Years ago, in those grim days after the .com bubble imploded, I worked with an insanely talented and dedicated head of engineering. One day the fire alarm in our building went off. While most people scurried to grab their phones
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A New Study from Nexxt Reveals How Job Seekers Will Search for Jobs in 2015
Nexxt, recently surveyed over 4,000 job seekers across the country to better understand who would be searching for jobs in 2015. Highlights from the Study Include: Who is searching for jobs What they plan to do to improve their searches
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Maybe You’re Living in a Fairy Tale, Because Candidates Like this Don’t Exist.
Stop searching for those purple squirrels and consider hiring these other fictional characters instead. After all, today is “Tell a Fairy Tale Day”.
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Want to Improve Your Applicant Pool? Then Improve Your Job Postings
Recruiting quality candidates all begins with a well written job posting. The purpose of a job posting in general is to attract the best applicants and deter those candidates that simply apply to EVERY job. HR pros that take the
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Stop Receiving Unqualified Resumes
With the Academy Awards approaching I’m trying to see as many nominated films as I can—so I recently saw “The Imitation Game”. If you’re not familiar with the (true) story, it takes place during WWII and it is the story
Continue reading3 Changes We Expect to See in The Job Market in 2015
Nexxt recently conducted a national survey of more than 4,000 job seekers and the findings are quite interesting, especially if you plan to grow your team in 2015. One thing’s for sure, get ready for a lot of confident applicants.
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Top 10 Best Places to Hire Candidates
Sure it’s easy to say that the best places to hire candidates are in large metropolitan areas, but that’s not actually the case. You can to go where the candidates are eager and are ready to for their next opportunity.
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Hire That Mustache!
Yes, it is Movember once again. That time when well-groomed, clean shaven males sprout Chevrons, Handlebars, and Fu Manchus. And when the typically hirsute take special care to shave their beards regularly, leaving only the region above the lip to
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Recruitment Marketing: We’re the Cool Kids Now.
The Recruitment technology ecosystem is changing, and it was more than evident based on the 286 interesting companies who displayed their wares at the recent HRTech event in Las Vegas earlier this month. Retargeting, Cost-Per-Applicant models, HR analytics…HR is catching
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Nexxt Launches SmartMatch Technology to Improve Job Search Experience
Nexxt (formerly Beyond), The Career Network, today announced the launch of a new technology designed to match job seekers to available positions using an algorithm that learns from user habits. Appropriately called “SmartMatch,” this behavioral technology evolves as a person
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