How about keeping in touch?
The typical sales and marketing approach to new customers compared to existing customers never changes. Too much focus on new and not enough on the old i.e.
Leverage Your Own Social Network
Social networks are so hyped right now among recruiters that it is hard to separate their real value and purpose from often overblown marketing promises. By creating a social network specifically for your organization, you can differentiate yourself from the crowd, build your brand, and find most of the candidates you need without any other sourcing techniques. Rethinking how we source is not easy
Generation Y: Bridging the Generation Gap in Corporate America
ERE was joined once again by J.T. O’Donnell as we discussed generational differences and how to overcome them in the workplace.
Dice Has Tough Quarter, But Does Better Than Expected
Shares of Dice Holdings , owner of IT job board Dice.com, closed up almost 5 percent today, following news this morning that the company had a better quarter than Wall Street expected. The company reported earning 5 cents a share or $3 million versus the average 2 cents a share analysts had estimated it would report for the quarter ended Sept. 31. Though revenue was down a third to $26.7 million from last year’s $39.6 million, expenses were cut by 28 percent. The $3 million profit was just under half the $6.4 million Dice earned for the same quarter in 2008
Developing Your Leadership Presence
What about when you are pushed in front of the microphone or given very little prep time for something like an introduction of a guest speaker? This question came from Tonya in response to my previous post on developing your leadership pitch. Here's the quick answer, you walk to the microphone and you smile. You take a moment to size up the audience and then you say what you have to say briefly and to the point
Outplacement ‘Disruptor’ Gets $4.6 Million Investment
RiseSmart , a self-described disruptor of the “the $3 billion-plus corporate outplacement market,” announced this morning that it got a $4.6 million infusion of venture capital. Norwest Venture Partners , a $3 million participant in an earlier round of financing, put in $1.8 million. The balance of $2.8 million came from new investor Storm Ventures
The Great Recession's Hidden Cause: Sub-Prime Education
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has written an Op-Ed piece that should give all those involved in talent acquisition pause . There is "actually a critical, but unspoken reason for the Great Recession". That reason has coincided with the mortgage crisis and the subsequent meltdown on Wall Street and in financial markets wrapped around the world. At the same time Americans were spending more than we ought on houses we couldn't afford, we were not investing in the one thing that could help us maintain our global competitive advantage:education. In fact, many see our Nation's sub-standard education as the primary reason for the downfall of our global competitiveness. Strategic thinkers with high-end analytical, problem solving skills -- those who invent new ways to old jobs or who create new services or who attract new business -- are fairing far better than highly educated engineers, lawyers, and accountants focused on more routine tasks tasks that increasingly have been outsourced overseas. Consequently, the frightening realization is this: college educated, task-oriented workers will likely never get their jobs back. Those jobs are gone
Diversify Your Self
Recently, a woman working for France Telecom sent an email to her father. Then she walked over to the window on the fourth floor of her office building, opened it, stepped through, and jumped to her death. The email read: "I have decided to kill myself tonight...I can't take the new reorganization." If this were an aberration, one depressed woman's inability to handle change, we could dismiss it. But, so far, 24 France Telecom employees have killed themselves since last year.
