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Monthly Archives: November 2008

5 Tricks for Making Job Posting Magic

With your job posting, you’ve got the basics down, and your job description is top-notch—selling the position, your company, and providing the right information to ensure only qualified candidates will apply. But is it getting enough expressions of interest (EOI)? Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Products, Job Postings

Every Day Should Be Veterans Day at the Office

Today is Veterans Day. Yesterday, CareerBuilder.com released the results from its annual Veterans Day survey, wherein nearly one in five U.S. Veterans say it took them six months or longer to find a job after getting out of military service. 

Considering all the reasons to hire veterans, including their extensive training and work ethic,  this news is disappointing.  But then, about 20 percent of the 6,842 U.S. Continue reading

By in Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Making Social Networking Part of Your Recruiting Mix

Most of the marketing conferences I attend these days are heavily focused on social and/or professional networks. These online communities are places where you can do any number of things from share pictures and reminisce about college days to “meet” and interview potential employees. Continue reading

By in Generational Hiring, Social Media, Talent Acquisition, Technology

Taking Innovation into Consideration: Why These 5 Companies are “Most Admirable”

I recently re-read Fortune‘s list of this year’s Most Admired Companies, and I noticed how much the idea of “innovation” was mentioned.  Because I also happened to have diversity on the brain, it occurred to me how closely diversity and innovation are combined.   After all, what is innovation if not the result of divergent thinking and untapped ideas?  But on top of that, it’s also about cultivating a culture that encourages new ideas, learning, skill development,  career advancement, etc. 

With all of this in mind, I looked at Fortune‘s separate list of the Most Admirable Companies for managing talent to see what they’re doing right with regards to these elements, and how the combination invariably leads to continued success. Continue reading

By in Building a Best Place to Work, Employee Engagement, Retention

How Recommendations Change Our Lives

I just finished a book titled Super Crunchers, written by Ian Ayres. The theory of the book is that large-dataset analysis is fast becoming the way to make decisions in a variety of fields, from Web analysis to purchasing to criminal justice. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Products, Innovation, Talent Acquisition, Technology

Quirky Interview Questions: Why and When to Ask Them (Plus a Few of our Own)

We’ve covered a few different interviewing topics here recently, such as styles, the most effective questions, and ways not to conduct an interview. Today, I’d like to cover something that’s stirred up a lot of debate regarding the process of interviewing: asking bizarre, off-the-wall questions. Continue reading

By in Interviewing

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HELP WANTED: 5 Tips for Spicing Up your Job Descriptions

The most important part of a job posting is the job description. It can also be the most difficult to create. In my last Hiring Site entry regarding job postings, we discussed the basic elements of your help wanted invitation. But because what you say in your job description carries so much significance in relation to the kinds of candidates your posting will attract, it seemed appropriate to drill down that topic a little further. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Products, Job Postings

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The Best Place to Work – Where Is It?

Does a great place to work seem more like a fictional concept rather than a reality? There are several companies we’ve seen on TV and in movies that we wish existed so we could submit resumes to them–the kinds of places where work is fun and exciting, rising through the ranks is easy, efforts are rewarding both in significance and compensation, and no one ever seems to get in before nine or work past five. Continue reading

By in Building a Best Place to Work

Hiring Lessons from the 2008 Presidential Election

In honor of Ben&Jerry’s Free Scoop on Election Day, bestselling author Seth Godin wrote a great post analyzing the 2008 election campaigns and what they teach us about marketing and staying competitive today.  I thought it worth sharing because he’s awesome hiring managers can get just as much value from his “lessons” as marketing professionals.  You can read Seth’s complete post here, but below are my favorite takeaways:

Stories really matter. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition

How Many of Your Workers Plan to Vote in Tomorrow’s Election? CareerBuilder.com Survey Results

How many of your employees are voting in the presidential election tomorrow (or have already, thanks to early voting)? How many are voting for the first time?

This presidential race has been the most exciting in my life thus far, and some are saying it very well may be the most important election of many of our lifetimes. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Survey Results

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