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Taking the Pulse of the Market with a DIY Recruiter News Page

Yesterday I mentioned that having a finger on the pulse of the economy can make sourcing and marketing your message easier to the hundreds of candidates looking for jobs. Many sourcers already know about the power of creating a personal search engine on Google, but one of the least known secrets to everybody else is that you can automate news gathering as well. By building your own news feed you can noodle around with the… Read More »Taking the Pulse of the Market with a DIY Recruiter News Page

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

Plastic Surgery for Recruiting Does Not Make It Better

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare It is an understatement to repeat the ongoing story line that there are drastic changes happening to the concept of recruitment. Anyone associated with the employment side of business knows that there are revolutionary new ideas being applied to the process. It is probably time to rename “recruiting” as “talent acquisition” or something more… Read More »Plastic Surgery for Recruiting Does Not Make It Better

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Bestowing Recruiterhood

This week has been a week of vacation time for many… including this writer. Damn that commitment to blog daily! Oh well, I can look over some of the more popular posts of the past, warm them up, and serve them as leftovers. Whether you consider recruiterhood as an art, a science, a business, or just a confusing thing that somebody else does, it is a profession that has intricate parts and all of these… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Bestowing Recruiterhood