JibberJobber Video Library How Recruiters Hire (Robert Merrill Interview)

JibberJobber Video Library How Recruiters Hire (Robert Merrill Interview) Last week I shared Kristi Brooms interview she is a hiring manager.  This week I want to introduce you to Robert Merrill, a tech recruiter.  This is another  video interview youll get, along with JibberJobber Premium for a year, for only $60! How do recruiters hire? What systems do they use? Do they care about your resume, or LinkedIn Profile? What about salary negotiation, follow-up, etc. This is what youll get in this video, and other interviews in the JibberJobber Video Library. The purpose of these types of interviews is to get inside the minds and though processes of people who are doing the hiring whether they are hiring managers or recruiters or business owners. You can upgrade here  and get immediate access to this interview, the rest in the series, and all of the JibberJobber premium features… for just $60! JibberJobber Video Library How Recruiters Hire (Robert Merrill Interview) Last week I shared Kristi Brooms interview she is a hiring manager.  This week I want to introduce you to Robert Merrill, a tech recruiter.  This is another  video interview youll get, along with JibberJobber Premium for a year, for only $60! How do recruiters hire? What systems do they use? Do they care about your resume, or LinkedIn Profile? What about salary negotiation, follow-up, etc. This is what youll get in this video, and other interviews in the JibberJobber Video Library. The purpose of these types of interviews is to get inside the minds and though processes of people who are doing the hiring whether they are hiring managers or recruiters or business owners. You can upgrade here  and get immediate access to this interview, the rest in the series, and all of the JibberJobber premium features… for just $60!

How to Rule Passive Candidates In or Out

How to Rule Passive Candidates In or Out A client of mine is currently ramping up their direct hire efforts on a global basis, using LinkedIn and other online tools to identify and approach suitable candidates. Some of these will be actively looking for a job, but most will be what we refer to as passive talent. There is nothing wrong with networking with passive talent but as a recruiter you have stiff targets on your head and you have to work out who is actually interested in a job and who is a tyre kicker. This isnt about suitability, we assume these candidates can do the job, this is a matter of seeing who will actually go through with shifting jobs. I was asked what questions to ask candidates to rule them in or out for jobs and had to  rack my old recruiter brain. I came up with a few questions we used to ask candidates, here are some of them. If you can think of more, let me know in the comments below! Current job What made you move to your current position? Are you happy with your choice? How is the company doing? Have you achieved the goals that you set out in this job? Is there any further room for growth in this role? What would you like to do less/more of? (Candidate might mention more people management or money, less travel and programming for instance) Internal progression Are there internal promotion opportunities? (Try to map out the hierarchy) Have others around you moved up in the organisation? (Or are they stuck/have they left) Have you spoken to your manager or applied for internal roles? Do they know you are not happy with your current role? Why would you look at a job at another company when you havent explored internal opportunities first? (Counter offer risk here!) New jobs at other companies Have you had a look at new positions? Did you apply for any new positions? Have you had any feedback / interview / offers? What did you learn from these? (Candidate typically learns what they dont want to do from speaking to other candidates) People that leave your company typically go to? Timescales When would you ideally start a new role? Do you have any performance reviews coming up? Are you waiting on a salary review or bonus payments? What is your notice period? When will you hear from other companies / recruiters? Network How did you find you current role? (job board, search firm, online etc) How would you look for the next position? Do you know people at other companies? (if they know people at your company that can be very useful) How we proceed from here We have a couple of roles that you may be right for, but before I discuss these with you can I ask you to send me your resume/CV? (to get commitment from the candidate and making it real) Can I ask you to have a look at our vacancies and tell me which ones are of interest to you? (if you really want to test them) Your profile looks very interesting and I know that the hiring manager would like to have an initial phone chat with you, how does Tuesday sound? Related: How To Recruit Passive Candidates Online.

Back Doors for the Bravehearted

Back Doors for the Bravehearted This is an opinion piece. If youre interested in writing one, please get in touch.   Ah yes, the Preferred Suppliers List. Challenge accepted.  For many of us, the agency recruiters  first introduction to the PSL is a mixture of trying to understand the  futility of it and banging your head against a brick wall. When trying to win over new clients, there is nothing more annoying than being told “I’m sorry we have a PSL in place I’m afraid we cannot accept any CVs”. Fight the good fight Often, recruiters will shrug their careworn shoulders and decide it’s a battle that requires too much hard work for such little return.  However,  sometimes (and I mean only sometimes), perseverance is key, especially if you are working in a specialised market and the PSL consists of the usual high street suspects (you know the ones). Your secret  weapon What you have (that they don’t) is specialised, expert industry knowledge.  Knowing your industry inside out can be invaluable in your quest for getting onto that fabled PSL, because when your client is desperately searching for a Senior Widget Firtler in Great Eccleston, it’s only a matter of time before you become the only missing piece to their puzzle. Get creative If your point of contact is in either HR or an in-house recruiter, then you’re most likely  on to a hiding to nothing. The only way in? Yes, its the  hiring manager; the person who has resigned themselves to the fact that Widget Firtlers of any persuasion do not exist in Great Eccleston. Once you  have their name, then Bingo! You can then carefully cultivate your way in. The hiring manager doesn’t care if you are on the PSL or not they care about the fact you have Dave Grinthorpe’s CV who lives near Great Eccleston and has been Widget Firtling for over 10 years. The hiring manager has just become your greatest ally. Your new ally Said new  ally will try to make sure  HR acknowledges the fact you have given him the perfect CV theyll likely pass on that he wants to interview Dave immediately. You see, the hiring manager just wants to fill the void left by Frank, who was poached by their rival company down the road in Hambleton. This hiring manager will speak to their boss, and tell them about you and how you have the perfect candidate for them!  The chain reaction will be that dave finally gets an interview, and HR gets the hump with you.   Burning bridges or building them? The in-house recruiter and HR will be overjoyed that you spoke directly to the manager (cough, cough). NOT and theyll call you to let you know. Your new ally, aka hiring manager wont really care that youve ruffled some feathers; they only care about the fact that youve given them Dave.  Now, you might be thinking about burnt bridges with HR etc, but the fact of the matter is that you have found a way in! Most of the time, even if your candidate gets the role, you will be told its  a one off and the PSL still stands. However, you have already started a long process of breaking down barriers. Congratulations! Proof is in your pudding The hiring manager (not to mention  HR) now knows you can deliver and they  will likely let other managers know too  and pretty soon, when the PSL is up for review, you will be recommended! Of course, this isn’t always the case and sometimes after  the initial first placement is made, HR will make it their sole purpose to keep you from ever dealing with them ever again because of your disregard for their policies, but the more specialist you are, the less likely it is theyll be able to afford ignoring  you. The high street big boys will still get the first crack of the whip, but eventually you will be asked “can you help, we need a Noodler in Poulton le Fylde could you send some CV’s please?” Risky and rewarding business In summary,  your patience and specialist knowledge is your way in, the hiring manager knows Widget Firtlers don’t grow on trees and certainly don’t reply to random generic adverts on social media. They also don’t care if you are not on the PSL (90% of the time) they only care about the fact you know what you are talking about and that people is the key to success. *Great Eccleston is a small village in Lancashire where I once fell a sleep in a Chippy’s outside toilet.  I was quite the talk of the village. *Firtling is still better in Lancashire than Yorkshire If you work in HR or in house recruiting, we all love you really.   About the author: Paul Murphy has been working for SER Limited in Engineering Recruitment for over 11 years specialising in the intelligent buildings sector â€" especially BMS (Building Management Systems). He is also it seems a part time keyboard warrior on behalf of recruiters everywhere.

5+ Best Library Assistant Interview Questions Answers - Algrim.co

5+ Best Library Assistant Interview Questions Answers - Algrim.co We’ve compiled the absolute best library assistant interview questions and answers. The general role of a library assistant is to help in the overall operations of a library along with the director or lead librarian. The tasks required on a daily basis inside of a library can be quite daunting, especially in larger public libraries with thousands of books that need to be categorized and organized. The assistant helps in the multi-disciplinary roles and tasks that are required to keep the operations of the library in top working order. In general, the direct report of a library assistant will be the head librarian. Operational tasks may vary depending on the size of the library, the season the library is in and/or the books that are being taken out by the community or members of the library. Library Assistant Interview Questions & Answers 1. What is the role of the library assistant? The role of the library assistant is to be multifaceted in the approach as well as daily tasks that are being performed. From ensuring that returned books are making their way back into the archive to helping facilitate any community meetings that may be taking place at the library. I am the right hand to the librarian and a peer to my other library assistants. 2. What is your passion for books? Books hold our culture and species history, without them we’d have nothing. While information has become more digitalized, it's important that we look at books as a way of preserving our history. They speak truths and facts that sometimes the internet cannot provide. We need people who are willing to preserve this information. 3. How do you see a library assistant being successful? By looking at the overall operations of the library and seeing that we are performing them with the best of success. That means we don’t see books stacked high that is not organized, that means we have room for our community to gather and read books and that means we have a fruitful amount of books that are ready to be checked out. 4. What are some ways a library assistant can fail? By not being reliable. Not showing up for work or not being passionate about the work we are doing is a few ways the assistant can fail. Without that, the tasks that are performed regularly will become tiresome and that will impact our community and our library. 5. How would you encourage the passion of books to develop amongst younger generations? By holding readings or some type of community project which the younger generations can gather and learn why books are important to our past, our present and our future. Without explicitly describing it, we may lose the passion that could potentially develop. We have to show younger generations why they should be passionate, not just tell them. Related Hiring Resources Library Assistant Job Description Sample

Writing a Resume Further in Career

Writing a Resume Further in CareerWriting a resume further in career is a major requirement of those who are seeking employment. The ability to write a professional resume is vital. As such, it is critical to note that the skills you have may not be enough to secure the position you want.When you submit your resume, it should enable the future employer to get the idea that you are in fact an expert in your field. Here are some ways to improve your resume:o Start from the top and work your way down. The more information you can supply in your resume, the better the chances are of your resume being considered as highly important. If you wish to impress the future employer, it is best to start with the beginning.o Write about what you have already done instead of what you intend to do. It is always better to write about your accomplishments rather than what you are planning to do. In doing so, you will not be liable to the fact that you cannot match the previous endeavor.o You should in clude basic job skills that show you have the necessary skills for the position you are applying for. This will give the future employer the impression that you are capable of carrying out the job.o You can draw the attention of your future employer by using writing techniques that impress him. For example, if you use terms that sound exotic or have strange spellings, it may make the reader not take you seriously.o If you provide enough information on how you are qualified for the job you are applying for, the future employer will take you more seriously. You will not be the only one applying for the same job; therefore, it is vital to state this upfront in your resume.Resume writing further in career is about showing that you are the right person for the job. Hence, it is essential to use every element of writing a resume to your advantage.

The New Rules of Marketing Five Key Principles of Care, Credibility, Connection, Clarity and Calling - Kathy Caprino

The New Rules of Marketing â€" Five Key Principles of Care, Credibility, Connection, Clarity and Calling As many of my friends and community members know, Im a huge fan of Scott Stratten, President of Un-marketing (www.un-marketing.com). Almost every word this guy says and writes resonates 100% with me, and reflects my views and feelings about what it means to engage authentically, build relationships, and market yourself, your products and services, in the highest and best sense of the word.  You can read all about Scott on his site, his blog, and follow him on Twitter at @unmarketing (hes considered one of the top influencers on Twitter, with 60,000 folks following his tweets.) His new book Unmarketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging is a must-read for anyone doing marketing or in business, and if you want to see him in person (highly recommended), heres his 30-city book tour schedule. Dont miss him! Im going to Hartford, CT on October 5th to see him. If youre in Connecticut, hope to see you there!What Ive learned from Scott and other top marketing thinkers, and in the eight years of building my own business, community and platform, is that your marketing efforts will not be successful unless they come from a place of caring, credibility, connection, clarity, and calling. My personal take on 5 key ingredients to successful, prosperity-minded marketing: 1)  CARE: Youve got to truly care about the welfare of your clients/customers 2) CREDIBILITY: You must build trust and gain credibility with people before they care about what you do 3) CONNECTION: Create a true, mutual connection with others by giving of yourself and your work, and listening and learning from others, through different avenues that engage and enliven 4) CLARITY: Know who you are, stay true to that, and share a viewpoint that enlightens, entertains or educates in some essential way 5) CALLING: If youre not passionate about what youre doing, change directions  If youre wondering how these principles look and feel like in the practical world, below are some tactics that support these core principles:  1) Care About Your Customers, Clients, and Community  The world has changed. Everything you do today as an entrepreneur, marketer, writer, thinker, speaker, etc. is transparent, clear for all to see. Your motivations, your desired outcomes, your behaviors and thinking its all out there now. The truth is, if you dont really care about the welfare and success of your clients and customers, and if youre thinking only about is how you can succeed, you wont. To succeed and thrive, you must create a world of mutuality and reciprocity give and get, love and be loved, support and be supported. If you dont hold up your end, and if you dont start from a place of How can I best serve?, you just wont succeed in the big way you dream of. If deeply loving and caring about the people you serve is difficult or impossible for you, its a sign that you have to change what youre doing.  2) Credibility Build Trust and Respect  Thousands of entrepreneurs and marketers today dont understand one key marketing concept that people do business only with people they like, trust and know (thanks, Scott, for making that crystal clear). You must build a relationship with people first, before theyll engage in buying your services or supporting your work. And you have to demonstrate that youre a credible, reliable voice in your chosen area over time. I and many others mistakenly believed the build it and they will come myth that simply because Ive hung my shingle as a coach and consultant (and am a darn good one at that), that Ill have customers and clients aplenty and the flow will be constant. It aint so! You must create a way to a build relationships over time with people that serve them well, and then perhaps theyll buy or enlist in your services (and only when theyre ready and only if your services and prices and packages fit their needs, not yours). Develop engagement strategies (a newsletter, speaking, tweeting, free articles and information, blog, social media, free resources) that allow you to give of yourself and your expertise in ways that energize you, but also that build trust and credibility. 3) Connection Listen, Respond, and Serve Think about the great, fulfilling connections you have in your personal life theyre typically based on common interest, caring, curiosity, like-mindedness, love, mutuality, reciprocity, and authenticity. So it is in the business world as well. Connect with those you wish to serve in person, at events, in writing, in social media, through your blog or newsletter, etc.. Find ways that you enjoy to connect with your community, and listen to what theyre saying and caring about deeply. If youre sitting alone in your office day after day, disconnected and disengaged from others, youre marketing into a vacuum. Also a must truly listen to your community, and elicit their feedback, comments, and ideas, and integrate these ideas and comments respond!. In short, create a real connection and authentic conversation with those you wish to serve. 4) Clarity Know Who You Are and Share It One thing I love about following Scotts work is that he 1) knows exactly who he is (foibles and imperfections and all), and 2) unabashedly shares who he is with the world. Theres a neat list on his blog of 25 things you didnt know about me. It takes guts to publish a list like this. Do you have that kind of courage to share yourself openly and nakedly with your community? Whats your list of 25? Are you clear about who you are, uniquely? What makes you tick, what lights you up, what makes you so mad your head will explode? Know these things about yourself, and make use of them in all you do! Understand who you are and let that specialness shine out, in your writing, your services, your products, and your community. If you dont, youll never be able to be your true self in your work, or stand apart from the many thousands of others who are afraid to be who they really are, or share with honesty and courage what they stand for. 5) Calling- Passion is a Must-Have Theres a very large difference between a job and a calling. To be successful as an entrepreneur or marketer or service provider, you have to have passion for it a deep, abiding drive to make a difference and be of service. If you dont have it, marketing yourself and your products will be extremely challenging at best, a terrible failure at worst. So figure out what youre passionate about, and if its not your business or your practice or your creative endeavors, its time to make some significant changes. I was a corporate marketing director and VP for many years, and truthfully, I stopped liking it early on and was often bored silly by it, (the whole thing felt like theatre ya know?) because I was marketing products and services I simply didnt connect with or feel excited to support. Its a terrible feeling to dislike intensely what you do for a living, and feel absolutely no connection with it, right? Now, Im really jazzed about using my marketing skills to help others thrive in their careers and businesses, and to grow my own business. If youre proud and excited about what youre marketing or promoting, then put your whole self into it. If you have no connection to what youre marketing, you most likely wont have anywhere near the success or fulfillment you want. The bottom line The new marketing is thisconnecting and engaging authentically with others you love so as to be of the highest service possible, drawing on the many talents and skills you love to offer. The ultimate outcome of well-executed marketing is that you get to build a like-minded, interrelated (and fascinating) community that truly gets you, and receives deep benefit from learning with and from you. In the end, its about creating a global network of people you love (yes, LOVE!), and who find in your work something that helps them become more of who they truly want to be. And you get to become more of who you want to be by being of service in a way that draws on everything that makes you special. Now thats a lot more exciting than just marketing, yes? Please share your comments below about what marketing is and means for you.    Let’s do this together!

Google sets - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Google sets - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Theres a new, seriously cool feature currently being tested on Google, called Google sets. You name a couple of items and Google will attempt to expand that and find more items matching your examples. Starting with Bill Clinton and George Bush might give you a set of american presidents while apples, pears and bananas gives you a list of fruits. Lets say youre a fan of Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry and you want to find more tools like them well heres a possible answer. Google rules! Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related