http://www.biospace.comBioSpace RSS GeneratorThu, 20 Jun 2013 00:22:13 GMT20http://rss.biospace.com/images/BSPLogo.gifhttp://www.BioSpace.com/news.aspx?SectionId=1Copyright (C) 2011http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=299436&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/job_seeker22.jpg" alt"Key to Attracting the Passive Jobseeker" name"Key to Attracting the Passive Jobseeker" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><b>Take Your Best Shot First</b><br>By Peter Weddle for <a href"http://www.biospace.com">BioSpace.com</a><br><br>Passive, high caliber talent have the attention span of a gnat. Such...Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=292727&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/jobseeker.jpg" alt"5 Factors That Motivate Passive Job Seekers to Apply" name"5 Factors That Motivate Passive Job Seekers to Apply" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0">By Peter Weddle for <a href"http://www.biospace.com">BioSpace.com</a><br><b>Application Triggers for Passive Prospects</b><br><br>Given the workload of <a href...Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=281560&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/networking_online_160.jpg" alt"How to Build a Post-Social Online Career Center" name"How to Build a Post-Social Online Career Center" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0">By Peter Weddle for <a href"http://www.biospace.com">Biospace.com</a><br><br>Todays typical online career center has all of the appeal of a brick. Its...Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=279516&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/social_media.jpg" alt"Recruiting Analytics: How Do You Measure Up?" name"Post-Social Recruiting" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0">By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>For the past five years, social <a href"http://www.biospace.com/news_subject_all_results.aspx?CatagoryId40075">recruiting</a> has primarily been implemented...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=275982&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/job_seeker13.jpg" alt"Recruiting Analytics: How Do You Measure Up?" name"Recruiting Analytics: How Do You Measure Up?" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><b>Optimizing the Recruiter's Experience</b><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>Economics has been called the dismal science. <a href"http://www.biospace.com/news...Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=266771&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/job_seeker9.jpg" alt"5 Keys to Capturing Top Talent" name"5 Keys to Capturing Top Talent" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><b>Think Like a Marketer to Capture Top Talent </b><br><br><b>The Lingua Franca of Recruiting</b><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>Despite the popularity of social media these days, job...Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=266772&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/jobseeker.jpg" alt"How to Recruit Top Talent Away from the Competition" name"How to Recruit Top Talent Away from the Competition" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><b>Treat Your Talent Pipeline As a Rest Stop</b><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>What's the number one problem with today's talent pipelines? Attrition...Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=260502&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/job_seeker4.jpg" alt"How to Avoid the Generic Candidate" name"How to Avoid the Generic Candidate" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><b>The Generic Candidate</b><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>The latest "big idea" in recruiting is to optimize the candidate experience. Pundits everywhere have leaped on the bandwagon...Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=260503&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/news/job_seeker6.jpg" alt"Beware: Employers Behaving Badly" name"Beware: Employers Behaving Badly" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>Candidates are people too. And in todays world, people are more social than at any other time in human history. They interact in two different worlds, one...Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=246597&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" alt"What Makes Online Networking Work?" name"What Makes Online Networking Work?" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>There have been countless articles published about how to find candidates on the Web.&#160; The tools and techniques they describe are...Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=246596&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" alt"What 11/22/63 Can Teach Recruiters" name"What 11/22/63 Can Teach Recruiters" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" border"0"><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>Stephen King has another best seller out called <i>11/22/63</i>. Its a time-travel story about a man who ventures back to that date ...Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=239862&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" border"0" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" alt"Give Your Job Posting Titles a Bite" name"Give Your Job Posting Titles a Bite">November 16, 2011<br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>When the director of the movie Snakes on a Plane thought about changing its name to Pacific Air Flight 121, the...Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=239863&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" border"0" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" alt"What Recruiters Can Learn From Politicians" name"What Recruiters Can Learn From Politicians">November 16, 2011<br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>We are, of course, in the silly season of politics. Despite the verbal gaffes and awkward photo opportunities...Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=233895&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" border"0" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" alt"Do Job Boards Still Work?" name"Do Job Boards Still Work?">September 19, 2011<br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>Though disparaged of late in conference presentations and the blogosphere, job boards remain the #1 external source of new hires according...Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=233898&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" border"0" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" alt"Red Shirt Relationships" name"Red Shirt Relationships">September 19, 2011<br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace.com<br><br>The art of social recruiting involves the development of two kinds of candidate relationships. The first blink relationships establish...Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=227222&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" border"0" align"left" hspace"6" vspace"3" alt"Blink Relationships">By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>Someone once said that recruiting is a contact sport. The statement implies that success is simply a matter of connecting with the right people. If recruiting were that easy, however, wed all be...Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.fastcompany.com/1752902/the-secret-to-making-employees-energized-not-exhausted-by-difficult-workIf there were something you could add to your car's engine, so that after driving it a hundred miles, you'd end up with more gas in the tank than you started with, wouldn't you use it?<br><br>Even if nothing like that exists for your car just yet, there is something you can give your employees that will have the same effect ... interesting work.Mon, 23 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=220872&full=1Every recruiter on the planet knows that were waging a War for Talent. We use the term so frequently, its become a part of our professional jargon. But what is talent? We all probably have at least a subliminal definition of the word, but more often than not, those definitions vary widely even within the same organization. And, when they do, our recruiting results suffer.<p></p>The prevailing...Mon, 23 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=220874&full=1An important adjunct to learning how applicants rank themselves and their capabilities is learning how their present and former employers rank them. Seeing applicants as former employers have seen them can help prevent many a hiring blunder, so always ask applicants to bring copies of the performance reviews they've received. If applicants don't have copies, they can still tell you how they were rated...Mon, 23 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=220877&full=1The first rule of achievement-based interviewing and evidence-based selection is this: Never stop asking for more information. Even when you offer applicants the opportunity to trade places with you and ask for the information they want, you can do it in a way that gets you even more hiring intelligence.<p></p>In <a href"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/rhw/newsletter/lights-camera-action.htm...Mon, 23 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=220870&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <a href"http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId213840"><font size"1"><b>WEDDLEs 2011 Survey of Recruiting Trends</b></a></font><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>Every year since 1999, WEDDLEs has conducted a survey of the behaviors and beliefs of...Mon, 23 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=220875&full=1Profit covers many sins. That means that many of us may have become a little complacent and tend to procrastinate when it comes to problem employees... Maybe we didnt quite run our business following absolute best practice. Maybe some of us overlooked less than the best performance expected from our employees. Maybe we were a little too compassionate regarding employee effectiveness and as a result...Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=213843&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <a href"http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId213843"><font size"1"><b>The Recruiter Who Kicked the Hornets Nest</b></a></font><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>The third novel in Stieg Larssons global blockbuster of a trilogy, <i>The Girl Who...Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=213840&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peter_weddle_100x100.jpg" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <a href"http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId213840"><font size"1"><b>Recruiting Non-Generational Talent</b></a></font><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>This column is the second in a two-column series which explores a contrarian idea: Rather than...Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=207807&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Recruitment Blogging That Works</b></font><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>To paraphrase Saul Bellow, <i>Its not enough to blog. You have to have something worthwhile to say.</i> That, of course, is the central challenge...Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=207806&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Recruitment in 2011 - Starting Right </b></font><br>By Peter Weddle for BioSpace<br><br>It's human nature. The new year has arrived, the economy appears to be strengthening, so action seems both right and fitting. Besides...Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=202812&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>The Silver and Gold of Recruiting Technology</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>Attend any recruiting conference these days, and youll find the sessions on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook jammed and the sessions on anything...Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=202815&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Ranger Recruiting II: Coordination</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>This column is the latest in an ongoing series called Ranger Recruiting. Rangers are the elite of America's fighting forces. Their motto says it...Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=187103&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Ditching Active & Passive</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>Let's ditch the adjectives active and passive. They've become long in the tooth and less then helpful in describing and differentiating candidates. I know...Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=183698&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Branding From the Inside Out</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>There have been lots of good ideas offered about how to hone an employment brand for those on the outside of an organization. But, what about its inward...Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=180859&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Restraint of Vision: "Deals Closed with New Employees"</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>Vision without sufficient resources is nothing more than hallucination. As the economy strengthens, recruiting teams are tuning...Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=180857&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>Goldieyes and the Golden Egg: "Not One Answer to Finding Great Talent"</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>There once was a recruiter named Goldieyes. She was especially good at finding great talent hidden in the overgrown...Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=168044&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=168040&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=163037&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=163036&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=155922&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=155921&full=1<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border:0...Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=149183&full=1 <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border...Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=141170&full=1 <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><script type"text/javascript">var addthis_pub"bdwyer";</script><a href"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v20" onmouseover"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout"addthis_close()" onclick"return addthis_sendto()"><img src"http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/sm-share-en.gif" width"83" height"16" alt"Bookmark and Share" style"border...Wed, 20 May 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=130810&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" border"1" width"100" height"123" hspace"5" vspace"3" align"left" /> <font size"1"><b>The Upside of Down</b></font><br>By <b>Peter Weddle</b><br><br>Deep economic downturns often change human and organizational behaviors forever. A generation of Americans kept their extra money secreted under their mattresses...Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=117907&full=1<img src"http://enewsletters.biospace.com/images/columnists/peterweddle.gif" hspace"5" vspace"3" border"1" name"Weddle's Wisdom" alt"Weddle's Wisdom" align"left" /><b>Weddle's Wisdom</b><br><b><i>Recruiting Generation A</i></b><br>By Peter Weddle<br><br>Theres been lots (and lots) written and spoken about the generations that make up the contemporary American workforce. Every recruiter...Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=109751&full=1By Peter Weddle -- A recent research paper from the analysts at Wachovia Capital Markets had this to say about job boards: Our checks indicate marketing budgets continue shifting from online postings and resume database, to emerging strategies like keyword search and social networking, at an accelerating rate. ROI is the key driver, as employers seek the better measurability of CPC/CPA [cost per...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=109749&full=1By Peter Weddle -- No gathering of recruiters is ever complete without tales from the crypt-like cubicles of hiring mangers. These men and women are our colleagues, to be sure, but sometimes ... well, sometimes they think and act as if they come from another planet. Not Mars or Venus mind you, but someplace so remote that there is no way we mere mortals can recognize or understand what motivates them...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=109752&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Quality hires. Its the siren song of our profession. Even as organizations discontinue large scale hiring in the current economic environment, they remain in the hunt for top tier talent. And we all know why: both anecdotal and empirical data confirm that A level performers not only contribute more themselves, but they raise the value of their coworkers contribution, as well...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=109753&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Marketers call it brand equity. Although entire books have been written about it, the idea is simple enough. People establish an image of a product or service in their mind, and that image, once set, will cause them to remember the product or service rather than its competitors. Thats why companies spend so much time and money endlessly repeating an advertising slogan. They...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=109748&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Remember last year? Or even better, the year before? You would come back from a relatively slow summer, and bam!, the flood gates would open. The Labor Day holiday marked the end of summer and the beginning of a frenetic, sometimes even frantic period of hiring. The fall has traditionally been the first or second most active period of recruiting for large as well as small employers...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=90212&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Much has been written about the Google phenomenon. From a silly sounding search engine launched by a couple of Stanford University graduate students, it's become a way of life for a huge and still growing population of users. What's behind this tidal wave of popularity? Something Google calls "cloud computing." The concept involves shifting the user's attention from the functionality...Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=72789&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Given all of the media brouhaha about social networking lately, it would be easy to feel out of step or worse if you werent actively trolling the profiles on MySpace and Friendster for your next candidate. And yet, a recent survey by Yahoo! suggests that social networking has its benefits, to be sure, but one of them is not recruitment.</p><p>The Yahoo! poll was conducted in...Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=42269&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Perhaps youve heard of them. Theyre called retronyms. They are words that have been redefined by the advent of new technology. Youve seen them in the transformation of mail into the pejorative snail mail and the revision of television into the quaint black and white television. Once familiar and adequate, the root terms from the past have now been given new meanings...Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=39745&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Recently, <i>The New York Post</I> made a startling announcement. In an era of steadily declining circulation among newspapers, it racked up an impressive gain in its audience. Despite the Internet and all of the other media competing for peoples attention and time, it managed to add new readers.</p><p>How did the newspaper do it? Well, certainly there are a number of factors...Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=39160&full=1By Peter Weddle -- <I>The War for Talen</I>t, a report produced by McKinsey & Company in 1997, was a seminal document in the recruiting profession. Not only did it underscore the importance of the work that recruiters do in the modern enterprise, but for the first time, it calculated the monetary impact of that work.</p><p> McKinsey studied a number of organizations to determine if the quality...Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=38453&full=1By Peter Weddle -- I think we in recruiting should adopt a suggestion made by the columnist David Brooks. Earlier this year, he opined, with tongue firmly in cheek, that organizations would be more productive and individuals more effective if someone would invent an Oxytocin Meter. In a profession that espouses the importance of relationships, hanging such a device around our collective necks would...Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=35427&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Its the political season in America, and the pundits are busy coining terms for population groups that will have an impact on the vote. The best known example of these designations, of course, is the soccer mom, a genus whose power at the polls is legend. And more recently, weve heard of national security moms, a group that remains concerned about hearth and family but also...Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=32710&full=1By Peter Weddle -- As does almost every profession, recruiting has its own special set of rules for success. Its axioms have consistently proven their validity regardless of labor market conditions and the specific requirements of individual employers. While all of these guidelines are undoubtedly important, I think two deserve special attention, at least if you believe were in a War for the Best...Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=29347&full=1By Peter Weddle -- A couple of years ago, I put on my job seeker hat and visited one of the more popular recruitment sites on the Web. As any good employment candidate will do, I searched the sites job database to see what kind of opportunities it had available. The database search engine was easy to use, with clear directions that were written in English, not techno-babble. Basically, all I had...Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=26812&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Jargon. We see it all the time and all over the place. Some of us have probably even used it. The simple truth is that these business idioms are rampant in todays scalable enterprises seeking to leverage their competitive advantage in global markets. Whoops.</p><p>But is jargon a problem? Well, if the purpose of communications is to express ideas clearly and with impact...Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:00:00 AM GMThttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=25320&full=1By Peter Weddle -- Malcolm Gladwells latest book, <i>Blink</i>, extols the virtue of what he calls rapid cognition, the power of thinking at the speed of light. In essence, he is both acknowledging that many of us make decisions without complete information and celebrating that seemingly illogical behavior. We may live in an era of omnipresent news feeds and online access to all of the world...Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:00:00 AM GMT