Retail Candidates Bonanza
- Author: Kyle Callahan
- Posted: November 11, 2008
- Category: News and Events
- Tags: hiring, Media, Print Media, retail
- Comments: 0
From the Wall Street Journal’s Retail Losses Sap a Jobs Safety Net:
“Roughly one of every 10 Americans is employed in the retail sector. But since November 2007, about a fourth of all jobs that have been lost — about 320,000 in all — have been in retail.“That has helped push the country’s overall unemployment rate to 6.5% through October, a figure many economists expect to grow to 8% or higher. The unemployment figures don’t include about 209,000 retail workers whose full-time hours have been reduced to part-time, according to the Department of Labor.”
By any measure, the news is grim. But if you’re looking to hire experienced retail workers for the holiday season and beyond, then you’ve never had a bigger pool of trained and qualified workers to choose from. Hundreds of thousands of people are aching to respond to your recruitment message.
And there’s no better place for that message than in the Employment Review. With distrubition to job fairs, unemployment agencies, and the HR offices of the companies that are laying off, the Employment Review will put your message in the hands of these qualified workers at the very moment they’re hoping to read it.
To get started with the Employment Review, call (561) 277-1202 or visit the website for more information.
Obama Plans Could Shake Up Federal Workforce
- Author: Kyle Callahan
- Posted: November 6, 2008
- Category: News and Events
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 0
From the Washington Post’s Obama Plans Could Shake Up Federal Workforce:
If President-elect Barack Obama makes good on his campaign promises, the federal government may be headed for a major shakeup, including the reassignment of many middle-managers, a sharp reduction in the number of outside contracts, and new performance standards for workers.
At the same time, however, the incoming president has promised a much broader domestic agenda of new and expanded federal programs, estimated to cost in excess of a half trillion dollars. Those programs include a costly economic stimulus package, universal health care coverage, and various ‘green’ initiatives.
For more information on how the federal workforce will be affected by Presdent-Elect, see his governing document, “Blueprint for Change.
Keep Your Eye on the Ball
- Author: Cathy Card
- Posted: September 29, 2008
- Category: News and Events, Business Matters
- Tags: economy, Recruiting
- Comments: 0
Mike Moore, C.E.O. of RCI Recruitment Solutions, talks about the recent turmoil in the marketplace and how it affects recruiting.
Mike Moore talks BestJobsUSA.com
- Author: Kyle Callahan
- Posted: September 12, 2008
- Category: News and Events, Recruiting, Tools and Resources, Sourcing Strategies
- Tags: Internet Media, Recruiting, Recruitment Communications
- Comments: 0
Play This 100,000 Times
- Author: Kyle Callahan
- Posted: August 20, 2008
- Category: News and Events
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 1
As Cathy announced earlier this month, we’ve set up a special partnership with Citadel Broadcasting to promote BestJobsUSA to over 120 million radio listeners a week. The promotions will go out to hundreds of radio stations, in dozens of markets, across a network of over 4,000 affiliates, and they’ll be played 100,000 times in the month of September alone.
The purpose of the radio spots is to announce the re-launch of a brand new BestJobsUSA. The new site will launch September 1st, which is the same day the radio ads hit the airwaves.
We’ll talk more about the new BestJobsUSA in the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, we thought you might like to get a sneak peak at our radio campaign.
And that’s just one of our spots. We’re still producing the others, but I think you get the gist.
And by the way, if you’re interested in advertising to an audience of 120 million people, you might want to check out our Featured Employer special. I won’t give you the hard sell here on the blog, but if you purchase one of our packages, you’ll get (along with a bunch of other stuff) your company name in our radio spots.
It’s a pretty good deal, considering that if just 1% of the audience responds to the radio spots, we’ll be bringing in around 1 million visitors a week. Is that an audience you want to miss?
RCI hits the airwaves
- Author: Cathy Card
- Posted: August 8, 2008
- Category: News and Events, Recruiting, Recruitment Communications, Employment Branding, Business Matters
- Tags: Employment Branding, Recruiting
- Comments: 0
RCI is very excited about our new partnership with Citadel Broadcasting and the ABC Radio network to run 100,000 recruitment radio spots per month. This gives our clients access to 120 million listeners a week! The spots will start September 1st, and will coincide with the launch of a new web design on our sister website, BestJobsUSA.com.
The radio commercials will be promoting BestJobsUSA.com and our Select 50 Diversity program, and feature companies by name to drive more candidates to their recruiters’ inbox than ever before.
Stay tuned!
Winners Merchant International Chooses RCI
- Author: Gisele Matarese
- Posted: March 27, 2008
- Category: News and Events
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- Comments: 0
In efforts to improve its recruitment and retention program and position itself as a destination of choice for retail professionals, Winners Merchants International (WMI) of Ontario, Canada has sought the services of RCI Recruitment Solutions, Inc. of Jupiter, FL.
The retail chain selected RCI Recruitment Solutions as its recruitment and retention partner to implement an all-encompassing branding and advertising campaign. The company turned to the recruitment specialists to create a look and feel that effortlessly and cohesively transcends environments and audiences in a manner consistent with the established WMI communication tone.
“We will begin to craft our strategy around what their specific needs are in all areas of recruitment, what their goals and objectives are for 2008/2009, and gather the information necessary to begin putting together strong media plans and strategies for Winners International,” said Samantha Moore, RCI’s Executive Vice President of Client Services.
The campaign will focus on print, interactive, and web site media, as well as a detailed employee referral program, and other media efforts.
As Winners continues to grow, “Our ultimate goal is to update the company’s image and establish it as the employer of choice for retail professionals of all levels,” said Moore.
Winners Merchants International L.P. operates as a subsidiary of TJX Companies Inc. The partnership, effective immediately, is the first between the two companies.
For more information about our recruitment and retention solutions, contact us today.
adidas Group Succeeds with RCI
- Author: Gisele Matarese
- Posted: January 14, 2008
- Category: News and Events, Recruitment Solutions
- Tags: Press Releases, RCI
- Comments: 0
RCI Recruitment Solutions was charged with filling 70 credit and finance positions for a recently established distribution center of adidas Group in Spartanburg, SC within a five-month deadline. Utilizing RCI’s unique recruitment model, adidas Group filled 93 percent of its open positions within 2½ months and RCI completed the job 2 months ahead of schedule.
RCI was commissioned by adidas Group in September 2007 with an agreement to have its new hires in place by March 2008. It needed a recruitment solutions partner that would reduce recruitment costs, improve time-to-hire, and increase candidate quality.
For RCI, “it was business as usual” says Samantha Moore, executive vice president of client services. “We bring a multifaceted integrated approach to recruitment.” Expertise in a variety of areas and offering customized application of those areas are what RCI attributes its success.
For the adidas Group, RCI used its specialized recruiters, sourcing and screening team, unique email and multi-media campaign as well as a customized ATS system to achieve speedy results. Sharon Menzel, manager on the adidas project says, “Our model offers us the tools to source and screen candidates more quickly. Our ATS makes it simple to track candidates. Our whole approach gives us the competitive advantage,” she said. “The wheels are already in motion.”
According to Lorna Frost, a senior regional credit manager for adidas Group, Menzel and her team “have been spot-on with what we are looking for, which will allow us to pick the best of the best. Without her and RCI, this would have been a far more stressful process and for that I cannot thank (them) enough.”
For information about RCI services and its 8-step approach to hiring, contact us today.
Washington State DOT Selects RCI
- Author: Gisele Matarese
- Posted: December 4, 2007
- Category: News and Events
- Tags: Press Releases, RCI
- Comments: 0
We’re proud to announce that the Washington State Department of Transportation has commissioned RCI to provide professional executive recruitment services for filling some of the management and executive-level positions throughout the state of Washington.
The purpose of this contract is to support the current recruiting staff by increasing access to high-level and qualified candidates and offer retained recruiting services for talent acquisition throughout the state.
We will work to place professionals in approximately 80 positions including transportation engineers, project managers, information technology specialists, maintenance technicians, finance personnel and more. The contract is effective immediately and will continue through December 2009.
If you’re interested in how we can help your organization fill management and executive-level positions, contact us today.
A New Face for RCIRS.com
- Author: Kyle Callahan
- Posted: October 9, 2007
- Category: News and Events
- Tags: No Tags
- Comments: 3
Welcome to the new look of Bells & Whistles…and RCIRS.com!
As you can see, the look isn’t radically different from the last one. We’ve changed the colors to make the site feel a little more airy, increased the font size to make reading a little easier on the eyes, and totally redesigned our home page to help new visitors quickly understand what we do, what services and solutions we offer, and then find their way deeper into the site.
With that being said, almost all the recent work focused on the look and feel of the new site, but as the days roll on, we’re going to revisit the content of the site too. And let me tell you, we’ve got big plans for Bells & Whistles as well!
But at the same time, we’re hoping you might be able to help us out. We’re actively looking for ideas on how both the site and the blog can better serve your needs, so if you’ve got some feedback on the site for us…
- Does our content answer your questions?
- Does our design inspire confidence?
- Does our blog reveal enough of who we are?
…please don’t be shy. We’d love to hear what you have to say!
Thanks again, and thanks to all the hard-working people who helped make the new design a reality, including (though not limited to) Yom Chouloute, Faye Moyer, Herb Rich, Cathy Card, and Eric Peterson.
Great work everyone!
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Oh, and if you like our new look and feel, and want to know if we could help on the design of your organization’s career site, the answer is “Yes!”…Contact us today!
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