What Science and Recruiters Want From Your LinkedIn Profile Photo(s)

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Naturally, as a full-time recruiter I spend an exorbitant amount of time pursuing LinkedIn profiles. It’s a recruiter’s most frequent online destination when being charged with filling a job opening. While not all profiles are created equal, it never fails that every couple weeks I run across a real doozy. These are profiles that have […]

5 Tips to Find Your Next Job at #SXSW

SXSW is one conference where magic happens. It’s the combination of upwards of 30,000 people who are participating in a single event or a supplementary event that supports SXSW and in one of the most inviting cities in the world, Austin, Texas. This year I have the privilege of speaking at a session called Resumes […]

How to Identify Motives in the Hiring Process

I had the opportunity to interview Greg Smorzewski, HR Director for Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, who shared a simple way to identify candidate’s motives in the hiring process. Since he develops Community Hospital’s healthcare workforce, his answers focus on that industry but they’re relevant to hiring in other industries. After 15 years in […]

How to Create the Perfect Job Posting (Part 1)

This is a three part series on how to create the perfect job posting. Subscribe to our RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss! Earlier this week Vista Inet came under fire for their scathing reception job posting, where they included the following: “Please note that the Position requires filling in the responsibilities of a […]

How HR Can Help Those Entering the Working World

I’m always amazed by the amount of responses we receive when I begin to recruit for an entry level role. Hundreds of hopefuls are out there looking for someone to give them a chance and more often than not, it’s for one or two positions. It makes me wonder, how do we, as recruiters, as […]