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299 days ago
Guest Post by Kraig McKee, the medical sales recruiter If you have been considered for a position with a new company in the last five years, you may have been asked to take a “Personality Assessment”. In my career, I have taken at least 5 of these assessments while employed with organizations as part of personal development. Caliper, Disc, Gallup, HBDI and FiroB are a few of the more popular. I have also administered the various profiles (it depends which is “in” with the organization at that time) to over 50 people that reported to me. My conclusions: Regardless of the type of profile, they all yield useful, consistent information. In my particular case and that of my teams taking the assessment, I believe the results to be 90% accurate. The 10% I don’t agree with on my assessment is really a matter of definition rather than being totally off base. People that vociferously disagree with their results are almost always a personnel issue waiting to happen. Why? They have a ...
307 days ago
This guest post by CareerAlley may seem to be geared solely to job-seekers, but it also has value to recruiters. When you're trying to evaluate a prospect/passive candidate, having some information on how their company is perceived internally can give you useful ammunition when selling your opportunity. It also can help recruiting researchers to prioritize which companies in a given niche to go after (e.g., unstable companies may be more ripe for talent-picking). --Glenn Gutmacher, Editor P.S. Please note that I am now blogging about sourcing and recruiting research primarily on JobMachine. I encourage you to subscribe to my feed there at http://jobmachine.net/blog/111/feed How does your company rate? by CareerAlley Thanks to PingMyCompany.com for reminding me to write about how to reseach how people feel about a particular company. As an example, Fortune magazine has an annual issue where they focus on the "100 Best Companies to Work for ...
484 days ago
Top 10 Ways to Find Open Source Software Developers besides resume/CV search by Glenn Gutmacher Q: Do you have any recommendations for skill sites to find LAMP, PHP and Python developers? I found a few but nothing great. A: You will increase your possibilities greatly if you realize that you are basically talking about open source developers (what you mentioned are some of their primary tools/platforms - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python). The ones who are skilled in this arena don't need to promote themselves much (open source is hot, though don't count Microsoft out yet ;-) so they don't have to post resumes, and if they do, may not include the obvious programmatic keywords in their online footprint to minimize communication overload ("Funny, you are the 35th recruiter to call me today!"). I'm not saying you shouldn't do standard resume/CV search strings, but there are other options if that doesn't turn up enough of what you need. Your question was a bit vague ...
567 days ago
by Glenn Gutmacher I was recently approached by JOBehaviors' president Mark Tinney about his Web-based employment matching service. This company uses a compatibility assessment to determine which type of job is the best behavioral fit for you. Similarly, it allows companies to search and find candidates who score highly in the types of jobs they want to hire for. The science behind it is they do an in-depth job analysis done with people who have found long-term fulfillment and job satisfaction. Their research supposedly identified hundreds of behaviors that are critical for one's long-term happiness in each career and thus, theoretically, can identify the job that is the best behavioral fit. They currently offer online assessments for various jobs in Healthcare, Banking, Childcare, Construction, Transportation, Retail, Insurance, and Sports/Sports Management), Call Centers, Education, and Sales, which (for what's offered online) tend to skew to blue collar or ...
576 days ago
by Glenn Gutmacher Disclaimer: I am not compensated by Broadlook, but my employer is a paying customer and I occasionally review pre-release versions of their products, which gives me a chance to inject feedback. I'm happy to report they've incorporated a few of my suggestions... Many of you are already familiar with Broadlook Technologies, a company that makes software that helps recruiting researchers and salespeople. Most of their offerings incorporate some form of data spidering -- targeted collection and parsing of information related to your search criteria. While the software tends to be on the pricey side and a bit hard to learn to use, once you do master their tools, the sourcing ROI is impressive: you should be able to do your job more exhaustively and efficiently. However, lately they have been making more user-friendly products (e.g., Diver) and doing a better job with video tutorials and other how-to training on the more complex products (e.g., Eclipse). ...
