Talent Jockey

Sean P Kelley
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Insight and advice for job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers

  1. 07/04/2016

    023 Candidate Experience

    Candidate experience is becoming more and more important when attracting talent to your organization. With the learning curve of social media starting to flatten and candidates doing more research on organizations, the recruiter and hiring manager need to be conscious of this component of hiring. It is not hard to provide a good candidate experience.… Read More »

    43 min

  2. 01/03/2016

    022 Tips for Writing a Job Posting

    Tips for writing a job posting. Some will say that the hiring manager should be the one to write the job posting. Sure, they may know their area better than a recruiter, the recruiter needs to know how to sexy it up and market the position. In this episode I list 8 things you need… Read More »

    26 min

  3. 10/02/2015

    021 Peeple – People Reviewing Application

    Peeple is scheduled to launch in November 2015. How you leave reviews for restaurants on Yelp, Peeple is where you leave reviews of people. Good? Bad? I consider some of the details outlined in this article published by the Washingtonpost.com Somebody had to think of this before. There is Hot or Not where you determine whether a… Read More »

    46 min

  4. 08/29/2015

    020 Going Back to Recruiting, Recruiting

    What’s the deal with Talent Jockey? Oh, and I’m going back to frontline recruiting. I have contemplated how to approach the Talent Jockey podcast. Do I do it every week? Is there a passion to put it out there? I don’t know, is the quick answer. I started Talent Jockey to do a few things.… Read More »

    59 min

  5. 07/30/2015

    019 A Plea To Hiring Managers

    In a plea to hiring managers I discuss an article written by Katelyn LaGarde entitled How Top Candidates Really Feel About Recruiters: 5 Brutally Honest Lessons. Katelyn attended industry sourcing conference SourceCon and talks about a panel that included five ideal candidates spoke about their experiences with recruiters – what they do right, what they do wrong and… Read More »

    30 min

  6. 05/01/2015

    018 Screening Veterans, Things to Know

    Screening veterans can be a challenge. Even if recruiters and hiring managers are themselves veterans, it is not always easy to interpret how a veteran’s skills and experience transfer to a civilian job. They may tell you about their military occupation specialty, rank, and job duties. Knowing they’re a 13 echo, fire direction specialist, with the… Read More »

    46 min

  7. 04/16/2015

    017 Video Interview, Good and Bad

    Substituting recruiter phone screen with a recorded video interview. I was skeptical at first, but then there are quite a few advantages for job applicant, recruiter and hiring manager. I am involved in a pilot program. My first thoughts were, “ooh, no personal touch by the organization and recruiting? That’s not good.” But we are… Read More »

    31 min

  8. 04/06/2015

    016 Guide to Personal Branding

    Personal branding will set you aside from something as brief as your resume. A guide to personal branding can be an entire book on itself, but I start out with a simple starting point to conveying more of yourself in today’s job market. Sure, your resume is what it is. We’ve talked about how to format… Read More »

    38 min
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Insight and advice for job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers

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  • Creator
    Sean P Kelley
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2016
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Sean P Kelley
  • Show Website
    Talent Jockey