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Effective recruiting is vital for any organization. Electronic tools can help you find candidates, but to bring the best on board, you need to think beyond what's on all those resumes.

HR Failing to Prioritize Global Talent Management

HR appears to be not in sync with organizations drive toward globalization the function is involved in less than one third of global talent initiatives. (HCI)

The Power of Weak Ties (in Recruiting)

Social networking is stepping up as an important recruitment tool. (HCI)

Employer Branding: Message or Experience?

Last summer, we released the results of a Monster study that explored how HR is using employer brands and how employees are responding to such communication techniques. Since then, we've been asked to describe the nature of an employer brand in more detail.

The Year In Online Recruitment

Another year is coming to an end, and what a pivotal year it's been. Onrec takes a look at 2007 as it relates to online recruitment, and what 2008 may hold... (Online Recruitment)

A Cautionary Note on Using Graphology for Hiring and Promoting Employees

"Graphology" - handwriting analysis - use in hiring and promoting employees. NOT.

The Consumer Candidate and the Engagement Cycle

In addition to the demographic trends driving skills shortages in advanced economies, Monster's recent research reveals at least two factors that disrupt talent markets.

Finding Keepers

Monster's exclusive system to recruit and retain the high-performing, talented employees that drive success

The Best Jobs That Nobody Wants

College entrepreneurship departments are raking in the bucks, but there aren't enough professors to staff them (Inc.com)

Finding Global Leaders

A two-part series that explores competencies and traits of successful global managers and outsourcing professionals. (HCI)

Ten Imperatives for Strategic Sourcing

A profile of today's top sourcing professionals(HCI).

Has HR Really Changed?

A two-part series that explores the evolution of Human Resources. (HCI)

Sourcing Today's Candidate: What's Working to Attract Top Talent

Make your recruiting efforts more effective with data-driven insight into what works (and what doesn't) to source and attract today's candidates. (BNA/Kennedy Information)

Online Recruiting 2.0

The years 2002 through 2005, were years of retrenchment for the online recruiting industry. In 2006, though, we've begun to see the emergence of what I call Online Recruiting 2.0.

Proof!

Investment in your people pays off, here's evidence that even a CFO will buy. (HCI)

How Central is Work to Young Adults?

This white paper focuses on how central work is to today's young adults from a study conducted between MonsterTRAK and the Michigan State University Collegiate Employment Research Institute.

What Do Young Adults Want?

This report attempts to answer questions around attracting young talent from a study conducted between MonsterTRAK and the Michigan State University Collegiate Employment Research Institute.

Tug of War "Exploiting the Benefit Opportunity Gaps"

Monster has conducted extensive research among employees and employers to better understand how each views the future of compensation and benefits. This report explores how these views differ while other views are alike. Such insight will help employers better manage the "tug of war" and, ultimately, hire and keep the best workforce.

Slugging Through the War for Talent

To better understand current hiring practices and pinpoint ways to improve them, Development Dimensions International (DDI) and Monster co-sponsored the Selection Forecast 2006-2007.

The Monster Employment Index in Review

The Monster Employment Index 2006 Overview and Outlook for 2007

Benefits of the Future

This Monster Intelligence research report is designed to help employers better understand the significance of employee benefits as part of an overall compensation package.

Recruiting Through Professional Associations

If you're looking to recruit the best and brightest, you can find many of them in professional associations. But before you jump in, learn how to do it right.

How To Hire Wisely

Forget the gimmicky tests and interview books. Here are some tips you really can use to make a great hire.

Effective Job Postings

The Internet was supposed to simplify recruiting: No rushing to meet newspaper deadlines, no waiting for resumes to trickle in by snail mail. So what happened?

Boolean Basics

When you're combing through resumes looking for a candidate with just the right combination of skills and experience, you'll need to search with more than just simple keywords.

Recruiting the Overqualified

Some people are reluctant to hire the overqualified, either because they believe that they won't make good employees, or because they feel threatened. Joanne Murray talks about ways to overcome that reluctance.

Managing Overqualified Employees

In part 2 of our discussion of overqualified candidates, Joanne Murray offers guidelines for integrating them into your workforce.

Five Reference-Checking Mistakes

When checking references, make sure you don't make one of those common and potentially costly errors.

Linking Selection and Development

Don't just gather data on candidates and discard it once a hire is made. That same information can often be used to accelerate employee development and performance.

Hire Great People: 10 Simple Rules

Rule number one: Never, ever hire somebody just like yourself. Read why, and learn the nine other rules on our top ten list.

The Multigenerational Workforce Creates Conflict and Opportunity

The American workforce is now nearly 150 million strong, where the Greatest Generation and Generation Whatever mix in a crucible of conflict and opportunity.

Older Workers: The Employer Perspective

Older workers have long been an undervalued segment of the American workforce, but it turns out that much of the so-called common wisdom about older workers is untrue.

Supreme Court Age-Bias Ruling

Workers can now sue employers whose policies discriminate on the basis of age, even if the policy isn't discriminatory on its face. But employers can prevail in those suits by demonstrating a legitimate business reason for those policies.

Check the Job-Hoppers

One of the most frequent, and sometimes overlooked, places to check for warning signs is at the very beginning of the process when candidates are initially screened.

Technical Recruiting

When recruiting for technical positions, how can you distinguish between candidates who really have the expertise you need and those who are simply good at slinging jargon?

The Special Challenges of Small Companies

Your company is small, but you have big plans to compete against businesses of any size. So how do you attract the best people to help with such an ambitious job?

Healthcare Recruiting

To keep your organization effectively staffed in both the short and long term, you'll need to do some creative recruiting, improve your systems and processes and maybe even make some changes to your organization's culture.

Culture-Based Recruiting: Hire for the Organization, Not Just the Job

Company culture differs widely depending on where "here" is. These differences are meaningful, as culture is often a key factor in long-term organizational success.

Culture-Based Recruiting, Part Two: Identify How Your Company Is Different

Learn how to identify aspects of company culture that can be used in efforts to more effectively attract, select and retain candidates.

Culture-Based Recruiting, Part Three: Use Culture to Attract and Select Candidates

After a company has identified the distinguishing features of its culture, the next step is to leverage these features to improve recruiting effectiveness through candidate sourcing, recruitment advertising and employee selection.