JCSI is thrilled to be the winner of a 2010 Telly Award for our “Bringing You the Best” online video. The video received a Bronze in the Professional Services category. The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films. They receive over 11,000 entries each year from all 50 states and many foreign countries.
Online videos are one of the most effective ways to communicate a brand message in a fun and engaging way. We are using them in many client engagements to convey the personality of a team and to help build the company’s employment brand.
Thanks to our partners Eric Guerin and Heather Riley for their outstanding work on this project. This is another in a long list of awards for them. They also was a Telly Award last year for the Open Pages “We Hire Smart” video.
After learning about what my friends think of the Celtics, the thing that gets me most excited about social networks is how they can be used to help us make decisions. What Simply Hired has done to integrate Facebook friends and your LinkedIn connections into its job search engine is a great example of how social networks can be a valuable and productive tool.
We talk a lot about the many ways social media can benefit recruiting. In addition to finding talented people who are not active on the job boards, social media is great at personalizing your company and selling passive job seekers on why they should work with you. Videos, podcasts, blog posts, Facebook discussion forums, etc. can effectively deliver your employment brand messages but do they really convey why your company does what it does?
We’ve been talking for a few months about the potential for widespread employee turnover this year as the economy improves. It looks like that time may be upon us. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that for the first time in 15 months the number of voluntary resignations has surpassed the number of people laid off or dismissed. The chart below, from the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the story, demonstrates the significance of this trend in the past year. Read More
JCSI will be taking our social media staffing road show to New Hampshire next week. I’ll be speaking at the June MAHRA (Manchester Area HR Association) meeting on June 1 at The Derryfield in Manchester. If you are in the area, information about the event is on the association’s website at www.MAHRA.org. Pre-registration is $20 for MAHRA members and $30 for non-members
SHRM’s Staffing Management Magazine ran a story about our 2010 Recruitment Survey in a recent issue. The story in below. It is great to see that more companies see the value in using social media and emerging technologies to improve the recruitment process.
The executive summary of our survey “The New Age of Recruiting” can be downloaded here.
JCSI will participate in the SHRM Staffing Conference again this year. This year, the event will be at the Disney Swan and Dolphin resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL on April 26-27. This is one of our favorite events of the year and we are looking forward to something special this year. Attendee pre-registrations are way up over where they were last year and the scheduled sessions cover some emerging technology practices this year.
To add to the conference, JCSI will be hosting another Social Media Strategy Workshop on the exhibit floor. This is highly-informative 20 minute session complements the topics covered during the conference sessions and provides participants with an action plan they can take back to their team.
JCSI is excited to be a part of the Social Media Plus conference in Philadelphia on May 25. I’ll be presenting “The Future of Recruiting is Social – Leveraging Social Media to Attract High Quality Candidates Faster and at a Lower Cost”. The presentation will review how digital media is changing recruitment best practices. I’ll discuss the ways social media tools are being applied to build a pipeline and move candidates through the interview process.
This is a unique event that is going to appeal to a lot of people. While most social media conferences target a specific audience segment, the 28 sessions in this show are aligned along four functional tracks – HR, IT, Sales & Marketing and Executives. This gives attendees an opportunity to dive deep in their area of expertise or they can see how the principles of social media are being applied across an organization. Since the best social media strategies are based on a “hub and spoke” model, executives can get what they need to develop the core principles of the company’s approach to social media. Each department (or business unit) can then apply the principles to communicate effectively with their audience segment – while being tightly aligned with each other.
I’m the first session at 9am right after the keynote. I hope you can make it. Registration information is available on their site at: www.socialmediaplus.com. Let me know if you are planning to attend bcavoli@jcsi.net.
We are excited to announce a new service here at JCSI. Called JCSI OnSite, this provides experienced recruiters to work as needed at a client’s location on a contract basis. The great advantage of this service over a traditional contract recruiter is that the OnSite recruiter is supported by a team of back-office research specialists who provide a constant flow qualified candidates for the position. This frees up more of the recruiter’s time to spend with qualified candidates so they can manage the process and give more attention to your hiring managers.
Have you heard enough about churn yet? If not, I’ve been collecting some stats you might find interesting.
The economy is improving and many people have been sitting on their hands waiting until they feel it is safe to make a job change. Almost everyone you ask expects that voluntary employee turnover will jump in the second half of this year. Here are a few of the loudest voices:
You know that recruiting practices are changing but you may be asking about how to integrate these practices in your strategy. To help you make the case, JCSI is hosting a series of webinars to discuss the expertise recruiting departments need in 2010 and how they can help you recruit better candidates faster.
These will be brief sessions where we’ll review today’s recruitment landscape and the services JCSI can provide to help you grow your organization. Come with your questions because we’ll discuss the unique challenges you are facing within your staffing department. We hope you can join us.
Social media is changing the face of recruiting. The wide array of social media tools are becoming more critical to success than traditional methods of recruitment advertising and prospecting. Join us to discuss how you can get started with popular social media sites to build your employment brand, recruit passive candidates and prepare for employee turnover.
The results from JCSI’s 2010 Recruitment Survey reveal some interesting insights into how recruitment best practices are changing now that the economy is on the rise again. Hiring demands are increasing for most companies, but recruitment budgets are not increasing at the same rate. Traditional methods of posting jobs and contacting candidates are losing effectiveness, so recruiters are taking innovative approaches to finding talent. They are cutting back on ineffective advertising and agency practices and they are reaching out to candidates directly in online networks and social media.
Now that 2009 is behind us, it is time to think about how we’ll succeed this year. One we know is that the word of recruiting has changed. The economy is improving and hiring needs are increasing for many companies, but this is not a return to normal. The events in the past year have changed the way people make career decisions and the way companies reach the best candidates. Recruiting is no longer a passive profession. Relying on blasting ads doesn’t work for marketing departments, and “post and pray” practices certainly do not work for staffing departments.
In my role at JCSI, I have the opportunity to engage with candidates in situations beyond the recruitment process. Very frequently I speak with people after it has been determined that they are no longer being considered for a particular position. At this point, with nothing else to lose and an urge to vent, some will take the opportunity to share their interview experiences with me. I have also served on recruiter panels at a local outplacement firm and attended many job seeker networking groups where war stories of the job market are in no short supply. Some tell me how each interview leaves them successively scarred. They know that they have to keep their spirits up, but eventually holding back at interviews is the only way they can protect themselves from the sting of rejection. Read More
JCSI currently has an opening for an Executive Assistant in our Westborough, MA office. Information on the position is below. If you are interested in the opportunity, please send your updated, Word-formatted resume to Matt Griffin at mgriffin@jcsi.net.
As the Executive Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting the Vice President of Sales. Your duties will include clerical assistance with correspondence, maintaining the Vice President’s schedule, routine office functions, assistance with sales activities and events, and coordination with the Sales Team. The Executive Assistant will report directly to the Vice President of Sales.
At JCSI, we have a job opening as a Senior Sales Executive in our Westborough, MA office to join our current team of 6 Sales Representatives. The Senior Sales Executive’s primary focus will be the development of new as well as previous business relationships. Customer and client interaction will comprise the majority of the workday, with a heavy emphasis on face-to-face meetings with qualified prospects. Additionally, the Senior Sales Executive will be responsible for outbound prospecting and various networking activities.
We are in the middle of collecting responses for our 20101 recruitment survey. Looking at the responses that have come in so far, there are some interesting trends that are emerging. Some I anticipated, but many others that will make for a great discussion when we review the results in a webinar next month.
Some of the enlightening and entertaining information has been coming from the responses to the only opened ended question we included. We asked the simple question “What is the single most important thing you will do differently in 2010 than you did in 2009?”. Some answered with a word or two like “make more money” but most provided some detailed insight.
For over a year, the recession wreaked havoc on the job market. If you were of working age in America, you either couldn’t find a job, got laid off, or if you were lucky enough to have a job…you knew that luck could run out any day. The fear of unemployment caused countless employees to cling to their jobs and hang on for dear life, whether they liked their position or not.
Fast forward to present day. The economy has finally begun to pick up and Americans can see the light at the end of the tunnel. For the chosen ones who have withstood layoffs, tight budgets, cut bonuses and dissolving pension plans – is the economic turnaround a green light to cut your losses with your employer and say “I’m outta here”?
Now that the economy is improving and hiring is picking up in many sectors, many recruiting leaders want to know how recruiting practices are changing in 2010. With the rise in digital technology and social media, are the preferred recruiting practices changing? How are HR leaders looking to rebuild their teams? What are the most important metrics for measuring success? These are some of the questions we are addressing in our new Talent Recruiting Survey.
This brief survey addresses how companies are planning to grow their teams and what tools and practices they’ll be using in the next year. Click here to take the survey – we kept it short so it won’t take more that 10 minutes of your time.
We’ll summarize the results in an ebook and discuss them in a webinar so you can see how your colleagues are approaching recruiting in the new year. Just leave your email address and we’ll send you an invite as soon as it is ready.
And if that wasn’t enough reason to take this survey… all participants are eligible to win a new Amazon Kindle. Now wouldn’t that be a nice holiday present for yourself?
Are you looking for flexible part-time work to earn some extra spending money? Do you like the idea of helping people find exciting new jobs? Then JCSI has a unique opportunity for you.
The Candidate Development Specialist’s primary responsibility is to screen potential candidates for positions within the companies that JCSI represents. You will work closely with internal JCSI team members to ensure a coordinated qualification process occurs.
The Candidate Development Specialist is required to keep current all candidate status information within their assigned companies. You will manage client email accounts as specified by the Team Lead, schedule candidate interviews with clients, maintain daily consultant reporting/documentation tools from candidates to internal sources, maintain current knowledge of companies and positions, attend weekly meetings. Part-time CDS team members work between 10 and 25 hours a week and you can work any time of the day between 7AM to 9PM Monday through Friday.
JCSI is thrilled to be the winner of a 2010 Telly Award for our “Bringing You the Best” online video. The video received a Bronze in the Professional Services category. The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films. They receive over 11,000 entries each year from all 50 states and many foreign countries.
JCSI will participate in the 
Have you heard enough about churn yet? If not, I’ve been collecting some stats you might find interesting.
You know that recruiting practices are changing but you may be asking about how to integrate these practices in your strategy. To help you make the case, JCSI is hosting a series of webinars to discuss the expertise recruiting departments need in 2010 and how they can help you recruit better candidates faster.
