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Yeah, like, you can have your dog or puppy tweet his daily activity. Seriously. Don’t believe it? Check out Puppy Tweets. It’s to be officially launched at next month’s Toy Fair in New York.
How it works is simple. It’s a device that is a small sound and motion sensor worn on a dog’s collar and [...]

Good recruiting intuition takes time to build up. But once you develop your recruiting sixth sense you will know the job hoppers, the excuse makers, the troublemakers and the bullspitters (yeah, I said spitters, trying to keep it pg-13 folks).
Remarkably, some Recruiters can simply read a resume and know instantly if the candidate is full [...]

Recruiters need certain things to survive like food, water, commissions and resumes.  Take a look at Shareflow, you might not be able to survive without it. This is a great tool for Recruiters that need to work on staffing projects.
Shareflow has been around before Google Wave and it uses technology in a way that allows [...]

How would you like to be a McVolunteer at 2012 Olympic games? You won’t get paid and you won’t get any free Olympic tickets, but you will get food vouchers. Mmmm Burgers!  McDonalds needs to recruit 70,000 volunteers and train them using their customer service training programs. I would really like to see how they [...]

If you are a Recruiter who uses Twitter then you have a lot to be excited these days. Companies are turning towards Social Media  to help cut costs. TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has partnered with TweetDeck to launch JobDeck.
JobDeck application indexes recruitment related tweets from across the Twittersphere, much like TwitJobSearch.
Recruiters can [...]

This video is awesome. I can’t tell you how many people that I work with that are NOT handwashers.

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Craigslists job postings are popular because they don’t price gouge recruiters, unlike newspapers did years ago. A job posting on Craigslist in certain cities it’s about $25. For smaller cities, job postings are free.
When I first got into recruiting, it was expensive to place a job ad in the local paper. Along come the job [...]

As an IT Recruiter, I’ve dealt with thousands of nerds. I’ve sourced them. I placed them. I pestered them. I kicked them. They punched me back. I’ve befriended them. Heck, I have even become one of them.
One thing I can say about every nerd I have ever recruited, they all despised recruiters. I say despised [...]

What were you playing in the early 80’s? Back then kids played Atari video games. There was checkers, monopoly, and for those that preferred outdoor playgrounds, it was the behemoth metal monkey bars.
There was also Dungeons and Dragons (D & D). It was a board game.
So the inner geek in me was totally excited [...]

Why complicate things. Simpler is almost always better. Some say video resumes are too much of a headache and just freaky to watch. Jobseekers have been emailing resumes for years. They are passed around and read under a few seconds. But here are three reasons to get excited about video resumes.
Run a search on Light [...]

The only area that has been in the positive for Wall Street has been the areas where they traded tax payer money. So, a lot of critics are calling for zero bonus payout to the fat cats on Wall Street?
Do you agree with this?
CNBC and critics FOR the pay out of bonuses argue for this:
Yet [...]

For all my Hockey loving Recruiters, this is something for you. It is the season for Hockey and if you eat at your desk, then just push this around to grab up all the crumbs. You can pretend the crumbs are like teeth and blood of your the visiting team.
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Remember “Once in a Lifetime” from the Talking Heads?
“You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife. And, you may ask yourself: How did I get here!”
What you should be asking yourself, “Why didn’t I do some scenario planning?”
Scenario planning is [...]

My buddy Paul over at Broke Ass College Grads will appreciate this one. Here you go Chicken Man.

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Guess what? You’re to blame for the weak hires over the last year. It’s so your fault! You have been here all year and with a zero candidate pipeline. Z-E-R-O!

Where is the recruiting strategy you promised? Why didn’t we hire any “Rock Star” candidates that were laid off? What happened to the process, the [...]

Forget that pathetic packet of coffee over in the break room and try some of my Recruiting Powder Protein. Just pour some of this into your water bottle every morning. Don’t be alarmed if some powder floats up enveloping you in a cloud of recruiting goodness. Take it in. Breath it out. Ahhhh.
As you take [...]

The Nerdy IT Manager tried to order a life sized iron cast of Han Solo. The purchasing department caught it. It was rejected. An uprising occurred. Corporate HR surge was sent in to quell the unrest. You were caught in the middle. Now the Nerdy IT manager hates HR; therefore he hates you, the [...]

Right, I know, I hear you: Applicant Tracking Systems have become a necessity for Recruiters. I’m here to tell you that day is coming to an end. All Applicant Tracking Systems must die!

Here is why, Sparky.

I foresee new laws that coerce companies, or a business to PURGE all their records from their ATS.

Why? Privacy concerns.

Let’s [...]

Less than a pound and around $200, this Smartbook will be the necessity for 2010.
It packs a 1.0-GHz i.MX515 CPU, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 4GB-64GB SSD, microSD expansion, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 3G WWAN connectivity, Bluetooth, and a 3.0-megapixel camera.
It won’t wipe your chin or pick your nose, but it will perfect for those Recruiters that like [...]

Friends, I’m thinking about all this social media and how it’s used in recruiting today. 2009 just sucked for recruiting. And, the only thing that kept Recruiters sane was social media.

Let’s focus on social media for a second here.

You are what you eat, right? Therefore, you are what you tweet. It’s true. A lot of [...]