3 Steps to find your perfect candidate

What recruiter doesn’t dream about the perfect candidate? Especially if you’ve worked long and hard at a difficult assignment for weeks, how does the cliché go? “Been there, done that, got the t-shirt,” you did all of what you set out to do, and run out of fresh leads. Frustrated, maybe you feel you have tried everything or that there’s something you’ve been neglecting to do or you’ve simply followed every lead to no avail. There must be a solution out there that’s more effectiv...
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Recruitment Strategies

Recruitment is of the most crucial roles of the human resource professionals. The level of performance of and organisation depends on the effectiveness of its recruitment function. Organisations have developed and follow recruitment strategies to hire the best talent for their organisation and to utilize their resources optimally. A successful recruitment strategy should be well planned and practical to attract more and good talent to apply in the organisation. For formulating an effective and ...
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5 Interviewing Mistakes That Can Lead To Hiring The Wrong Person

Are you in the process of hiring employees? The following article gives you an overview of 5 of the most common interviewing mistakes that you need to avoid, so that you don`t hire the wrong person... 5 Interviewing Mistakes That Can Lead To Hiring The Wrong Person Mistake #1: Going with the flow Inexperienced interviewers sometimes fall into the trap of letting the interview become "free form", spending different amounts of time on different questions, basing follow-up questions on on ...
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Innovative Hiring Strategies

Companies are reworking their recruitment strategies to win the talent war. Social networking websites such as LinkedIn are only new ammunition to claim victory You definitely put hoardings across busy junctions of a city to promote your products and services. Would you do the same when it comes to hiring key talent from the market? Probably not. But when Tesco, the British retail giant, set up its service support arm in Bangalore in 2004, it spent a huge chunk of its recruitment budget o...
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India is most optimistic recruiter in the world: Survey

Recession may have hit many sectors but employers in India are the most optimistic towards hiring, an international survey has said. It also adds that most of the recruiters in the country are still unsure about their hiring intent in the next fiscal. The survey conducted by a US-based HR consulting firm `Manpower` covers 33 nations, including India. Around 3,336 Indian companies across seven industry sectors and 72,000 employers worldwide responded to the survey. According to the su...
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How to Headhunt the Headhunters??

"Dear Mr. Recruiter, Hi. Until Monday, I was an investment banking executive at Lehman, and I`m wondering if your search firm has any appropriate openings." Sending a blind letter like this to a recruiter you don`t know is a total waste of time, particularly when there are thousands of former Wall Street employees lined up in front of the copy machines. Even more clueless: Sending a résumé to someone who doesn`t even conduct searches in your field. "A résumé gets you in front of us, in...
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Freshers prefer other sectors over IT

Chennai: Fresh IT graduates are now willing to prefer jobs other than in the software sector as they are increasingly moving towards various sectors like automotive, electronic and other manufacturing sectors as a result of high pay packages, world class facilities and overseas postings offered by those sectors, reported Business Line. Though offers are still flooding from IT sector, many of the fresh faces are approaching other sectors also as they don`t want to get benched. "You don`t get t...
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In the Wonderworld of Recruitment

Recruitment is a ballgame played between perspiring HR managers and aspiring software engineers. The game is getting complicated with the number of coaches (ex-colleagues) and referees (placement consultants) outnumbering the players themselves. SW engineer: Software engineer – generally believed to be the ninth wonder of the world. HR Managers: Human Resource Managers – generally believe and pretend that they understand this wonder Consultants – those who practice the "balanced s...
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Employment Discrimination: Overview

Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, federal and state governments have enacted a number of laws that bar an employer from discriminating against employees on almost any grounds, aside from the quality of the employee`s work or the nature of his or her personality. Following is an introduction to the law of discrimination in employment. Race, National Origin, Gender, and Religion The best known of employment anti-discrimination laws, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, p...
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HR with Human Relation

Human Relations A human Relations Programme represents an attempt at improving employee morale and motivation through an improved three-way communications and through employee participation in the decision making processes. Human relations seek to emphasise `employee` aspects of work rather than technical or economic aspects. It also seeks to make employment and working conditions less impersonal. On the positive side, the human relations approach emphasises policies and techniques desi...
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