We received an email from a new client giving us feedback on our candidate’s interview. The feedback was so helpful that it was screaming to be turned into a “how-to” blog post. Here is what he said: X and I just wrapped up the interview. Here are my thoughts: • Cultural fit: 2 • Good [...]
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In our last blog post we pointed out that roughly 51% of digital measurement professionals have changed positions in the past 12 months. If you are going to be a data-driven company this is a very expensive problem. We all know how hard it is to find top-notch digital measurement talent. Most companies are spending [...]
Posted in: Digital Measurement Talent, Recruiting, Web & Marketing Analytics by Corry Prohens
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Most people go on interviews with good intentions. They go with the goal of getting the job, or at least getting an offer. In many cases you would not be able to tell that this is the goal. In many cases, people seem determined to douse the opportunity with gasoline and throw lit matches at [...]
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In this posting, Corry Prohens, President of IQ Workforce, talks about one of their newest clients, a fast-growing online gaming company based in Dublin, Ireland. IQ Workforce has been retained by the client for seven searches including positions in web analytics, paid search, SEO analysis and marketing modeling.
Tags: marketing modeling, online staffing, online marketing positions, paid search, Recruiting, resume, search marketing, sem, seo, SEO analysis, Video Job Description, web analytics
Posted in: Recruiting, Video Job Description, Videos, Web & Marketing Analytics by Corry Prohens
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Ridiculous but true: We fill 87% of our jobs when we are working directly with hiring managers. We fill 18% when we work with HR managers. I am not going to bash HR people. They are in an impossible position. We recruit for web analytics and search marketing positions all day, every day. HR recruits [...]
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My team has been attending, sponsoring and speaking at Web Analytics Wednesday events around the country for the past few years. If you are not familiar with Web Analytics Wednesday, these are real-life (in person) social networking events for the Web Analytics communities in cities around the world. The success and growth of these get-togethers [...]
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I read an article on WebGuild recently that talked about the hiring practices of the town of Bozeman, Montana. The town has been requiring that applicants for town positions provide their passwords to social networking sites and email accounts. Their application reads: “Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or [...]
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Over the past couple of months we have been polling visitors to our site on their near-term “career prospects”. We ask, “How do you feel about your prospect for career growth over the next 12-months?” Given that we are just starting to recover from the MOAR (Mother of All Recessions): near-miss global banking meltdown, plummeting [...]
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I got clearance from the wife and a green light from the tower. I am hitting the road this summer to spread the word: things are picking up. Time to think about the next step in your career… Time to think about your resource strategy. It is still a buyers market, but the activity levels [...]
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I am calling a bottom. If you watch CNBC that seemed like the thing to do a while ago. I am actually calling that we passed the bottom about five months ago. I’m not sure if you are allowed to do that, but I don’t see how anyone can stop me. We passed the bottom [...]
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