Have you tried out Bullhorn Reach? Its a new tool that seems to be making the rounds among the recruiting circles, at least, the circles I seem to be in. Recently, I had the pleasure of a demo and walked away thinking that it was an interesting concept. Check out the video below for an overview in general, or just [...]

Do you feel like you’re ahead of the dollars and cents game when you decide “NOT” to use an executive recruiter’s services in your recruiting and hiring plans? Maybe you figure why bring a third party into the situation and pay out a fee, but have you ever really taken a look at the costs involved when your “chosen hire” [...]

Hidden Job Services Team Up To Unlock the Hidden Job Market TRUMBULL, CT – HiddenJobsApp.com has acquired the rights to the Hidden Job Report blog authored by industry veteran Jim Stroud. The blog will now serve to compliment the Hidden Jobs mobile app and website. Together, the two services will help job seekers tap the hidden job market. Launched in [...]

Succession planning is a strategic task that nearly everyone agrees is important to a company’s success. Yet few companies manage to devote enough time and effort to it. Why? For many companies, talent management is a labor-intensive chore involving piles of paper. In a word, it’s inefficient. “A lot of companies’ information is locked away in Word documents and file [...]

As the owner of more than 30 job boards, I know a thing or two about using them to recruit. Here are my five ideas to help you get the most out of your job board recruiting experience. Niche boards, like the ones I run, are still a highly effective way to recruit both locally and by industry. Refresh the [...]

THE UNIVERSUM CORPORATE GROUP ACQUIRES DOOSTANG, THE LEADING GLOBAL CAREER NETWORK FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Adds Professional Networking to Company’s Employment Branding Platform PALO ALTO – July 12, 2011: U Ventures, the holding company of Wetfeet and Nova Global, and Universum, the global leader in Employer Branding research and consulting, announced today the acquisition of Doostang, the leading global career networking [...]

Take heed dear reader. We are smack in the middle of a major sea change occurring in businesses across America; and its taking place right before our very eyes. Companies are forever changing the way they hire employees today, and I predict this is just the beginning of something that will explode in 2011 and beyond. Gone forever are the [...]

“Have you seen the article that highlights why human resources is skipping over unemployed job applicants in favor of employed job applicants?” “Is this really what HR people are doing?” This was the question posed to me by a very talented, extremely professional, yet unemployed colleague. “Is this really what HR people are doing?” I had not read the article [...]

Atlanta, GA – July 5, 2011 – Job Seekers are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more! Let’s face it, the current job market sucks. Frustrated candidates feel ignored and disrespected by hiring companies. Recruiters are overwhelmed and are not making things better by not communicating with candidates. Employment brands (including the well-known) are suffering and causing [...]

New York, NY Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Bernard Hodes Group, a leading provider of integrated talent solutions, is pleased to announce that Jim Stroud has joined its National Digital Group as Director of Sourcing & Social Strategy. Stroud has been a well-respected voice in the recruiting-sourcing industry for over a decade, and is an expert in social recruiting, sourcing training, [...]

A recent article in the Boston Business Journal reported that according to hiring managers and human resource professionals, the falsification of resumes is a widespread problem. Misrepresentation on a resume or employment application can take two forms: The making of a false or misleading statement, or Omission of significant details about an applicant’s background or employment history. According to this [...]

On July 1st, I was fortunate enough to be a guest on “Making Recruiters Your Ally” with Adrienne Graham. I was a bit nervous during the podcast, but hopefully that did not take away too much from the information I shared. (Smile) I always get nervous before presenting. (Always, always, always!) Please overlook that as you listen and if you [...]

The challenge of embracing age diversity is building up to be the talent employment issue of the next five years and beyond. With the pressure for “more, better, faster” with more money at stake and people wanting more control in their work and personal lives when there seems to be increasingly less, inter-generational issues in the workplace are causing more [...]

Successful recruitment involves answering two key questions; Is the candidate eligible for the role in terms of education, skill, knowledge and experience? Is the candidate suitable for the role in terms of behavioural preference? Experience shows that the traditional HR approach tends to deal with the first question effectively, but little, if any, thought is given to the second question. [...]