Over the course of my nearly 40-year career in human resources, I have witnessed almost a dozen recruiting booms (where recruiting budgets ballooned) and … Read more
Country-Fried: First Magnus Succumbs to Mortgage Mess
The First Magnus Financial Corp. website isn’t sugar-coating anything these days. A visit to the company’s revised one-page website shows a … Read more
Building the Workforce of the Future
The Business Week cover story, “The Future of Work,” for their August 20 edition is must reading for all recruiting and HR leaders. The basic … Read more
CareerBuilder’s Test of Video Resumes is First by a Major Job Board
Launching in late June with little fanfare, CareerBuilder is the first major job board in the United States to offer video resumes. Now, not even two … Read more
Money Won’t Hold Them
Turnover at one mature organization I have spoken with recently has reached close to 100% for its key engineering talent. This is not because the company … Read more
Countrywide’s See-Saw: Employee Base Up 1,159 as Shares Plummet 13%
When the Dow closed below 13,000 Wednesday afternoon, amid bad housing news and a surge in the price of oil, Countrywide Financial’s new workers were … Read more
MBA Hopeful Works to Connect Disabled Grads, Employers at Virtual Job Fair
A 21-year-old business administration major at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego is helping to organize the first-ever virtual online job fair … Read more
Make the EEOC Your Friend
I really don’t like being a resident doomsayer, but organizational hiring and promotional practices are generally so abysmal that I am compelled to … Read more
Don’t Be Green on Green-Card Revisions
The Department of Labor introduced significant changes on July 16 that will directly impact employers that process labor certifications for their … Read more
The Dollar Impact of Great Recruiting: A Must-Do Calculation
There is nothing more important in the business world than demonstrating the dollar impact of what you do. Every major business function from marketing, … Read more