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Two questions (and a link to the answers) to make you think – Seriously.

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Quel Talent

Laurie Ruettimann writes, consults and speaks about Recruiting and HR.  Yesterday, on her way to London to participate and speak at the TruLondon5 Conference that starts on Wednesday of this week, Laurie wrote a bit in her blog, the Cynical Girl, that really made me think in a few different directions. The two questions have been staring us in the HR Industry for years, but seem to be moving up our collective industry consciousness ladder very rapidly. The Questions are these: What’s the better model for filling roles in the UK and the US - Agency Recruiting or Corporate Recruiting - and which approach is more strategic and relevant? Should talent professionals report into HR or should HR report into talent? I’m not … [Read more...]

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Can You Safely Job Search at Work?

February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
View at Work

  Last month, jobmob.com reposted an article by Dave Thomas with 5 tips for Safe Job Searching at Work. Among his suggestions were; your stock is higher presently employed; utilize former employers as references; keep your routine the same; and don’t send out resumes when you do not know the source This is all great advice, and there is a very good bonus tip for job seekers in this article too, that is well worth the read.  Dave’s post can be seen in its entirety here… But extreme caution is necessary when gambling with your current job stability.  As Dave puts it, “The last thing you want is to really need to search for a job because you just lost your current job due to wasting the employer’s time.” I … [Read more...]

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Grit, Guts and Obsession: The new requirements for Success

January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
on the brink by eprescott on Flickr

A lot of really smart people are writing about the "New Normal" in America when it comes to managing one’s own career.  And what they are saying is that the only way to succeed is through grit, guts and obsession. This weekend I was reading through several articles and noticed this common theme. For example, Dan Waldschmidt wrote about it this morning in his article titled “It’s not about what you do,” in which he speaks of success not being a series of actions, “but rather an obsession.” He writes: Business experts will tell you that if you think hard enough and plan long enough that you can generate ideas and strategies that avoid obstacles and end up leading to your success.  But that’s just not reality. And … [Read more...]

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52% of US Companies Will Add Jobs in the Next Year

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Now Hiring!

by Jessica Miller-Merrell, originally posted on 1/26/2012 in Blogging for Jobs   With research from Talent Technology (www.talenttech.com), Jessica Miller-Merrell summarized the finding of the State of Recruiting Survey for 2012.  In her summary, Jessica states that online recruiting and  Job Boards are the most effective means of hiring – but she (and Talent Technology) includes the professional networking site LinkedIn.com into this category…   Some of her findings: All signs are pointing towards an improving economy and yesterday’s release of Talent Technology’s State of Recruiting for 2012 supports what many in the industry are seeing. Business is happening. Hiring and adding new staff is in the … [Read more...]

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Job Search Advice: You at Your Best vs You at Your Average

December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You at Your Best

Originally published on Dec 28 2011 by Phil Rosenberg (Reposted with permission) Employers expect you will present your best …  so why do most job seekers present yourselves at your average? Of course, you don’t intentionally undersell yourself. However, there are many ingrained job search habits we’ve all been taught, that present us as average rather than as superior. We’ve been taught to sell ourselves at our average We learned most of our body of knowledge of job search from placement and career offices, starting with our College/Grad school placement office – even High School placement offices teach much of the same stuff. From the Great Depression up until the end of 2007, there was a valid assumption … [Read more...]

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The 2011 Top 5 Trends, Tools, Tips and Preps for Your Job Search

December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Helping to Put Magic in Your Job Search

It’s the end of the year and the calendar tells us we have the opportunity for a fresh start, a new beginning and a clean slate for the New Year.  For new job seekers and for people still searching for that right position, this can be daunting. At Booyango, we are dedicated to helping job seekers find meaningful employment, and helping companies find better talent solutions. We have put a lot of time and effort into bringing our reader’s valuable content that can help them find a better job, hone their interviewing skills, find resources for their job search and have brought them the wisdom of the experts through our blog postings. In 2011, we posted 86 articles - our own and others’ - of outstanding content addressing … [Read more...]

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Hope Floats – and so does the opportunity of Success

December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hope Floats

Can we find any stability in a rapidly changing environment? Can we find Economic stability; Career stability, Family stability; Spiritual stability? We’ve all suffered from the bumps and jostles to our finances, our careers and our egos in the last year – from ridiculously high-unemployment, to the Wall Street Occupation; from the Arab Spring to the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami; from flat take-home-pay, to slight increases in personal spending; from gridlocked government, to the resurrection of the .com venture-capital and IPO boom.  And let’s not forget the failure of trickle-down economics and the demise of the American Dream. This last year, we have had to accept that the global economy is not coming back to what it … [Read more...]

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Marketing Is a Profit Center

December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Thad Kubis

by Thaddeus B. Kubis, November 2011 (reprinted with permission) As a business owner today, you need a clear and concise perspective on offline and online media, interactive and interaction tools, and the latest communication trends and emerging technologies. Also, you must be able to support your choices with measurable results. Today, in addition to achieving results, prerequisites for any marketer include tracking, return on investment (ROI), accountability, and marketing automation. The media you select need to be media your customer will actually use. Placing ads, managing an e-mail effort, and running a blog will not guarantee a successful media or marketing effort.  What will turn your marketing effort into a profit … [Read more...]

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