If English is not your first language chances are that you are active on more than one professional network such as LinkedIn. Services like Viadeo, Xing and others are then probably part of your social media strategy.

The hard news is that since the rise of LinkedIn-Today these platforms are clearly struggling to find a model with which to compete. Their biggest challenge is to make their users coming back and engage.

LinkedIn has not only understood and perfected the art of…

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A coworker of mine absolutely detests the phrase, "Recruiting is a lot like dating." She says it's cliche and trite; and she is right. The problem, though, with cliches and all things trite, is that they are true. 

Why is bears repeating that Recruiting is a lot like Dating:

1. There is the obvious "courting" that occurs in both dating and recruiting, with recruiters often serving the role of "Match Maker" between candidates and companies
2. Dating and…

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What’s wrong with recruitment…and how to fix it!

This could potentially be a VERY long post because I’m talking about an industry that has many inherent flaws. In my opinion, many of the problems we see stem from some fundamental issues…

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Agency and corporate recruiters have always had this love/hate relationship. It’s a sibling rivalry of sorts – in some cases each thinks the other doesn’t know what they’re doing. After 10+ years on the agency side, I have a great deal of admiration and respect for those that do it well. I also have a newfound respect for my corporate brothers and sisters as I enter my 7^th month on the dark side. I still maintain that recruiters shouldn't be allowed to go internal until they've…

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As the first and oldest staffing agency in Columbus, we have dubbed ourselves the “match makers” of Columbus between businesses and job seekers.  With our main focus being to get our candidates work and to keep our clients happy, we are constantly thinking of other ways to make our company stand out. 

 

For a job seeker, our process includes an interview, background check, drug screen, video resume, computer testing and a recruiter available for every question and need - This…

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NOVEMBER 2011 BY ROB33TALENT

I often get asked by the slightly less experienced and slightly more nervous recruiters I meet (online or offline), how we can compete with corporate…

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When you decide that it’s time to look for a job, what steps do you take?  Do you go onto job boards, start searching and submit your resume?   Do you ask around to your friends and family to see if they know someone hiring in your field?

How about using a Staffing Agency? There are many rumors that surround using Staffing as a means to get a job.  I am here to help settle those rumors.…

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Not all recruiters or recruitment agencies are vultures...or vampires for that matter.  When they cold call--they simply want to help in the recruitment challenges an employer faces.

If they appear to be stalking you as a candidate, or as an employer rep--they are simply trying to get access to interested parties, preferably decision makers--and they are 100% dedicated to a mutual benefit.

Yes, there are some bad apples; some…

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Like most sequels, this is not as good as the original, but I hope this is a better sequel than Revenge of the Nerds II.  Please read #4 first if you are pressed for time.

 

1. Cold Calls on Voicemail. Keep the pitch short. Find out the delete # in my system and say "Don't hit the 9 key! My friend Julie is a top notch SharePoint developer and asked me contact you about yesterday's posting. I'm Julie Carr with Blobert Blaf Blechnology (or any company that just…

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After a great discussion with a colleague Rebecca B. Sargeant (RBS-Staffing), this blog entry hit me. So thanks Rebecca for nudging my blog-ism today!

Let me set-up a picture for you, one that if you are a recruiter you are likely very experienced in such situations.…

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After working years for an employment agency I realized that there is no personal connections between the client and agency. It just seemed to me that many times a client will give the agency a list of the qualities they need in a new worker and an agency just sorts through their file and pretty much "picks a name out of the hat" sort of say. Seeing many failures and no communication and personal connections I was not satisfied and decided to start an Agency of my own.



I have this… Continue

A DoD Agency, The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is the World Leader in Geospatial Intelligence.



NGA is accepting online applications for our November 2009 Invitational Hiring Event. If you are interested in performing exciting work that makes a difference everyday, then consider a career with NGA. We will be interviewing for a variety of entry to mid level opportunities. Apply by September 4 to be considered. For more details and to apply, please see the Hiring Event… Continue

Since my business is focused on the Client Side of permanent placement recruiting, I thought it would be valuable to share what we're experiencing on this end on a regular basis. So here goes...



The last half of December is typically very slow and this year it was the same as it has been in the past, thankfully. To the contrary, the September - October - November period was not even close to anything we had seen in the past. During that period the level of fear that clients… Continue

Internal corporate recruiters have a number of advantages.



They can interact with the managers.

They understand the corporate culture.

They are more up to date on changing requirements and priorities.

They know who was recently hired.

They have access to the company database of candidates.

They can use the company accounts for job boards.

They can place ads on the company website.

They can review the incoming resumes.



So with all this… Continue

About the Company:



Agency Assist, Inc. is a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) company dedicated to providing staffing agencies with outsourced recruiting solutions. Agency Assist combines its recruiting resources with "best of breed" tools, a collaborative approach and a proven methodology resulting in a highly cost effective solution. By leveraging the global workforce, Agency Assist delivers the quality and accountability for the demand by reducing the overall recruiting costs… Continue