http://blog.gorecroot.com Progressive recrooters web collaboration Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:35:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mobile Recruiting – Jobs and resumes on your mobile GoRecroot mobile recruiting toolbox at www.JobsandResumes.mobi For Recruiters Be at two places at once: An important talent sourcing to be initiated and meeting with a long term client - Hard to choose ? Do both with GoRecroot mobile recruiting. For Job seekers Busy work week, ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/06/27/mobile-recruitment-toolbox-for-recruiter-on-the-move-not-the-one-to-be-on-the-move-do-not-read/ Career planning cannot be output of a wizard. This is not an attempt to point you to your dream job position. The approach is to trigger your thought processes so that you build your career plan with the right input. Job vs career: This can look like a mere play ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/05/28/career-plan-getting-the-fundamentals-right/ There is some bad news for the recruiting world: job creation rates are slowing down to 6% - 4%. There is some great news as well: As global markets consolidate, recruiters get the fantastic opportunity to revamp their head hunting machinery. In addition, this is a great time to focus ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/05/28/log-out-of-fool%e2%80%99s-paradise-focus-on-recruitment-value-creation-with-gorecroot/ One of the facets of being progressive is keeping an eye on what business leaders are doing. So we ventured out, with our recrooter hats on. We wanted to see, what are functional benefits (read time, effort, money saving, results producing) from web 2.0 and all the buzz around re-emergence ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/05/21/emergence-of-business-impacting-new-technology-online-recruiting-demands/ Tips to create an effective job order • Mention time and date lines • Introduce the company and the division, department or team involved. • Give a clear description of the position. Use the right keywords or tag words. • Describe responsibilities that come along with the position. • Provide an overview of required competencies. • Clearly indicate the ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/05/09/job-order-basics-essential-information/ Here are important pointers to cope in changing business - economic conditions. 1. Job positions that involve duplications of skill sets are prone to be cut down. 2. Focus on value additions - if you are delivering mass quantities of common place talent, immediately focus on value additions. Non value ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/05/09/recruitment-in-changing-business-scenarios/ Online recruitment, e-recruitment, employer branding, internet employment posts, online branding solutions - many different names for recruiters using the internet to search and source talent. We call it ads & branding solutions for recruitment. Essentially you advertise as part of your talent or job search or you build a brand. ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/04/30/mr-change-visits-online-recruitment-advertising-and-employer-branding/ Let’s face it – recruiting is a challenging job. The better the challenge, the greater is the reward. If you do more than a million dollars a year, you belong to an elite club – big biller. We know that you want to be there and we put together a ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/04/30/are-you-a-progressive-recruiter-do-you-want-to-be-a-big-biller/ Widgets by definition are a self-contained piece of code that you can move into, out of and anywhere. Widgets are one of the exciting ingredients of the new web (or web 2.0 or 3.0). In layman terms, a widget is a wrapper that help you distribute content. For example, YouTube. ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2008/04/29/a-widget-and-how-it-can-help-talent-or-job-search-2/ A particularly unique job order needed some 'tweaking'. Couple of us recruiters and our good client met over coffee. We could not help over hear the next table - also recruiters (is this cafe a recruiter hang out or what?) were on to their banter. Their conversation was getting hotter ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/10/17/recruiter-split-share-income-or-split-relationships/ Before: Go to job board Pay for a year Search resumes, filter Worry about accuracy, though nothing much could be done Download resumes one by one Or, depend on the job board's over used and abused (to the extent of spam) broadcasts Manual resume scavenging Pull out email IDs and phone numbers Call (and be surprised that ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/10/16/honey-i-shrunk-the-process/ GOING ONLY FOR BRANDING Do you stick only to the top name job boards or portals? If yes, you are denying your chances of getting into specialized positions. Specialized groups or non-enterprise companies often steer clear of top names. Choose your resume posting based on the kind of recruiters that visit ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/09/25/1000-things-you-dont-want-in-your-job-hunt/ Congratulations, you are one of the progressive jobbers who have realized that a voice Curriculum vitae is huge positive statement on your job application. Why? Because your resume is probably your best shot - and in many cases the only shot at you getting an interview. Typical busybee recruiter has ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/09/24/are-you-about-to-record-your-first-voice-cv/ Is this the end of the two page resume as we know of it? There are some good reasons to say yes. With the introduction of online job boards, international recruiters and hiring managers have the real need to slice n dice through large volume of resumes at a pop. A ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/09/21/talking-cv-video-resume-photos-web-pages-data-how-much-does-it-take/ Enjoying the anonymity of the internet in social networking? Are you revealing a bit more in Orkut, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, or BlogSpot? Extreme political opinions, photos, college pranks, "weekend" preferences and more? An increasingly popular trend, graduates stepping out of universities and looking ahead for their first interviews are closing ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/09/11/between-6-to-20-employers-look-up-your-social-networking-page/ Truth# 1: All Organizations need to understand that: quality, productivity and employee retention depend heavily on employee satisfaction, engagement and fulfillment. Truth # 2: Satisfaction, a good engagement, and mutual fulfillment depend on a good fitment. Truth # 3: Good fitment is multi dimensional data, intelligent mapping and an important, ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/08/10/7-to-14-of-the-global-workforce-is-truly-engaged-more-alarming-stats/ Spiraling costs, be it office space, transport overheads or big time salary payouts in any industry headed for some costing / profitability realities - some new important questions will be raised. Especially in the area of human capital management. Unlike the past, when developing Human Resources for the sector, was ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/07/06/reverse-offshoring-and-the-talent-capital-management-challenge/ If you have been with a fast growing start up, boutique – specialty set ups or small divisions of larger enterprises these problems would look familiar terrain to you. Until recently emerging HR practices largely ignored the small and medium business (SMB) challenges. Are they more complex than large enterprise ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/06/29/smb-challenges-critical-factors-solutions/ Over the last several years, the transformation from personnel administration, labour management, industrial relations, to human resource management is hopefully, more than a change in vocabulary. The pressure to deliver exponentially is on the rise for most HR functions. Other job functions are calling for HR to become a "strategic ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/06/24/great-expectations/ Attention progressive recrooters Breaking news: GoRecroot has entered into a partnerships in Europe and US. This would bring in literally 1000s of job positions available for GoRecroot members worldwide. As a recrooter (executive recruiter - member at www.gorecroot.com) you can pitch your resumes and candidates for any of these global positions. ... http://blog.gorecroot.com/blog/2007/06/20/global-business-opportunities-for-progressive-recruiters/