As you may have heard by now, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, at long last, published its draft guidelines for what constitutes a job applicant on the Internet. This definition is important, of course, because it determines on whom companies must keep records in order to prove their compliance with Federal anti-discrimination laws. In
In my last column, I introduced an alternative view of job postings. Since their creation in the early 1990s, these recruitment ads have been caught in a time warp. They are written today just as they were written then, with the minimal content and meager selling power of recruitment advertising in a labor surplus market.
Here’s the good news: According to a March survey of 16,000 U.S. employers, conducted by the staffing firm Manpower, recruiting activity is finally about to rise. A net 20% of employers expect to add workers in the second quarter of this year, the highest level of workforce additions since the first quarter of 2001. Even
Staffing metrics are all the rage these days, and none generates more discussion and angst than measures of new hire quality. Just how good are the new employees acquired by the Staffing Team and how do you tell? What numbers or scales can be used to indicate-accurately and fairly-new hire capabilities and motivation and when
Recently, there has been a spate of press reports on two topics that are important to recruiters: The role of corporate career sites in an organization’s recruiting strategy, and The quality of the resources recruiters use to find job boards and career portals. While I appreciate the visibility the media has accorded these issues, I’m
The biggest complaint about online recruiting these days is the volume of unqualified responses you get from a job posting. Post a job for an engineer, for example, and you’ll get hundreds, even thousands of applications. Some will be from engineers, of course, but many-too many, in fact-will be from sushi chefs and truck drivers.
Leadership. What’s that got to do with recruiting and recruiters? Isn’t leadership a topic reserved for … well, for the leaders of our organizations-the executives, managers, directors and supervisors who oversee the work of the enterprise? That’s the view that some take, of course, but it’s not mine. The art and science of leadership is
In case you haven’t heard, the latest craze to hit the Internet is something called social networking. It’s a service offered at such sites at Friendster.com, Itsnotwhatyouknow.com, and Ryze (www.ryze.com). Social networking uses technology to help people make connections with other people who are friends with their friends. If genealogy traces the ancestors you never
Every year at this time-as the Holiday season settles in and the end of the year approaches-we at WEDDLE’s pause for a moment to reflect on our blessings. Yes, there’s no denying that the world is a troubled place these days and yes, indeed, it has been a challenging twelve months for those of us
This is my favorite time of the year. We at WEDDLE’s work from January to November preparing our books for publication, and in December, I get to announce the new titles and tell you a little about them. It’s not a big deal in the greater scheme of things, I know, but for us, it