Since the market dip and round after round of layoffs, recruiters have served on the front lines of the jobless recovery. We’ve born witness to the devastation that downsizing brings. We have sensed the desperation in our dealings with candidates who have been unemployed far too long. While recruiters do not make jobs, we fill
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1 Comment » A programming note: We’ve have spun out an exciting new research division and have named it Intellerati. Intellerati offers recruiting research and candidate sourcing services to corporate executive search, talent acquisition, and diversity recruitment teams. For every engagement, Intellerati transforms research into actionable intelligence, giving employers the qualitative data they need to make the best
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Sir Richard Branson has an intriguing idea about getting people back to work. It’s easy as 1-2-3. 1.Talk to the 10-20% of the work force who want to work less. 2. Let them. 3. Then give those hours to the unemployed to get them back to work.
As leadership in Washington grapples with job stimulus programs, the biggest problem that needs solving is that of not being able to get a job unless you have a job — a classic catch-22.
What does it take to get hired these days? Try a website, a video, a mustache, and no pants. A brilliant marketing campaign has been waged by a jobseeker Matthew Epstein targeting Google as his next employer. He has set up a website that speaks to Google and Google alone. To leave no doubt as
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If you are a candidate looking for your next opportunity or know someone who is, Crazy, Stupid, Love is a lesson in the power of the makeover. Steve Corell portrays a man who has gotten so comfortable in his marriage that he has stopped trying, much in the same way some executives do later on
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Among companies that cultivate corporate diversity for competitive advantage, conventional wisdom holds that the more diverse a team, the better. The more cultures, the more ethnicities, the more racial types, the more genders (male, female, and shades in-between), the more sexual orientations, the more diverse world views, the more innovative a company will be. Introducing
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If Wall Street firms don’t immediately start ramping up diversity initiatives to come into compliance with a little-known section of Dodd Frank by next year, they stand to lose billions in contracts with the federal government.
Comments Off Technology startups are creating a staggering amount of jobs, but interestingly they’re more focused on sales and marketing and less on technology these days. As NYC entrepreneur and investor Mark Birch pointed out in a recent blog post entitled “Don’t Look to Tech Startups to Fill the Jobs Gap“, fewer engineers are needed to build
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If the unthinkable happens, if the “never has happened before” actually happens and the U.S. defaults on its debt, 640,000 jobs would vanish. That’s just one of the really bad things that centrist think tank The Third Way suggests will take place if our nation hits the legal limits of its debt. Of course, defaulting
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