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Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Clutter and Candidates

I am sending my apologies for another week of reposts, but this has been an exciting week personally for me. An interesting thing about reposting is that as time passes I find that I prefer to edit as I go. These have new graphics and a good deal of wordsmithing as well. Starting the week with one of the most popular of my older blogs, I talk about how clutter can affect the HR process… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Clutter and Candidates

What Job Seekers Really Want – More and Better

An article in Forbes a few months ago reported the BLS statistics on people quitting their jobs. In what the author called an epidemic there are 2 million voluntary terminations in the US every month. More people quit their jobs in March of 2013 than were laid off. The turnover rate of 1.69% per month over the past decade is relatively constant, but the actual number of “quits” is continuing to grow in spite of… Read More »What Job Seekers Really Want – More and Better

What Job Seekers Really Want – Location, Location, Location

Proximity to the place of employment has always been a key decision factor in accepting an offer of employment. In simpler times this usually meant going to work in a relatively nearby company with a family-like environment. Even branch offices of large corporations were cozier because the lines of communication were too long to exercise long distance command and control. Does this sound like ancient history? According to the World Bank the latest wave of… Read More »What Job Seekers Really Want – Location, Location, Location

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

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Recruiting Analogies

[youtube MULMbqQ9LJ8 210 175] “Dammit Jim… I’m a recruiter, not a doctor!” Well, that never stopped me from drawing medical analogies into the world of recruiting. This week’s thread was an attempt at making a point by using familiar terms to give them perspective. Starting the week was an article on plastic surgery to change the name of recruiting to something else… a phenomenon I have seen with no substantive difference in the function. Reorganization… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Recruiting Analogies