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One Good Catch Leads to Another
-Tap into your staff for potential leads to new employees.

The Best Are Different Than the Rest
-If a company''s hiring processes aren''t designed with the unique needs of the best in mind, top candidates could be excluded or inadvertently eliminated every step of the way.

Executive Search and Your Career
-Retained executive search consulting is appropriate for hiring the most qualified and appropriate senior-level executives available.

Recruiting Attitude Is Everything
-Shape up your attitude when approaching a new possible hire.

Workplace Technology Brings Changes to Job Seeker Etiquette, Polls Find
-Monster Poll Finds Employers Prefer Email Thank-You Notes to Traditional Letters

Sailing Through HR''s ''Perfect Storm''
-A real threat is on the horizon -- a storm that will create dangerously heavy seas for companies that do not take the necessary steps to prepare.

Candidate's Bill of Rights: What to Expect from a Professional Executive Search Firm
-The most successful executive searches involve those where you, the search consultant and the client know your rights and obligations within the search process and adhere to the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct.

Asking The Right Recruitment Questions
-Create the ultimate recruitment ad by harnessing the power of the questions you use.

Build a First-Rate Hiring Process
-Whether you build a recruitment team internally or you look for an outside vendor, here are the key steps for a first-rate hiring process.

Why Skimping on Recruitment Efforts Will Cost You
-The Importance of Smart Recruitment in a Slow Economy

Referral Service with a Smile
-Referrals are one of many ways to find qualified candidates for some vacant positions.

Tip: Hiring Applications - Lighten Up
-Create ways to have fun while doing serious work.

Quick Quits: Stemming the Turnover Tide for New Hires
-By tapping into new hire energy, knowledge and wisdom right from the start, an organization can maximize the new hire''s potential, extend the handshake and fuel that energy well past the beginning of a new hire''s employment cycle.

The Staffing Files - January 27, 2003
This week: three firms that offer tools to help save time and money.

HR Pros Recount Their Worst Interviews
-Ask HR professionals about their worst job interviews, and you''ll get tales of applicants with everything from bad attitudes and repulsive personal habits to propensities for talking to walls or gleefully disclosing that they last worked as prostitutes.

Top 100 UK Online Recruitment Sites Report 2003
-Findings from the 2003 edition of the top UK recruitment sites report help recruiters in their search for worldwide staff and statistics.

The Staffing Files: February 17, 2003
-This week: TMS Vendors.

Recruitmax Helps Household Reach Recruiting Bliss
Advertorial: Supporting Aggressive Growth and Mountains of Resumes is No Problem for Recruitmax

The Best Practices for Web-based Recruiting
-With over 40,000 job boards on the Web, what is the single best tool for recruiting on the Internet?

Part 1: Diversity Staffing: The Why, What, Where & How
-Diversity is like "electricity" to many HR and recruiting professionals: You know it when you see it, and any organization that "harnesses" this "electricity" correctly will be "energized" exponentially from a successfully diversified workforce.

Hiring Foreign Workers in a Post-9/11, Pre-War World
-Tips on managing today´s challenging immigration process

PART 2: Diversity Staffing: Be Color and You''ll Attract Color
-This author may have invented a new meaning for "person of color". See if you agree.

China's Recruiting Market Is Booming
-China´s admission to WTO and its successful application for the 2008 Olympics present a great business opportunity for North American companies to promote their products and services for the Chinese market.

Recruitment Practices in Pakistan
-This white paper (approx 12 pages) is a unique source of information for anyone doing business in Pakistan. It includes a substantial amount of background information on economic conditions.

Positioning a Staffing Firm for the Largest Government Subcontracting Boon
-The Bush Administration has newly slated over 1 MIL government jobs for replacement by the private sector. Smart companies are angling for the greatest boon to government contracting and subcontracting since WWII.

Under the RADAR
-Pre-Employment Screening: What job seekers and employers should know.

History Lesson, Europe and Hurst's Formula For Online Recruitment Success
-Just which company was the first online recruitment website? And where does the UK stand in this technological field?

Focused Recruiting for the Wired World: No Longer a Pipedream
-Online job boards seem to have taken over classified ads but is the e-recruiting industry enjoying too much of a good thing?

eStaffing: E-procurement in the Staffing Industry
- Terminology used to describe HR e-procurement is often confusing, making it difficult for the procurement newcomer to understand the players, processes, and technologies involved.

Part 3: The Diversity Staffing Recipe
-This traditional Mexican dessert can be considered brain food when it comes to HR.

The Staffing Files
-This Week: Is Internet Recruiting Working?

What Can Recruitment Learn From Marketing?
-While everyone else defaults to recruitment ads, you can use a marketing approach to stand apart and present a place where the best talent wants to be.

iLogos Study Shows Majority of Global 500 Companies Recruit on the Careers Website
-Study shows 6-Year trend and reports that in 2003, 94 percent use careers website recruiting.

Working in the Interim
-Interim employment can be an excellent staffing solution for both job seekers and employers.

Companies Identify Innovative Recruitment Strategies
-Recruitment agencies can be more fruitful than campus visits for companies seeking to hire people with disabilities.

The Building Blocks for Global Internet Recruitment
- A global perspective on internet recruiting.

Staffing Vendor Spotlight
-WorkforceLogic: Services and Products For Workforce Management

UK Corporate Website Recruiting & Direct Approaches
-Recent research reveals that the majority of UK employers have yet to integrate Internet recruitment initiatives into a comprehensive recruitment strategy.

Movin' On Up...and Stirring Up the Waters
-The anticipated movement of higher qualified workers to upper level positions is certainly good news-for them and for our economy.

Six Rules For Successful Candidate Processing
- The field of human resources recruitment is one filled with many time-consuming and costly challenges.

Measuring Your Web-based Recruiting Efforts
- Web-based recruiting is moving from the early adopter phase to the mainstream market and now executives are asking their HR departments what the plan is and how will its performance be measured.

Mastering Online Job Hunting
-CareerJournal.com offers tactics to mastering online job hunting.

What''s In A Rejection?
-A recruitment specialist shares his experience about how to choose the right candidate from a sea of resumes.

The Staffing Files
-Interview with Dean Robbins, Vice President of Co-Talent

Rethink How You Work With Search Firms: Insert Yourself Into The Process
-After reading countless rants related to the ineffective role of executive search firms, it seemed it might be helpful to point executive job seekers in a new direction.

The World's Shortest Management Course
-The Gallup Organization interviewed 60,000 top managers. Consensus was that the most important thing a good manager does is hire smart.

UK Recruitment Market Poised For Success
-A look at how UK websites are gearing up towards putting a significant mark on the online staffing industry.

A Primer In Pre-Employment Testing
-The advent of the Internet has radically changed the way in which companies recruit and select employees.

An Online Job Board Is A Lot Like A Slot Machine
-The first time you enter a large job board, you could be overwhelmed with the amount of opportunities you see, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and think, geez, all I need is one!

Companies Identify Innovative Recruitment
-Recruitment agencies can be more fruitful than campus visits for companies seeking to hire people with disabilities as part of their diversity initiatives.

Why Test for Skills?
- If you asked your employer to take $8,000 of the company''s money to a casino and let it all ride on one wager, how do you think he or she would respond?

Do You Know Who You're Hiring?
-The importance of effective employee screening.

Back To Grass-Roots Recruiting Efforts
-Some new twists on traditional recruiting methods, both online and offline, make finding good technology professionals easier and are worth pursuing.

The Staffing Files
This week: Contingent workforce management tools offer perhaps the clearest path to fast Return On Investment (ROI) of any HR technology.

Where To Find Recruiters
- Despite the recent rounds of IT layoffs, it´s still extremely hard to find good technical candidates and good technical recruiters.

Promote The Best Person With Good Selection Practices
-Downsizing or consolidating involves tough decisions about which employees to hang onto.

Staffing Vendor Spotlight
This week: Econometrix

Great Recruiting Practices--Not Technology--Make Great Recruiting
- By itself, the Web won´t make any organization better at attracting, hiring, or keeping talent.

Don't Buy the Myth of the "Passive Job Seeker"
-Real talent gems are to be found in the passive job seeker category.

Before You Go Recruiting, Hire a Professional Recruiter
-Many execs view recruiting as something that anyone can do, akin to the myth about teaching, where those who can do and those who can´t recruit.

Vendor Profile: Kenexa
HR.com sat down with Troy Kanter, President, HCM Division, Kenexa.

Hiring is High Risk, So Perfect Your Selection Methods
-A new study finds 68% of hiring managers surveyed in the NY metro area believe that an interview is the most effective selection method for hiring new employees.

Why The A-Team May Not Be The Best Team
-When you think about it, it is impossible for a company of any size to employ ''the best and brightest'' in all jobs all of the time.

UK Recruitment Scene
-Recruiting candidates directly.

Getting Ready For The Holiday Hiring Season
-Retail outlets across the country are already gearing up for the holiday shopping season.

Reality HR: Charles A. Coleman Jr., Senior Director of Human Resources at Hyatt Regency Chicago
-Hyatt is one of the world's premier hotel chains that successfully moved to 100% on-line recruiting. HR.com spoke to Charles Coleman about how they did that.

It''s All Or Nothing If You Want To Be Strategic
-The author argues the case for full service outsourcing in Europe.

Recruiter Finesse
-10 steps to becoming a top employment destination.

Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best
-Your organization''s continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best.

How To Find A Job When There Are None?
-Turn a temp job into a permanent position.

Best Practices In Hiring
-Too much faith in resumes and interviews can lead to bad hiring decisions.

Recruiting a la The Apprentice
-Is there any relationship between NBC''s hit show The Apprentice and the methods and best practices in today''s recruiting processes?

How To Make Yourself Three Times More Likely to Get Hired
-Research shows that the last person interviewed is the one most likely hired!

HR BPO: Looking Back At 2003 - Looking Ahead To 2004
-Here is a quick synopsis of some of the landmark events of 2003 and predictions for the year to come.

Truth or Dare: New Strategies for Screening Job Candidates
-Hiring managers today face more challenges in vetting job candidates than detectives on "Law and Order" trying to uncover the truth in their latest case.

Preparing For The Summer Job Season
-For high school and college students, thoughts of a summer job remain a far-off concept, but for retail outlets and restaurants, summer hiring is just around the corner.

Summer Earnings
-How teens and young adults plan to spend their summer earnings.

Top 100 Online Recruitment Site Report 2004
-The UK generalist online recruitment market is beginning to show some definition and 2004 will be a good year for the established niche sites.

How to Prevent Resume Overload with a Questionnaire
-Using a questionnaire to prescreen applicants may be a cost effective solution.

5 Overlooked Ways To Hire Winners
-Some applicants come across fine in a job interview. But, they then proceed to flop after you put them on the payroll.

Reality HR: Carl Lopes, How Staples Recruits
-Carl Lopes, VP Employment at Staples, discusses how they've structured to successfully manage corporate recruiting in a large, rapidly growing firm.

The Resume Race To Ruin
-Companies and clients erroneously believe the search firm fee is earned by being the first in the door with a resume.

Networking the Right Mountain ® Way: 8 Important Suggestions
-Here are some great networking tips to make use of.

Oops! The Worst Way to Find the Right Person for the Job
-If you were told your next major investment had a one in ten chance of succeeding, as a good business executive, you´d pass.

Hiring Decisions: Why Look Back When It's Right In Front Of You?
-Corporations have begun to realize the importance of making a more informed hiring decision.

How Does One Go About Assessing An Employee's Suitability For An International Assignment?
-Posting the wrong employee on international assignment can be disastrous (and costly) to all parties involved.

The Public Relations Aspect of Hiring
-When a company enters the employment marketplace they are exposing their name and attaching actions and developing reputations. This is a public relations and marketing issue.

Reality HR: Keith L Vencel, Human Resources Product Manager, Sutter Health on Employee Optimization
-Sutter Health is a community based not-for-profit health care organization with 26 acute care hospitals, 5 medical foundations, with 40,000 employees located in Northern California and Hawaii. HR.com spoke with Keith Vencel about his team´s successful implementation of Sutter Health´s recruitment and optimization process.

Mastering A Senior Management Interview
-The top three interview tips for the candidate and the employer.

How To Select International Assignees
-What are the best practices for selecting/recruiting international assignees with the desired skill set?

The Development-Minded Manager
-Want to know how to attract and retain the very best talent? Look no further than the manager.

HR Best Practices For Interviewing And Hiring
-A good interview doesn´t guarantee a successful hire. But sound interviewing and hiring techniques help you find the right person for the job.

The Right Mountain ® Interview: Twenty Questions Whose Answers You MUST Know for Interview Succe
Here are some helpful tips.

Most Frequently Fabricated Types of Information
-Reason for leaving a prior job is the information most frequently fabricated by job seekers, according to global survey of executive recruiters.

Recruiting Outsourcing Drives Value
-Many organizations'' hiring needs have significantly increased as the economy has rebounded.

11 Steps For Selecting Top Management Talent
Failure has little to do with the executive´s basic competencies but more to do with the wrong matching of executive to a job.

Finding a Job: 21st Century Style
-Here´s a practical list of worldly and otherworldly advice for getting that perfect job.

How To Hire Temp MVPs
-While the job market is heating up, the real battle is for temporary help.

Introduction to the New Apprentice Series: Trump-Cruiter
-HR.com is pleased to announce a new weekly column by veteran executive recruiter, Scott Smith who will offer his insight on Donald Trump''s upcoming season of The Apprentice series.

Why Brainteasers? What Interviewers Are Looking For
-The interviewers are less interested in the answer you get than in the road you use getting there. It´s all about process.

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