by Rae Steinbach | Mar 9, 2018 | Career Management, Guest Post, Recruiting
It should come as no surprise that job recruiters and placement agencies use email to solicit interest in their available jobs. They have their candidate contacts, which they use to cast as broad a net as possible to find quality potential employees. Today, however, a...
by Slye Joy Serrano | Feb 13, 2018 | Career Management, Employer Branding
You are a car dealer and you are selling Mercedes cars. You’ve learned your friend Eddie wants to buy a new luxury car tomorrow. Yes, he wants to make the purchase tomorrow. Would it be smart to advertise to Eddie today, a day before he wanted to buy a luxury car? The...
by Slye Joy Serrano | Feb 1, 2018 | Career Management, Recruiting
Here’s a fact: Great talent is not abundant. Here’s another fact: Most companies are running after that same scarce talent. Yes, highly skilled candidates are hard to come by especially for technical jobs like those in information technology, engineering, or in the...
by Slye Joy Serrano | Nov 2, 2017 | Career Management, Recruiting
A few days ago, I stumbled upon a video of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It was a clip from an interview. In the video, Hsieh said that in Zappos, they would ‘fire those who don’t fit in their company culture’ even if they’re star performers. Tony Hsieh of Zappos is not the...
by Slye Joy Serrano | Jul 20, 2017 | Career Management, Featured
Poor hire costs you more than time and energy – they disrupt business in multiple ways. And the effects can be more adverse for small and medium-sized businesses. Making poor hiring decisions is not uncommon. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, around...
by Slye Joy Serrano | Jun 28, 2017 | Career Management, Recruiting
The recruitment industry is a fast-changing field. The dynamic relationship between recruiters and job seekers change exponentially as well. Today, candidates have been given more power in the hiring manager/job applicant relationship. In 2015, about 90% of...
