If you are open to expanding your job search to other countries, I highly suggest that you take advantage of Google’s translation services; even if you are fluent in another language. Why? Well, if you are an employer in say… Mexico.  You might post your jobs in English, but more often than not they will be posted in the dominant [...]

How important is your professionalism? If a customer is rude to you, how much do you allow before severing client relations? Consider the video below, how would you have handled situation? Related PostsCOMIC: The Recruiting Life – Retention is very importantThe Week In Recruiting (Reading the blogs, so you won’t have to)One Recruiter makes a difference for US VetsVIDEO: How [...]

According to Indeed.com, jobs featuring the term “social networking” have been steadily climbing for some time now. Below is a job trends graph showing the percentage of jobs posted in their system containing the term “social networking.” "social networking" Job Trends "social networking" jobs Related PostsSocial Networks (LinkedIn especially) are really growingSocial Recruiting Through Social NetworkingVIDEO – Social Networking Sites [...]

Lately I’ve noticed an interesting trend when it comes to social media and the employment process. Everyone in the hiring world seems to have something they need, be it a job seeker looking for a job or a hiring pro looking to fill a position, and from both sides, I keep hearing that there is no one out there to [...]

What are the signs that your co-worker has turned co-stalker? Check out this funny bit of advice from “Cube News 1!” Related PostsH-1B Visas – You snooze, you lose!How to Make Introductions in Business & Social SettingsOffice supplies you’ll never see… until now7 Reasons America Is Fast Becoming a 1099 NationIDC Predicts the Number of Worldwide Mobile Workers to Reach [...]

by: Amy Nutt In a down economy organizations sometimes forget that retaining employees is an important issue. When organizations go through the difficult process of downsizing it’s natural to overlook the need to develop retention programs meant to keep the remaining people happy and productive. Shouldn’t the employees who survived a downsizing be thankful their jobs were saved? Perhaps, but [...]

What The Interviewer Expects: The following transcript is from our “Effective Interview Techniques” (CD-2) and offers insightful observations by a Director of Human Resources for a major international company. Her outlook from “the other side of the desk” helps job seekers plan and prepare for their interviews. Here’s what she has to say: “Often, the biggest challenge is the ability [...]

The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency or POEA is the government arm in the Philippines that accredits would be private overseas employment agencies. The POEA is tasked with weeding out the many “phony” recruitment agencies” that take advantage of Filipinos seeking greener pastures abroad. Illegal recruitment is rife in places where there is an outflow of migrant workers, so the POEA [...]

If you do not have a profile on Linkedin, I strongly suggest that you create one now. Why? Did you know that when someone does a search on your name on Yahoo, your Linkedin profile appears in the search results? Check out what happens when I do a (vanity) search on my name. (By the way, you also want to [...]

Although statistics vary widely, there is widespread agreement that a substantial number of resumes belong in the “fiction” section of the bookstore. The rate of fraud can be as high as 40% and higher according to different sources. Applicants certainly have the right to put their best foot forward, and puffing their qualifications is an American tradition. But when puffing [...]

How to Outsource Your Job Search In episode #127, Jim Stroud flies solo in this episode of The Recruiters Lounge as he talks to Jay Martin of JobSerf. In a nutshell, fill out a form and JobSerf will research jobs that fit your background and (if you like) will apply to those jobs on your behalf, then send you a [...]

Agency Seeker Ltd – Search vacancies by keyword, industry sector, location, salary and contract type. Features CV registration and email job alerts. All Executive Jobs – Find jobs from agencies and employers by level, sector and salary. Features candidate registration and new vacancy updates via email. British Jobs – Jobs classified by sector and location. Includes a section with links [...]