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Credit Reports and the Hiring Process
Imagine one of your employees absconds with some cash. That’s unfortunate—but not nearly as unfortunate as when your CEO discovers the employee had a troubling history of financial irresponsibility. Then the question is not why they took the money, but why you hired them for a position of financial responsibility.
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2010 Employment Law Toolkit now available
The 2010 edition of Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Jason Tremblay’s handbook, Employment Law Toolkit, is now available. The handbook is a comprehensive resource highlighting the significant employment and labor issues facing Illinois employers.
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Corporate Mid-Market Applicant Tracking Software Trends: The hottest trends to watch in 2011
Recently, I was asked to predict the top trends in the mid-market applicant tracking software industry that all HR executives and corporate recruiting leaders should be aware of going into 2011. I based my picks on conversations with 100′s of HR executives and corporate recruiters around the US and UK.
837 days ago Joel Passen (0) 
Must Be This Tall to Ride
With the job market the way it is, I can see how people are simply applying to as many open positions as they possibly can. It’s called the “spray and pray” technique. It doesn’t seem to work very often, but the theory is that if you apply for so many jobs, you’re sure to land one. People are applying for positions that they don’t have the minimum qualifications for on a “what if” basis.
871 days ago Kirk Baumann (0) 
Forecasting Industry Trends by Analyzing the Individual Company
At 11:00 am on December 14th, Susan Driscoll from Compuware, the global leader in Technology Performance Solutions, spoke on best practice recruitment metrics and ROI. I, myself, am a huge fan of Susan as she has a great deal of knowledge on HR practices and she speaks on the subject in such an unerringly articulate way.
891 days ago Karen Bucks (0) 
SOWs: Get More from your VMS (Part 2)
Think about adding visibility and audit trails to competitive bidding among suppliers. Take that to the next level and allow suppliers to deliver innovative solutions that can save your organization time and money. Most companies have limited or no visibility into how their SOWs are constructed.
908 days ago Peter Parks (0) 
SOWs: Get More from your VMS (Part 1)
One of, if not the, hottest topics in the VMS / MSP world is SOW (“Services Procurement” or “Projects”). It appears to me that the primary driver for the excitement is the considerable spend in this category. Customers and providers recognize that it is like “leaving money on the table” to implement a VMS technology and leave a significant share of your services spend outside the system.
915 days ago Peter Parks (1) 
Prepare your employer brand for the tsunami
Your employer brand will become ever more important. Don’t wait until the tsunami hits – by then it will be too late to differentiate yourself from others. A few basic concepts that will help with the employer brand.
935 days ago John Cloonan (0) 
Client Wants a Discount? Don’t talk dollars, talk value
It’s a fact of recruiting life that clients will push you to negotiate your fees. And with so many recruiters quick to drop fee percentages to secure briefs, that can be a hard discussion to deal with.
948 days ago Greg Savage (0) 
Managing Your Hiring Managers, Part III
Our final post of the series will focus on how to effectively manage the hiring manager relationship. One important step in the management of any consultative relationship is the ability to establish a strong foundation to the partnership (yes, you’re the recruiting consultant to your hiring manager!).
948 days ago Bradley Savoy (0) 
Reduce our National Debt by Fixing the Broken Recruitment Process
The U.S. Government is providing tax breaks and providing financial assistance in hiring people, but the money recruiters and companies are receiving from the government is spent on supporting the poor system. Let us stop playing the game of ‘lie, steal, hide and borrow’’ like the U.S. Government and start focusing on quality and cost effective hiring processes.
948 days ago Velu Palani (0) 
Managing Your Hiring Managers, Part II
A key to building a consultative partnership with your hiring manager is by getting to know them personally and building credibility with strong functional knowledge of their organization, business unit and staff. How do you accomplish this?
955 days ago Bradley Savoy (1) 
7 Tips for Promoting Applicant Tracking Software User Adoption
Here are some tips that we put together regarding promoting adoption for applicant tracking software. These concepts can be applied to just about any technology. Say goodbye to the age of killer features. Say hello to the age of the killer usability.
955 days ago Joel Passen (0) 
Recruiters: This is how you sell exclusivity to clients
A great recruiter will be totally articulate in positioning why a client is doing themselves tremendous harm by getting recruiters to compete. By all means, let recruiters compete for a client. No problems there. That’s capitalism at its finest. But we should not compete on the same job. That is just dumb business by all parties.
958 days ago Greg Savage (0) 
Managing Your Hiring Managers, Part I
As we approach the end of the year and start to plan for the New Year the above questions can be used to help guide you and your hiring managers’ planning discussion for 2011. Be sure to capture and review the “wants/expectations” with your hiring managers on a regular basis to make sure you are on track and nothing has changed.
960 days ago Bradley Savoy (2) 
Hire Plateau with Cynthia Moore: Part I
Hire Plateau’s Kevin O’Brien had a chance to sit down with Cynthia Moore to discuss Contingent workforce management, cabins in Wisconsin and what she thinks of it all. This is part one of a two part interview.
961 days ago Hire Plateau (0) 
Simple HR Strategy, Smooth Processes
By creating a strategic HR plan, preparing for the future is easy. The world of recruiting will change as company goals change, as the talent pool fluctuates, as the type of talent differs, as employee drives alter; therefore, it is even more essential to develop your HR strategy now. Then, optimizing job efficiency won’t sound so scary.
961 days ago Karen Bucks (0) 
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