”. After thinking a while […]

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This article was courtesy of Y.L. Catino; as John Sumser put it a well reasoned blogger to watch.
 
I came across this article called “Microsoft’s Canadian Move a Swipe at Stiff U.S. Visa Policies” last Friday and was just a tad piqued. The last time I checked on H1b visas, their purpose is to seek “temporary […]

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Only some of my closest friends knew up until now but I have been straining to lose weight and have not been succeeding, but than last night I weight myself and came out celebrating and making a fool of myself, I had finally broke the plateau and lost two new lbs.
 When my 15 year old son […]

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Author Website: http://www.boston-technical-recruiter.com
In an IT service company the most important business function is that of sales. You can have the best ideas in the world, the best personnel, and the brightest management but if your sales team falls down the entire operation will fall down.
Having an effective sales strategy as well as the right person […]

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 The art of “Magic” is enjoying a vogue, driven by a number of highly successful performers such as David Copperfield, Lance Burton, “Penn and Teller”, “Derren Brown”, Barry and Stuart, Criss Angel, Dave “Bulldoza” Mendoza and many other stage and TV performers.
Wait a minute why is Dave’s name included in that lot? Have you ever […]

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Every morning I start my day on my laptop, in front of my TV, watching one of the GMA/Today/Early Morning shows, kinda droning in and out, whilst I click away at the keyboard.
I perked up though when they announced that Tyra Banks was doing a piece on names – the stereotypes and judgments that people […]

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Over the years thru the many webinars and one-on-one trainings and what have you. There is always somebody who would ask me “how did you do that?” And it inevitably they reffered to a keyboard shortcut I used.  And in a conversation today, the talk happen to go to this same issue and I thought may be I should show you […]

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Recruitment is changing, especially as it relates to sourcing. It is still amazing to me that there are still many out there who think that a sourcer is a junior recruiter or that sourcing is an entry point into recruitment. But the truth of the matter is that sourcing is a highly specialized field. I […]

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Over the weekend I was reading an article from Y.L. Catino. It was a well thought out piece on the “alleged labor shortage“. There was a sentence in the article that caught my attention.  It is as follows: “Until employers take hold of their talent management programs, which of course includes recruiting, they will never be able […]

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