Bad Boss: 5 Ways To Tell If You Are Guilty

If you are managing people, you know how tough it can be.  You’re balancing the business goals and the demands of your job, along with the people you’re responsible for.  You know the jokes about bad bosses and quite frankly, you haven’t given any thought about whether or not that might be you. Countless people [...]

Recruiters Question: How long have you been seeking job opportunities?

As a job seeker it’s important to understand the motivations and how a recruiter functions.  There are two different types of recruiters – retained or staff – their goals are still largely the same. Recruiters have one primary goal: fill the position as quickly as possible.  This goal is especially true for what is called [...]

Job Burnout: 8 Things You Can Do To Avoid It

Burnout is one of those things that unless you’ve experienced it, it can be hard to comprehend.  If you’re a runner, there is a term called “hitting the wall” that I think may closely define what it’s like to have burnout.  It’s a point where you don’t think you can go on.  Your mind and [...]

Survey: When It’s OK To Call Hiring Managers

  As a job seeker it’s hard to know the boundaries for some of our actions; and certainly a big one is when to call a hiring manager after you send your resume. In a recent survey by Accountemps, USA Today reported the appropriate amount of time to wait before calling a hiring manager after [...]

Twitter, Facebook and Blogs: 10 Social Media Resources For Recruiters

From the CPGjobs Newsletter: March, 2011 Whether you’ve been dragged kicking and screaming into engaging with the social media recruiting monster or have happily jumped right in, there can be no doubt that there are an overwhelming number of resources in Twitter, Facebook and blogs out there for recruiters. With all our recent activity on [...]

Know Your Recruitment Process Outsourcer (RPO)

For more than 25 years, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) has played a significant role in talent acquisition — particularly within the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry. Recently, we sat down with Linda Lutton, Project Leader, U.S. Delivery for Futurestep, A Division of Korn Ferry and market leader in RPO. We discussed the relevance of recruitment process [...]

In December, we launched a voluntary Paid Candidate Membership, available to all new and currently registered candidates on CPGjoblist. After 14 years of offering one-to-one services to candidates for free, moving to a paid candidate model was a difficult decision for us to make. However, we believe that making this change will have a number of positive impacts on CPGjobs’ service delivery.

Launch Announcement: The All New CPGjobs Blog

Image via Wikipedia It’s finally here! Later this week we are unveiling the all new CPGjobs Blog to the world, and you’re invited to take a sneak peek as we make our final preparations. With our re-designed site, it will be easy to interact with others in the community. Our CPGjobs Blog features industry news, [...]

5 Reasons Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t A Social Media Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the past several weeks my editor has spoken with many of you about your use of social media- for recruiting as well branding your organizations. This piece on the topic of social media strategy was adapted from an original blog post by Neal Schaffer, author, speaker, social media consultant and President of [...]

3 Tips To Make You And Your Staff Better Talent Managers

Uncooperative hiring managers, irritated candidates, process inconsistencies, schedule conflicts and more; these are the difficulties most corporate recruiters face on the job every day. Although the economy continues to sputter, many companies are starting to hire again, which makes now a prime opportunity to approach the business of talent acquisition in your organization a bit [...]