Recruitment Tips, Employer Trends, and Hiring Insights from CareerBuilder

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HELP WANTED: 9 Things to Avoid with Job Postings

In concluding this series of tips and tricks to make the most of your job postings, I thought I’d run through some things you might want to avoid. Not to end on a negative note, and some of these may seem rather elementary, but one can never be too careful, because we’re talking about the process of attracting your next employee. Continue reading

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When Creating Your 2009 Recruitment Plan, Think Broad

Like most business professionals in Q4, I’m in the throes of finalizing my Marketing budget for 2009. The trick in figuring out how to spend the money I do have is creating the right marketing mix. Some things are easy – we should continue and increase programs that make us money. Continue reading

By in Employment Branding, Talent Acquisition

In the Elevator with Too Much Fragrance

While leaving the office yesterday, I entered the empty elevator on my way to the ground floor and parking lot.  Suddenly, one floor away from my destination, the brass doors parted and a woman entered who was wearing enough perfume for about 18 people. Continue reading

By in Retention

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

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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

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

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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

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IT’S A WRAP: October in Review

Post-season baseball, football in full gear, entertaining politics, creative costumes, lots of candy and cooler weather—what’s not to love about this past October (other than losing half of your retirement)? Aside from the “Trick or Treat?” you asked last Friday, this past month had its share of many other questions:

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia… You did what??? Continue reading

By in Economy, Employee Engagement, In Review, Insights & Trends, Interviewing, Monthly Review, Retention, Talent Acquisition

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5 Tips on Job Posting Basics & Getting Better Candidates

Wallpaper peeler, sleep clinic yawn counter, turkey wrangler and parachute tester … are these the best Halloween costumes of 2008? Actually, they are excerpts from a very interesting list of the most unusual jobs current employees admitted to once having which Amy spotlighted earlier this month. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Products, Job Postings

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