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Your next hire: ZipRecruiter vs. Indeed vs. everybody else

By John Shieldsmith September 20, 2019

This Article first appeared on Quickbooks/Intuit

Expansion can be a stressful, time-consuming, and expensive process. Staffing and recruiting agencies come with very high costs, and for small businesses with limited resources, the task of finding the best candidate often falls solely in your hands as the owner.

But sometimes outsourcing isn’t necessary. A robust and informative “Careers” page on your company website can be very valuable when recruiting. And referrals from current employees and other contacts often make for the best hires. However, if you’re looking for something beyond your network there are a number of options you can consider.

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Jiu-Jitsu and the Art of Beating ATS Hiring Systems

* Jiu-Jitsu has its roots in the Japanese system of defeating a stronger opponent by using their own strength against them.

Operators of Fourth Generation ATS systems have largely succeeded in convincing employers that job applicants can be accurately and more thoroughly evaluated by using Artificial Intelligence for deep resume and social analysis, all made possible because of the new transparency.

You may be surprised to learn that companies are building massive profiles on you and most of the world population!

In an ideal scenario, the hiring manager can tell ATS exactly the skill set he is looking for, and you will materialize for an interview after ATS has decided “You’re the one!”  But what if you are one of the other 99 applicants who were discarded, and what if you actually have the better skills? The hiring manager will never know because he will never interview you, thanks to ATS.

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An oil rig stands against the setting sun in Midland, Texas on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Odessa American/Eli Hartman)

CATHY BUSSEWITZ – Associated Press – April 20, 2020, 9:19 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The world is awash in oil, there’s little demand for it and we’re running out of places to put it.

That in a nutshell explains Monday’s strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month.

The price of U.S. benchmark crude that would be delivered in May was selling for around $15 a barrel Monday morning, but fell as low as -$40 per barrel during the day. It was the first time that the price on a futures contract for oil has gone negative, analysts say.

“It’s the worst oil price in history, which shouldn’t surprise us, because it’s the inevitable result of the biggest supply and demand disparity in history,” said Ryan Sitton, commissioner at the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil industry.

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