Brave Hiring: No Guts, No Glory. (0)
7/12/10 •
Last month, five international oil companies were chastised by the US Congress for having near identical spill-response plans. Putting aside questions of negligence and complacency, this tragedy highlights the risk of only hiring from a talent pool with industry-specific experience. Tight-knit industry clusters breed mediocrity. If BP had not used the inadequate industry boilerplate, then perhaps their spill-response may have had more success.
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Survey Results: Job Search Success Points to People You Know (0)
6/30/10 •
A recent job search success survey conducted by Notogroup was given to 75 professionals across all job disciplines. Approximately half of those surveyed were unemployed and the remaining half had successfully landed a new job in the past 24 months. 68% of survey participants were professionals at the senior to executive-level. Of those recently hired, 50% found their jobs through a referral by a friend or a colleague and 37% found their jobs through a family member or friend who already worked at the company.
Executive Search: The Quality Conundrum (0)
3/15/10 •
Cognitive dissonance best describes my reaction to a recent Recruiting Roundtable Research Report that suggested that the use of advanced assessment tools and structured interviewing may not significantly increase in quality of hire.
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What Are Employees Saying About Your Company? (1)
10/21/09 •
By Roy Notowitz
Do you know who is talking about your company? It’s not just consumers, it is current employees, past employees, and recent job candidates too! That’s right, and they are not just talking about your products.
Slow Job Growth: Misconceptions of Inflation vs. Deflation (0)
10/21/09 •
Market observers who say we are in a period of deflation have missed the point, argues John Tamny — in fact, the current economic malaise could as easily be attributed to inflation.
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