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10 Reasons to Use Video-Interviewing in 2012
10 Reasons to Embrace Video Interviewing in 2012 Video Interviewing, the process of interviewing job candidates live over the internet, or having them interview themselves with their webcam, is a solution gaining in popularity. For those of you who have … Continue reading
What percent of your employees are going to leave in 2012?
In 2010 nearly 900 high potential employees were interviewed. Twenty-percent said they planned to leave their employer in the next 12 months. Are one in five of your best performing employees ready to bolt? Could it be an even higher … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Retention, Interviewing, Recruiting, Uncategorized
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The One Chart Best Depicting the Great Recession’s Impact on Hiring
This chart, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is worth way more than a thousand words. It hints at the real impact of 8 million jobs lost. It shows the human toll of the unfettered greed and avarice in our … Continue reading
Posted in Candidate Screening, Recruiting
Tagged recruitment, screening, video interviewing
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Finding employees or Making employees?
“Find” your employee or “make” your employee? Nine percent of the country is unemployed, thousands of very talented candidates are looking for work, yet according to Manpower’s Talent Shortage survey, 52% of employers cannot find people to fill their “mission-critical” … Continue reading
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Tony Hsieh Builds The Perfect Working Environment
There is a great interview over at the Executive Street Blog with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com. Tony is an amazing guy and he really gets why building a corporate culture is so important to the success of a business. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Culture, Recruiting, Team Building
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Bad hire? Stop blaming HR!
I recently read a great article called, “10 Ways to fix a broken Corporate Recruiting System.” Point number six suggests that the person with responsibility over the hiring process should be the Hiring Manager not Human Resources. Each year companies … Continue reading
Telecommuting can cut costs, but not every employee is right for it!
Economic woes and increased stress on workers are a few reasons why many HR leaders are looking further into telecommuting. The offer of telecommuting is one more way to attract top candidates wishing to spend less time commuting and more … Continue reading
Posted in Behavioral Interviews, Candidate Screening, Job Fit, Recruiting
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Video can increase your odds of a good hire!
Hiring is a numbers game, and video can increase your odds of a good hire. Hiring is like sales. They’re both numbers games. The more prospects you can process, the higher your odds of achieving a favorable outcome. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Candidate Screening, Recruiting, Video, Virtual Interview
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How will you get that next job?
For many job seekers, searching for a job is a drag! You search the tiny black and white print of the Sunday paper or you hit the job boards and submit your resume along with 100 other people and hope … Continue reading
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Dating and Recruiting: How are they similar?
What is dating really other than the agreement of two people to begin the process of getting to know one another in an informal atmosphere to determine if interest enough exists to move forward in a relationship? What is recruiting … Continue reading
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