This is our Independence Day.
In 1867 Fenians were attacking British North America from the USA. Four English colonies united to make sure that they were not absorbed by the United States. Total control of foreign policy came in 1921.
Participants
Bill Boorman, Shane McCusker, Wendy Jacob, Alan Whitford
Referrals
Don't search for a candidate. Search for someone who knows a candidate.
Call people in your database and ask them for referrals. You will get plenty of good candidates in just one evening. (Yeah?)
"Hi Billy, I've got this opportunity I want to tell you about. I'm not sure it's quite right for you but I wanted to give you the option to say no". Then ask for referrals when he refuses.
But what if he doesn't refuse? And what if he thinks you're a jerk for continually presenting jobs that aren't right for him?
Recruiters Need Fresh Meat
Use the recession to fill your database with people you can use in the future as referral machines.
Hiring Managers Unrealistic
The recession has made Hiring Managers too demanding. They think the economy has put a lot of good people on the street so you can find lots of qualified candidates very easily.
In fact, it's hard to recruit people now. When you advertise a job you're buried in resumes but it's harder than ever to get the good people to move.
Ageism
Over-qualified is code for over the hill.
Morale
A recruiter has to believe that she provides the most important commodity that makes a business successful.
Good Candidate Experience
Arrange a conference call for candidates once a week. For the first 20 minutes you offer career advice then let them ask questions.
(Then tell them not to bug you. You'll call when you have something).
Consultative Recruiting
If recruiting was simply finding people who have skills on their resume there would be no need for recruiters.
A recruiter is a consultant not a CV Shifter. To get in bed with your client put on your consultative head.
That starts with understanding what the customer does. And then? The guy kept talking about getting under the covers with your client.
July 2009
July 08: Yvette Ferry
July 15: Scotty Gordon
July 22: Jill Elswick
July 29: Mike Ramer
August 2009
Aug 05: Charles Krugel
Aug 12: Stephanie A Lloyd
Aug 19: Jim Durbin
Hi, welcome to Canada. And welcome to Career Carnivale
Please note that all submissions have been animalized for showcasing here with links to the originals provided below each entry.
What Makes a Lousy Job Hunter
1. You get up in the morning, read the paper, talk to your friends then spend the rest of the day on Twitter - trying to find a job.
2. You're boring. You deliver shopworn messages and when the response you get is "Girl, are you ho-hum!" you say "Did you just call me a ho?". (If they won't give you a job, you might as well sue them, right?).
3. You have so little respect for yourself that you're a little too easy when the employer tries to stick you with a low salary.
4. You only apply to jobs you find on job boards. The same jobs every nudnik is applying for. God forbid you should do some research and dig up an opportunity of your own.
I Pay My Boss
I don't like being managed so I work for myself. And, because I don't have a boss, I pay a coach to guide me. I hate strategy and he loves it so I pay him to strategize me. And, you know what? It's worth it.
So, don't be cheap. Invest in your career. And if you have a boss, use her the same way I use my coach and if you can't, get rid of her.
Turn Lemons Into Sour Lemonade
Danny had some crappy jobs when he was a teen. I did too. And I learned something from them -- that I hate work. But Danny's different. He learned to learn from the hard times.
- If you hate your job, learn self-motivation.
- If your colleagues are creeps, learn how to deal with creeps.
- If the economy falters and the dead wood gets cut, learn how to do your job so you don't get axed again.
USA: Ripe for Revolution?
Advice for the jobhunter in a bad economy: Take less money, drive farther, take a step back.
I'm worried about the current mood. The jobless see no light at the end of the tunnel and they're getting mad.
Mad at the big shots who got them into this mess and mad at the unemployment office that keeps them on hold for an hour and mad at the losers who bought houses they couldn't afford. Uh-oh. In 2010, will Washington resemble Teheran? Unthinkable.
Here's one from @BillBoorman. Bill's a Limey. You don't hear that term much anymore, do you? Wonder why?
When he's not eating egg and chips or putting down a Guiness, Bill teaches recruiters how to work properly. He's very concerned about not wasting time so he gave me a posting that he used on @JLipschultz blog just this past Monday. Sweet!
How To Get A Job Using Twitter
Write a few messages about your skills with a link to your Linkedin profile. Not many people are going to see them so you can repost often.
Send queries to recruiters just to get noticed. “Hey, Dude. I’ve always been interested in working at XYZ. Do you have any advice for me?”
Don't post when you're drunk. Google's going to pull that stuff up on reference checks and who's going to hire you then, you big goof. And don't use a dumb email address either. Like SmellyBelly@gmail.com. Grow up.
Hey, You, Hiring Manager: Don't Be a Dummy
“Hey, do you know a bilingual Recruiter for a part-time position who will work for $10.00 per hour?”
Fools Rush In
HR is scared of Social Media. It might expose damaging information about my company! Listen, friend, don't you know people are saying bad things about you already?
You gotta get in there and train your employees to twitter about your brand. Or do cus service on soc media, like Comcast.
She Drives Me Cravy
An Executive Resume can be 2, 3 or 4 pages long;
it doesn't matta! As long as:
- the first page is stand-alone.
- it's glimpse-able
- you showcase the value prop and
- you highlight take-aways
- The Value Prop answers: What's in it for me (in hiring you)?
- Take-aways: stuff that sticks in your mind
Recruiters tell Jacquie they crave what she offers.
I asked her for short and she delivered.
10 Free Job Search Resources Online.
Dave Manaster says JJ McClure is one tall drink of water.
So I condensed one of her taller tales.
Think Like A Recruiter
I wish I could help every one of you - I'm a nice person - but I can't. So find your own job. Here's how.
Look for clues about opportunities in newspapers and trade publications. Then get someone in your network to connect you with the right people.
To tap into your network you have to get a network. Go to networking and prof assoc meetings. Help people with referrals, then they'll help you.
Keep key contacts warm. Make sure they know what you do and the kind of contacts you want. If you write bland stuff like this - I'm open to any opportunity where I can utilize the many skills I have in any industry - you don't deserve a job.
Benny's the boss of this show. I sure hope he likes my work.
Get This Straight. You're Not All That
You think you're an expert but you're not. Let me say that again. You think you're an expert but you're not. You know what you are? You're a nobody, a small fish in a big pond and I'm going to prove it.
There’s a new old wive's tale going round that says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert. Reading a book and talking big, that won’t do it. A few years of casual practice, that won’t do it. How much practice does it take to be an expert: 10 hours a week for 20 years.
And you know what? You're not going to do it. And you know why? Because you don't want to be an expert. You want to be a big shot. But here's my advice Mr Big Shot: give it up. Give-it-up. Because being a phony expert, that won't make you happy.
I used to be an expert but now I''m not and I'm happier for it. It's no fun having to defend a title you're not fit to hold
But remember this: Your dreams are your ticket out. Your ticket out of a life of mundane hell. And you don't have to be an expert to follow that dream. A lot less than 10,000 hours is bound to make you happy.
Thanks for reading everybody. If you want to be the host of the next Career Carnivale, heeeeere's Benny. Talk to him.
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"You made fun of his hair. How could you?". Someone actually phoned me to tell me that. Someone else didn't like the fuss I made about his name. It looks like Marlatt but he says it's Marlay.
Other people complained that I dredged up his family history. Someone named Marlatt drowned himself in Ontario in 1888 but, really, who cares? It doesn't mean anything today.
The only issue that might have legitimately offended him was when I corrected the way he speaks.
I told him, "Mike, if you can say something in 10 words, don't say it in 20."
I said, "Mike, if you can say something in 30 seconds, don't take 3 minutes".
And, I said, "Mike, you're a good speaker, that's true, but I think you should take some advice from me". And here's why.
Not all of you know this but in the late 1600s the English language underwent a huge change. That's when it turned into modern English. Before that, It was wild and picturesque but that didn't please everybody.
In 1667, Thomas Sprat wrote a History of the Royal Society of London. That was the social network for scientists in England at that time. And Thomas Sprat told everyone that these scientists, these men of the future, our kind of guys, were trying to make the English language easier to understand.
They were pushing for a plain, simple style. And I agree with them. If you want to be Shakespeare, that's fine with me. But don't do it in business! Don't make your speeches or writing so full of repetition and jargon that even people in your own field can't understand what you mean.
The other day I was reading the bio of a senior corporate recruiter. I could see it was in English but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. And, I'm a recruiter!
Good old Tom Sprat, he pleaded with English people to adopt a pure, plain, naked, primitive, transparent style of communication. And I'm the Thomas Sprat of the Recruitosphere! I'm trying to change the way an industry communicates. And if I have to knock some heads around to do it, don't get in my way.
