Monster’s Financials Better Than Expected; Year Ahead Brightens

ERE Articles, Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Were it not for one-time expenses in the not-yet-completed HotJobs purchase, Monster broke even in the 2nd quarter. But even considering the $5.2 million expense, the recruitment advertising company still managed to do better than the consensus of Wall Street analysts. Analysts expected a loss between 3 cents and 5 cents a share on revenue [......

Recruiting Passive Candidates — How to Get Top-notch Referrals

ERE Articles, Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Without question, having a large LinkedIn network is a competitive advantage for any recruiter working on hard-to-fill positions and hard-to-find candidates. This advantage is lessened dramatically with LinkedIn Recruiter, since it includes complete visibility to the 70mm+ people in their network. Since this full-visibility product is off-limits to TPRs, it levels the playing field somewhat [......

Taleo Grows Revenue; Beats The Street

ERE Articles, Wed, 28 Jul 2010

HR software vendor Taleo grew its revenue and customer count during the second quarter of this year and though it also grew its net loss, the company beat Wall Street’s earnings estimates. The company reported this afternoon that it lost $1.4 million, up from just $113,000 in the same quarter last year. Stock options and [......

Measuring the Quality of Those You Didn’t Hire –- Are You Missing the Best?

John Sullivan, Mon, 26 Jul 2010

The quality of those not hired is the most valuable recruiting metric that you have never heard of! It informs you how often your organizations is failing to hire the highest quality applicants. A few years back I was advising a Fortune 100 firm that had a painfully slow and somewhat arrogant hiring process. To [.....

On the Way to Everywhere

Human Resources, Fri, 23 Jul 2010

Carnival of Human Resources - SHRM Redux I've been a bit lax in posting these, but thought you might be interested in a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) conference update. The online HR blogging community has suggestions for improving the annual SHRM conference (held this year, June 27-29) that include: ... Read Full Post

Do You Provide References?

Human Resources, Thu, 22 Jul 2010

Just another week in Human Resources... We have an employee who was fired claiming to have been laid off. Another employee who left with no notice thinks we should give her a positive reference ....

10 Questions to Help You Hire Better People

Kevin Wheeler, Wed, 21 Jul 2010

As a recruiter, how would you describe the culture at Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, or at your own organization? Being able to distill the essence of an organization’s culture into a few well-thought-out adjectives is worth a lot. Sometimes I ask a wide variety of people to come up with a few adjectives that describe a [......

Differing Views on the HR Role

Human Resources, Sat, 17 Jul 2010

There has been much discussion in recent years about the role of Human Resources in today's organizations. Over the years of writing this site, I have heard about almost every possible iteration of the role. ......

How to Recruit LeBron James … a Case Study on Recruiting a Game-changer Employee

John Sullivan, Mon, 12 Jul 2010

Recruiting history was made this month. You may not be aware that last week marked the culmination of the most sophisticated recruiting effort executed in this century, one that will go down in history as a case study on how to recruit “game-changers.” The approaches used and the lessons to be learned are almost without [......

Easy In, Easy Out: Keeping Recruiting Simple

Kevin Wheeler, Thu, 08 Jul 2010

How much should we let chance and circumstances define who we hire, rather than continue to invest time in tough screening and many interviews? In the simplest terms, should (and maybe even does?) randomness play a large role in selection? Is it better to have a loose, easy-in and easy-out hiring practice than a much [.....

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