Hiring Sales Professionals

Sales recruiting is up — good news for just about everyone. We know that companies are doing better when the phone starts ringing for sales professionals. We also know that there are lots of landmines in this path and Princess Diana isn’t here to help get rid of them. Some employers have a formal process,…

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Yes, You Have To.

We get asked: If a job posting asks for salary history or requirement, do you have to fill it in? Sadly, yes. It’s a horrible system. But HR has to institute every possible automated screening tool because they are overrun with candidates, many of whom are not in the least qualified. One of our candidates…

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Last post, we were singing …

and now, we definitely need to add to the choir. More jobs! Seriously, please take a look and pass it on to people in your network: Now, there’s a need for: *traffic manager for agency*senior art director for in-house agency*account manager(s) — in-house and agency*admin/recruiting intern for LandaJob*production artist for corporation*on-going temporary designer — avg.…

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Jobs are springing up all over

You should be grateful that I type, not sing. Consider taking a look at our partial list of search assignments and forwarding on to a friend: We need: *a Design Director for an NYC cosmetics giant*an Account Planner for a Chicago agency*an Editorial Asst. for a KC contract/temp assignment*CRM and one-to-one experts … and a…

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Good ‘N Plenty? No, Fabulous & Free!

We’re excited to share our latest effort to help jobseekers: www.Mylandajob.com This free, really, no-salesman-will-call, site is our effort to help jobseekers everywhere. It’s simple to sign up, easy to access tools for your job search, anonymous (naturally), and valuable. Did I mention it’s free? The process is segmented into 3 parts: Preparation, Search &…

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The gates have opened …

In the past couple of months, our inbox runneth over. We’re averaging about 50% more resumes than we have in the past several years. It appears that jobseekers know the timing is right for a new job, or just a job, if they’ve been out of work. News sources have been warning companies that a…

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Is this Spring? Really?

Advice to the joblorn, new, available talent and a note to employers can be found in our March newsletter: http://conta.cc/hF16pB

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Warning: Some of your very best are burning out

We are hearing from lots of people recently. Yes, some calls are happy “we need to hire” calls, and there are still lots of unemployed jobseekers. But the preponderance of contacts recently has been from employees who are working and over-worked as business has picked up. One salaried person has logged over 80 hours in…

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Winning in the economy recovery

He who hires best, first, wins the economic recovery race. Everyone senses or is experiencing the long-awaited turnaround in the marketplace. Thankfully, that includes recruiters, who are suddenly very busy again. Unfortunately, some employers haven’t caught on that it’s not business as usual when making hires. They still think they’re in the driver’s seat and…

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