Archive for April, 2007

Call In The Hound: Innovative New Approach To Finding a Job

I have come across a vertical job search engine called Hound which is a vertical job search engine. It has the largest collection of jobs under one single platform. This is the stop for anyone seeking a job. Could definitely rival Indeed and SimplyHired.
Hound is touted as an innovative new approach to finding a job. [...]

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Background Checks: Handling a Touchy Situation

I’m interested in knowing if any of you have policies or just your own practices in regard to evaluating information from background and reference checks. In particular, what do you do when you see spotty attendance, unpaid debt history (if you get into that part of a background check), or an address that is not [...]

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Link Building Idea

A good way to build relevant links is to comment on other people’s blogs. However, make sure that the comment is constructive and relates to the topic of the blog you are commenting on as well as the topic of your blog. For example, if you have a blog about Teambuilding, then find and read [...]

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Yahoo Ranking Factors

My collegues and I have been continuing our discussions of what the factors might be for ranking in Yahoo. We have come across that Yahoo still values links and keyword metatags, where Google does not. We have also started discussing code issues, such as placing javascript code into a .js file and calling it when [...]

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How To Organize An Open House For Recruiting Employees?

Are you a business that has organized an open house to recruit employees? Have you been considering trying a recruitment open house as part of your recruitment campaigns? Most of what I read is about open houses have been with much larger companies. These larger companies, such as some large pharmaceutical firms, get a huge response from organizing an open house and they [...]

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Reviving An Old Retention Strategy

Many companies have forgotten about this lost strategy when it comes to developing talent for their organizations. You may consider the idea of Internship Program. Many advantages, just to name a few:

Build a strong University relationship, one of you major suppliers of future talents.
Maintain a relationship with the good performing interns even after they’ve left [...]

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How Not To Attract and Retain High-Tech Employees

.Sprint has decided to impose a more ‘corporate’ dress code on all its employees. Read the article in the July 7th issue of The Kansas City Star at the URL below:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/3773abf3.707,.html
I don’t get it. First the high tech companies - such as Sprint - complain about not being about to attract and retain high-tech employees. [...]

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