Have you ever interviewed a technical candidate about their technical prowess and had a gut feeling that they were getting over on you? I mean, outside of what you glean from candidates during an interview, how much do you really know? Sure you could pass your candidate over to an engineer in the backroom, but how much time are you [...]

    Gretchen Ledgard and Zoe Goldring, catalysts of the recruitment blogging phenomenon, discuss their blogging tenure with Microsoft and their entrepreneurial venture – Job Syntax.  (I highly recommend their services!)     Click here to download ”The Recruiters Lounge” podcast featuring Gretchen Ledgard and Zoe Goldring.   Click here to listen to “The Recruiters Lounge” archive of podcasts.   ABOUT OUR GUESTS    Gretchen Ledgard learned the [...]

Oh, I have got to get one of these!!! The T-Qualizer is a t-shirt with a built in sound sensitive graphic equalizer panel. As the music beats, the shirts equalizer lights up to the beat of the music. Great for concerts, raves, parties etc. The T-Qualizer is made from 100% cotton. It has a fully functional EL (Electro Luminenscence) panel [...]

The Lacie 1 Terabyte (TB), 7200 rpm external USB 2.0 drive is a massive storage device in a small portable form factor. Featuring a high speed USB 2 interface, and a 8MB cache the hard disk is capable of transfer speeds of 480 Mbits/sec (60 MB/sec) and a sustained data transfer rate of 34 MB/sec all while a smart fan [...]

Cue the Mission Impossible theme. I’m working a top-secret operation, and my support team is monitoring my every movement. OK, so I’m just going to the hardware store, but my girlfriend, Jen, is tracking me. Using a $100 kit from Mologogo (with a $6-a-month data plan), I’ve turned a prepaid cellphone into a GPS tracking device. Every few minutes, the [...]

DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) – Audra Schmierer’s Social Security number really gets around. It has been used by at least 81 people in 17 states, most of them probably illegal immigrants trying to get work. The federal government took years to discover the number was being used illegally, but authorities took little action even then. “They knew what was happening but [...]

IT’S A GOOD THING THAT B.J. Ostergren isn’t in the business of identity theft. Stacked in boxes in her home in Richmond, Va., are papers with about 12,000 Social Security numbers, along with corresponding names, home addresses and signatures of their owners. And the 55-year-old former insurance claims supervisor could pull thousands more off the Internet in a matter of [...]

I don’t get out as often as I would like, but I believe that this may change in the very near future. (One can not live by work alone.) Plus, when I do pop-my head out, I feel like the proverbial groundhog and predictions are instantly made about the length of Summer. Well, on one of my excursions last week, [...]

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It was good times last week at “The Atlanta Directors of Recruiting Roundtale” meeting where I represented the home team on sourcing passive candidates with new media. I shared the forum spotlight with The Coca-Cola Company and mingled with HR stars from Fortune 100 and 500 companies here in Atlanta. In addition to what I had to say, we touched [...]

Okay, I’m flipping the channels late one night and I cone across a Spanish soap opera. I do not speak Spanish, but from what I could tell somebody was cheating on somebody else and the main body was just getting home. Panic struck the couple and amid the hurried dressing and last minute kisses, someone said, “See you later.” And [...]

If you are a night owl like me, then you have a love/hate relationship with infomercials. If you are an impulse buyer and you can’t sleep, well it’s a perfect time to evaluate the hidden treasures presented to you by celebs and pitchmen (like above). On the other hand, seeing infomercials on the tube can remind you that you are [...]

Below is a rant, a very long rant, on the type of thinking I would like (make that love) to see in the recruitment industry. Sure, my view is edgy and (to most HR personnel) totally ludicrous, but maybe its a sentiment whose time has come. You be the judge… Get some coffee… This is my longest blog post to [...]

WASHINGTON — The CIA is pushing its spooks into the field faster, giving 85 percent overseas assignments within a year after they finish training. It will fall to the incoming spy chief — Michael Hayden, if he’s confirmed — to figure out how best to use them. In the past, newly hired operatives have complained that they complete training at [...]

This commerical is a classic! Gotta love it…   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94[/youtube] TAGS: recruiting, hr, employment, video     Related PostsHow to lower your payrolls and boost employee morale at the same timeVIDEO – Why I love “The Office”Would you fire your staff by Instant Messenger?Sourcers, boost your productivity with SearchMe – a visual searchengineHow to use Employee Engagement to boost your business    [...]