CareerScribe has formed a great space in the new way companies and candidates are connecting. If you haven't seen it, check out our new article in the Indianapolis Star.
1) Candidate Evaluation Time - Companies spend a lot of time and money evaluating talent. In order to correctly achieve quality hiring, companies have traditionally gone to great measures to gather information about potential employees.
CareerScribe allows companies to get a wealth of information much earlier in the hiring process by leveraging items like free online portfolios for candidates, video, document sharing, and other items that indicate what that particular person is looking for in a new opportunity.
2) Future Talent Management - Companies aren't always hiring. We know that, but the top companies are always keeping in touch with emerging top talent and existing valuable veterans in the industry. This is hard when the talent pool is deep as it currently is with layoffs.
CareerScribe allows companies to maintain contacts or even track candidates and tie them to potential future positions. It's a talent pipeline that feeds your company.
3) Up-To-Date Data - Unfortunately, many companies collect resumes for the future because they understand the importance of issue two. However, by the time it's time to call on that candidate, that professional portfolio or resume is out of date.
CareerScribe has become a destination for that new talent. As they stay up on their career objectives and accomplishments, so do you. All of a sudden those stale resumes don't seem so stale do they?
4) Screen Candidates - A lot of larger companies have some sort of Applicant Tracking System. It's clunky and old and has been there since the 90 year old Recruiter (no offense to the 90 year olds out there)! This has even hightened the pain of issue 3. Smaller companies can't afford a first class Applicant Tracking System and even if they could, it's too complex for the resources of a medium sized business, not to mention the small business owner.
CareerScribe brings tools to allow candidates to pass through stages during the hiring process. Since CareerScribe already shortens the process at the get go, you start with a more qualified talent pool. Now taking those candidates and tracking them with an online tool...how much more could you get done? Ask CareerScribe companies.
5) Employee Screening - It's very hard for someone who does not manage an employee daily to really get insight into how much value they bring to the company, especially when it comes to evalutations. Most direct managers are doing those evaluations, but even they struggle to remember all the accomplishments that the best employees accomplished. All the while, that top employee may be looking or being pursued by the competition.
Many CareerScribe companies are using the tools to help organically grow their company and growing new managers and executives from the incredible talent inside. With CareerScribe, they are able to keep evaluations and notes on a particular person safe and secure, digitally. Documenting HR actions is great, not only for legal reasons, but for employee development.
Check out CareerScribe and see how much it can help a successful company become even better!
Candidate evaluation doesn't have to so inefficient
Friday, January 23, 2009 by
Craig Burton
It's ironic. Evaluating and securing top talent is among the most inefficient and inexact things companies do. That's no suprise for anyone. It's a truism. Especially if your in HR. The irony comes out of the reality that "people are the most valuable asset." (Another truism.)
I used to work for a global pharmaceutical company. Where the candidate evaluation system was actually quite rigorous; it was just terribly inefficient. It would take months, in some cases, to find, evaluate and hire the right person.
This needn't be the case. Candidate evaluation can now be managed almost entirely via the Web.
CareerScribe offers candidates a free online portfolio opportunity. After companies have done the work of candidate sourcing, they can simply ask the pool of candidates to upload their career portfolio into CareerScribe. Much of the administration time goes away. It's better than a video job interview; this still requires a coordination of calendars. With CareerScribe, candidates upload their professional portfolio, including their video, and companies can view this information at any point they choose. They can view the profiles as a team or individually. It's all asynchronous.
CareerScribe is also an Applicant Tracking System. Every click is recorded and available for all of the EEOC reports.
Have your candidates fill out their own free online portfolio. It'll save you time and will be a lasting resource for them.
www.careerscribe.com
I used to work for a global pharmaceutical company. Where the candidate evaluation system was actually quite rigorous; it was just terribly inefficient. It would take months, in some cases, to find, evaluate and hire the right person.
This needn't be the case. Candidate evaluation can now be managed almost entirely via the Web.
CareerScribe offers candidates a free online portfolio opportunity. After companies have done the work of candidate sourcing, they can simply ask the pool of candidates to upload their career portfolio into CareerScribe. Much of the administration time goes away. It's better than a video job interview; this still requires a coordination of calendars. With CareerScribe, candidates upload their professional portfolio, including their video, and companies can view this information at any point they choose. They can view the profiles as a team or individually. It's all asynchronous.
CareerScribe is also an Applicant Tracking System. Every click is recorded and available for all of the EEOC reports.
Have your candidates fill out their own free online portfolio. It'll save you time and will be a lasting resource for them.
www.careerscribe.com
Employment Challenges in 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009 by
Jeff Bockelman
In a recent survey conducted by Spherion Corp, approximately 33% of U.S. workers plan to look for a new job in 2009. That works out to somewhere around 45 million people that plan to change jobs.
So is this bad news... well it certainly isn't good news if you're one of the 45 million, but if you're an employer in this market, it's great news. The bad news is existing candidate sourcing processes may not work, since there may be a deluge of candidates to screen through. Employers should be considering advanced online employee screening tools such as CareerScribe, which offers free online portfolios to candidates that in turn significantly helps employers screen employees in a more insightful way and in much less time.
This candidate rich market is an inventory building opportunity for any company that plans to hire someone in the next 2 years. Statistics would say that candidates not normally as active in the employment market, are now looking, but they will become passive again.
Companies should be investing in better talent management systems that allow for the database to be linked to regularly updated career information, like CareerScribe offers.
Marketing Yourself in a social world
Monday, January 5, 2009 by
Sean Reiche
Candidate evaluation has become a tricky topic. In the ancient days, companies would go to a big job board and search for people based on some keywords. They would then go through those hundreds of results and try to find a pool of fifty candidates to interview based solely on their resume.
Resume writing was important.
Slowly candidates started spending more time on their professional resume. At the same time, facebook, myspace, and linkedin were becoming a large part of their lives. Facebook and myspace were filling a personal trend in the social web. Linked In was the first to start people connecting in a professional sense in a real way. Since then, it has become a game of how many people you can become connected to.
Companies are now looking for more information during candidate evaluation. Candidates should be maintaining a professional portfolio which allows them to market themselves better. Companies can then import those candidates into CareerScribe which acts as their applicant tracking system to screen employees and improve quality hiring.
CareerScribe has become a tool for both companies and candidates in this new social web. It's more than a connecting game. I mean, this is your career we are talking about.
CareerScribe now allows you to reach out as a candidate to employers by sharing more information about yourself. This allows your high qualifications to come through in a professional way. Imagine sending a copy of your resume, a video, career highlights, and what you are looking for in a new job all in the best "presentation" anyone has ever done. One link, one password. It's too simple.
Resume writing was important.
Slowly candidates started spending more time on their professional resume. At the same time, facebook, myspace, and linkedin were becoming a large part of their lives. Facebook and myspace were filling a personal trend in the social web. Linked In was the first to start people connecting in a professional sense in a real way. Since then, it has become a game of how many people you can become connected to.
Companies are now looking for more information during candidate evaluation. Candidates should be maintaining a professional portfolio which allows them to market themselves better. Companies can then import those candidates into CareerScribe which acts as their applicant tracking system to screen employees and improve quality hiring.
CareerScribe has become a tool for both companies and candidates in this new social web. It's more than a connecting game. I mean, this is your career we are talking about.
CareerScribe now allows you to reach out as a candidate to employers by sharing more information about yourself. This allows your high qualifications to come through in a professional way. Imagine sending a copy of your resume, a video, career highlights, and what you are looking for in a new job all in the best "presentation" anyone has ever done. One link, one password. It's too simple.
All Your Stuff in One Place
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 by
Craig Burton
I recently left a job at a global pharmaceutical. I was in management. The work was reasonably satisfying.
I oversaw dozens of projects, most of them with significant regulatory or financial consequences. I was fairly successful at the work. My team and I brought new new initiatives to the table and we executed on the necessary (but less exciting) work.
I got a barge-load of experience. Enough to pack a professional portfolio that would impress any talent management system, or any HR department focusing on a quality hiring process.
Do you how much of that experience I documented during my work at this company? Almost none. Incredibly little.
There was so much good stuff - the kind of stuff I certainly want to see as I screen employees. I have precious few artifacts to show for my work.
I'll assert that the main reason I saved little of the work is not becuase I under-valued it. And it's not because there were no deliverable unworthy of the professional portfolio. It's because I had no where to put them in one place and describe the context within which the work got done.
One spot online to build a free online portfolio - now that would be awesome. :)
www.careerscribe.com
I oversaw dozens of projects, most of them with significant regulatory or financial consequences. I was fairly successful at the work. My team and I brought new new initiatives to the table and we executed on the necessary (but less exciting) work.
I got a barge-load of experience. Enough to pack a professional portfolio that would impress any talent management system, or any HR department focusing on a quality hiring process.
Do you how much of that experience I documented during my work at this company? Almost none. Incredibly little.
There was so much good stuff - the kind of stuff I certainly want to see as I screen employees. I have precious few artifacts to show for my work.
I'll assert that the main reason I saved little of the work is not becuase I under-valued it. And it's not because there were no deliverable unworthy of the professional portfolio. It's because I had no where to put them in one place and describe the context within which the work got done.
One spot online to build a free online portfolio - now that would be awesome. :)
www.careerscribe.com
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