Archive for the 'recruitment' Category
I recently read John Zappe’s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1).
Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to 4.7% [...]
Candidates make mistakes all the time – being too aggressive, unprofessional email addresses, ring tone rings, funky voice mails, bad mouthing previous employers, and the list goes on, right?
Well, I did a search for ”GEICO hiring” on twitter to see what tweets have been posted this morning. I did the search not because I’m searching for a job, [...]
Here’s an example of a new business and green jobs being created. The US needs innovation and new businesses.
Solar power when the sun goes down?
A Santa Monica, Calif., company called SolarReserve has taken a step toward making that a reality, filing an application with California regulators to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that will store [...]
Jobs Jobs Jobs are the focus of The Whitehouse Jobs Summit. The Summit will focus on three main areas:
Green Jobs
Infrastructure
Small Business financing
Green Jobs focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, jobs in renewable energy (wind, solar, biofuels, etc), but also can include logistics jobs and “green” products made from recycled material etc… The renewable energy industry [...]
YouTube announced automated video captioning for videos. Converting audio to text in videos will make videos more accessible to deaf people or anyone searching for videos online, but it can also lead to several advantages for search engine optimization, too.
YouTube already allows manual captioning, but most video uploaders don’t take advantage of that feature. To [...]
Recruiting Has to Go Video, right. Video, combined with the Internet, is a game-changer for recruiting, right, as Kevin Wheeler has stated recently. But I still hear it all the time – “How much for a video?,” “It too expensive?” In ADOTAS I came across an article that is retweeted below. This article answers the [...]
The Great Recession is in the ninth inning and the home team is up by one run. As long as the other team doesn’t ties it up, the recession is over. As you can see, I am cautiously optimistic. We have come a long way from the market panic in the fall on ’08 and [...]
75 talent acquisition gurus turned out to discuss best practices in recruitment, in particularly, how to effectively use business networking at the NYC Recruiting & HR Network Meetup. The Meetup.com group is adding about 50 new members per month.
The group beleives in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. At this Meetup people [...]
In the past I’ve wondered what the value of the size of your network on LinkedIn and Twitter is with regards to hiring. Today, I learned in a MediaPost article, Is Twitter A Job Qualification #FAIL? (R/T below), that a Best Buy job description preferred job qualifications of a graduate degree and [...]
Skilled Occupations with the Most Growth 2006-2016 in California, but similar in rest of US.
What Jobs/Occupations are Most in Demand? While demand exists for many jobs, the largest demand continues for health care and education workers to serve California’s growing population. Further, as the economy begins its inevitable rebound, a growing number of aging workers [...]
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