Recruitment

You're looking for a job. Chances are it feels complicated, scary, overwhelming. My job-seeking clients have found the chart below comforting and helpful. It contains the essence of what you have to do. ...

By Paul J. Weber From a chapel pulpit on Lackland Air Force Base, where every American airman reports for basic training, Col. Glenn Palmer delivered his first order to nearly 600 recruits seated in the pews: If you're sexually harassed or assaulted, tell someone. "My job is to give you a safe, effective ...

By Robert Half International Attending a job fair can seem a little like speed dating. You're one of many in a line of candidates who meet with participating employers so quickly there is barely time to shake hands and say hello before being rushed along. ...

The recruitment video is still a young art form, developed by companies like Google and IBM in the late 2000s. But it's not an art form too young to parody mercilessly. Twitter's new recruitment video mocks all the things we hate about recruitment videos: hyper-staged fun times, awkward cutaways, and cheesy ...

By Robert Half International The newest season of Bravo's hit TV show "Top Chef" is well underway. But fans of the show and aspiring cooks aren't the only ones who may want to tune in: Job seekers might want to watch as well. The "Top Chef" contestants can teach professionals a lot about the job hunt. ...

The economy and society may have changed so much and so fast in the past 50 years that they're hard to recognize. However, what bosses want in their employees has remained the same, according to Karin Helgesson from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who wrote a doctoral thesis on the evolution of ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled WRONG QUESTION: "Do you know a recruiter who specializes in..." I have heard this question since I started my company, almost four years ago, and it really bugs me. It *might* be a good question to ask IF you know what to do when you make contact with the recruiter, but ...