The Hire Talent

APRIL 14, 2021

Fletcher Wimbush talks with Shaun Martin, author of " Hack Your Hiring: The Tactical Playbook to Find, Evaluate, and Hire A+ Talent" on how to attract and find the best talent using the right job ad. He is a career software engineer and became a software engineering director and executive, and leading software development teams.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

And this is especially true when it comes to hiring tech talent. According to Monster.com contributor Mack Gelber, 65% of tech leaders say that hiring challenges are hurting the industry. According to Monster.com contributor Mack Gelber, 65% of tech leaders say that hiring challenges are hurting the industry.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I enjoy helping them – and the companies hiring them – succeed. But for all my experience and years grinding it out in this business, there’s still one mystery that I just don’t get: why so many hiring managers are such big jerks. Hiring Managers: Recruitment Friend or Foe?

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Google Hire Is Out. Sadly, you can cross Google Hire off your list of recruiting tools. Google Hire is a job board-style site similar to Indeed and CareerBuilder. Indeed, a job board used by jobseekers and TA professionals, is dominating the hiring market. Expert Advice on Automation.

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

MARCH 25, 2020

Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork and member of the World Economic Forum council, puts the half-life of a learned skill at about 5 years —meaning 5 years from now, the current skill set of your workforce will be worth about half as much as it is today. Ten years from now, perhaps a quarter of existing knowledge will still be valuable.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

It’s inevitable, when you’re a recruiter in general, but one who happens to write about recruiting in particular, that you’re going to get hammered with a ton of asks for advice covering a myriad of topics ranging from the most mundane to the unusually esoteric (and everything in between).

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The mechanisms of hiring really haven’t changed all that much over the course of history – of course, entrapment and enslavement had a much higher acceptance rate than most modern comp and benefits plans, but with way worse employee engagement and satisfaction. ” – Ecclesiastes 1:9. And so it goes in recruiting, too.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 17, 2015

When I was just beginning my recruiting career, I was lucky to encounter some great trainers early on who inexorably impacted my talent acquisition mindset and methodology. My trainers charged me to read a veritable library of literature, a litany of books on business, on communication, on sales and on personal growth. ” True, that.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Consider these job seeker tips from a post entitled “ 12 Tricks for Completing An Online Application ,” one of a litany of articles with advice that, from a recruiter’s perspective, seems a bit specious – after all, if your online application process requires “tricks” to work, then you’re pretty obviously screwed.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

When you’re first starting out, the magnitude of every decision, positive or negative, is magnified, which is why, in my mind, I learned more in my relatively brief tenure in search than I probably have in my extensive in-house career. And every one of us has at least one or two real doozies, as my grandmother used to call them.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are a million potential sources of hire out there , and it’s never a good idea to neglect any of the proliferating platforms out there where your next great hire may be hanging out. “Only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted. You hear me? … A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing.

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Others pass random swag, from edibles no one actually eats to tchotchkes no one actually uses. And, still others throw some iteration of a holiday party for employees, ranging from modest break-room potluck to black tie soirees at swanky venues (although ultimately, most employees would probably just as soon take the cash, frankly).

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 20, 2015

And have no idea where to even look to better “know the space” that I’ve been floating in for most of my career. I mean, how hard is it to close someone on something that everyone needs? Recruiters, on the other hand, obsess over this simple stuff. I don’t know the space. What Am I Missing?

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

But the thing is, I’m a recruiter, too – and I’m angry. I take pride in my job, have a passion for this line of work and dedication to being the best possible resource for my clients and candidates. We’ve all been there. No One Knows It All. The pricetag was pretty steep: $500.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

So why is it that so many companies make up so many excuses to preempt or prevent hiring top talent that truly lives up to its moniker, or becoming the employer of choice that the best and the brightest choose as a career destination? Jobsworths, largely, would rather make excuses than make these sorts of hires.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 6, 2019

From hackathons to automated evaluation tools, semantic analysis to personality tests, social hiring to web scraping, recruiting is being reinvented and how. Research shows that context-dependent skills and passion for the job will continue to drive hiring more than ever. How are recruiters using LinkedIn for hiring developers?

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 6, 2019

From hackathons to automated evaluation tools, semantic analysis to personality tests, social hiring to web scraping, recruiting is being reinvented and how. Research shows that context-dependent skills and passion for the job will continue to drive hiring more than ever. How are recruiters using LinkedIn for hiring developers?

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 19, 2015

But in recruiting and HR, those who can’t become consultants (which is easier to get into than the University of Phoenix) do something far more insidious: they become resume writers or career coaches. Career Coaches & Common Sense. Want interviewing advice? Stop answering questions and start talking shop, or you’re screwed.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The one with the client, or the hiring manager, or some douchebag on your team (or so you had thought) who, after a little shop talk mixed with strategy, finishes the meeting by muttering that one godforsaken maxim destined to send any sourcing ship smashing into the path of pure peril. ” Oh, great. ” The Legend Begins.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If you’re like most recruiters, you already know that top talent can’t be bought; the best candidates aren’t just chasing a paycheck when they’re considering career destinations. While you may still have great results from these events, you can’t ever measure the costs of a missed opportunity.

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Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

At this point in my career, I’ve pretty much seen it all , or so I had thought, until a couple of weeks ago. At this point in my career, I’ve pretty much seen it all , or so I had thought, until a couple of weeks ago. Frankly, I’m still a little bit pissed off (and amazed) at what went down. Meet Jimmy.

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As the pandemic abates, the office landscape will become more complicated for women with caregiving responsibilities as they are stretched thin and look for support and flexibility from their employers. A record number of women have left the workforce since the pandemic began. Source: Studio Romantic / shutterstock.

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

JANUARY 21, 2019

Scour Google for top ranking blogs surrounding careers and recruitment. Do you think e-mail marketing is dead? When trying to source the best candidates for a role, recruiters sometimes forget that a well-planned content strategy can make their job a lot easier for them. Infographics. White Papers. Think again.

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 18, 2016

Back in the day, we had to say what we thought without the veil of a 6 second timer before it disappears or the protection of saying what you think from behind a computer screen. I’m frequently contacted by friends, relatives, acquaintances and former colleagues seeking advice on assorted work related or job search issues.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 19, 2015

The launch of Elevated Careers (still in beta) promises to use eHarmony’s proven algorithm to match employers with potential new hires based on stuff like skills, culture and personality fit. From Lust to Dust: The Six Phases of A Recruiting Relationship. Some folks treat this concept as gospel. ” Shut up, already.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 4, 2016

Occasionally, there’s an e-mail setting up some sort of scripted phone screen. Cold, Cold Heart: What “Career Coaches” Don’t Get About Compensation. The three most stressful things you can do in life, in order, are getting married, buying a house and finding a new job. Nothing, mostly. And you know why?

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 6, 2015

Fast forward a few more years than I’d care to admit, and after working my way through the Harry Potter series, I’d found another favorite character: Sirius Black, who despite his lineage from a long line of Slytherins, fought the good fight against the Dark Arts as the sorting hat sent him to Gryffindor instead.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 9, 2015

Have you ever actually applied for a job that’s posted on your careers site? Yeah, I’m guessing from that blank look that the answer is probably never – or at least, it’s been a while, if you’re like most recruiting and staffing practitioners.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 3, 2016

Back in the day, when I was first starting out in my career, I ended up taking a job as a “social media ninja” for Monster Worldwide, the parent company for Monster.com. Charney and I worked in essentially parallel roles; I covered job search and career advice, he handled recruiting and hiring. So it goes.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 5, 2015

And the point is that we, as recruiters, could take a page from Dante’s book and learn that in our industry, too, there are differentiated degrees of sin, resulting in what could be construed as the 9 Circles of Recruiting Hell. “ Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate; the final words of the inscription on the Gate of Hell.”

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