February 2010
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Give Feedback to Your Interviewer for Dummies
What do you think about this service which is offered to job seekers by “Ask a Manager”:
Interviewed for a job and then never heard back? No rejection, no anything? Let your interviewer know how rude that is - without burning any bridges.
Now here, presented to you by Ask a Manager: a service that job seekers can use to generate an anonymous letter to the employer, telling them how...
Employment Forecast for 2018
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has forecasted the future of employment for 2018. Interesting reading especially if you are thinking about changing your occupation in the coming years.
January 2010
2 posts
My favourite Games
In times of Nintendo Wii and tons of other computer games, I would like to publish my top five list of board/dice games. Real old school games which you play with real people in the real reality:
The Settlers of Catan (Catanin uudisasukkaat)
I got to know this German board game while I was living in Austria. We spent quite many evenings playing this dynamic strategy game. Players of the game...
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The Best Web Tools (by Intunex)
Intunex provides here a list of the best web tools, which are currently available to support your business operations. The best thing is that most of the tools are free and you can also easily use them for private purposes. Nothing to add on that list.
December 2009
9 posts
Last Christmas
Last Christmas, exactly one year ago, we started our 6 months journey around the world. Quitting job, taking a break and not knowing what comes after that. No worries, no stress and no time schedule for months. Now 6 months have passed after we returned from the trip and we have moved from Austria to Finland, searched for new jobs and started working again. It has been an exciting year and I hope...
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War for Talent
In spite of the Christmas Peace, which will be declared in Turku, Finland tomorrow, the war for talent continues. Recruiting and retaining talented employees has become more and more competitive in the past years, and companies need to come up with new strategies how to survive and win this war. According to a study of McKinsey & Co, the most important company resource in the coming years...
Which Occupation is bad for Your Marriage?
I read an interesting article about the correlation between occupations and divorce rates. Dr Michael Aamodt carried out a study on the likelihood of success of a marriage based on the occupation of one of the partners. According to the results, those who have extrovert and stressful jobs and those in caring professions are more likely to divorce than other professionals. Dancers, choreographers...
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Social Media Companies building Employer Image
A quick look on the career pages of the largest social media companies such as Facebook, YouTube, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn shows how they are successfully using their own tools in recruitment and employer branding. It seems to be very simple to create a positive image by giving open and honest information about the employees, their working conditions, atmosphere in the office, benefits, career...
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Why does Social Recruitment make Sense?
Jobvite has listed 4 main reasons why social recruitment makes sense for companies in times of the digital revolution:
Because more and more people network online
Because people build their opinion based on the information they get in social networks
Because you can easily get connected with passive candidates
Because recruitment through social media is less expensive than through traditional...
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How to get started with LinkedIn, Facebook,...
As soon as you have understood the importance of social revolution, you need to start rethinking your recruitment and employer branding strategies on the web (in case you haven’t done that yet). What would I do in HR if I got the task to build a presence for a company in online networks? I could think of the following steps:
Create an account for the company in Facebook, Twitter and...
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The most Popular Google Searches in Finland in...
Google Zeitgeist listed the most popular searches for Finland in 2009:
Facebook
Youtube
Iltalehti
Ilta-Sanomat
IRC
Suomi24
Nettiauto
Mtv3
Hotmail
Gmail
Just to compare: in 2008, Youtube was leading and Facebook was on 8th place.
How You Doin'?
This is so hilarious! My personal highlight from my all time favorite TV show
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I am an Immigrant, a Digital Immigrant
If you are a digital immigrant, you should read the speech about digital revolution by Rubert Murdoch, which he held to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2005. Here are a few quotations from his speech:
Like many of you in this room, I’m a digital immigrant. I wasn’t weaned on the web, nor coddled on a computer. What is happening is, in short, a revolution in the way young people are...
November 2009
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How are Candidates and Employees rating Your...
When I have been preparing myself for job interviews, I have missed a web page where I can exchange information about interview and assessment centre experiences with other job seekers. Now I found this great web page, Glassdoor.com, where candidates can write interview reviews, and former and current employees can rate their companies and share salary information. This gives candidates helpful...
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The Most Popular Recruiting Pages in Finland - an...
I decided to start my blog with the subject I am the most familiar with: recruiting. I have interviewed hundreds of candidates in my previous jobs and I have been interviewed several times for jobs I have applied for. As a recruiter and job searcher you are always faced with the question: where should I post my job in order to find the right candidates or, alternatively, in which job board do I...
Heli taking the Helicopter View
This is it. My new blog. I have been blogging before about private stuff but I stopped keeping that blog a few years ago. I decided to become a blogger again because there are so many things about HR I want to say. It is well known that the role of traditional HR will undergo a huge change in the coming years and my goal is simply to stay updated and be part of that HR revolution. I want to be...