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What Job Seekers Really Want – An In Depth Analysis

After talking about what makes recruiters successful, one point stands out above all the others: they must have a sixth sense about communicating with job seekers. This intuition does not come naturally. It can be acquired quickly, but it almost always gets sharper after dealing with many types of jobs and candidates. The first step is to listen. The question, “What are you looking for?” will almost never get the whole answer. In fact, many… Read More »What Job Seekers Really Want – An In Depth Analysis

Taking the Pulse of the Market is the Recruiting Start Point

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We all know that the economy has been turbulent over the last few years. It has touched many people personally. Listening to the market and watching the data is a major element in planning recruitment. March of 2013 was a benchmark in time when government cutbacks impacted the reporting of mass layoffs by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Eliminating the Mass Layoff Statistics program that provides information that identifies, describes, and tracks the effects… Read More »Taking the Pulse of the Market is the Recruiting Start Point

Separation Surgery for Recruiting Calls For Study before Scalpel

A few months ago I watched the story on NBC News of a brilliant team of surgeons in Peru separating conjoined twins. Operations of this type can result in losing the life of one or both of the twins when there are shared organs involved. This operation was successful because they were able to actually split their shared liver and both survived. If we consider a living business process like talent acquisition to be composed… Read More »Separation Surgery for Recruiting Calls For Study before Scalpel

How To Make Your Resume Fit and the Tailor It Swiftly Methods

All of this talk about resumes, how to write them, how to use them, and how to fix them is dangerously close to creating an expectation in the eyes of some job seekers that if you only could just find that right format and style that the Fairy Godjobber will wand you and POOF you have a job. Think again, Cinderella! Real life doesn’t work that way. There are two key FACTS that every job… Read More »How To Make Your Resume Fit and the Tailor It Swiftly Methods

How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way

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First of all, there is no standard format for a resume. If you paid for a book of 1001 resume samples you may find one that you can clone to produce a halfway decent looking document, but remember that you and a few thousand other people own that book. If plagiarizing someone else’s resume is the best that you can do, then you may expect to be lumped with the other copycats in the discard… Read More »How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way