New Employment Opportunities with Legg Mason
Recently added to Locate Finance Jobs, one of the niche job boards in the Locate Jobs Network, are a number of open positions with Legg Mason, a financial services company with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland and a regional presence in various markets throughout the U.S. Available positions are in Baltimore, MD, Stamford, CT, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Dallas, TX and Miami, FL and range from finance and sales positions to jobs in research, law and marketing. Candidates interested in pursuing employment with this prestigious company may visit the Locate Finance Jobs website to view all available positions, and applications… [Continue Reading]
Diversity Recruiting with Job Boards
It’s no secret within the recruiting and HR fields that diversity is a major emphasis. Such is the desire among HR professionals to create a rich, diverse working environment for their companies that “diversity recruiting” is almost a field unto itself, and represents a bit of a paradigm shift in the way recruiters think about bringing on new employees. This movement has even spawned new job titles, with positions like “Director of Diversity” and “Diversity Analyst” having entered the lexicon of human resources departments. In speaking with one former recruiter recently, I got a really clear idea of her opinion… [Continue Reading]
Amidst Terrible Job Market, Part Time Jobs are Popular
In the throes of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression, the talk has focused on a few key metrics that are used to measure the economy as a whole. Of particular focus in the media are housing sales and prices, GDP growth, consumer confidence and, of course, the unemployment rate. At a stated rate of 9.1% nationally – and in reality much higher than that but for the “interesting” methods the federal government utilizes to calculate the number – the employment situation in the U.S. remains grim. Add to that the massive number of Americans who are “underemployed”… [Continue Reading]
Organic Niche Recruiting: Establishing the Connection
One of the defining elements of the Locate Jobs Network is the instant connection that job seekers feel with the jobs that they find on the niche job boards in our network. This is due, primarily, to the fact that these job seekers have stepped outside of the framework of traditional job seeking patterns and are instead searching directly for very specific job titles, types and positions in major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Their search terms are usually very specific to their personal experience and include verbiage and industry-speak with which they are familiar. It is under… [Continue Reading]
Employer Branding Matters
As a recruiter or HR professional charged with attracting top talent, perhaps the most important factor in determining your ultimate success or failure is the brand of the employer you’re hiring for. To some degree, employer brand has always been important an important aspect of recruiting. But the explosion of the Internet and social media has brought a level of exposure and transparency that many companies would, quite frankly, be better off without. Now, with Twitter and Facebook as ubiquitous reminders that they might be fading into irrelevance, many companies are spastically creating Facebook pages and tweeting nonsense that ultimately… [Continue Reading]
Recruiting Perceptions vs. Recruiting Realities
In today’s climate of high unemployment and general anxiety across large swaths of the (still employed) American labor force, it’s important to acknowledge some of the new realities that exist. The fact is that there are a large number of very employable people floating around who are currently in need of a job. Each one of them will bring a different mindset and outlook as to what they can reasonably expect to achieve in terms of their next job. Employers, recruiters and HR professionals are now tasked with finding the right talent at the right price, through targeted recruiting and… [Continue Reading]
Ethical Recruiting?: Paper Certs in Government IT Contract Positions
This is as much a question as it is a commentary. I’m curious about the realities of government recruiting and how defense contractors in particular staff their open government positions. How it Works (sometimes) Within the federal government, it seems as if it’s all too easy for government contractors and recruiters to place IT candidates known simply as “paper certs” into high-paying positions in network administration and other fields of IT. Backing up briefly, “paper cert” is a term that refers to an individual who has obtained a specific IT certification – MCSE, CCNA, etc. – without actually possessing a… [Continue Reading]
A Simple Approach to Talent Acquisition
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Leonardo da Vinci I am currently enamored with Charlie Judy’s HR Fishbowl and his refreshing views on HR and recruiting in the age of social media. I’m especially intrigued by the language and the logic behind the Fishbowl. Charlie uses terms like “simply-engineered” to accurately describe his site and a focus on what really matters in the recruiting industry – specifically, the people and direct human interaction. As I wander aimlessly back into the recruiting blogosphere, or the recruitosphere – or whatever we’re calling it now – HR Fishbowl is a place I will… [Continue Reading]
Online Recruiting as a Marketing and Advertising Endeavor
It was only about 12 or 13 years ago that the big online job boards started to assert themselves as major threats to the employment ads in print newspapers across the country. Now, printed newspapers are dying off rapidly, largely as a result of the various advertising revenue streams migrating to the Internet, with employment ads being among the most important to defect. And while online job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and HotJobs.com were the catalyst for the collapse of the demand for printed employment ads, those same online behemoths are facing challenges of their own. Now social and professional… [Continue Reading]
Fitness Sales Jobs and Corporate Sales Careers in Arizona
An emerging leader in the personal health and wellness industry, Life Time Fitness, has immediate openings for qualified applicants interested in fitness sales jobs in Phoenix, Arizona and other locations throughout the state. The positions involve selling various Life Time Fitness corporate membership packages and wellness programs to businesses and corporations in and around Phoenix, Tempe, Gilbert, and Scottsdale, Arizona. There are also open positions for fitness sales jobs in Summerlin, Nevada and South Jordan, Utah. Qualified applicants will find these and other Arizona fitness jobs and sales career opportunities on the Locate Jobs Network.