http://www.brightmove.com/ats_blog/ Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Blog Covering all areas of eRecruitment and Hiring en info@brightmove.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-17T21:34:54+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/159/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/159/#When:20:34:54Z I have been in the HR software industry for about 14 years and have seen some of the best and worst in most any company and any company’s personnel. I myself have been in a few very bad situations with my job on the line and have handled things both very well and very badly, which is what this article is about. I guess it was about 8 years ago now that I almost ended my career with what we will call blame-a-nitus. I was a senior manager within a top Recruiting Software vendor and I had grown very resentful because several of the team that had begun with the company around the same time I had, were being promoted and I wasn’t. In my frustration, I was very vocal and an all around angry person to be around. After all, I was putting in more hours than anyone else, I was on call 24/7, and I was the go to guy for almost anything when it came to getting the job done and turned around on a dime. I thrived on the challenge and knew the company couldn’t afford to lose me.  Here in lies the problem and illusion that I think many top people in companies live under. Blogging, News 2009-11-17T20:34:54+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/163/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/163/#When:20:13:16Z Having been in the HCM space for well over a decade, I follow the software technology change in recruiting and talent management software quite heavily and have recently really been interested in the move to use Flash by many vendors as a means to add some sex appeal to their user interface… Blogging 2009-11-16T20:13:16+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/162/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/162/#When:16:15:41Z Two of the worst interviews I can recall in my recent history were both referred from one of my most successful, highest producing employees. Both candidates were abrasive, arrogant, and unfriendly, and neither interview lasted very long. At first the disparity between the unpleasant applicants and the accomplished referring employee left me somewhat perplexed. But later as I tried to make sense of the situation, it struck me that although incredibly knowledgeable within the industry and very successful with sales and negotiation skills, the referring employee could at times be pompous, whiney, abrasive… hey, wait a minute… Blogging 2009-11-12T16:15:41+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/157/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/157/#When:15:55:28Z Discussion on background checking employees and the risks and laws that recruiters work under in order to protect their companies best interest. This blog is about background checking and reference checking applicants and employees. Blogging 2009-10-29T15:55:28+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/155/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/155/#When:08:00:37Z BrightMove, Inc., a leader in Applicant Tracking Software for HR, Staffing and Recruitment Outsourcing (RPO), has released a complimentary White Paper/Field Guide designed to aid recruiting firms and HR departments in getting their Social Media Recruitment efforts in full swing. BrightMove has partnered with Nanci Lamborn, a 20 year veteran of recruiting and HR in writing and designing the guide. Blogging 2009-10-26T08:00:37+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/152/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/152/#When:13:14:58Z References available upon request. We are all extremely familiar with the phrase, or some variation thereof, indicating that a host of credible witnesses stand at the ready to affirm a candidate’s praises. Some modern day camps including the University   of California at Berkeley and Emory University in Atlanta no longer recommend including the classic expression as a part of a polished and professional CV. It is now assumed that if the candidate is as fabulous as they claim, they will be able to produce at least a couple of living human beings to back up their lavish assertions without having to spell out such at the bottom of their resume. Blogging, News 2009-10-20T13:14:58+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/46/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/46/#When:12:48:35Z Photo-inclusive resumes are the question - Recruiting Blog. This woman’s eyes were so scary, they made me shudder. Her toothy rectangle of a smile was frozen under a clearly cosmetically enhanced nose which formed the T-square support for a pair of repulsively bulbous orbs. I think she must have been a Crappie fish in a former life. When I was flipping through a mound of applicants and turned over her resume, I let out an involuntary “Aagh!” and dropped it like it might give me the flu. Blogging 2009-10-17T12:48:35+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/45/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/45/#When:15:07:41Z Do mistakes on resumes and cover letters really matter? I am unashamed to admit it; I am a grammar freak. Maybe it can be blamed upon genetics (my mother used to diagram complex sentences for fun) or upon my authoritarian yet somehow endearing English professor, Mrs. Stolpe (may she rest in peace). I am also, rather proudly, always able to properly distinguish between there, they’re, and their, and I will not be affected by the effect of an improper homonym selection. I can spot a typo a mile away. Blogging, News 2009-10-16T15:07:41+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/41/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/41/#When:17:02:35Z An unnamed number of years ago when I ventured into my first social media outlet (the uber-trendy Xanga world that all the cool kids were into), it never would have dawned on me to include business associates and coworkers in my list of “friends.” I was fairly certain that these professionals weren’t all that likely to be interested in my ever-changing sparkly kitten-themed pages with 80’s hair band music, nor I theirs. And heart-wrenching public updates about how a certain dysfunctional family member had inflicted pain yet again just wasn’t all that enjoyable of a read when coming from the dorky junior staff accountant three cubicles over. 2009-10-15T17:02:35+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/42/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/42/#When:14:52:02Z One of the most interesting aspects of recruiting is the human interaction and the incredibly wide variety of personalities that we encounter. We all have our lists of applicant horror tales and candidate side-splitters when we gather around the Recruiters’ Happy Hour story swap. Eclectic and unique don’t even come close to describing it (I see your nodding smile). But this week I had a somewhat unfamiliar and unexpected interaction with a candidate, and after picking myself up off the floor, I had to decide not only how I would respond to his email, but I also had to decide if there was any way I could possibly proceed with his candidacy. 3y9t4ncazi 5cnrk4pgyi Blogging, News, Personal, Staffing Industry 2009-10-15T14:52:02+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/40/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/40/#When:19:51:17Z When online news articles and technology bloggers began proclaiming sometime in 2008 that Twitter would become the AP newswire of the future, I literally laughed out loud. Dismissing it as techno-hype, I was completely certain that the American news reporting icon would continue to command ownership of top newspaper headlines and web pages from here to evermore. I also pondered that the majority of intelligent and web-savvy global workforce participants would simply not be all that keen on keeping up with 140 characters worth of what Brangelina’s cat had for dinner or the super awesome shoes that Emily just snagged at Macy’s.  2009-10-14T19:51:17+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/10/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/10/#When:13:26:27Z You cannot turn on the TV or open a news website without being exposed to a story about how bad the current economic situation is.  As I watch the news I cannot help to wonder why, in the worst of times, our company and product are flourishing. Staffing Industry 2009-03-31T13:26:27+00:00 http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/9/ http://www.brightmove.com/blog_details/9/#When:12:54:49Z Recruitment Software:  Increased value, Increased Green. Staffing Industry 2009-03-16T12:54:49+00:00