How To Land A Job With A One Page Proposal

Finding a job requires serious effort.  If your job search doesn’t seem to be getting you anywhere, the following post suggests taking a more businesslike approach to the process.

There are a lot of us who have interesting skills, but just can’t seem to find the right place to put them to work. It’s easy to blame age or lack of expertise. But, it’s often the case that we are square pegs in the land of round holes. For the most part, no amount of reshaping will actually turn a square peg into a right sized round one.

Continue at source:

How To Land A Job With A One Page Proposal

John Sumser’s Worst Nightmare

One of the best presenters in the recruiting industry is John Sumser of HR Examiner. He’s a true industry veteran both in his depth and breadth of knowledge and in his willingness to share his knowledge with the rest of us.

I’ve seen John deliver many presentations and he’s always calm, cool, and collected. Wouldn’t it be fun if once — just once — his many friends rigged his presentation so that everything went wrong? I’m not envisioning being sadistic to the guy but I am envisioning something like this: Continue Reading

Kevin Grossman the Top Human Resources Influencer

Congratulations to Kevin Grossman for being named by HR Examiner as the winner of the Top 25 HR Digital Influencers for 2010. Kevin was one of our primary contacts at HRMarketer.com and is now the Senior Business Consultant and Principal at The Glowan Consulting Group. Kevin has over 23 years of proven marketing communications, business development, employee development, talent management and general management experience working in the human resources and recruiting services industries, high-tech, and higher education. Even more importantly, he’s just a genuinely nice, smart, caring guy.

HR Examiner’s process was primarily automated, admittedly not completely glitch free, and likely free of the inevitable bias that creeps into studies like this when subjective selection criteria are used. John Sumser described his process this way:

Here are the keywords we used as the foundation of the analysis:

“human resources” “human capital”, “human resources” “performance management”, “human resources” development, “human resources” “talent acquisition”, “human resources” “talent management”, “human resources” “workforce planning”, “human resources” recruiting, “human resources” training, “human resources” compensation, “human resources” career, “human resources” “career development”, payroll “human resources”, hr training, hr “workforce planning”, hr “talent management”, hr “human capital”, hr career, hr “career development”, hr “performance management”, payroll hr, payroll benefits, payroll “human resources” staffing, payroll “employment law”, payroll EEOC, hr development, “human resources” “recruitment process outsourcing”, “human resources” “candidate relationship management”, “human resources” “background check”, “human resources” “job references”, hr “talent acquisition”, hr “recruitment process outsourcing”, hr “candidate relationship management”, hr “background check”, hr “job references”

As usual, the only change I made to these computer generated results was to remove my name which came in at number 6. It’s not credible to be included in the results stream even though the process is automated and beyond reproach.