If you’re a job candidate, how do you seal the deal? The responsibility doesn’t lie entirely with a prospective employer – you need to be proactive. Here are useful ideas to help put you to work…
Let’s talk about recruiting, hiring and talent strategy. It’s all happening at Recruitfest!
As an employer, it’s your responsibility to follow hiring laws – even with interns. To avoid missteps, follow these guidelines…
Marketing advice from drug dealers? Why not? There are lessons learned here, for anyone who needs to sell anything. Yo, recruiters and job candidates, listen up…
At the end of July, I ran the Wharf to Wharf for the fourth time. It’s a local 10K race first started in 1973. There
Being as passionate as I am about social media’s ever-growing role in the career search process, I proudly thank LinkedIn, one of my favorite social
Originally posted by Chris Jones, a TalentCulture contributing writer. He is an IT Strategy & Change Management consultant, with a passion for driving new levels
Written by Kirsten Taggart As I wrap up my time as an intern at TalentCulture, I find myself reflecting on my eleven-month experience as a
Unless you have been living under rock, you know the Brett Favre story. Skilled, but aging quarterback is released by Green Bay, which has named sub-divisions
Struggling to find a suitable topic for this article, a tried-and-true creativity technique came in handy: using random inputs to trigger an idea. I grabbed
Crowdsourcing is using an open call for tasks, information or data collection mostly through new media technology. Many times, a passionate crowd is much more powerful than an individual, business or closed community.
The Internet really upended the corporate communications industry. Though PR professionals used to jeer at advertising pros for being message control freaks, and marketers used to impress boardrooms with fancypants charts and graphs and make the creatives and spindoctors look as if they failed high school algebra, at the end of the day, everyone got along. Everyone knew their job.
Today’s guest post is by our friend Parna Sarkar-Basu. Parna is a communications and innovation marketing professional as well as a ghostwriter. Parna designs award
Much has changed in how companies find talent and how people find jobs. With the seismic shift in employment sourcing that is the Internet, why
If trust is the currency of influence and sound leadership, then why are my peers filing chapter 13 when crises occur? Or for that matter,
Today’s guest post is by our talented colleague, and friend Cathy Taylor. Cathy is a social media expert who helps businesses develop comprehensive communications strategies
People ask me all the time, why did I create #HireFriday? I thought FollowFriday outlived its usefulness. I realized it would be better to take the time and energy we invest in promoting our gainfully employed friends, and put that energy into helping an unemployed person instead. What started out as a lonely tweet: “Instead of FollowFriday, let’s tweet HireFriday and put our friends and family members back to work; has mushroomed into a movement that now spans the globe.
Calming one’s nerves and regaining positivity and forward-momentum are fundamental to an optimistically focused job search. Though assuaged nerves and a focus on positivity are essential to a job search in a sea of opportunity, many people remain landlocked, shackled by negativity and with no intention of changing.
It’s all pretty contrived, thus “Work of Art” doesn’t yield major revelations about creativity as much as refreshers worth considering in your creative and innovative pursuits, especially in the workplace. Here are five that stand out:
As digital workers, we spend a lot of time collaborating online. TalentCulture has previously featured several articles by the great Jeff Wilfong and Chris Jones highlighting some of the high-level processes and theories that dictate successful collaboration. Now, it’s time to get back to the basics.
I, like most of my fellow bloggers out there, do not have the funds necessary to launch national advertising campaigns to promote a blog. Therefore, since my team and I founded Career Rocketeer over a year ago, I have constantly faced the challenge of finding new, free and/or low-cost ways to promote our content, build up our blog’s awareness and increase our readership. Thankfully, if you are creative and determined, you can uncover countless ways to promote your efforts without breaking the bank.
For us, we are on the cutting edge of a transformation in the job search-job board world. More employers than ever are recognizing their need to control the recruitment process more. They are tired as can be of paying Monster or CareerBuilder to post an ad, and then before you can say “we send out your ad to 30,000 job boards!!??!!?” it happens. HR departments are overrun with resumes from people who don’t know an RN from a CNA. Employers want to put their jobs up on their OWN career portal on THEIR own website, so they can control all the messages.
Here are a couple of thoughts on getting started, helping us achieve new levels of connectedness in our social media experience. Think of them as ways to create ideal conditions for sparking engagement, unlocking deeper, more collaborative ways of communicating.
As digital workers, we spend a lot of time collaborating online. TalentCulture has previously featured several articles by the great Jeff Wilfong and Chris Jones highlighting some of the high-level processes and theories that dictate successful collaboration. Now, it’s time to get back to the basics. Here are five basic features we so often overlook and misuse in everyday collaboration:
“You boys are the gutter slugs; the front line leaders fighting in the trenches with all the guts and no glory. Be proud of that.
