Updating your Interview Process We hear from candidates and companies alike how frustrating the interviewing and hiring process can be. Very little has changed over the last few decades with the way interviews are conducted. Some of that is good and some of that is bad. You would think that with the ever-changing world of [...]
Finding the Right IT Talent We all know it can be difficult to find the right qualified candidates especially to fill your open IT jobs. The average amount of time it takes to fill a job has been increasing for years. Our eyes quickly glaze over when we look at the typical job boards. Tapping [...]
Challenging Job Markets in Summer Months If you find yourself among the millions of American’s seeking new employment opportunities this summer, we have one word for you: PATIENCE! Perhaps more than the financial markets, the job markets do best when visibility is high. The job market loves macro-issue-blue skies. Conversely, clouds of uncertainty regarding future [...]
Time Management - There's an App for That Have you ever heard the saying “it’s a full time job, to find a new job?” Chances are even if you haven’t heard the phrase you’ve felt it. Between the resume editing, applications, follow ups, and interviews the process of making a career change takes a lot [...]
Weeding out Unqualified Candidates Whether you’re a recruiter or a hiring manager with a company, you are constantly going through resumes searching for top job candidates. This can be a very frustrating task, and not just from the perspective of trying to find the right candidate. In a world that has given us the ability [...]
To Like or not to Like and How Does it Impact your Job Search? With all the social media tools available today, people have never been more empowered to make their voices heard. Something important just happened? Share it on Facebook! Have a novel thought or clever insight? Tweet it! And why not? You can [...]
Millennial's and the New Workforce Part two – Retention In part one of the series I postulated that we have mistakenly made numerous false assumptions about the character and motivations of Millennials. Boomers and GenYers have applied our aged paradigms to a generation that they don’t fit. Recognizing the value, ambition and creativity of Millennials [...]
Millennials in the Workforce Part One - Hiring I’m 57. A Boomer. I not supposed to enjoy or embrace hiring Millennials. We have all read the large volume of blogs, articles, and treatises on why Millennials are not satisfactory employees: Lazy, disloyal, lax work ethic, entitled, self-assured. With close to 40% of the current workforce [...]
Preparing to Move on in your Career Transitioning your career is second in a four part series... How to Nurture Yourself Into Your Next Position In Part one of our “Primer” we laid out that the various parties involved in the hiring process (Job-Seeker; Hiring Manager; Human Resources/Legal; Senior Management; Friends and Family) are part [...]
Discrimination in the Workplace Dealing with discrimination in the workplace is a sensitive subject. It's the subject few want to discuss, discrimination. Discrimination is an enormously complex topic made all the more so as its study is based on one’s suspect ability to discern the motivations and intentions of other people. So stated, we’ll try [...]
