Posts by Wendy Weber

  Many social media marketers are eager to tie a hard number to the value of their efforts. To that end, firms have attempted to analyze the worth of fans and followers on social networking sites like Facebook. Digital consulting firm Syncapse and research company Hotspex have come up with an empirical formula that puts…

Controversial piece in Daily Worth resulted in a lively discussion in the Bucks Blog of the  New York Times:  http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/on-lying-about-your-salary-in-job-interviews/ The piece was written about a woman who lied about her current salary to a recruiter for a potential job, saying she was earning $5,000 more than she was. Then, when the recruiter called to offer her the…

Online advertising spending will surge 10.8 percent in 2010 to $25.1 billion, according to a new report by the digital researcher eMarketer. That double-digit growth prediction would seem to provide a clear sign that the market has bounced back from a rough 2009, during which eMarketer tracked nearly a 5 percent spending decline. To read…

A recent article by Ruth Mantell for the Wall Street Journal entitled Employers Are Lowballing New Hires sums up something that we as recruiters have seen over the past year. It begins, “The job market may be recovering, but some salary offers are still a few years behind.” With a high level of unemployment over…

Years ago, the executive search process was more time consuming.  We actually mailed resumes to our out of town clients.  Then came the fax machine, which revolutionized our business, and the speed with which we could present candidates.  And finally, email!  Now we can get off the phone with a candidate, and have a presentation…

From an article in Web Worker Daily, some are beginning to find endless updates on social media sites exhausting.  According to one social networker, “I’m on Twitter hiatus until I have something awesome to report”.    Hmmn.  How can I go on without knowing that “I just took my barrettes out of my frizzy hair and looked…

ExecuNet Exclusive: Executive Job Creation Positive For Fourth Straight Month U.S. employers continue to add more executive management jobs than they are eliminating, as the American economy continues to emerge from recession. ExecuNet’s exclusive Executive Job Creation Index data reveals more companies are expected to add executive talent than are expected to shed executive jobs…

I presented a candidate to a client last week. My client called up soon after receiving the presentation, and said “Let’s call this one a Mulligan”. Confused, I said that I thought this candidate’s qualifications meshed nicely with the position description.  The client said, yes, that’s why he is already working here. I felt the blood…

Anthony Balderrama, a writer for CareerBuilder, just wrote a piece entitled Eight Worst Things to Say in an Interview: click here. I agree with what he had to say, and thought I’d share it here.