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Comment on Unfriend by Amy Stevens

Amy Stevens — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:23:14 +0000

Outstanding post – very well written, accurate, as well as entertaining!

Comment on Zero Sum Game by Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:13:11 +0000

Wow! That is some post . For all the recruiters out there, willing to hide their practices and working over a zero sum game must read this to understand the benefits of sharing and leveraging each others strengths.
Integrating and partnering has now taken a leap in serving the best to the clients in any business and not just in HR. The concept of sharing the knowledge helps to make people understand what are the best practices in a particular field. People do have this fear of disseminating their practices as they think it would get counterfeited. Well yes it may get copied but actually its not the product which differentiates, rather its the intellect of the people who developed it. So difficult to make those fearful recruiters understand

Oscar Hernandes
Research Analyst
Hirelabs, Inc.

Comment on A Brand or a Temporary Tattoo? by Martk Broderick

Martk Broderick — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:57:03 +0000

wheres the job board?

Comment on No War for Talent by David Maxwell

David Maxwell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:49:56 +0000

Great article – I completely agree and have watched this play out over the (many) years of recruiting, thanks for sharing.

Comment on Open Letter to Job Seekers by Phil Haynes

Phil Haynes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:05:11 +0000

Randy,
Try using http://www.quietagent.com. It’s exactly what you describe. Fill out your profile and it will only notify you when there is a company that wants to talk to you. No more trying to “time” it or struggling with the fractured job board industry. I agree, as a job seeker, trying to get it all right is tough. Technology should be helping and until QuietAgent – none have.

Comment on Revolutions are Uncomfortable Things by Randy K

Randy K — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:03:23 +0000

As a job seeker I have trouble with craigslist as a credible “help wanted” source.

Comment on Open Letter to Job Seekers by Randy K

Randy K — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:22:47 +0000

“We have a timer on positions and have to get them filled. Even in this economy, most positions have a cost of vacancy associated with them. As such, we have to fill our roles in a timely fashion. Sometimes, this means that the best candidate for the job is not considered because they applied late to the opening. This TIMING element of filling jobs is the most misunderstood by job seekers. We hire the best candidate in a given timeframe otherwise we’d never fill our jobs because we’d always be waiting for YOU to apply!”

OK, so it seems that if we the job seeker are to be among the lucky ones to even be considered for an interview, we need to clock in at the correct sliver of time. I wish I could get some advanced notice of when these openings will be posted so I can wedge in there within the “given timeframe.”

Maybe I could program some spider to crawl through all the thousands of company sites every couple of seconds looking for the miniscule few opportunities in my field in my geographic area. Then, when the right opportunity is there, have it check if I have to see if I have already applied for that position; if no register my email, password, stop and alert me that there’s some captcha that I nave to decipher and type in, continue with all my personal information and copy/paste my resume into the box. Now the program will need to review and fix all the parsing errors made by the proprietary software because my resume isn’t formatted in exactly the way this software is formatted. It will need to take the job title out of the manager’s name (recall from table job_Mgr), and move the job title to the appropriate box (which was filled in by the parsing software with some Klingon symbols that most likely means no not delete this or you will not be considered), rinse and repeat for the three other positions on the resume. Now insert a covr letter of some sparkly HR bait bullshit of why this company and I are a great fit for each other designed to make the HR harpy go slack-jawed and drop her Juicy Fruit into her desk. Oh, too late, time’s up! We are no longer looking at any more applications.

Comment on 2010 Predictions? In July? by Phil Haynes

Phil Haynes — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:44:27 +0000

Hey Ed,
Sorry for not getting to your questions faster.
My 2011 scenario is simply based on the number of people who are in survivial jobs today, underemployed and anxious to return to desired roles. Once jobs become more available, we will see an exodus of these people (think former CFO at a small company, now doing Auditing work until the market improves) to the correct employment situations. This movement will be unprecedented. Turnover will outpace hiring creating a very interesting situation for recruiters and companies looking to sieze business opportunities while stabilizing their staff. I’m really looking forward to it!
Email me if you want to discuss further; phil.haynes@allianceq.com

Comment on 2010 Predictions? In July? by Ed Morley

Ed Morley — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:55:37 +0000

Please explain your January 2011 scenario in more detail. Please explain your suppositions and alo more detail.

I don’t doubt much change but where are you coming from but can you be more specific in your observations?

Comment on 2010 Predictions? In July? by Anon

Anon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:06:56 +0000

Amen! thanks for cutting through BS