Recruitment Articles
April 28 2008 - The Background Screening division of Kroll, a leading risk consulting firm,
has released its annual Hit Ratio Report revealing that employment screening criminal record convictions are
continuing on an upward trend.
March 5 2008 - Two-thirds of HR professionals in North America (USA - 66%, Canada - 65%)
believe that tougher national immigration policies force their organizations to devote more resources
to recruiting and retaining local talent.
January 8 2008 - Polachi, a major provider of Access Executive Search services, has published its top trend predictions for
executive recruiting for this year.
October 9 2007 - A survey commissioned in metropolitan Atlanta by American InterContinental University (AIU)
has found that local employers believe today's job seekers are better equipped for productive employment than their
equivalents in the past.
April 21 2007 - A recent survey finds that 75 per cent of 180 organizations responding either use or plan to use psychological assessment for executive selection and development. Over half (58.3 per cent) currently use such methods, a further
16.7 per cent are considering their implementation.
September 28 2006 - Citigroup Global Wealth Management has recently has teamed up with a number of top law firms and law schools to introduce CitiSelect, described as an innovative recruitment programme aimed at providing graduating law students with a new way to fast track their careers.
September 21 2006 - Recruiters and HR leaders find online job sites
effective in filling openings, despite complaints that they generate too many
unqualified applicants.
August 24 2006 - Recent research indicates that when we see an unfamiliar face, our brains decide intuitively whether a person is attractive and trustworthy within a tenth of a second - so quickly that reason may play no part in the process.
August 20 2006 - Senior managers believe that pay and job
security are the most important factors when workers consider job offers according to
a recent survey.
May 4 2006 - Applying for a new job, or a new career, can be a major task if you are not prepared with knowledge about yourself and techniques for revealing the best information about yourself when you are applying through the mail for a new position. Sending your resume off through the mail can often seem like you are blindly putting yourself "out there" for everyone to look at and review. But if you use the information in this article, you can create a cover letter to accompany your resume, one that will get you in the door for an interview. Taking
that step from mailing your resume to actually getting an interview is one that many people find difficult, but it
does not have to be.
May 2 2005 - Brainbench roll out assessment
tools designed to predict employee success more accurately by measuring the specific mix of personality,
skills, abilities and past employment behavior for over 150 jobs.
April 20 2005 - Telltale signs that your job search may be in jeopardy and the quick fixes you
can incorporate to increase the chances your job search will be successful.
March 1 2005 - Participants appearing towards the end of juried competitions seem to do better
than those performing at the beginning - and this finding has implications for recruitment and selection.
February 1 2005 - Conducting a job search using the Internet has definitely transformed how jobseekers contact hiring companies.
With the Internet's convenience, a breeding ground for scam artists continues to grow each year as well.
January 3 2005 - Like most life changes, a career shift requires introspection-an examination into where you have been and where you want to be.
May 1 2005 - 'Webhire Workforce Intelligence
enables corporate executives, hiring managers, recruiters and other talent stakeholders
to fine-tune hiring practices and talent management programs by analyzing critical talent
management metrics and trends against internal and external benchmarks.'
December 2 2004 - The fastest way to make a good interview go bad is to avoid questions posed by the
hiring manager.
August 18 2004 - Hiring managers value teamwork even higher than
other personal qualities such as ambition and the ability to think on their feet.
July 26 2004 - It seems like a good idea, harmless in fact. Your friends assure you that everybody does it and that employers rarely check resume facts. Going on blind faith and convinced the truth hasn't been helpful so far, you seriously consider fabricating information on your resume.
May 21 2004 - Monday, May 24 the New York Times Job Market
"Networking Nights" series kicks off again in New York City. But this year it will extend to
other select U.S. cities
March 30 2004 - The challenge is, How does one create an "interviewable" resume, one that isn't boring or sterile?
February 4 2004 - Going through the motions of a bad interview is like peeling back the layers of an onion.
January 7 2004 - U.S. statutes cover discrimination abroad against U.S.
citizens applying for employment with American employers or for employment with
American-controlled foreign employers.
January 7 2004 - Enterprising job hunters have long sought to get
a foot in the door as a way into their next job. A new survey for Robert Half Technology shows employers
also embrace this approach.
July 16 2003 - Efficiently prescreen thousands of job candidates can
significantly reducing the amount of time hiring managers need to spend reviewing resumes
and identifying the most suitable candidates.
April 25 2003 - Looking for a white-collar
technical job on the web? Make sure your name sounds Japanese,
Jewish or "white." That increases the likelihood of an interview by a factor of
seven to eight times compared to names that sound African-American,
Greek, Hispanic or Italian.
April 25 2003 - 60% of job seekers in a recent survey
said they averaged seven hours per week reviewing recruitment ads and responded to an average of
69 job listings.
January 14 2003 - InfoLink To Provide Integrated Background Checking Services To Recruiternet's Applicant Tracking Solutions.
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