All Entries Tagged With: "Job Seekers"
You Smoking; You’re Not Working Here
No smoking — at work or anytime. Each year, smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke causes 443,000 premature deaths and costs the nation $193 billion in health bills and lost productivity.
Need a Job: Prepare for Pop Quiz
To get a read on applicants, more employers are using pre-hire assessments, which can check personality, cognitive ability and competency, among other areas.
Should You Hire An Overqualified Candidate
Managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates. The unprecedented availability of top talent is changing the prevailing wisdom.
Keeping Overqualifieds On Board
Last year, the focus was getting a job, period. Now those who had no choice before are regretting it.
Employer Credit Checks On Job Seekers Draw Scrutiny
The underlying concern is that poor credit could become a barrier to landing a job. Employers contend credit checks help them evaluate candidates and protect against fraud.
Top Lists Of Job Search Bloggers And Twitter Users
In an effort to make your information-gathering more streamlined and efficient, I have compiled the following lists of top-rated blogs, personal branding consultants, and Tweeters who have best-of-the-best recognition.
Monster.com Attempts To Reclaim Throne As #1 Job Site By “Acquiring” HotJobs.com
This was a good move for Monster in an attempt to deflect their 33% decline in revenue in 2009. Monster experienced a tough year and the news of a new acquisition was their way of trying to turn it around.”
I’m Not Applying for Your Open Job Because Your Posting Process is a Royal Pain!
My clients tell me unbelievable stories about how difficult some companies make the online posting process. It seems like a lot of great candidates are getting away because they can’t be bothered with most company’s poorly worded job postings and frustrating posting processes.
