It is nowadays considered standard practice to check employment applicant’s backgrounds, before taking them on board; or even before proceeding any further with the recruitment process. Things that are checked here include the likes of applicants’ criminal records, the applicants’ working histories, and the applicants’ financial histories, before taking them on board. In the earlier years, when this practice began, [...]

Someone asked me for a few job hunting tips and after our conversation, I decided to post an abbreviated version of our chat here for the benefit of all. Feel free to pass it on. (Its just good karma.) 1. Create a homepage and post your resume online, not just on Job Boards. In this way, any Recruiter with access [...]

The Week In Recruiting is brought to you by – The Searchologist David Smith, managing director of Accenture, explains why companies should tailor talent management practices to individuals–and four ways to do it. 1. 10 Career Management Tips In The Age Of Job Fear 2. Hmm… Tip #11 should be to Upgrade Your Bare-Bones LinkedIn Profile 3. Of course, if [...]

One of the errors made in Executive Employment is handing out your Executive CV to everyone who claims to be an Executive Headhunter. With some simple research and questioning could easily reveal that they are a Recruiter or even less on the scale of employment sharks. If you make this mistake, you will at best blight your Senior Executive Jobs [...]

The economy won’t stay in the red forever, and with the government taking steps to improve it by the day, employers are anticipating many of their staff to run for the doors. A survey was conducted in December by Yahoo HotJobs involving over 800 recruiters and hiring managers questioning their opinions on employee turnovers in 2010. 44% agreed or strongly [...]

As previously noted (here and here), the controversy surrounding Richard Blumenthal’s run for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut provides the basis for considering what employers are sometimes faced with considering: resume fraud. It doesn’t appear that the controversy will end soon, so maybe more lessons about the subject are yet to come. Blumenthal did receive his party’s nomination this past [...]

In the “ObamaCare” Health Care Reform Law there is a section in there for very large companies and corporations who wish to self-insure for their employees health care plan. This sounds like an awfully hard thing to do for a Corporation to become their own health care insurance provider, but in reality it makes a lot of sense for a [...]

California Courts recently upheld a well known law here in our wonderful State – they upheld that Non Compete agreements are Not Legal and cannot be defended in a Californian court of law.. Well of course that is, unless it was due to a Sale of a business, between partners, or between members with a Limited Liability co-operation. Wonder why [...]

As an employer you need to know what you legally can and can’t say about past employees when people are calling for an authorized employment screening background check. This is an area where you can’t afford to make a mistake or worse yet, let opinions get in the way. Company policies are usually made in accordance with the particular state’s [...]

Not sure if you know this, but I have been blogging for quite a few years. Early on in my career, I gave away an ebook on job hunting tips called “How do I find a job when the economy sucks?” It was written back in 2002, which was the time of the last recession here in the USA.Go figure… [...]

A good pal of mine is Kay Kelison. Do you know her? She is a Recruiter at Microsoft who recently acquired a Flip camera and a personal mission to share her story and the stories of her peers in the HR/Recruiting world. She has made several of such videos, but I am sharing her very first for introductory purposes. (Expect [...]

Today’s beleaguered job seekers, quite understandably, are exploring virtually every avenue to gaining any kind of advantage over the competition, i.e., other job seekers. They attend job/career fairs, visit the Internet job boards, etc. And, of course, they also consider “headhunters” (recruiters) as a possible source of assistance in finding a new job or career. Unfortunately, none of these approaches [...]

If you could use a resume sourcing tool to help automate your boolean strings, I recommend eGrabber tools. I’m just sayin’…   Related PostsCOMIC – The Recruiting Life – Who is looking at your resume?COMIC – I knew the recession was serious when…Recruiter Comic: Its a Facebook WorldCOMIC – A surefire way to get a recruiter’s attention?COMIC – Recruiter Ethics [...]

The Searchologist Magazine presents, “The Week In Recruiting!” 1.  Hey job seekers, what’s your online reputation?  2. You better know because social media recruiting is all the rage in HR  3. And the help wanted signs are returning.  4.  Of course,  you might get a dumb manager with loose lips  5.  Or get blamed for acts of God but it all [...]

The multinationals and global organizations of today are notorious for their high attrition rates. Hence, retaining employees has become one of the chief tasks of modern Human Resource Managers. Human Resource Managers feel proud if they are successful at retaining employees for over a year, to work for companies in which most employees are over a year old. What is [...]