konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Nov 17, 2009, 8:28 am
WOW! Does this market suck. No jobs to apply to and no openings to fill. Experts are talking about the recession ending, but unemployment rates continue to rise. Resumes are piling up on desks of recr...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Nov 8, 2009, 8:45 pm
I am not big on regrets. Life is tough and it moves pretty quickly so I make the best decisions I can as I go and try not to dwell on the past. This is mainly because there is not much you can do to c...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Nov 2, 2009, 3:16 pm
Let’s say you are a recruiter and you have been searching for prospects (contact information) on LinkedIn. The likelihood that a matching profile would be in your network is unlikely at best unless ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Oct 27, 2009, 8:39 am
Opportunity is out there, if you want it. The kicker is that there is a difference between wants and needs. When analyzing your options during a job search in a hurting market such as the one we’ve ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Oct 21, 2009, 8:46 am
This past summer I joined the masses out there in what can only be described as dormant job market. The prospects of finding a job were not exactly overwhelming as the economic recession continued to ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Oct 18, 2009, 8:59 pm
I recently conducted a poll…ok, it wasn’t that recent, but it has only recently gotten enough of a response to make some statistical significance. The question was “how you got your ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Oct 11, 2009, 8:39 pm
I got a question this morning from one of my contacts and I thought I would share it with you all: “There’s a company that I really want to work for in HR, and I just found the VP HRR...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Oct 7, 2009, 1:50 pm
I just got an email from a friend asking, “2K I only have 4000 1st contacts, how do I get to 12,000 like you?” I tend to get this a lot. Yesterday I found myself pondering this question a...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Sep 30, 2009, 11:58 am
As a recruiter looking to return to a corporate environment, you owe it to yourself to first try and find an organization that you can learn from. By looking for a company that offers more than just a...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Sep 17, 2009, 1:03 pm
A few days ago Frank wrote about the need to be prepared for an interview. It’s true. You do need to be prepared, perhaps now more than ever. Sure, there is a lot of competition out there for ev...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Sep 14, 2009, 8:37 am
On average, an interviewer will make up their mind about a candidate in the first five minutes of the interview. This is true. I hear it all the time. That is not a lot of time to sell you or to win a...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Sep 8, 2009, 9:13 pm
I was just reading Kyle Salem’s blog on the use of psychometrics in the management of talent. Aside from aggressively promoting psychometrics, he brings up some seriously interesting points. The...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Sep 2, 2009, 8:10 am
Many users on LinkedIn focus on the total number of connections as a sign of being a good networker. Numbers are important, but in this day and age content is king in the online world. As I said in my...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Aug 31, 2009, 1:54 pm
Whoah, I was just reading Seth Godin’s ideas on interviewing candidates. It’s revolutionary…but also reckless at best. In a nutshell, Seth says that hiring the traditional way (a 1 ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Aug 28, 2009, 7:57 am
Should you advertise your linkedin profile or other social networking url on your resume? This is a common question I’ve been asked as of late, and the answer is pretty simple. If your social ne...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Aug 26, 2009, 9:35 pm
When Frank asked me to write a part 2 to his recent blog “How to increase your connections on LinkedIn” with a follow up article on how to connect to people you don’t know…I a...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Aug 24, 2009, 8:54 am
There are two main reasons why everyone in the business world needs to be on LinkedIn. The first one is to have a web presence and the second one is to stay connected to relevant contacts and to make ...
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konst 2k posted an article on Beyond - Recruitment Strategists - Aug 19, 2009, 10:58 am
If you are unemployed and think that you have it hard finding a job, you should try being a recruiter these days. While the global economy contracted at about 9% in the aftermath of the economic meltd...
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