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Job requirements are not always realistic…

Here is a good example


To see

Immigrants integration to the job market

“30 seconds” for immigrant recruitment The promotion of the integration of immigrants to the job market will have it’s publicity campaign televised as from September.


Good to know

Recruitment by simulation

For its sixth store in the Paris region which opened a year ago in Franconville (a Paris suburb) Ikea turned to an atypical hiring method. Three quarters of the 420 employees at the new store were recruited according to a “recruitment simulation method".


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MyBadBoss contest

. After the « Good boss » competition organized by Monster in 2005, it is Working America’s (an affiliate of the AFL-CIO union in the US) turn to organize their own...


Toolbox

Getting replies to your emails

. With recruitment always being a collaborative process, email is often the most common method for communicating with the various people involved. The impact of an email however, remains weak in comparison to a telephone conversation or a meeting. To give your emails more weight here are a few tips...


To see

The Ax Job seeking on the big screen!

A provocative film whose subject concerns all those who work in human resources, recruitment, executive search and those who have ever lost their job or who could potentially lose it tomorrow.


To Read

Rejected application

The computer virus Yamanner appeared on June 12th,and attacking Yahoo users email service seemed to be the work of a candidate try to get noticed in order to obtain a job in a software company. Here is their application letter…


Job posting

Job offer: Keep it simple


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Internal mobility: a skills management issue

The retirement of the baby boomers is near. The oldest among them are reaching 60. In several sectors, there will not be enough youths to take over...an impending shortage. Internal mobility constitutes a way of satisfying this shortage.


Good to know

Google’s carrots for attracting the best

If Google is the best search engine in the world, with 8 billion indexed pages and 250 million requests per day in 35 languages, it’s machine for recruiting and developing the best talents works through a sophisticated cocktail of work conditions and benefits reserved for the stars. This cocktail of work life conditions aims to develop creativity.


New

A new job search engine « made in Canada »

3 years after the launch of Nicejob.ca, a new Canadian job search engine is making its appearance under the name Eluta.


By the numbers

Candidates talk too much for 36% of recruiters

Talking too much is the most common mistake job candidates make according to recruiters who participated in the 9th edition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, published by Kom/Ferry International.


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