10 Commandments of Internet candidate research

  1. Plan your search
  2. Define what you are targeting
  3. Know your search engine
  4. Use multiple search engines
  5. Search for people, not resumes
  6. Develop a search strategy
  7. Use synonymous concepts to expand your search
  8. Refine your search strategy
  9. Persist
  10. Search don’t surf

Source: Moises Lopez

7 Tips for Recruiting Generation Y

  1. Offer generous referral bonuses.
  2. Consider different geographies.
  3. Keep ‘em moving.
  4. Tlk 2 them.
  5. Get flexible.
  6. Community service.
  7. Think beyond the short term.

Source: Shelley Solheim

Top-Ten Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs

  1. Management demands that one person do the jobs of two or more people, resulting in longer days and weekend work.
  2. Management cuts back on administrative help, forcing professional workers to use their time copying, stapling, collating, filing and other clerical duties.
  3. Management puts a freeze on raises and promotions, when an employee can easily find a job earning 20-30 percent more somewhere else.
  4. Management doesn’t allow the rank and file to make decisions or allow them pride of ownership.
  5. Management constantly reorganizes, shuffles people around, and changes direction constantly.
  6. Management doesn’t have or take the time to clarify goals and decisions.
  7. Management shows favoritism and gives some workers better offices, trips to conferences, etc.
  8. Management relocates the offices to another location, forcing employees to quit or double their commute.
  9. Management promotes someone who lacks training and/or necessary experience to supervisor, alienating staff and driving away good employees.
  10. Management creates a rigid structure and then allows departments to compete against each other while at the same time preaching teamwork and cooperation.

Source: Gregory P. Smith

Five Steps to More Effective Diversity Recruiting

  1. Build a diversity message into your recruitment brand
  2. Demonstrate the diversity of your organization
  3. If you aren’t where you want to be in terms of diversity, say so
  4. Invest in education
  5. Give back to the community

Source: Karen Hildebrand, WetFeet

Seven Secrets of Sourcing

  1. Know the right time to source
  2. Know if sourcing in a particular sector makes sense
  3. Know where to go
  4. Know and understand the consequences
  5. Know about nontraditional sourcing avenues
  6. Understand how sourcing can save you thousands, even millions of dollars
  7. Know how to protect your investment in your sourcing organization

Source: Maureen Sharib, ERE.net