Jennifer McClure did a few minute long video interview of me at the Society for Human Resource Management 2009 annual conference in New Orleans. We talked about CollegeRecruiter.com in general; our new partnerships with America's Job Exchange and TwitterJobSearch; our new webinars for students, career service office professionals, and employers; and my impressions of the SHRM conference.
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on July 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM | Leave a Comment (0)
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2009 annual conference opened yesterday afternoon with a keynote by legendary CEO, Jack Welch. Most of the 10,000+ paid attendees then made their way from the main presentation room at the mile long New Orleans Convention Center over to the massive exhibit hall to begin their discussions with the hundreds of exhibitors as well as snack on catfish fingers, gumbo, mushroom caps, beer, wine, soda, and more.
The exhibit hall was open from 4 until 7pm yesterday and traffic to the CollegeRecruiter.com booth was pretty good from 4 until about 6:15pm and then dropped off a cliff. By 6:45pm it was much harder to spot attendees than exhibitors but that's pretty normal for these types of events as the reality is that most of the attendees come into the exhibit hall for the free food and drink and then leave to enjoy their evenings at local restaurants and bars. And given that this year's conference is in New Orleans, there's no shortage of either.
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
July is right around the corner and this terrible job market for college students and recent graduates has snuffed out the chances that they had for landing an internship. Or did it?
If you haven't landed that great internship yet, get more aggressive. I'm not talking about getting your friends in New Jersey to put a horse's head into the bed of the hiring manager but instead literally calling up your target companies. Lauren Berger a/k/a The Intern Queen did just that when she was a freshman in college and landed the first of her many internships. Intrigued? Watch her recent interview on Fox News.
Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM | Leave a Comment (0)
I've been to several of the annual conferences put on by the Society for Human Resource Management and they've all been huge. Hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees. Did I say huge? This year's show promises to be almost as big as those of the past couple of years but the layoffs and budget cutbacks have hurt SHRM's numbers just like they have virtually every other organization out there. Yet even with those cuts, SHRM still expects 10,000 paid attendees to descend upon the conference in New Orleans. Wow.
CollegeRecruiter.com will be well represented at this year's annual SHRM conference. Paul Bell, Caddy Rowland, Intern Queen Lauren Berger, and I will be manning our booth and wandering the exhibit hall doing the old meet-and-greet. It should be great to reconnect with old friends and clients and hopefully make some new ones.
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM | Leave a Comment (0)
Spring and fall seem to be the busiest times of the year for recruiting conferences so it is at times like this when I'm most able to connect face-to-face with employers and college career service office professionals. And it is at times like this when I am reminded how -- pardon my French -- idiotic some recruiting practices can be.
Many but probably not most recruiters, hiring managers, and other human resource professionals believe that it is a good thing to force candidates to feel some pain in order to apply to a job. That might mean a lengthy application form, an on-line assessment, or even just the typical refusal of most corporate recruiters to make themselves easily accessible to the very people that they should most want to communicate with.
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM | Leave a Comment (3)
I've been a frequent critic of most of the airlines for seemingly training their staff to be difficult at best and downright confrontational at worst. The customer service people for many of the airlines are completely unlike the friendly, cheerful, eager-to-help customer service people that you find at most rental car and hotel counters. I've never accepted the excuse that the job is somehow more difficult or the pay somehow worse than what is earned similarly qualified people in the same hospitality industry or even at other airlines like Southwest. It's just the culture.
Thankfully, I had a wonderful experience this weekend courtesy of Delta Airlines. A relative on my wife's side of the family is ill enough that my physician brother-in-law decided at the last moment to fly from the U.K. to be with him and to try to get some straight answers from his healthcare providers. My brother-in-law flew from Heathrow to Minneapolis then to Salt Lake City and then transferred again to his ultimate destination. He had only one hour and 20 minutes in Minneapolis so didn't have time to leave the secured area to say hello to us but we knew that it would mean a lot to him if we could see him face-to-face.
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 22, 2009 at 4:18 PM | Leave a Comment (0)
There's been an interesting discussion in the NACE JobPlace discussion list about the perception by many employers that students who do a more effective job of searching for employment opportunities will have a better chance of being hired.
I agree but caution those who believe that the best candidates are those who try the hardest to be hired. It seems to me that candidates who try the hardest to be hired actually fall into two groups:
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Posted by Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com on June 19, 2009 at 7:52 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
