Yesterday I got a suprising phone call from a recruiter. As she introduced herself she began pitching me a job I "would be perect for".

I haven't been in the job market in quite a while. 6 years to be exact. So her call was very surprising based on the 6 year old resume profile she found on me on a site called Data Frenzy. I politely explained that I work for myself now and she asked if I would pass the job lead on to anyone I could recommend.

She called me despite my resume showing that my resume was last updated in the year 2000. Was this a desperate attempt at sourcinga potential candidate? Or was she just oblivious to the resume details?

I managed to login to the Data Frenzy site to try and delete my resume. But when I got in there was NO way to delete my profile. All I could do was remove the resume details and change my personal info to some "gobbledyguck" text. Hmmm, I wonder how many other forgotten resumes there are out there?

My guess is a lot.

Labels: Industry News

If you visit the homepage of RecruitingFly, we now offer the ability to purchase text links on a weekly or monthly basis. A 7 day text link ad is just $17 or a 30 day is $65. Visit this link to sign up now. Or click the 'advertise here' in the Sponsor box.

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From a new survey by SkillSoft;

1. Seeing other people not pulling their weight – 56.1 percent

2. Bosses changing their minds about what they want you to do – 37.3 percent

3. Lack of support from bosses – 29.7 percent

4. Pressure from bosses – 28.6 percent

5. Interruptions by bosses – 23.8 percent

6. Feeling put-upon by bosses - 22.2 percent

7. Lack of support from colleagues – 21.6 percent

8. Bullying behaviour by bosses – 17.8 percent

9. Feeling put-upon by colleagues – 11.4 percent

10. Bullying behaviour by colleagues 9.2 percent

* respondents could pick more than one colleague irritation

Labels: Industry News

Interesting stuff about online recruitment, media consumption, online trends, employer brands, print media and more. Written by Tim Elkington.

Search internships at College Recruiter.com.

Labels: Recruiter Blogs

The HR Cafe is for HR executives and focuses on topics such as leadership, employment law, benefits, compensation, training and more.

Created by: Stephen Meyer is president of Business 21 Publishing (www.b21pubs.com), which publishes newsletters and conducts conferences in the HR, Safety and Finance fields. He was formerly director of publishing at Hay Group.

Labels: Recruiter Blogs

TriNet’s HR Blog provides insights, commentary, and information about the latest in HR and human capital management trends.

About the company: TriNet is a Canadian provider of HR services and guidance that encompass more than just one HR function. We serve all of their HR services needs by implementing and maintaining our Total HR services model: a powerful mix of experienced HR professionals, turn-key HR services, and industry-acclaimed HR technology.

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Labels: Recruiter Blogs

Often over-the-edge thoughts on sourcing, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding...

Written by Maureen Sharib and Steve Levy. Gotta love their bio descriptions...

Maureen Sharib is a General on the battlefield of names generation; her proactive sourcing stance will keep any recruiter ahead on the hiring curve. Names sourcing since 1997, her online Magic In The Method series empowers real-time tele-research. Her ERE Sourcing group is one of their finest; she has received accolades from the A. Haley School of Recruiting for her selfless work in helping to find that needle in a haystack. With a BA Economics from the University of Cincinnati and more than 30 years in the cruel world of business, Sharib is the killer app recruiters need.

Steve Levy, Mr. outside-the-box, actively sought out recruiting and OD because he was tired of HR making career decisions for him and his fellow engineers. His experience in BioEngineering, S/W Engineering, Mgmt Consulting, BPR, Supply Chain, Strategic Planning, & Patent Law is a sign that early on he was clueless - fortunately, grad work in Org Psych took him into HR and the first brick in his foundation was set. Years later, there was leading edge work in career counseling, social networking, and finally every area of recruiting and OD. All this after that BS Engineering (Tau Beta Pi) from UVM. Rapier wit aside, his real job includes being a hands-on builder and renovator of high performance recruiting organizations for challenging organizations and if negotiated, leading OD initiatives as well.

Accountant Careers.co.uk provides accounting jobs in the UK via its employment Web site.

Labels: Recruiter Blogs

There's an interesting brew-ha-ha simmering between a Monster.com exec and a few bloggers. You can read about it here and here.

I wish I was a fly on Monster's wall.

Labels: Industry News, Job boards

The recruitosphere just got a little bit bigger today when Bill Warren, a legend in online recruiting circles launched his blog on JobCentral. We look forward to his insights. His blog is called Internet Recruiting: Past, Present & Future

Labels: Job boards, Recruiter Blogs

Web stats are a treasure trove of information. This morning while viewing keyword activity for the Fly, I saw that somebody tried a 'cheezhead' search on google. Actually they were IP address: 130.227.187.251 from Denmark using IE 6, on a Windows XP machine with a resolution of 1024x768. (Now if I only knew their name!)

Anyway I thought it was cool that my recent "cheezhead in action" photo post was #3 so I scrolled through the rest of the top 10.

I saw a MySpace profile for Cheezhead so I clicked and saw this.

Male
28 years old
(216), OHIO
United States

Now I know that Joel lives in Ohio, and has a kid so at first I really thought it was his page. Upon further review it appears to be a musician who is a single father of one. (I'd swear that pic of the kid looks like a young Joel).

Last time I saw Joel, he didn't have dreadlocks.

So Joel, if you are reading this how about putting up a cheezhead profile that ranks better than his.

Labels: Industry News, Other bloggers

HR.com, the world’s largest online community for HR professionals, is thrilled to announce that it has expanded its online learning efforts to include more educational webcasts and podcasts. Beginning October 1st, HR.com will launch a comprehensive new webcast series that will deliver award winning content to their audience of global HR professionals and business leaders. In addition, 450 archived webcasts, their transcriptions and their podcasts will be made available to all registered members of HR.com.

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Whats it about? News, views and information about Online Recruitment and Online Marketing.

Written by Mike Taylor who has a background in Online Recruitment and Online Marketing having previously worked for IBM and Nokia in HR and recruitment. Whilst at Nokia Mike was responsible for Nokia UK's online recruitment strategy.

Mike runs www.Web-Based-Recruitment.com, an online recruitment consultancy offering advice to companies on how to use the internet to recruit new employees.

Labels: Recruiter Blogs

For those of you who are "graphically challenged", here's a simple tool to help you create a Web 2.0 looking logo.

http://msig.info/web2.php


Browse and search recruiting blogs.

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Make your employer brand more about substance and less about spin
Employers need to become much clearer and consistent about how they manage their workers and what they want from them if they are to make the most of their employer brand, the man who coined the term has warned. Simon Barrow, who this month publishes the first book on the concept, has warned that, while companies are more than happy to bandy about the idea of having an employer brand, few in reality understand fully what this means. (Management Issues)

Only a Quarter of Organisations Measure Employer Brand Investment
Despite employee engagement being the current buzzword, an international Employer Brand survey of over 500 HR executives by global talent solutions business, Bernard Hodes, found that only six out of 10 employers have a formal employer branding effort in place. One possible reason is that Employer Brand programmes can be hard to justify to the bottom-line. Only a quarter, (24%) of respondents noted that their organisations were able to measure their employer brand in terms of recruitment and retention. Even fewer, one in eight (13%) indicated that the value of their employer brand is calibrated by their overall company performance. (OnRec)

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posted by C.M Russell  # 10:17 AM