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IN THIS ISSUE
Newsletter Sponsors
A Note from the Editor
Breaking News
Today's Recruiting News Headlines
Featured Recruiting Jobs
Weekly
Article: Recruiting
Relationships for the Resource Challenged
Employment and
Economy Stats
Special Trials and Discounts
Employment Studies and Trends
Layoffs and Downsizing
Report
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Final Note - On The Lighter Side
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Breaking News
Monster Employment Index Rises Three Points in May, with
Military, Agriculture and Management of Companies Seeing
Strongest Growth
Index Shows Steady Growth in U.S. Online Job Demand
Heading into Summer Months
May 2005 Index Highlights:
- Index at new, all-time high of 134; up
significantly from a year ago
- Management of companies & enterprises and
agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting lead
industries with greatest month-to-month increases in
demand
- Rising consumer need for social services and child
care resulted in increased demand for workers in
social and community services, healthcare and social
assistance
- Military recruitment activity saw strongest surge
in occupational demand in May
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Weekly Article
Recruiting Relationships for the Resource Challenged
By Peter Weddle
In the War for Any
Talent—the labor market during the late, unlamented
dot.com bubble—speed won. The demand for workers was so
great, we had to change the definition of victory. Our
new goal was to find the first qualified person with a
pulse. Whoever achieved that objective first was the
victor.
 Thankfully,
that crazy environment has passed into the history
books. The War for Talent, however, has not. It changed
into a War for the Best Talent. Our clients now want us
to find the rare skill holders and rare performers who
will differentiate their enterprise and power its
success. We can’t rely on speed to do that; we need
relationships, instead.
Why relationships? Because the Best Talent is almost
always employed. That means we recruiters must convince
them to do the one thing humans most hate to do: change.
We must talk them into moving from the devil they
know—their current employer, supervisor and commute—to
the devil they don’t know—our employer, a new supervisor
and an altered commute. Although there are exceptions to
every rule, in most cases, people will not make such a
significant shift based on sparse information (hence the
need to write complete and compelling job postings)
passed to them by a stranger (a recruiter who cold calls
or e-mails them). They want information and advice, to
be sure, but they want it from someone they know and
trust … from someone with whom they have a relationship.
Now, if you’ve ever been in a relationship, you know
there are two truisms about their evolution. They don’t
happen over night or by serendipity. They take:
time and
hard work.And there’s the rub. In today’s world,
most recruiting functions are handcuffed. They simply
don’t have the staff resources necessary to devote the
time and effort required to build relationships with the
top talent their organizations need. At least, that’s
been the case up until now.
A recent development on the Web may finally be
changing that situation. It is not a silver bullet. It
does not make up for understaffed and under-resourced
staffing teams, but it does provide a way for even the
leanest teams to make a start on building talent
relationships. I call it recruiting relationships for
the resource challenged. What am I talking about? In a
word: blogs.
As you may know, blogs are individual Web logs or
diaries. They are written by anyone who has anything at
all to say about anything at all. There are blogs
authored by the fans of specific TV shows, celebrities
and sports team and by political junkies and those who
watch the media watching the rest of us; blogs are also
written by soldiers in Iraq, by housewives and
househusbands, kids and grandparents, consumers and
companies and at least one recruiter.
Heather Hamilton is a recruiter for Microsoft and a
blog author. Every day (unless there’s a crisis that
needs attention), she devotes 30 minutes to an hour
writing about what it’s like to work and apply for a job
in the marketing and finance fields at Microsoft. That
investment of time and effort has enabled her to put a
human face on a large and seemingly impenetrable (at
least if you’re a job seeker on the outside looking in)
company.
When prospective candidates read her blog, several
good things happen:
They hear about the company in something other than
corporate speak or generic boilerplate. The information
that Heather provides accurately describes Microsoft’s
policies, procedures and culture, but it’s done in her
voice and reflects her personality.
They can respond to what she writes and even ask
questions. Unlike the experience that visitors have at
most corporate career sites, a blog doesn’t make
candidates feel as if they are being talked at. It is
not a soliloquy; it is a dialogue.
A relationship emerges. A well written blog can make
it seem as if the author is speaking to each reader
individually, covering the topics that are important to
them, providing information that is helpful to them. In
effect, a blog can build familiarity and trust.
No less important, a blog is not hard to launch.
Heather’s blog is hosted on the Microsoft server, but is
separate from the company’s corporate career site. (You
can read it by clicking
here.) It’s almost as easy to set up a blog on
your own, however. There are any number of sites,
including Blogger.com, Tripod (www.tripod.lycos.com) and
BlogBud.com, that will provide a template for creating
and launching your blog and host it for free. There are
many other sites that will charge you a fee to do so and
there are clearly qualitative differences between all of
them. So, as with any other service that you use on the
Web, caveat emptor.
Finally, here are a couple of tips to make your blog
an effective recruiting tool:
Be diligent. Blogs get read only if they’re
interesting and helpful. Write daily if you can, but no
less than 3-4 times a week … or don’t bother.
Publicize your blog. Make sure it is listed with all
of the major directories of blogs so that people can
find you. You can only build relationships with talent
if the talent shows up to read your blog.
Set ground rules. Tell readers right up front that
you intend to moderate comments posted to your blog and
reserve the right to eliminate those (or the portions of
those) that you find offensive. Don’t be the commentary
police, but do set standards of civility and enforce
them.
Answer the mail. If people ask questions, answer
them. Be honest and accurate in your response, but try
to generalize what you say so that it is applicable to
all or many readers.
We can’t win the War for the Best Talent with the
tools we used to wage the War for Any Talent. Speed
doesn’t win with rare skill holders and rare performers.
Relationships do. In a perfect world, we would have the
time and staff to build relationships effectively. In
the real world, blogs can get us started.
About Author
Peter Weddle is a recruiter,
HR consultant and business CEO turned author and
commentator. Described by The Washington Post as "... a
man filled with ingenious ideas," he has earned an
international reputation, pioneering such concepts as
Human Capital, Career Fitness and the Internet as a
resource for recruiting and HR management. He has
authored seven books, edited six others and published
dozens of articles in professional and trade magazines.
He writes a weekly column about online recruiting for
CareerJournal.com from The Wall Street Journal and a
monthly newsletter that is distributed worldwide. In
addition, he oversees WEDDLE's Publications, the leading
print publisher of newsletters, guides and directories
about employment resources on the Internet. Known for
their accuracy and usefulness, WEDDLE's publications
have helped to put job seekers, recruiters and HR
professionals on the Information Superhighway to
success. Indeed, the American Staffing Association has
called Peter Weddle the "Zagat" of the online employment
industry.
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Employment and Economy Stats
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Current Stats
Unemployment Rate:
5.1% in May 2005
Payroll Employment:
+78,000(p) in May 2005
Average Hourly Earnings:
+$0.03(p) in May 2005
CPI:
+0.5% Apr 2005
ECI:
+0.7% 1st Qtr of 2005
Productivity:
+2.6% 1st Qtr of 2005
Source:
BLS.gov
(p) = projected |
Trends Unemployment Rate
5.1% May 2005
5.2% Apr 2005
5.2% Mar 2005
5.4% Feb 2005
5.2% Jan 2005
5.4% Dec 2004
Employment Cost Index
+0.7% in 1st Qtr of 2005
+0.7% in 4th Qtr of 2004
+0.9% in 3rd Qtr of 2004
+.9% in 2nd Qtr of 2004
Change in Payroll Employment
+78,000(p) in May 2005
+274,000 in Apr 2005
+110,000 in Mar 2005
+262,000 in Feb 2005
+146,000 in Jan 2005
+157,000 in Dec 2004
Source:
BLS.gov |
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Employment Studies
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Overview of
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Layoffs and Downsizing
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The layoff and downsizing report can be a great leads source for
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Upcoming Seminars &
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Complete calendar for upcoming
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seminars.
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Final Note - On The
Lighter Side
HR pros on 'The Apprentice' --
don't try this in real workplace
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