Long gone are the days of a 30-year career with one company. The average person changes jobs 11-15 times during their lifetime and many of them simply hop from job to job without any real strategy or career management roadmap.
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Category: Niche Recruiting
Playing Games With Candidates Might Help You Hire
“Turn off that Atari and get to bed!” My mom would yell up at me as I sat in my room, staring blankly at the TV screen playing my video games. Like most kids do, I’d stomp my feet in
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I Filled a Job You Didn’t Even Know You Had.
OK, so you’re a hiring manager, and you’ve just arrived at the office, grabbed your coffee and opened up your email inbox. There–in boldfaced lettering–the subject line of my email screams “JOB PROPOSAL MEMO”. And you’re thinking…great. Another spam from
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Making Sense of the Recruiting Ecosystem: An Infographic
CRM, ATS, JADs…the dizzying array of acronyms in the HR products and services ecosystem is overwhelming, and with the addition of new and unique players who are cropping up every day, the delineation between who vendors are and what they
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I’m Not in the Mood: Measuring Employee Happiness
“Feelings….nothing more than feelings…” The song “Feelings”, written in 1974 and performed by many artists since that time, is running through my head as I pen this post. And now, with the addition of some new “human capital emotional monitoring tools”
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Who will win the war for Resume 2.0? Ten Visual Resume Tools Reviewed.
Before it was easy to build your own blog, before Facebook was hot, before the ability to tweet a message to the world…getting your skills and qualifications in the hands of the right people was much different than it is
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Facebook Graph Search: Don’t Get Caught with Your Pants Down
OK, so it has finally happened. We’ve talked about it for years, we’ve argued about it in the bar and in the board room: “Facebook will always be for my personal stuff and LinkedIn is always for my professional stuff.”
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Nexxt Announces Acquisition of Career Site JobCircle.com
Expands Its Social/Employment Platform in Mid-Atlantic Region with well-known brand Nexxt, today announced the acquisition of strategic assets of Human Capital Solutions, LLC (d/b/a JobCircle.com), through its subsidiary Career Management Solutions, LLC. JobCircle.com is a leading online job portal for
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Poor Communication Stands Between Veterans and Jobs
For too long veterans have been struggling to find work and it’s not because they lack the skills required to get the job done. There’s a disconnect between civilian skills and military training. The unemployment rate for veterans remains at
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