You would have thought that for recruiting secret agents, the direct approach would be te most appropriate. Well it seems that this is not the case for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
When is the best time of the week to put your job postings on-line? eQuest, a company offering a job posting distribution service on an international scale, has compiled information from the 1 million job offers they have posted since the beginning of the year and has revealed the response to us...
The most significant job board in the US, CareerBuilder, owned by Knigth Riddr, Tribune and Ganette, the three most prominent American newspaper editors, seems determined to make its way to its northern neighbor.
Humiliation invitation The American job board Dice invites unhappy employees to humiliate their colleagues with the help of an online game which allows them (among other things) to throw pizza or jelly donuts in their face. A viral marketing venture in questionable taste…
Following flight simulators on computers, here is a simulator of the life in a company. As in the real life in a company, you must look after your relationships with colleagues, play the political game and complete your daily tasks. You are stuck to either a union delegate or a sales representative and you have to complete various missions like faking company accounts or getting the boss’s son fired. Of course…anything is allowed to reach your goals.
CanWest, the most important media company in Canada, finalized the acquisition of the most important retail niche job board in Canada yesterday; canadianretail.com.
The new newsletter has arrived! This month, as announced at the beginning of summer, we have put the new version of La Toile des Recruteurs online as well as its English version. The translation is not literal since La Toile des Recruteurs becomes in English...
Did you say retention or detention? The word retention seems to be used more and more in HR jargon, probably encouraged by the alarming predictions of a shortage in the labour force. This term gives a derogatory connotation to an originally positive goal: keeping one’s best resources.
Bad pack! By always posting your offers in the same newspaper or on the same website, you will always end up with the same pool of candidates.To not use various sources, is to ignore the variety of candidates.
What are good reasons for not divulging a company’s identity during the recruitment process?
BLBR1116-MS-B86 co-writer of the writing of the title of a posting which is difficult to read (N-3*) – 542354… Not so long ago, we began elaborating job posting titles, or at least making them original, in order to ensure more interesting returns on postings. This era seems to have evolved since the tendency now is to make them complicated.
A pocket lie detector Have you ever dreamed of being able to detect candidate’s