Recruiting Front Lines
Mobile Thoughts on Employment Branding
It crossed my mind recently that employers should pay very close attention to which companies are hiring employees away from them. These companies represent your market competition. Two things you should be asking yourself:
1. If you are losing top talent to one specific competitor, why and what can you do about it?
RFL: Building Your Bench from Unused Parts
(Continued from an article posted on April 8, 2009. Click here to see Part 1.)
Through careful and thoughtful analysis of the skills that are required to carry out your business functions, and the ancillary or unused skills present in your workforce, you can begin to build engagement while operating more efficiently.
RFL: Developing Your Bench
We are all on the same path…finding ways to do more with less. It is widely known that workforces are becoming leaner and leaner, while most are still faced with maintaining and even growing market share and productivity. It seems like an impossible task: reduce the number of people working for you, and increase your revenue. Unfortunately, as markets have become more crowded and competitive over time, most businesses have routinely been increasing expectations and output of their workforces to drive profits. Because of this well-established culture, economic belt-tightening has proven to be even more difficult than in times past. We ALL ran lean operations BEFORE the economy started its decline.
So where exactly do we go from here?
RFL Question of the Moment: Recruitment Advertising When You’re Not Hiring
With so many people hopping on the optimism bandwagon that we all hope is taking us to the river of economic recovery later this year, I’m hearing more and more staffing and personnel professionals wanting to develop candidate pools before there are any jobs available. It got me thinking about the ethics and best practices around this issue.
RFL Question of the Moment: Recruitment Advertising When Your Not Hiring
With so many people hopping on the optimism bandwagon that we all hope is taking us to the river of economic recovery later this year, I’m hearing more and more staffing and personnel professionals wanting to develop candidate pools before there are any jobs available. It got me thinking about the ethics and best practices around this issue.
What do you think?
What do you think of this practice?
Press Release: Indicators Show Positive Employment Numbers
Just getting out ahead of the curve a bit on this one. My firm will be releasing the following press release shortly. Amazingly, while job seeker traffic is at record highs, there has also been growth in online job postings for two consecutive months
New England’s #1 Recruitment Resource shows record growth in monthly traffic and job postings.
RFL: JobsInTheUS and JobAngels on Fox News
The segment I participated in on Fox News this past weekend is now available on their website. My thanks goes out to Julie Banderas for facilitating such a comfortable interview and to Eldad Yaron for setting this up and getting the video link to me.
As a result of my participation in the JobAngels movement, and the subsequent Wall Street Journal article, I was fortunate to get a little air time on the America’s News HQ program on Fox News Sunday. While I was a bit disappointed by the lack of discussion regarding JobAngels, I was pleasantly surprised by the plug for JobsInTheUS that Julie gave us.
Here’s the video from this past Sunday:
RFL: Off topic and On the Twitter Mosaic
Okay… I’ve officially become a TwitterGeek! While I originally found this app to be a complete waste of time and silly creation, I’ve certainly come to admire it. There really are many ways in which Twitter can be of value, both personally and professionally. Yes, it can seem a bit odd. But if you give it a try, and be thoughtful about why you’re in this space, I think you’ll find it to be more than you expected. Sorry, enough of the plug…
Check out this app that I just learned about called Twitter Mosaic. It’s not all that exciting, but it does give a visual of your individual Twitter network. Here’s mine:
RFL: National Exposure on FoxNews
This afternoon, I’m booked to participate in a live broadcast on FoxNews’s weekend American News HQ with Julie Banderas. I was contacted by the station after the article on JobAngels ran in the Wall Street Journal this week. Apparently, feel good stories are in fashion! JobAngels started as a single “tweet” on Twitter, and has really gained momentum as people all across the country are volunteering to lend a helping hand. The premise was simple- what a difference it could make if we all could help just one person find a job.
RFL: Social Media Bucket #2: Professional Networking
As previously stated in my post about Social Media Bucket #3: Information Sharing, I feel strongly that all social media resources fall into one or more of three distinct buckets: Social Networking, Professional Networking, and Information Sharing. In this edition, I’ll share my thoughts on bucket #2, Professional Networking. Again, here’s my disclaimer:
RFL: Musings on eExternal Employment Branding
As a follow up to my previous posts, Don’t Just Sit On Your Hands and 4 Keys to INTERNAL Employment Branding During a Recession, the following bullets are laid out to provide some direction to employers, recruiters, marketing directors, personnel managers, and HR professionals on EXTERNAL Employment Branding. (remember, Consumer Branding is meant to build up your consumer base, Employment Branding is meant to build your employment base… and I’m not exactly sure how the term Employer Branding fits.)
RFL: Social Media Bucket #3: Information Sharing
As you may have heard me say, or read in previous posts or in response to questions on LinkedIn, I believe that all social media falls into one or more of three buckets: Social Networking, Professional Networking, and Information Sharing. I thought it was about time I went into more depth on these three buckets, starting with Social Media Bucket #3, Information Sharing. (Please note that these are my own thoughts and biases, so I willingly accept all criticism, skepticism, and responsibility surrounding the following assertions)
RFL: Not just another day in the office.
A few weeks back, my company agreed to a proposal I put forth to offer free job hunting workshops on-site at companies that are forced to lay people off this year. We’ve been offering this content at state agencies and college career centers across New England for almost 5 years now.
With the economy affecting so many businesses, we thought it would be a good opportunity to do good, and offer assistance to those in need.
RFL: Job Seekers Scammed NBC30
Job Seekers Scammed
By LAUREN PETTY
Updated 10:30 PM EDT, Mon, Mar 9, 2009
Online jobs database have seen a rise in sham jobs.
RFL: The Skinny on EFCA- Unbiased Facts and Biased Opinions
I sat through a 90 minute presentation by a labor attorney speaking to HR folks about the issues associated with the Employee Free Choice Act, EFCA. While there was a significant undertone of fear-mongering and scare tactics employed to generate calls to his firm, the speaker did offer a good general overview of the facts associated with EFCA, as well as a nice history unions and the National Labor Relations Board.
I’ve done my best to provide some unbiased facts along with some biased opinions on the issue. Please feel free to agree, disagree, or not care.
Here’s how the current secret ballot election process works:
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