While hiring by all employers is likely to be lackluster in the first part of next year, the intense competition for tech workers that has marked the last … Read more
Blip or Omen? Divining the Significance of the March Jobs Numbers
While all eyes last week were focused on the disappointing March job numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report contained a curious blip … Read more
Headhunting Gets Its Own Simon Cowell
Bravo is airing a one-hour special tonight that may do for executive headhunting what Simon Cowell did for talent shows. In the space of 60 minutes … Read more
Slight Jobs Increase In September; Not Enough For Much to Change
The U.S. Department of Labor issued one of its better jobs reports this morning, showing job growth in September was better than what economists expected, … Read more
Laser Focus Leads to Placements
As demand for our search and placement services started to pick up late last summer, I decided to focus intently on one huge task; increasing the … Read more
Your Job Search Toolkit — A Resume Template and User’s Guide
Editor’s note: as recruiting professionals, it is important for us to know as much as possible about the candidate side of the recruitment process so … Read more
Got Resume? Source Jobs to Match
There’s all sorts of tools for sourcing candidates. Much beloved are the resume search tools that leverage the search engines and scour pay and free … Read more
Celebrating Successes: Happy Candidates, by Barb Bruno
Today, Barb Bruno launched www.happycandidates.com, a site designed to provide career assistance to those “can’t help” candidates, with the idea that the … Read more
Stop Making Bad Tacos — or How to Establish an Internal Executive Search Function
As the hiring recovery gains momentum, some older recruiting strategies are coming back in vogue. One that seems to be high on many HR executives’ action … Read more
Celebrating Successes: Arlington Resources, Inc.
My name is Patty Casey, and I am the President of Arlington Resources, Inc. in Rolling Meadows, IL, which specializes in the placement of Human Resources … Read more