michaelverdi: I just got an email from Octagon Global Recruiting - they’re looking for volunteers for the Dharma Initiative - http://tinyurl.com/53c628
scottbrooks: just had a pissed off recruiter tell me “we are going to do biz 1 way or another ..i am recruiting out of your company” http://www.pentacan.com
risingspiral: Just got an e-mail from Octagon Global Recruiting!!! Too bad I can’t go to Comic-con to take the aptitude test. http://tinyurl.com/53c628
allisonwerner: Working on a new recruiting e-mail campaign, to go along with a new training program we are implementing. Eyeball deep in work today, again.
coffeecupkat: Okay, any other LOST fans get their email from “Octagon Global Recruiting”? ABC has shown real genius with their new media/ARG stuff so far
TheRecruiterGuy: Last day until vacation - grabbing last cup of coffee and preparing for 3 meetings and a 1hr presentation on the future of AT&T Recruiting.
factory_worker: Got an email from Octagon Global Recruiting. An aptitude test will be available for us “after July 27th.” Sorry if you’re not a “Lost” fan.
I was looking for a Pizza joint nearest to my friend’s house and decided to use Google Maps to find it. Shortly after finding the information I wanted, I started to wonder how many resumes could I find on a local search. How many? Not so much…
I then began to wonder to myself, “Self, if you had a Staffing Agency, would you come up in a search on Google Maps?”
Well, I do not own a Searchfirm, but I was curious all the same. So, I did a search on Staffing, Recruiting and Executive Search, just to see what was out there. I expected to see red markers designating Searchfirms in every state. However, that was not the case and I am surprised to discover that. Why not? Its free advertising! I also decided to glance at how many firms were listed in Atlanta. In case you did not know, Atlanta has NO shortage of recruiters. Alas, the overall majority were not listed (as shown in the screenshot below).
And then I thought, hey, maybe people just do not know how to add their Staffing Agency to Google Maps? If that is the case, fret no more because I am going to show you how to do just that.
First things first, make sure your company is listed correctly in Google’s Local Business Center.
Its easy to do, just fill out the form and click “Next.” Is that it? Nope! Google is going to mail you (by regular US Postal Mail) an activation code and instructions that will (more or less) say, return to the Google Business Center web page and insert your activation code. Until you do that, your listing will not be included in the Google Maps listing. Is that it? Almost… It takes about 6 weeks before you see your entry in the system, but in the interim you can still use the Business Center to update any information you have already added.
Hey, while you’re in the mood, want to know how to add your business to Yahoo and MSN Map listings as well? If so, read on…
To add your listing to Yahoo Maps, click here (or the screenshot below), sign up and you’re good.
To get your business on MSN Maps, click here or the image below and fill out the forms.
Filling out the form to include your business information is pretty self-explanatory; plus (and I like this), you can add extra data like additional web page URLS, business hours, 10 photos of your business and extra goodies like that. (Thumbs up Microsoft on this one!)
Now after you have input your information, Microsoft is going to send you a confirmation code in the mail (regular postal mail); pretty much the same way Google does it. When the activation code arrives, hold on to it because you will need to add the code to your Local Listings Center to activate your business listing. (But you figure that out already, huh?)
If you find this type of information useful, leave me a comment so I will be encouraged to add more stuff like this on the site. Cool?
Have you ever had the need to mass email several candidates? Well, if so, I have a cool tool for you to download. I have used it for multiple projects and it works seamlessly. The tool is called - eAnnouncer and it is a plugin for Microsoft outlook.
Here is a quick tutorial of how it works (ripped off from the company homepage). These directions apply (of course) after you have downloaded and integrated the product.
1. Start Outlook and create a new mail message.
2. When you’re done composing the message, click the “Announce” button on the toolbar.
3. Once you click the “Announce” button you will see the following dialog. Use the “Browse…” button to select your mailing list. If you’d like to preview or edit the mailing list before sending, select the “Open…” button.
4. Press the “Send” button to create and send all of your emails, one per recipient in your mailing list. As the emails are being created and sent you will see the status as shown in the following picture.
In the next screenshot (below) the mailing list contains 369 emails, and the 166th email is currently being sent. There is an estimated time remaining of 28 seconds. That’s it, you’re mail messages have been sent.
More reasons to use this tool:
With the free version, you can send up to 50 emails at a time.
You can set it to pause so many seconds between emails so an ISP will not think your legitimate email is an ad for Viagra.
You can keep a history of all the email announcements you have sent.
You are using Outlook to send your messages, so you don’t have to learn anything new
Your emails go out individually and can be addressed specifically to each recipient
No ads or banners of any kind when you use the free version. (Really like that)
If you are already sold on this, click here to purchase a copy, or click here to download the freebie (just remember that you can only send out 50 at a time with the free version).
I think you will like this one, let me know if you don’t. By the way, you may want to check out Subject Lines That Sell.
Subject Lines That Sell is an ebook on how to write compelling titles for your email so people will feel compelled to open them up and read them. Its really written for people who sell products online but hey, isn’t your job a product? Click here to check it out.
Karen is ecstatic when she is right and Jim can only grin and bear it. Did you know that there was a minimum wage for IT Workers? (Jim didn’t know either.) Want a government spanking? Advertise a job for H1-B candidates only. (Duh! What were they thinking?) Fussing, fighting and general bickering occurs between Karen and Jim, but how is that different from all of our shows? Plus, belated birthday wishes for Jim. Hear it all now on - The Recruiters Lounge podcast.
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01:35 - Name that tune
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03:32 - I’m celebrating the anniversary of my 30th birthday
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10:35 - But what about IT workers? Who cares about their accents? Nobody is talking to them.
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Karen Mattonen CAC, CSP
Karen is an experienced, successful recruiter who operates her own business and is actively involved in many industry organizations and activities. Her recruiting career began with Snelling Corporation. In 1998, after a successful tenure as a recruiter with Snelling, Karen struck out on her own, founding Advanced Career Solutions (ACS). ACS focuses on recruiting for the HVAC Industry. Karen has achieved accreditation as a California Accredited Consultant (CAC) through California Staffing Professionals. She has also gained her Certified Staffing Professional Certificate (CSP) through American Staffing Professionals. (www.americanstaffing.net)
Karen has a new and future-oriented vision of what recruiting can and should become: a profession we can be proud of for its ethical standing, professional conduct and ability to build great organizations. Her doing-well-by-doing-right philosophy is shaking up the status quo in an industry that needs to be shaken. She does this with conviction, leadership, and a distinctive voice that cries out for change.
Karen was a co-creator of the landmark webinar event – “EEOC Discrimination Debate.” This event featured senior members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and staffing industry experts discussing and debating difficult issues about discrimination in today’s workplace environment. Company executives, hiring managers, recruiters, and human resource professionals from across the United States were invited to participate in the free Webinar and live panel discussion. Karen also served as one of the panelists on the discussion team in the March, 2006 event.
As co-host of the popular podcast “The Recruiters Lounge,”Karen discusses her frank opinions on the recruitment industry with her co-host, Jim Stroud
Jim Stroud
Jim Stroud is a “Searchologist” with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.
Jim Stroud was nominated (and a top 10 finalist) for a “Best Blog Award” for his blog – Jim Stroud 2.0, by Recruiting.com in 2006 and cited in Bullhorn’s Research Report: Tools of The Trade 2007 as being among the best blogs on the recruiting industry (50,000 staffing and recruiting professionals were surveyed). His podcast series – “The Recruiters Lounge” recently aired its 50th episode. His comicstrip series – “The Recruiting Life” has also celebrated its 100th edition and was nominated for “Best Ongoing Comic Series” and “Best Newcomer of 2006” by Gnomz, a community of Comic creators. Jim Stroud also trains recruiters on how to source the internet for passive candidates and has trained recruiting organizations worldwide. His experience in using the internet to find hidden talent spans a decade. Jim Stroud can reached via his website: www.jimstroud.com
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Moises Lopez is a talent acquisition/sourcing professional and distinguished writer and author and trainer in advanced sourcing techniques. The internet has dramatically changed the way companies recruit employees. It is now the greatest recruitment intelligence resource available to all recruiters & an indispensable tool for job seekers. Like any great tool it must be used wisely and effectively. To implement a competitive online strategy tailored to meet your company’s sourcing needs, you need to invest in proven training, planning, and preparation.
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Doug Beabout CPC CSP brings 30 years of recruiting excellence & success. Doug speaks to thousands of recruiters each year worldwide. He has created hundreds of recruiting successes in both corporate and service capacities. In learning Doug’s techniques and coveted practices you’ll be a master recruiter that turns leads into candidates, referrers & powerful advantage in this challenging talent pool.
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If you are like me, you never have time to do anything. (Or at least, it feels that way.) Well one way to save some time in your day is to speed up some of your processes. Instead of doubleclicking the icons on your desktop, pressing a few buttons could easily do the same thing and simultaneously impress your co-workers. Let me show you what I mean.
This is a screenshot of my desktop. I am using Windows XP, but I believe this strategy works in Windows Vista as well.
Let’s say one of the first things I do everyday is get on Yahoo Instant Messenger to communicate with my coworkers.
I want a quicker way to open it. I suppose I could have it automatically open when I turn on my computer by adjusting the preferences, but that seems to slow down the booting process. So I right-click on the Yahoo Instant Messenger icon and choose “Properties” from the list of options.
A window pops up and defaults to the “Shortcut” tab (as shown below). I choose the letter “Y” as my shortcut and Windows automatically adds the combo of “Ctrl + Alt.”
Once I have the shortcut combo chosen, I click the “Apply” button (the arrow is pointing to it below) and then the “OK” button (located 2 buttons to the left of the “Apply” button).
Now with that done, if I want my Yahoo Instant Messenger to launch, I simply click “Ctrl + Alt + Y” and my Yahoo Instant Messenger launches instantly to my screen like so…
If you like the idea of Keyboard shortcuts, here are a few others to keep in mind.
General keyboard shortcuts
• CTRL+C (Copy)
• CTRL+X (Cut)
• CTRL+V (Paste)
• CTRL+Z (Undo)
• DELETE (Delete)
• SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
• CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
• CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
• F2 key (Rename the selected item)
• CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
• CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
• CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
• CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
• CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
• SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
• CTRL+A (Select all)
• F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
• ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
• ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
• ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
• CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
• ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
• ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
• F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
• F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
• CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
• ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu)
• Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
• F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
• RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
• LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
• F5 key (Update the active window)
• BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• ESC (Cancel the current task)
• SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Open Task Manager)
Click here to find more keyboard shorcuts (courtesy of Microsoft)
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Casting fans as extras?
Asking Dad to sponsor me for SourceCon 08… skint for the flight tickets
Karen is an experienced, successful recruiter who operates her own business and is actively involved in many industry organizations and activities. Her recruiting career began with Snelling Corporation. In 1998, after a successful tenure as a recruiter with Snelling, Karen struck out on her own, founding Advanced Career Solutions (ACS). ACS focuses on recruiting for the HVAC Industry. Karen has achieved accreditation as a California Accredited Consultant (CAC) through California Staffing Professionals. She has also gained her Certified Staffing Professional Certificate (CSP) through American Staffing Professionals. (
Jim Stroud is a “Searchologist” with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google, Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog.
Moises Lopez is a talent acquisition/sourcing professional and distinguished writer and author and trainer in advanced sourcing techniques. The internet has dramatically changed the way companies recruit employees. It is now the greatest recruitment intelligence resource available to all recruiters & an indispensable tool for job seekers. Like any great tool it must be used wisely and effectively. To implement a competitive online strategy tailored to meet your company’s sourcing needs, you need to invest in proven training, planning, and preparation.
Doug Beabout CPC CSP brings 30 years of recruiting excellence & success. Doug speaks to thousands of recruiters each year worldwide. He has created hundreds of recruiting successes in both corporate and service capacities. In learning Doug’s techniques and coveted practices you’ll be a master recruiter that turns leads into candidates, referrers & powerful advantage in this challenging talent pool.
