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This infographic is Part Three in a three-part series of conversations about recruiting strategy with Fortune 1000 HR Leaders. Please view Part One on Recruiting Agencies and Part Two on Hiring Metrics.

Discover how LineHire’s technology + human platform can help your recruiting team.  

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This infographic is Part Two in a three-part series of conversations about recruiting strategy with Fortune 1000 HR Leaders. Please view Part One on Recruiting Agencies and Part Three on Recruitment Solutions.

Discover how LineHire’s technology + human platform can help your recruiting team.  

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This infographic is Part One in a three-part series of conversations about recruiting strategy with Fortune 1000 HR Leaders. Please view Part Two on Hiring Metrics and Part Three on Recruitment Solutions.

Discover how LineHire’s technology + human platform can help your recruiting team.  

Special thanks to our research intern from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greg Foreman for his input on this project.

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Contingency Recruiting is BAD for Everybody

Neil Middlemass is a recruiting professional based in the UK and specializes in recruiting in the digital marketing space. He writes about the downside of contingent recruiting emphasizing why it's bad for the client, candidate and recruitment agency. After all, when all parties don’t have some skin in the game,  how can we expect great results. At LineHire we have worked to develop a unique recruiting tool that ensures that both sides of our platform, our Talent Scout network and clients have placed skin in our platform.

Read Neil’s article.

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Recruitment Training

Announcing the launch of our Recruiter Academy. Your online resource to learn how to recruit. Whether your are a seasoned recruiter, looking to brush up on your recruiting techniques or you want to become a recruiter. Our Recruiter Academy is great place to learn best recruiting strategies. We’ll be announcing the live webinar component to our Recruiter Academy in Q1 2016.

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Chopsticks or Fork?

When you are the HR manager for this growing business, trying to keep so many ‘plates spinning’, what do you do? You look for some recruiting tools to help.  Specifically ones that fit well within your existing recruiting processes, are easy to learn and use and and that make you more efficient. This is what Sarah Shanklin, Mama Fu’s Human Resources Director did.

Continue reading.

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BountyMiner is now LineHire, riding the success of Sourcing Contests

We’ve made a big change - our company is now called LineHire!

As a lean startup we have been testing some new ways to innovate in recruiting. And thanks to some fantastic feedback from our users we’ve developed a new way to make life easier for HR professionals and hiring managers.

Employers launch LineHire Contests which are broadcast to professional recruiters. Contest prizes are paid to recruiters for relevant submissions. Recruiters love to work on these Contests since they don’t need to wait for a placement fee. And, employers love it since they receive the relevant, passive candidates they’re looking for in a fast and cost efficient way.

Look for changes to our platform rolling out over the next week. Bounty Listings are being rolled into the Contest platform. You can still offer a Placement Fee to draw top recruiters to your contest.

Use your login from BountyMiner to sign in. Employers will still have access to the candidates that have been presented for Bounty Listings. And, as those candidates are placed, the bounties will be paid.

Will be happy to hear back from you - your feedback and ideas are as important as ever.

Regards,

Chuck, Nina & Phil www.LineHire.com

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Job Advertisement: Critique

Here at BountyMiner we are happy offer a bit of our expertise to hiring managers. This week Ben Thompson, owner of Thompson Remodeling in Grand Rapids, MI has sent us his Job Advertisement for critique.  Original job ad is posted below.

Thanks Ben.

Here is what some of our experts had to say:

Phil:

Seemed quite thorough and detail oriented.

Like the ‘core values’, suggest you talk more about you culture and what is like to work at your company….perhaps a quote from a current staff member.

Nina:

Covered the specific particulars on what the job entails rather well.

Would like to see more of ‘Why your firm is a great place to work'

I am not a fan of abbreviations, suggest changing ‘ISO’ to ‘In search of’

Chuck:

Hiring is getting more competitive, especially in the ‘trades’, so great job adverts in the trades are important.

Consider taking out some of the day to day, since I think most Lead Carpenters know what those are.  Rather add in some details about: Job Security and Benefits, Opportunities for Personal and Professional Growth.

Lead Carpenter

Thompson Remodeling - Grand Rapids, MI

ISO skilled residential carpenters to fill two open Lead Carpenter positions. Thompson Remodeling believes in creating above average compensation for highly talented people who fit our culture.

To succeed with us, future team members share these core values:

Workhorse Process Driven Deliver on Promises Hungry to Learn Below is the Job Description for this position.

Title: Lead Carpenter Supervisor: Production Manager

Purpose: After being trained on each item on this document you can be an effective Lead Carpenter at Thompson Remodeling. This document confirms that you and your co-workers are in agreement that you are doing your job well.

Key Responsibility Areas:

96% Guild Quality Recommendation Rate 96% On time Delivery of Projects as per baseline schedule 90% On budget as per Labor only of Estimate vs. Actual reports (Slippage) 90% Project completion to a zero defect punch list prior to final walkthrough Primary Job Tasks - Perform these carpentry tasks to the highest interpretation of the written specifications & drawings.

Site Prep Deconstruction Framing Decking Siding Doors Windows Insulate Drywall Install Cabinetry Fabricate Built-ins Install Trim Clean up Safety

Responsible to maintain stock of personal protective equipment – paid for by the company Use personal protective equipment Enforce that others on your projects are maintaining a safe work environment Use Lead Safe Work Practices where required Management Tasks

Responsible to read and know the project binder (plans & specifications) On Wednesday create your 10-day look ahead Create daily goals that support the 10-day look ahead per project Track & Code Time on T-Sheets Track Personal Mileage for reimbursement ·Maintain & facilitate repair of personal & company tools ·Increase personal, team, and company productivity Communication

Explain & Confirm trade contractor understanding of their scope of work on your projects Enforce clean & safe jobsite standards Communicate deficiencies in quality & corrective action needed to trade contractors Communicate to customers your daily work plan [that rolls up into the 10 Day Look-Ahead] Ensure customer satisfaction with the work as it's being done. You are a problem solving resource for co-workers Cleanliness:

Maintain respectable personal appearance Treat client homes with the utmost respect Your vehicle is an efficient retrieval system Our shop is an efficient retrieval system I understand & agree to the requirements of this job description. Does this describe what you're looking for in a position? If yes, then apply. Again, E-mail resume in response to this post only if you are a highly qualified applicant based on the criteria shared in this job post.

Salary: $50,000.00 /year

Required experience:

Residential Construction and/or Remodeling: 5 years

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Discover "Sourcing Contests" at BountyMiner‏

Happy Friday Everyone!

We wanted to share a bit on how our exiting new product, BountyMiner Sourcing Contests help companies hire talent and offers those that find talent, a new opportunity to earn cash rewards.

Our client companies with hiring needs have found Sourcing Contests to be an effective way to have professional freelance recruiters identify and submit relevant candidates to help fill their talent pipeline.

Our network of freelance professional recruiters, called Miners, are using this new way of earning supplemental income to submit top candidates. We reward Miners for having a short-listed submittal in just a few weeks. No more waiting for a placement fee!

Yes, Sourcing Contests for candidate recruiting is a bit revolutionary, but crowd-sourced contests have been around for a while and have proven quite effective in other verticals. We'd love to set a 10-15 minute call so you can discover the benefits of Sourcing Contests.  Simply contact us with your telephone number and best time to reach you.

Have a great weekend!

Sincerely, Chuck, Nina & Phil

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Monster.com Quotes Our Team Member

BountyMiner founding team member, Chuck Solomon, was quoted in an article recently published on the Monster.com blog.  The article is titled, 6 jobs for people with a master of social work:  Having an MSW can put you on the path to important and rewarding work.

Chuck Solomon says he got his MSW at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where we pursued a macro-track with a focus on organizations rather than individuals. He has since gone on to start and develop several nonprofits in his community.

Because of those experiences, he says being an entrepreneur is also something for MSWs to consider. “Entrepreneurship is all about solving problems and MSWs are quintessential problem-solvers,” says Solomon, who now consults and advises other small businesses and startups

Click here to read the full article.

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How to Stop Being Lazy and Get More Done

Wow we just surpassed 250 candidate referrals! A big thank you to those that made referrals and also to those that posted positions on our platform. 

We are busy developing a second product to help employers in sourcing quality candidates. If you want a 'sneak peak' on what we are planning and have a few minutes to jump on a call please contact us. We appreciate your feedback.  

We enjoyed Eric Barker’s productivity tips article and share it with you below!

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How to Stop Being Lazy and Get More Done: 5 Expert Tips by Eric Barker

To-Do Lists Are Evil. Schedule Everything

So I decided to call a friend who manages to do this — and more. Cal Newton impresses the heck out of me. Why? Well, I’m glad you asked. He’s insanely productive:

He has a full-time job as a professor at Georgetown University, teaching classes and meeting with students.

He writes 6 (or more) peer-reviewed academic journal papers per year.

He’s the author of 4 books including the wonderful “So Good They Can't Ignore You.” And he’s at work on a fifth.

He’s married with a young child and handles all the responsibilities that come with being a husband and dad.

He blogs regularly about productivity and expert performance.

Keep reading article...

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Work-Life Balance Without Looking Lazy‏

Wow! We now have close to 200 jobs listed on our site. To keep up with the flow of referrals being submitted for these jobs, we’ve added feedback functionality within our app. BountyMiner aims to have the most engaged Users and providing quick, accurate feedback is a huge part of that.   Take a minute to check out our openings at BountyMiner.com. You may know someone to confidentially refer and earn yourself a bounty! Comments or questions about the site? We’d love to hear from you. Please contact us as your feedback is helping make the tool better every day. Available Bounties:

If you are a company hiring, please contact us to learn how to get your job featured on BountyMiner.  We enjoyed the article below on Work-Life Balance by Melody Wilding. Hope you enjoy it too. Kind regards! Chuck, Nina, & Phil

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The Secret to Having a Life Outside the Office (Without Looking Lazy) by Melody Wilding

In today’s always-on workplace, where being busy is a badge of honor and around-the-clock availability has become the norm, employees who seek a healthy work-life balance can get a bad rap.

Those who try to find the balance between personal quality of life and career success are sometimes accused of seeming lazy and uncommitted. There’s an assumption that people who want balance are skirting responsibility, while in most cases, they’re really just trying to engineer a workday that promotes long-term productivity and keeps their motivation and focus high.

It’s no wonder, then, that so many of us fail to speak up when we’re feeling burned out or want more flexibility in our day-to-day; we fear being labeled the office slacker.

Read the full article...

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BountyMiner is growing!

Thanks for being part of it.

Boom! We now have over 100 jobs listed on our site. Please take a few minutes to head over to the BountyMiner listings page to view our current job listings. You may know someone to confidentially refer and earn yourself a bounty!

A sample of our current listings:

If you are a company hiring, do contact us to learn how to get your job featured on BountyMiner.  We enjoyed this article below by Kevan Lee on How to Achieve your goals.  Hope you enjoy it too. Kind regards! Chuck, Nina, & Phil

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Anything Is Possible:  How to Achieve Your Goals and Chase Your Dreams by Kevan Lee

Rest, and think.

What does your ideal day look like? When do you wake up? Who do you spend time with? What do you do?

What does your ideal work look like? What do you create? How does it make you feel? Where are you when you’re creating it?

What is your ideal life?

Picture it. Embrace it. Bear hug the living daylights out of it.

Then go out and get it.

You can be anything you want to be

This seems impossible, right? At the very least impractical. People don’t just visualize what they want and then get it. This ain’t the movies.

This is real life, and we don’t always get what we want.

Well …

What if we’re wrong?

You know the oft-debunked motivational quote that we can “be anything we want to be”? Malcolm Gladwell took a sledge to that notion in his book Outliers, arguing essentially that we are tied down to a particular path based on the uncontrollable elements of our lives—place of birth, time of birth, early education, etc.

We cannot be anything we want to be unless the thing that we want to be is also the thing our parents thought we might want to be and they just so happened to move, organize, and plan life perfectly so we were in the right place at the right time.

It all makes sense in theory. There are elements outside our control that send us down a path.

Read the full article here.

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Mine your contacts for gold!

We’re having a big week at BountyMiner! Many new bounties available, with opportunities from many industries and different parts of the US.Our awesome Connectors are sending a good flow of candidates to our recruiters. Please check out check out our listings to see who you can refer.  

Available Bounties:

Please head over to our website to see all our listings.  If you are hiring, please contact us to get your positions highlighted in our next update.  In case you missed this great article on Creating a Culture of Healthy Competition, we share it with you below.

Kind regards!

Chuck, Nina, & Phil

How to Create a Culture of Healthy Competition by Douglas Freeman

When I hire, I look for people who are goal-oriented, previously successful, well-prepared, and competitive. I aim to create a winning and hard-charging culture in a sales organization, and these types of people tend to perform best in this type of environment.

But, competitiveness can also hinder your culture if it becomes toxic—think undermining, backstabbing, and a “me first” mentality. So, what are some things you can do to ensure your team operates in a competitive—but still healthy—environment?

As a sales leader for companies large and small, here are four pillars that I’ve found successful. Read the full article here.

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Talent Wars

Tim Sackett recently gave his 2015 predictions for the HR industry and it got us thinking about job related trends for the coming year . . .

The economy is doing well, but where are the jobs?

Where are the Jobs?  Or rather, where are the Good jobs?  Many are asking this question as the US unemployment rate dips ever lower – now at 5.6%, a number not seen since June 2008, a date preceding the Great Recession.  Why is wage growth still so low this long after the recession?

“The good news is the economy has picked up speed.” - President Obama during the January 2015 State of the Union.  

Yes it has, but is it enough and can we maintain the pace long enough for stubborn wages, mired in yesteryear, to finally rise.  Having wages rise organically via companies competing for talent is the only avenue forward as the federal government won’t be raising the minimum wage.

So where do we stand now and what might we expect for wages going forward?

The issue revolves around the relationship between job growth and wage growth.  The job market is tightening, but wages are not budging. In 2014 hourly wages budged by just 1.7 percent and before that have been dead in the water for over 10 years.  Not good.

There has been much talk about the quality of the over 200,000 jobs added each month for 11 consecutive months – the longest such run in nearly 20 years.  No doubt many jobs that have been added are low income in nature, but not every new job is sprung forth from the ilk of Walmart, McDonalds, and Starbucks. The rub is how many of these new positions are well paying enough to drive wage growth? For the US economy to truly hit its stride, wages and the resulting purchasing power of millions needs to rise – plain and simple.  

Bumps in the road.

One thing holding us back is the low labor force participation rate, which is at a 35 year low of 62.7 percent.  With markets heating up how can the participation rate be so low? A likely scenario is many workers who lost higher paying jobs during the Great Recession have decided not to replace them with low income alternatives that don’t pay enough to cover basic costs such as medical insurance and daycare.  

Prediction for 2015 – A War for Talent Begins  Who said War is bad?  

The key is reaching the point where enough of the jobs created are high income in nature.  With the economy growing at above 3% and jobs growing at over 200,000 per month, the tipping point should come into range in the next year or so.  Don’t be surprised if in 2015 the conditions for real wage growth will finally start to manifest and even those who have given up on the job market will start to return.  

Can it be? Can we really be on the cusp of what many recruiters now know only from misty-eyed tales spun from the mouths of greying counterparts?  Fantastic stories about a time many score ago when candidates were expected to demand better terms! When hiring managers bent down and kneeled before Talent!  Could we be on the verge of recruitment nirvana when a War for Talent erupts into living color and recruiters and candidates rise from the ashes?  Yes, if the economy holds course, we can and will get there.

Barring a catastrophic macro-economic disturbance that could arise from a number of geopolitical hotspots, we will experience enough job creation in the next 12 months that a talent war will begin to be waged on a meaningful scale. The resulting battles for talent will spawn the much needed real wage growth that for so long has been absent from the US economy.  War can indeed be good, bring it on.

This is what the crystal ball at BountyMiner is telling us for the coming year.  What do you think?

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Written by Rob Morrison guest blogging for BountyMiner Source of data

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Our beta is live!

Confidential candidate referral platform

We are happy to announce the beta launch of BountyMiner.com.  Now you are probably wondering if this will help you shed the extra pounds from the holidays or deal with returning unwanted gifts. Sorry, it won't help with either!  However, read further and I'll explain what BountyMiner is all about. Do you have great Contacts?  With BountyMiner anyone who knows a great candidate can submit the candidate confidentially (to the candidate and hiring company) and will be paid a bounty between $1,000 and $5,000 when the candidate is hired. Sign-up now with just your email to start making Connections. Are you a Recruiter?  With BountyMiner job postings are always FREE. While posting your opening, you will enter a bounty amount to be paid upon successful hire. Sign-up now to start posting your open jobs. Questions?  Please Email Us! Kind regards! Chuck, Nina, & Phil