Archive for May, 2007

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Use Your E-Mail Signature for Recruiting

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

How many e-mails to you send out every day? 10? 50? 100? And how often are those e-mails forwarded?
Here’s an idea for you: Add a recruiting message and website link in your signature. Sure, your work fax is interesting, but if you’re looking for talent, why not use that space? It’s free.
Getting your people to [...]

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Shifting Careers and a Little Advice

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I had lunch yesterday with an intriguing senior executive who had spent his entire career in one industry. He’d risen to the top of organizations and not only delivered financial results, but he also built high performance teams doing it. So, been there, done that.. And now he’d like a change of pace. How does [...]

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Keep Track of Who You Interviewed

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Have you ever sent out a recruiting letter to a candidate and found out that he already rejected an offer a year earlier? Maybe that hasn’t happened to you, but it did happen to Google.
In Google Hiring Funniness, Robert Scoble writes about a highly-regarded candidate that Google was chasing:
Jeff Barr is an evangelist at Amazon [...]

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Excellent Interview Questions

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Simon Meth at SittingXlegged conducted a contest to determine “the very best interview questions.” He has winners.

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HR Radio

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Systematic HR has some Great HR Podcast Ideas.