Companies are increasingly using social media in recruiting, a trend known as social recruiting. The 3 main platforms to leverage for sourcing candidates are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Finding candidates wont happen overnight, though. You must set up your profiles and work to build a community before you broadcast job openings. Start early, build your network and then leverage that network.
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November 24th, 2011
Hiring a Foreign Worker or non-Canadian
Hiring a foreign worker may seem like a struggle, causing many employers to skip over a non-Canadians resume in favour of the next. However, by hiring a temporary foreign worker, companies can better compete in a job market during labour shortages.
Read MoreNovember 9th, 2011
Are Your Hiring and Retention Efforts Balanced?
The workplace is always evolving. The recession, in particular, has hastened and highlighted many of these changes, including the growing age gap among the current workforce. According to a study from the Pew Research Center, over the past 20 years the number of older workers has steadily risen, while younger adults are waiting longer to enter the labor force. This means that the workplace is becoming even more diverse in the age groups it contains, and leaders are now dealing with the added strain of catering their retention and recruitment efforts to this varied palette of employees.
Read MoreNovember 9th, 2011
Stay Sane While on the Job-Hunt
So youve been unemployed for a while now, and youre tearing your hair out with boredom and frustration.
Read our tips on how to stay sane and motivated while looking for that dream job:
October 26th, 2011
Free HR Webinars
Cant find the time to travel to a conference? Interested in connecting online with other HR professionals?
We’ve compiled a list of free webinars being offered over the next week.
October 20th, 2011
Does Your Resume Sell Your Key Skills?
Does your resume or online profile tell the world all about you? Does it sell your skills? Are you using key words that help it stand out in a search? Have you defined your brand? If not, now is the time to do it.
I put my website into a tool called Wordle, which creates word pictures based on key words.
October 20th, 2011
Employee Engagement: How Social Media is Changing Reward and Recognition Programs
Facebook has 500 million, Twitter 190 million, LinkedIn 70 million. Its undeniable that social media has changed the way the world communicates. The business community has embraced new media, with marketing and sales leveraging a variety of platforms to connect with and engage their customer. In many cases companies have also worked on perfecting their employer brand, attempting to appeal to potential recruits through Facebook and LinkedIn. But what have companies been doing for their current employee base?
Read MoreOctober 5th, 2011
Staying Motivated Even During the Downtime
How do you handle rejection in the job search? Do you need some down-time so that you can recoup your energy in order to refocus your job hunt? Staying motivated to push past the WALL of rejection is hard, but as long distance runners know, a lot of the motivation is mind over matter.
Read MoreSeptember 27th, 2011
Canada Starts Here: The BC Jobs Plan
Canada Starts Here: The BC Jobs Plan. Underwhelming for some, unnecessary hyperbole for others, but what does it really mean for the BC economy and job creation? Will it be enough to protect the province from the downward slope plaguing our southern neighbours or the Eurozone crisis and rumours of another recession?
Last week Christy Clark toured the province sharing her plans for job creation as BC looks to cope with and even possibly grow in todays economic environment. She has been criticized for proposing mild measures, some would say incapable of firmly steering the province in the right direction as well as missing some sectors and regions. Clark has labeled BC a safe port in an unsettled economic storm, but what does this really mean? Lets look at the key areas of the Plan.
September 14th, 2011
Be Interview Savvy: How to Ask Critical Interview Questions
You just landed an interview. Youre excited. Youre nervous. And, your head is full of questions about how to come across as the perfect candidate: What should I wear? What should I say? What are the frequently asked interview questions are they may throw at me?
Most of these first questions revolve around marketing yourself to the company and answering the question, What does an employer expect in an interview? But, hang on a second. Take a moment and remember, it’s also important to use the interview process to answer the most important question of all: Is this the job I want?
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