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Hiring Trends in the Time of Covid-19

ClearCompany Recruiting

As we move into what appears to be a new phase of the response to SARS-COV-2, business leaders are looking for sources of good data to guide their decisions. In this post, I’ll share several charts that paint a high-level picture of the change in hiring activity, trends in remote work, and some comparisons to the 2008-9 Financial Crisis.

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Have Recruiter Salaries Stagnated?

The Whiteboard

Picture source: stuff.co.nz. So let’s have a look at what I was placing back then, versus what I would say is the average (Auckland) market base salary level today: Zero years’ experience, new-to-recruitment: 2008 = $40k … 2017 = $45k. 1 year’s experience, IT recruiter: 2008 = $60k … 2017 = $65k.

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Sourcing in a Fearful Market

Recruiting Daily

Sourcing in a Fearful Market I want to share with you what it was like as a talent acquisition professional in 2008, during the last recessionary period. I was working for a private agency as a one hundred percent commission-only recruiter. Commission-only means I received a paycheck only after placement was made and […].

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10 Ways Usain Bolt Is Exactly Like A Sourcing Ninja

Social Talent

As we drooled over his innate ability to effortlessly leave runners in his wake every time he hits the track, we found that his skills and characteristics very much resemble a Sourcing Ninja. So let’s dig in and see how the fastest man on the planet is just like one of our Sourcing Ninjas! Source faster, not harder!

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5 Job Search Tips For Recent College Grads

JazzHR

percent , lower than it has been since before the 2008 recession, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 1 channel for sourcing new talent. You’ve graduated college and now you’re ready to take on a new adventure in the working world. This summer, the U.S. unemployment rate is 3.8 Build your professional network.

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Colts Vs. Patriots–Background Check

ExactHire Recruiting

Here’s what it would look like: Cleveland Browns Past 15 Years (Source: [link] ) 1999 2 14.125 2000 3 13.188 2001 7 9.438 2002 9 7.563 2003 5 11.313 2004 4 12.250 2005 6 10.375 2006 4 12.250 2007 10 6.625 2008 4 12.250 2009 5 11.313 2010 5 11.313 2011 4 12.250 2012 5 11.313 Ouch. Actually, you don’t have to imagine that.

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Google Strings vs. Boolean Strings

Boolean Strings

Practical Google search strings do not use ORs and rarely use the minus – This similarly-styled string (submitted yesterday to our NING site as a “favorite”) is also full of syntax errors – and finds no results: I started this blog in 2008 and “Boolean” was different back then. Should I feel sad ?