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How can the Australian job market continue its growth?

As the Australian job market continues to outperform by adding 24,500 new jobs in October, instead of the expected 10,000 jobs, Prime Minister Rudd, and the Labor Government have something to celebrate about on their 2-year anniversary. We expect job growth to continue in the long-term. Project such as Gorgon in Western Australia will continue to increase the number of jobs. According to the ACIL Tasman report, an additional 10,000 direct and indirect jobs are on the horizon, although it is bel… Continue

Added by Saleem Qureshi on November 21, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

College Hiring Down (Again)

College recruiting activity will likely continue to decline over the next three months, according to results of a new survey. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) recently instituted a monthly poll of its employer members to gauge the college job market on an on-going basis. The first poll was conducted October 3 - November 2and represents expectations over a three-month per… Continue

Added by Steven Rothberg on November 18, 2009 at 5:57pm — 1 Comment

Should recruiters develop their own assessment tools or outsource the task?

A few days back, we ran a discussion on several social networking platforms to reach out to the recruiting community and asked them if recruiters should develop their own assessment tools or hire the services of assessment specialists. A strong majority shared the same idea – focus on what you do best i.… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on November 18, 2009 at 3:09am — No Comments

What do your job board customers want?

When was the last time you asked your job board customers what they want? Not just a one-off question to a few clients – but an systematic, organized survey of everyone who uses your site? Employers and job seekers? A recurrent theme in the ‘job boards are dying’ blog posts that I see is a feeling by recruiters, employers, and job seekers that the ‘big boards’ are out of touch. In other words, they don’t know what their customers want. Now, I’m guessing that they would argue with this assumptio… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 17, 2009 at 9:09am — 2 Comments

ProfileSense 3.0, the Concept, its working and Benefits

ProfileSense™ is an employee assessment tool created to provide HR personnel with powerful data to make the most accurate hiring decisions faster than ever before. Unlike current assessment products, ProfileSense™ adapts to your specific needs, allowing you to measure applicants against your “perfect” e… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on November 16, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

Testimony Of A Repentant Job Seeker

I once was the darling of the recruitment agencies – then I found instead of the wanted one I became the discarded one – why? Changes can sneak up on us and it’s a hard wake up call when you realise that what used to work so well no longer does. What had changed was that instead of a human being I had become a commodity. Prospective employers were not interested in my potential as a member of their team they wanted hard evidence that I was a direct replacement for the guy who just left and tha… Continue

Added by Bruno Deshayes on November 12, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Job search 2010 -- small is in

We've just been through a brutal economic storm. If you were sheltered, great - good for you. But pay attention anyway, because this storm wreaked havoc on many of the people you'll meet in the next stages of your career. You are going to meet and work with a lot of people who've been burned. So many that the American business landscape is never going to look the same again. At the height of the crisis, large companies fired thousands of employees to preserve profits. In many cases, they… Continue

Added by Eric Shannon on November 12, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Critique of CleanTechrecruits

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Added by Chris Russell on November 12, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

Running The Gauntlet With Recruitment Agencies

Let’s face it recruitment agencies are here to stay. How can we manage the love/hate relationship between agencies and candidates? As a candidate you need to wise up to some conflicts of interest that are doomed to arise between you and your agent. But first let’s understand the job market. We’ve all become lazy and fallen down the path of least resistance. Frustrated jobseekers assume that all it takes to land that perfect job is to blast as many résumés as possible over the internet. Dishing… Continue

Added by Bruno Deshayes on November 11, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Ready to make money in recruitment again?

Are you starting to make money in recruitment again? I don’t mean the nickels and dimes, I mean are you starting to make some serious money that you made earlier in this decade? If not then, maybe you should see how to reposition yourself. The first thing you should do when repositioning yourself is unders… Continue

Added by Saleem Qureshi on November 11, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Jobamatic adds customized widgets

Nice move here by SH to add more functionality and customization to the Jobamatic widgets which let you display jobs from your Jobamatic site. Up til now you could only choose from a few colors.

I have some pretty good experience with… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on November 10, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Who Needs A Functional Resume?

As soon as gaps or changes of direction appear in your employment history you may benefit from a functional resume. The time worn chronological format is a bit like a trail of where you’ve been as well as how long you stayed in one place on the employment scene. It gives out spurious information that can be used against you. The first move towards a functional format is when people list their work experience in reverse chronological order. Obviously no employer is too concerned about how you st… Continue

Added by Bruno Deshayes on November 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Job boards and applicant tracking systems

The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants. An ATS can theoretically drive all job applicants into a single pipeline, massage their unruly information into neatly ordered database fields set up exactly as the employer desires, and allow HR to actually manage the interactions with applicants. Sometimes the ATS works well – and sometimes (like all software) it doesn’t. When it work… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 10, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Experts or Performers? Make a choice

Just last week, a friend asked a question about the way I classify employees with respect to what they deliver to their organizations. So I decided to write a post about it. When thinking about the candidates organizations may be interested in hiring, I like to keep things simple and classify them… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on November 10, 2009 at 2:59am — No Comments

Getting a Job Board up and running

Hello, I've found that having a niche board and name that sells itself is critical. Can anyone explain the first few steps however to move from a beta site to a full board, such as what kind of developers and typical cost one should spend? I've seen quotes off market place boards such as Elance for about $4K. The name of my job site is simple and geared specifically at MBAs that want to live and work in major citys. I'm not going to put the name up here, as this blog is for more informational a… Continue

Added by Ben Philip on November 9, 2009 at 6:56pm — 2 Comments

Job Hunting 80/20 Rule

80% of people blast the same piece of self-marketing to every job they apply for while only 20% of applicants bother to customize their resume to address the employer’s requirements. As a result they fill 80% of the jobs on offer. If you think you are employable material it pays dividends to display some aptitude in seeing things the employer’s way. Managers are busy. Hiring somebody can be a daunting task especially when you are faced with a flood of applicants. The selection process is to th… Continue

Added by Bruno Deshayes on November 9, 2009 at 4:22pm — No Comments

What is Professionalism and how to Judge it?

Professionalism, a term commonly used for managers and has difficult meanings in the dictionary (Don’t even want to go through them). I derived a completely new definition of professionalism based on my experience. Ok, I know, many of you may not agree but this is the best definition to me and helps t… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on November 6, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Here we grow...

We just wanted to express our excitement over at Hirespin. We have recently developed relationships that have brought us new jobs with still many more to come. Our November numbers on job seekers and hits has really accelerated. 35,000 job seekers and 119,000 hits through the last 4 days. In addition our registrations have grown over 500%, and applications 1200% respectively. We have seen our health care and IT jobs climb at the highest rate while accounting positions have tapered off to a degre… Continue

Added by Brian Busby on November 5, 2009 at 6:00pm — 11 Comments

Stubblebine (Philly) vs Russell (NY)

So me and Joe Stubbline (CEO of JobCircle) set off last week on a bet between our 2 favorite baseball teams. The prize? $100 and loser posts a video in shame. Today we know the winner. So Joe lets see your tribute to my Yankees.

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Added by Chris Russell on November 5, 2009 at 12:11am — 1 Comment