43% of Recruiters Blacklist Overeager & Aggressive Job Seekers

Lying on your Resume and Tips for Job Seekers

43% of Recruiters Blacklist Overeager & Aggressive Job Seekers  Working as a recruiter is tough, and passive job seekers are estimated to now be 47% of your workforce a year.  This means that nearly half of your workforce each year is casually job searching, laying low, and keeping their options open.  There really is no […]

Adecco Staffing US Survey Reveals Hiring Managers Highly Value Today’s Mature Workforce

Hiring managers more likely to hire mature workers

Adecco Staffing US Survey Reveals Hiring Managers Highly Value Today’s Mature Workforce (via PR Newswire) MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Hiring managers are three times more likely to hire a mature worker (60 percent) than a Millennial (20 percent), according to a new survey from Adecco Staffing US, part of the world’s largest recruitment […]

Avoiding Office Injuries: Keeping Workers Safe and Saving Money

How Safety Impacts Work Incidents

How Safety Impacts Work Incidents “Wow. I’m going to be working in an office. How dangerous can this job be?” I thought as my current employer asked me about how I approach safety in my second interview. I was dead wrong. According to Liberty Mutual’s Workplace Safety Index for 2011, virtually all of the workplace […]

Bullhorn Survey Identifies Top Five Recruiter Turnoffs

Top four negative candidate behaviors

43 percent of recruiters consider “blacklisting” candidates for applying to jobs for which they are unqualified BOSTON–Bullhorn, the global leader in online recruiting software, released the results of a survey today that defines the top five candidate behaviors that scare away recruiters and other factors that negatively impact a job seeker’s chance of landing a […]

I Was Fired For Recruiting on LinkedIn

Recruiting on social media and LinkedIn

Recruiting on LinkedIn The year was 2009 just a mere 3 years ago.  Social recruiting was just a baby and a number of recruiters were dabbling in hiring on Twitter, Myspace, and Facebook including myself.  Just as it is now, LinkedIn was a popular recruiting choice.  Back in those days LinkedIn Recruiter had been launched […]