Hacked Job Board Tells Victims to Pay for Protection Themselves
The British newspaper whose job board was hacked over the weekend is advising the half-million users whose information may have been accessed to buy identity insurance and notify credit reporting agencies. An indignant Twitter post by one of those whose account with The Guardian jobs site was compromised says she received an email from the newspaper advising her of the illegal access and suggesting she subscribe to an identity protection service. “ got the guardian hack email – they suggest I buy identity fraud protection services. Hang on, who let people steal my information?
Ten Rules of LinkedIn Etiquette for Business Professionals
Following is a guest post from Adrienne Carlson who writes for ExecutiveMBAPrograms.org If you want to read the post on that site click here. Unlike Facebook and the like, LinkedIn is strictly a social network for professionals with over 48 million members in over 200 countries. Working like a sophisticated online business card, members from those new to the workforce all they way to CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies utilize the free service.
Just one……recruitment process
A recruitment process is a recruitment process. No one is that special that they need a special recruitment process. Of course they have them mapped out and configured into their ATS at great expense and then wonder why they have to change it later, or when it just doesn't work. If recruiters took an off-the-shelf process and just selected the steps they wanted to use just think how easy it would be to cross-train onto a new ATS. Usability of the ATS is made a lot harder than it needs to be IMHO. Do Amazon train their customers how to buy? Do eBay train sellers how to sell? Do you have help sections for people trying to find and apply for a job (although some should!).
Bad service: blame HR
When David Beckham scores the winning goal in the 89th minute of the 2010 World Cup from one of his famous free kicks he will be the hero of the England (again). Or will Fabio Capello be seen as the real hero for having the vision and leadership to use such an ageing star when most people thought his time with England was over? Or would it go as far back to the person who appointed Sven-Göran Eriksson as the first foreign England Manager as without this initial step, would we have Capello right now? Of course I am assuming/hoping/praying we will win the World Cup! Business is the same. Often the hero's come out of a business because of a great people strategy driven from the top often by an enlightened CEO but pushed hard by a great HRD. HR get a lot of flak for being poor commercial contributors and the In-House Recruitment Team often fare no better. But here's my view. Without great people a business will not reach its' potential and as long as recruitment is seen as a stop-gap role, they will not attract and hire great people purely because the company does not take recruitment seriously. It's all well and good having a top level talent management strategy but without feeding people in at the grass roots level TM can only go so far. So next time you get poor service blame HR but when you get great service, thank the Ops Director as that's they way it tends to go. Or maybe, look where it all started - a simple job advert maybe? That's my birthday soap box bit for today!
Five Ugly Numbers That You Can’t Ignore – It’s Time to Calculate Hiring Failures
Some numbers indicate failure so clearly that you can’t help but pay attention to them.
Dice Offers Searchers Something Extra, Passive Candidates
Two new tools have debuted recently. One will help with your sourcing research and the other promotes the passive candidate who may be overlooked by tech recruiters seeking fresh candidates.
What's a marketing process?
Ask any recruiter and they'll have a recruitment process; even if it is only "in their head" it will kind of exist. There will also be: An interview process. An assessment process. A new hire set-up process. A payroll process. And quite a few more besides
