Time Off Manager by IronFlow: HR Tech Review

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Earlier this year I made an announcement about some changes happening here on the site.  One of those changes included a twice monthly review of a human resources and recruiting product or service under what I’m calling “HR Tech Review.”  I want to give industry practitioners insights into new technology and services that goes beyond [...]

January 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

LIVE during the Dash

by Ray_anne
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Have you heard about your dash?  As in, How’s your dash going?  In this instance, your dash represents the mark on your tombstone that separates your date of birth from your date of death. In other words, it represents your life, the part during your existence in which you lived on earth. And while it’s weird [...]

January 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Moving Forward by Letting Go

by Ray_anne
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A while back, I received an email from a friend about bananas. The gist of the email was to extol the numerous virtues of the banana. Such as the instant energy boost from eating just one banana, how it is the leading fruit among athletes, how just two bananas supply enough energy to complete a strenuous [...]

January 26, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

52% of US Companies Will Add Jobs in Next Year

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Recruiting Strategy Key 2012 in War for Talent    All signs are pointing towards an improving economy and yesterday’s release of Talent Technology’s State of Recruiting for 2012 supports what many in the industry are seeing.  Business is happening.  Hiring and adding new staff is in the works with 52% of companies planning on adding [...]

January 26, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Determine to Succeed

by Ray_anne
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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” ~Henry David Thoreau When you wake in the morning, do you look forward to your day? Do you stretch your arms above your head with the desire to wake and start your day or do you slunk back down under the covers, trying [...]

January 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Candidate Centered Solutions For Your Broken Recruiting Strategy

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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 This blog post is sponsored by iCims who is a faithful supporter of Blogging4Jobs.  Check them out on Twitter at @iCims.  Simple Solutions to Your Recruiting Strategy   You see, when it comes to recruiting it is really very simple.  Your recruiting strategy is broken, and a quality candidate to fill your corporate requisition can’t [...]

January 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Be The Expert

by Ray_anne
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What does desperation do to you as a Businessperson? As a Salesperson? As an HR Professional? As a Recruiting Professional? Sometimes, there comes a valley in the activity and we stagnate, or get bored, or even become desperate. Working to close a deal can be exciting, hectic, hurried, and representing ourselves, our company, or our client properly [...]

January 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Gold Standard: Not What it Used to Be

by Ray_anne
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Paper money used to be backed by a supply of gold, actual gold.  Not the flecks that sometimes glitters in lakes and streams or in a quiet ocean, but solid gold. If you desired to trade your paper money in for the only bars better than chocolate, you could. There was a sense of value [...]

January 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Don’t Lose Your Green Bananas

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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A couple Friday’s ago I was told that my mom wouldn’t make it through the night.  She coded and quit breathing due to a severe asthma attack.  My husband and I rushed to the hospital making the 5 1/2 hour trip.  We sat on pins and needles waiting through the night. The next afternoon my [...]

January 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Resume is Dead

by Ray_anne
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I am waxing nostalgic. What is it about the past that keeps us in it? Or keeps us reverting to it or, sometimes, avoiding it? Do we value it as history and what we can learn from it or is it simply too difficult to let go? From reviewing a résumé to conducting professional reference interviews, [...]

January 20, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Not So Tired After All: The School of Mom

by Ray_anne
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I know it seems impossible, but there are times when I wonder how I can go on; morning arrives and the day and work that lay before me seem incredibly daunting. Evening arrives and I am exhausted. I often question if I will ever not be tired. Will I ever get a full night’s sleep? Will I [...]

January 19, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Free Recruiting Model Changes Industry Fuels Economy

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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  HCM Abuzz Over Free Recruiting Strategy   While the human capital management industry has been abuzz by the recent acquisitions of Rypple to Salesforce, SuccessFactors to ADP, Jobs2Web to SuccessFactors and most recently VisualCV by Talent Technology, there is a visible shift happening in the world of human resources technology and HCM.  VC firms [...]

January 18, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Tips on How to Use Facebook at Work and Not Get Fired

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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This post was first published over on SmartBrief’s Social Media blog where I am a regular contributor. They happen to be pretty awesome with over 4 million email subscribers. Be sure to check them out. 4 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook Use Social media has arrived and has seeped into every facet of [...]

January 18, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Anatomy of The Recruiting Interface

by Ray_anne
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Candidate interface. Client interface. Knowing the goals of both is necessary and easily deemed tiresome. Not exactly the most exciting part of the job. Candidates and Clients: when you discover a lack of cohesion between the two, do you push on, hoping that particular deficiency goes away quietly into the dark? Sometimes the rug isn’t big enough [...]

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