Interview From Anywhere: Live Video Interviews Are Now a Best Practice (Part I of II)
Most of the media coverage these days about recruiting is devoted to social networking , mobile recruiting , and blogging , but the recruiting technology likely to have the most impact if it continues to catch on at the current rate is interviewing candidates “live” from remote locations. The approach I call “interviewing from anywhere” takes advantage of widespread broadband Internet access and inexpensive webcams, two factors that severely restricted videoconferencing as a feasible alternative to face-to-face interviews a decade ago. Video conferencing is not only a practical nice-to-have capability, it is a necessity for any modern recruiting organization charged with recruiting truly top talent around the world. Remote video interviews provide numerous benefits
Why Grads Should Take a Gap Year
As thousands of students pour into the sluggish job market this spring, news sources are trumpeting dramatic stories of graduates whose dreams have been dashed by the current economy. First, I suspect most of these stories are written by Boomers (parents of Y's) who, based on my interviews, are far more distressed by the current events than are most of the Y's. Second, let me assure both students and parents that this year's tight job market is likely to be a small blip on Gen Y's otherwise positive life trajectory. From a long-term, generational perspective, the recession of 2008-09 will have the least impact on the rosy Y's than on any other contemporary generation, largely because they had virtually nothing to lose (few had bought homes or begun to invest in 401ks prior to the recession) and will have everything to gain as they begin their asset accumulation period at the bottom of what is likely to be an historic low.
Reconciling Short- and Long-Term Workforce Trends
My last post prompted a question that I thought might be worth discussing broadly. JoAnn Becker asked what the major marketplace forces are today and the implications of those forces for the company and the worker - how the recession and shifting talent practices mesh with the trends outlined in the books Workforce Crisis (written for organizations seeking talent), Retire Retirement (written to Boomers), and Plugged In (written to Gen Y's). (My final book in the series, written to Gen X'ers, will be published January 2010.) First, the numbers
Clean Up Your Online Footprint
In a recent post, Career Rocketeer discussed the importance of building a positive online footprint. Your online footprint is the digital imprint of your life. It’s the things you created deliberately, with readers in mind, like your LinkedIn profile or VisualCV. But it’s also the comments you made two years ago on a political blog.
Goodbye to Farrah and Michael — From Gen X With Love
Members of Generation X are mourning two of our childhood icons with the passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett on the same day. I didn’t really think about the Generation X connection until I saw this article by Ted Anthony for the Associated Press .
Sourcing Trends and Predictions 2010
Over the past six months, I’ve worked with dozens of major companies and some of the latest new recruiting and sourcing technologies. Based on this, it’s not a reach to contend that how companies will find, recruit, and hire top talent in 2010 and beyond will be far different than how it’s been done in the past few years. I’ll also make the contention that only a few companies are ready for this shift and none of the predictions below are far-fetched
How to Teach Yourself Restraint
The screaming started a few minutes before breakfast. As far as I could tell, our 2-year-old son Daniel took our seven-year-old daughter Isabelle's markers from her while she was drawing. And if you don't think that's a big deal you don't have kids.
I'm running Sainsburys (badly)
I'm not sure what Justin King is hoping to achieve by this latest Apprentice style TV programme; maybe at the end he will tell all TV stars they are actually fired. He states that colleagues will have the best ideas for how to improve their business which I would agree with but, based on what they have shown maybe this is not the case. Or was it deliberate?
