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The Candidate Experience – Part 3: Transition to Employee

(On vacation this week. This article edited and reposted from May 21, 2012) No, you didn’t miss the two preceding parts of this series. They will come later. It appears that most of the discussion whirling around us is about improving the candidate experience during the recruiting and interviewing phase. I contend that Part 2 is important, but there is also a before and after picture that needs to be considered as well. The experience… Read More »The Candidate Experience – Part 3: Transition to Employee

About Feng Shui and Your Underwear Drawer

(On vacation this week. This article edited and reposted from October 17, 2011) For those who don’t know, Feng Sui is an ancient Chinese art and science that deals with the balance of energies in any given space. Good feng shui contributes to good health. In modern times the practice that has evolved has less to do with orienting the life force, or Ch’i, but more of a table of rules that prescribe colors, shapes,… Read More »About Feng Shui and Your Underwear Drawer

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

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

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