MyPhilter delivers an obvious (and missing) chunk of simple LinkedIn functionality. A user can organize LinkedIn contacts into categories for further consideration. A simple process loads the data. MyPhilter tracks the categories. (You can have up to five custom categories.) MyPhilter makes LinkedIn a lot more useful if you’re actually using LinkedIn to recruit or find a job.
Recruiting, as currently practiced, is a defensive and reactive process full of promotional techniques. Placing an ad on a job board, hiring a staffing or search firm, and, filling a requirement after it is identified are all reactive behaviors executed in defense of a set of circumstances that happen out of the control of the recruiter. The problem with promotion as a development tool is that it makes people want to run away.
8 Reasons Social Media Policies Backfire Just because employees drive their cars to work and park them on company property, the employer doesn't get to tell them what kind of car to own, how to drive, or whether to remove those tacky Hawaiian seat covers. Most social media accounts belong to the employee. The effectiveness […]
There is nothing more important than having the payroll on time and accurate. Unless your firm is very young and very entrepreneurial, the morale impact of bad payroll processing is an unthinkable option. Profound diligence and precision in this purely administrative challenge is the minimum requirement.
Employment websites are rarely designed with visitors in mind. This simple insight is the foundation for much of the improvement that can be done. The idea of candidate experience is nonsense unless it is squarely tied to a specific audience.
Put Linda Brenner on your radar. Her firm, Designs on Talent, is a growing operation with a key staffing distinction: each member of the team has already had a full career in Talent Acquisition or Talent Management. Rather than the endless sea of inexperienced consultants, the firm plans to build its reputation on wisdom and expertise developed in the field.
New Ways To Work with Jim Creighton The New Ways of Working Network was founded to provide a forum for experts to share and discuss leading edge practices in remote virtual work. The Network has been hugely successful, with one exception. Members report that when their companies plan corporate programs to permit new ways of […]
Influence is not necessarily a popularity contest. Our culture has its fair share of shallow, well meaning people who are well liked. And, there is little reason to overlook the dramatic impact that charisma, good looks and the spotlight have on decision making. In some ways, popularity matters terribly. In others, it’s an irritant at […]
It doesn’t get much better than this. Yesterday, LinkUp (a Minnesota based job aggregator) forecast the improved jobs report that moved the US stock market this morning. Here’s their press release. Job search engine LinkUp.com released its 60-day job forecast today based on nearly 1,000,000 job openings indexed each month from over 20,000 company websites. Based […]
Roger McNamee is an amazing combination of working musician and venture capitalist. He was an early Facebook investor. This is the text of a speech he gave to the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. It’s worth taking a moment to read the speech. McNamee lays out a view of the world to come. In that world, […]
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