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• How to Hire for Cultural Compatibility

  August 8, 2012

  Finding a perfect fit in a potential employee is a lot more than picking the best resume out of the stack and checking to see if they know how to dress well on interview day. Arguably one of the most important aspects in a hire is to gauge how well that person will fit into your company’s culture. But how does one go about learning how a stranger will fit in? Do you force them to meet everyone in the office speed dating style? Have an induction ritual in the parking lot complete with torches, masks and chanting? Consult the office psychic? Have a Battle Royal?

  Maybe not. According to Jim Roddy, the best possible way to see how someone will fit in is to see how they’ve reacted to adverse office cultures in the past. Read on to get a detailed interviewing guide.

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• Industry Struggles to Fill Jobs

  August 7, 2012

  Even with the unemployment rate hovering around 8.3 percent, there are still industries with thousands of open positions that people are unable or unwilling to fill. Take the American commercial trucking industry. Open job postings around the country stay unfilled for months due to a lack of candidates. Many who would take the job are put off by the high cost of a commercial driving licence while the ones who could take the job are overlooked by poorly directed recruiting. What this means is that these businesses are looking to small pools of potential employees while much larger groups exist elsewhere in the country. At Accolo, we utilize a combination of our network of experienced recruiters as well as our Cloud Recruiting software to gaps like this between qualified candidates and employers. Read on to see the Wanted Analytics report on this trend.

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• Good News for Hiring: 163,000 Jobs Added in July

  August 6, 2012

  According to the Unites States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 163,000 jobs were added to the private sector in July. Though this undoubtedly good news, the sudden surge in hiring near the end of July was not enough to offset the unemployment rate significantly. We at Accolo want to stress that there are jobs out there and that the United States’s high rate of unemployment is due, in part, to a hiring problem, that is a failure of communication and networking between companies and prospective workers. Our company has set a goal of filling one million positions in 2013 and economic growth like that in this past month is a heartening sign for the completion of this goal. The link below is an article in the Wall Street Journal and details more specifically the state of hiring and the economy in general.

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• Career Building Through Positive Thinking

  August 3, 2012

  While self-awareness is crucial to success in business, and interactions in general, too much self-conscious thought (especially negative) is a time and energy consuming mental habit. The next time you’re stuck on the treadmill of self doubt, be it in traffic or actually on the treadmill, consider the fact that having a positive outlook on your life can actually help to improve it. Though this may seem like an idea that has been thoroughly beaten to death by platitudes and motivational speakers, positive thinking will give you an actual neuro-chemical advantage over consistently negative thinkers. Simply put: your brain will work better.

  Read on and see how positive thinking can improve both your career and the rest of your life.

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• LinkedIn Co-founder, Konstantin Guericke Joins Board of Accolo – Signifying Trend Toward Cloud Recruiting

  LinkedIn Co-founder, Konstantin Guericke Joins Board of Accolo – Signifying Trend Toward Cloud Recruiting

  Larkspur, CA – June 4, 2012

  Accolo, Inc., the leading Cloud Recruiting® company, today publicly announced that LinkedIn Co-Founder, Konstantin Guericke joined the Accolo Board of Directors. Mr. Guericke, in addition to being a highly successful entrepreneur, has a passion for exploring the intersection of psychology, sociology and computing.

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• Accolo CEO Explains How to Turn Your Company into a Hiring Machine at Marin Business Forum Meeting

  Quarterly Event Gives Marin Business Professionals an Opportunity to Network and Share Insights on Best Business Practices.

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  Let’s blow off a lotta steam : accoloTV is live!

  We’re glad to announce the launch of accoloTV – a web video channel that pulls together the most entertaining videos about jobs and employment we can get our job-filling little mitts on.

  Take some time this afternoon to blow off that appointment and enjoy a few laughs. It’s almost the weekend, right? Also, if you find some good vids on YouTube you want us to include, just pop us an email at social@accolo.com and we’ll add them to the channel.

  One extra-cool bit of technology we developed for accoloTV is an automatic boss monitor that can see over your shoulder and automatically switch to some boring spreadsheet when the higher-ups are about to pounce! (Not really, but wouldn’t that be cool?)

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• Hire Perfection : Accolo CEO John Younger at the EO Guru Conference in San Francisco

  October 3, 2011

  John Younger, CEO and President of Accolo, delivered a great presentation at the EO Guru Conference in San Francisco recently on how to “hire perfection” (great employees). Take a look – lots of good knowledge here…

  

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  Candidates are Customers too. Shouldn’t that be a No Brainer… ?

  August 22, 2011

  put on your corporate hat, folks

  Ok. I was reading an industry blog this morning and it got my panties in a bunch.

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  Sky is the limit for companies tapping into Accolo’s Cloud Recruiting®

  June 13, 2011

  Accolo unveils patented Cloud Recruiting® Platform with enhanced social recruiting

  Larkspur, CA (PRWEB) June 13, 2011

  Accolo, Inc. recently launched their enhanced Cloud Recruiting Platform which harnesses the power of advanced social network recruiting. The solution includes real time access to recruiting capacity on demand via the Accolo Hiring Consultant network. Read More…

  

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