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Next on #HFChat: Referral Hiring

January 17, 2012 by Tom Bolt

Regular visitors to our Friday Twitter chat sessions have heard this fact stated over and over: Corporate recruiters agree that employee referrals are one of the best sources of viable candidates because they come with a built-in reference check. Statistics on the source-of-hire for new employees confirm that this is usually one of the largest [...]

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#HFChat Transcript for Friday, January 13, 2012

January 13, 2012 by Tom Bolt

Ask anyone who knows about social media, hiring and recruiting and they will point to Sodexo as a company that has set the example for others to follow. They have not only led the way to discover the company benefits of their external presence online they have also looked inward with the same approach. There [...]

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#HFChat Transcript for Friday, January 6, 2012

January 7, 2012 by Tom Bolt

Welcome to the transcript for the first #HFChat on Twitter for the New Year. This week’s chat was led by guest host Robert Dagnall @ResumeGuru on the topic: Job Search Strategy To Find A Job Right Now! Robert was joined by #HireFriday founder and CEO Margo Rose along with regulars Cyndy Trivella, Steve Levy and [...]

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Next on #HFChat: Revisiting the Art of Networking

December 27, 2011 by Tom Bolt

If you are one of the regular #HireFriday followers you have heard this fact repeated over and over again: Networking is one of the most successful job search techniques. Intellectually we know and understand this to be true, but emotionally it can be difficult because it involves actually finding and connecting with people instead of [...]

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#HFChat Transcript for Friday, December 23, 2011

December 24, 2011 by Tom Bolt

It’s the season to be stressed out! Especially if engaged in a year-end job search after months of looking. On Friday on #HFChat we discussed Job Search Fatigue, led by HireFriday Founder and CEO Margo Rose. She was joined by the #HireFriday leadership team of Cyndy Trivella, Steve Levy and me. The Questions What are [...]

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Get Labor Day Help From The HireFriday Leadership Team #ZeroUnemployment

September 4, 2011 by Margo Rose

All week, I’ve been writing about The US Economic Outlook, Unemployment, and Labor Day. The HireFriday Community joins other online communities in reaching out to those job seekers in need. Today is Labor Day. The Zero Unemployment Movement #ZeroUE on Twitter is sponsoring a 1 day challenge to spend 15 minutes to help an unemployed [...]

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#HireFriday Is a Community, Not a Day of the Week

June 28, 2011 by Tom Bolt

For 41 years, ESPN and its older sibling ABC Sports have carried one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series ever, Monday Night Football. Before the other networks got into the bidding war for the gazillion dollar NFL broadcasting rights, ABC would occasionally air Thursday, Saturday or Sunday night NFL games and [...]

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Interview Like a Consultant

June 20, 2011 by Steve Levy

(Reposted by request from The Recruiting Inferno 12/7/2010 by #HFChat co-moderator Steve Levy) Note: This is a long post and there’s quite a bit to digest. Please read it through and see if you can apply my suggestions to a recent interview. Thx… ~Steve I mentioned on last night’s #megajobhuntchat that a “better” way to [...]

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The Candidate Experience Awards via Gerry Crispin & Colleagues (Let’s Nominate Great Companies Now)

May 26, 2011 by Margo Rose

My friend, Gerry Crispin and I discussed why all of us should nominate stellar companies who provide an exemplary candidate experience.  Gerry and a group of volunteers (of which I am one) are asking candidates to nominate the companies that provide the best candidate experience from the first touch point of your contact.  The candidate [...]

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The Candidate Experience-Job Seekers: Are Job Boards Dead or Alive, Next on HFChat

May 26, 2011 by Margo Rose

This week on HFChat we ask: Are job boards dead or alive? Only job candidates can answer this question. Every touch point with job search candidates should be a source of positive attraction. If not your candidate attrition, and online application abandonment rate will be high (25-40% according to Afton Funk of HRMDirect.) This holds [...]

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