If you are in the Atlanta area, you are welcome to join me this Wednesday, March 2, 2011  to attend a presentation I am giving called – How to Recruit Using YouTube. Its a free event, so if you can come, cool. If not, maybe I will send you my notes (if you ask nicely). Well, anyways, I would like [...]

Treating employees as integral parts of an organization is a simple HR solution and simple solutions are usually the best. It’s no secret that satisfied employees have higher morale in any organization, require lower labor costs and, ultimately, result in greater productivity and higher profits. However, many companies are unable or unwilling to break from the traditional management style that [...]

CardBrowser – the #1 Tech Industry Database for Recruiting, has announced a partnership with MonsterConnect. With everything the internet offers to recruiters – LinkedIn, Monster, CareerBuilder, Jigsaw, BroadLook, AIRs, HotJobs, Google, you name it – nothing beats a large stack of business cards collected from a specific tech industry tradeshow. Technology companies hand pick their top sales, marketing, and technical [...]

Wow! How creative is this? Jobsintown.de an online employment company in Denmark (presumably) launched a very cool ad campaign to lure people to their website some time ago and (in my opinion) its still working. Check out the screenshot below! This rather ingenious ad is of a guy handling financial transactions while trapped in an ATM machine. The caption beneath [...]

Despite the huge amount of effort organisations make to attract and hire the right people there are a surprising number who are ‘square pegs’ in ’round holes’. How many times have you been into a store and been served by someone who is just not that interested? Contrast that experience with being served by someone who is hugely engaged and [...]

I am a big Modesty Blaise fan.  Its a comic strip, series of novels, movies (1 awful movie and 1 okay movie) and a failed TV series about a crime boss who retires, but soon gets bored and is lured back into danger on behalf of her government. The books and comics are all written by Peter O’ Donnell and if you [...]

Whether you’re a manager interested in boosting productivity or a new parent who wants to find a way to work while spending time at home, telecommuting has become very popular in the workplace. But for employees and employers alike, telecommuting can be challenging; especially for those accustomed to traditional office settings. As with most things, there are both pros and [...]

There are a lot of economic indicators out there to measure where we are in terms of job growth. Well, I am not an economist (nor do I play one on TV), but it seems to me that one way to know for sure that companies are ramping up on hiring is by keeping an eye out on how many [...]

In this episode of “The Jim Stroud Show,” Jim interviews recruiters and HR managers and asks them for advice to share with jobseekers. Plus, Jim shares a testimonial from a viewer and shares the advice that spurred a generous donation. ( Scroll down for more jobhunting resources. ) JOB HUNTING RESOURCES: * Want more info on how to be found [...]

The nature of employment in this country will never be the same again. Yes, businesses will still need workers but how they go about recruiting, screening, and hiring is new – and even if they will add workers at all or outsource the particular task or project to another company. Over one-half of all workers in the US are not [...]

Okay, in my last post, I went on a long rant about job boards not being creative enough (in my humble opinion). In this post, I want to make a few more suggestions. Sure, it may be a “pie in the sky” kind of thought, but hey, you’ll never know if you never ask. What if at the bottom of [...]

The other day I was veggin’ on the couch and flipping through my DVR to catch up on some guilty pleasures.  Just in case you are wondering, I’ll run through a few: Nikita, Smallville, V, The Human Target, Chuck, House, Fringe and Desperate Housewives (again – guilty pleasure) and Samurai Champloo. Somewhere between watching Mugin and Jin carve bad guys with [...]

I wonder how many contingent recruiters are proficient with their hosted dynamics CRM? (Or if they even have one?) Just something I wondered after reading Lou’s thoughts below. I would love to hear yours. Leave a comment below? Thanks… … Is Your Career Site Turning Off Top Candidates? Most career sites are designed to repel the best and attract the [...]

TheLadders invited me to visit with them and check out their operations during their “Position Accomplished” summit. Why me? I suppose because I have some influence in the HR / Careers Space.  (shrugging shoulders) I had heard about TheLadders and how they only promote 100K+ jobs to those who pay for their service, but that’s all I knew. Since it [...]

Craig’s List, Monster.com, the various freelance sites, your local paper, networking sites; there are a million ways for you to look for employers, but who has the time? Even if you do have the time chances are high that you’re not going to find every single job you qualify for. Optimizing your resume or a cover letter and posting it [...]