Workforce Development Week Features Zylog Recruiting Expert

Steffen Allen, Recruitment Technology Expert, will join the Employer Panel at the Workforce Development Week hosted by Toronto Employment and Social Services.

Steffen Allen, Zylog’s Recruitment Technology Expert, will be featured on the Toronto Employment and Social Services Panel to discuss best practices on hiring technology, tips on effective resumes, interview skills, how to utilize social media and labor market projections.

The Employer Panel caps an exciting and informative Workforce Development Week on Friday, October 25^th, 2013 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM at Lesmill Employment and Social Services, located at 20 Lesmill Road, Toronto, Ontario.

Steffen Allen is Director of Business Systems at Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd. Steffen is responsible for the direction and development of the TalentFlow Applicant Tracking System and the rapidly expanding Brainhunter network of Job Boards and Career Sites. Under the guidance of Steffen Allen, Brainhunter has launched more than fifty Regional Job Boards and Trade specific Career Sites that are fully integrated with the TalentFlow Applicant Tracking System. The TalentFlow ATS uses parsing technology to simplify the job seeker experience by automatically populating the online application process upon upload of a resume. As an experienced recruiter and technology expert, Steffen Allen empowers job seekers and employers to simplify processes for maximum performance and results.  

Toronto's Workforce Development Week (WFD) is a series of activities occurring across the City or Toronto from October 21^st to October 25^th.  WFD highlights the City's Workforce Development Strategy, aimed at connecting job seekers and employers to opportunities.

Workforce Development Strategy has three key objectives: ensuring that employers' workforce needs are addressed, ensuring that unemployed city residents get access to opportunities and jobs, and delivering the best possible value to employers, job seekers, communities and the City for the resources invested in workforce development.

Job Seekers interested in accelerating career advancement are encouraged to visit Career Opportunities on Zylog.ca, and on Brainhunter.com.

Interested job seekers can also search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.

About Zylog
Providing professional services and solutions with local delivery teams, Zylog proudly represents top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. As an application designer and developer, Zylog has introduced an Enterprise Social Media CRM to empower consultants, contractors, and employers with powerful HRIS supported by highly skilled recruiting and customer care representatives. Brainhunter.com by Zylog provides contractors with unparalleled services, benefits, training and personal development previously reserved for employees of Fortune 500 organizations. Zylog recruiters take a personal interest in independent consultants and the community.

For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca or follow Zylog on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZylogCanada and Facebook at www.facebook.com/ZylogSystemsCanada

¹: Source: http://www.toronto.ca/workone

 

 

UNB Fredericton Career and Graduate School Fair Features Recruiting by Zylog on September 27th, 2013

Zylog Recruiting and Consulting Experts will perform in-person pre-screening for Top Jobs at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Fredericton Career and Graduate School Fair at the Richard J. Currie Center.


Applying for top jobs and meeting Zylog’s Professional Recruiting and Consulting Experts is easy at the UNB Fredericton Career & Graduate School Fair on Friday, September 27^th, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Richard J. Currie Center, 15 Peter Kelly Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Zylog represents Fortune 500 clients and recruits top talent in IT, Engineering, Government, Health Care, and Retail positions. Being actively engaged in the career path development of qualified professionals enables Zylog to maintain prestigious status as a top ranked human capital management, staffing, and placement organization in North America.  

The high energy UNB Fredericton Career & Graduate School Fair provides students and job seekers with employment and training opportunities. Interested job seekers will meet prestigious employers and recruiters who will provide information about career opportunities, cooperative education and internship programs available to students, recent graduates and job seekers.

Job Seekers interested in accelerating career advancement are encouraged to visit Career Opportunities on Zylog.ca, and on Brainhunter.com, Zylog’s Social Media Career Site, to select positions of interest prior to attending the event. Zylog Professional Recruiters and Consultants will be on-hand to answer questions from job seekers and help them map a personal path to achieve individual goals.

Interested job seekers can also search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.
About Zylog
Zylog offers end-to-end recruitment and talent search services for both contract and permanent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, call centre, administrative and light industrial positions. Zylog manages staffing and payrolling services, including coordination and management of the hiring of independent consultants and HireFlow^® payroll and consultant benefits related services. Among its services and solutions, Zylog counts proprietary, state-of-the-art management software, including Recruitment, Job Board, TalentFlow^® Applicant Tracking (ATS), Vendor Management (VMS), BackOffice, Microsoft SharePoint and MS Dynamics integration and development services.

For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca or follow Zylog on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZylogCanada and Facebook at www.facebook.com/ZylogSystemsCanada

Halifax Career Fair Features Top Jobs Recruiting by Zylog on September 24th, 2013

Zylog Recruiting and Consulting Experts will perform in-person pre-screening for Top Jobs at the Halifax Career Fair at the Cunard Centre.

Applying for top jobs and meeting Zylog’s Professional Recruiting and Consulting Experts is easy at the Halifax Career Fair on Tuesday, September 24^th, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Zylog represents Fortune 500 clients and recruits top talent in IT, Engineering, Government, Health Care, and Retail positions. Being actively engaged in the career path development of qualified professionals enables Zylog to maintain prestigious status as a top ranked human capital management, staffing, and placement organization in North America.

Successful since 1997, the Halifax Career Fair provides job seekers and students with employment and training opportunities. “Fortune 500 Companies, government agencies and the nation’s fastest growing organizations” participate, and “recruiters provide information about organizational culture, career opportunities, cooperative education and internship programs available to students and recent graduates”¹.

Job Seekers interested in accelerating career advancement are encouraged to visit Career Opportunities on Zylog.ca, and on Brainhunter.com, Zylog’s Social Media Career Site, to select positions of interest prior to attending the event. Zylog Professional Recruiters and Consultants will be on-hand to answer questions from job seekers and help them map a personal path to achieve individual goals.

Interested job seekers can also search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.

About Zylog
Zylog offers end-to-end recruitment and talent search services for both contract and permanent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, call centre, administrative and light industrial positions. Zylog manages staffing and payrolling services, including coordination and management of the hiring of independent consultants and HireFlow^® payroll and consultant benefits related services. Among its services and solutions, Zylog counts proprietary, state-of-the-art management software, including Recruitment, Job Board, TalentFlow^® Applicant Tracking (ATS), Vendor Management (VMS), BackOffice, Microsoft SharePoint and MS Dynamics integration and development services.

For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca or follow Zylog on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZylogCanada and Facebook at www.facebook.com/ZylogSystemsCanada

¹: Source: www.halifaxcareerfairs.com

Short Form Job Application for All Job Seekers Unveiled by Zylog

All job seekers can now take full advantage of the new Short Form Application launched by Zylog that enables job seekers to apply for jobs faster.


When job seekers apply for multiple positions, a long time is lost by entering the same information over and over in each job.  Being attentive to the needs of all job seekers is one of the great differential qualities of Zylog, leader in the recruiting industry.  Now Zylog has unveiled its new job seeker interface with a short form job application that greatly facilitates and expedites job application.

Job search by keyword and location is easy, intuitive and fruitful, but where this new tool is really ingenious is the job application interface. It only takes a minute to become a free member and in a few clicks one can upload up to three resumes and five cover letters, to be easily selected for each job application.

A member job seeker that applies for a job will have the necessary profile information already self populated in the job application form, thanks to Parsing technology. Once the preferred resume and cover letter are selected, the job application is ready to be submitted.

Job hunting will no longer have to be time consuming, repetitive, or intimidating; any job seeker can test for themselves the efficient and rewarding experience of finding top jobs on the new Zylog job seeker interface.

About Zylog
Providing professional services and solutions with local delivery teams, Zylog proudly represents top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. As an application designer and developer, Zylog has introduced an Enterprise Social Media CRM to empower consultants, contractors, and employers with powerful HRIS supported by highly skilled recruiting and customer care representatives. Brainhunter.com by Zylog provides contractors with unparalleled services, benefits, training and personal development previously reserved for employees of Fortune 500 organizations. Zylog recruiters take a personal interest in independent consultants and the community.

For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca, or follow Zylog on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ZylogCanada, and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ZylogSystemsCanada

CompTIA Certification Validation Now on Brainhunter Social Media

Brainhunter is the first social media to enable validation of members’ CompTIA certifications increasing their immediate value to potential employers.

 

Brainhunter Social Media now offers the opportunity for members to validate their CompTIA certifications with a simple click and even show their badges to potential employers. Employers can now rest assured that CompTIA certifications have already been validated directly by CompTIA, saving the lengthily verification procedure adopted by companies until now.

Once a professional registers for free to Brainhunter.com, it takes just a few clicks to request a CompTIA certification validation. CompTIA Certifications will be verified and posted to the member’s personal profile on Brainhunter with corresponding Certification Badge for all certifications earned.

“Certification verification is critical to assuring services are performed by trained and skilled professionals,” said John Mehrmann, CEO of Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd. “Background checks on education, criminal records, and drug testing are recognized as common confirmations for many positions. How can a background check be complete without verifying technical certifications? CompTIA is making is easy to validate the professional skills required to perform the necessary tasks.”

“As the global IT industry association, CompTIA builds vendor-neutral certifications that measure foundational skills. They show employers you have the skills to do the job, regardless of the vendor of the hardware or software product. […] CompTIA certifications are built with the knowledge of experts and industry leaders from the public and private sectors, including training, academia and the government.”¹

Brainhunter members also have the unique capability to “select a recruiter” listed in the Brainhunter Social Media community to provide personal services.  A personal recruiter can review and optimize resumes, coach job seekers on interview techniques and specific interview tips by a prospective employer, and match high level consultant skills with available and upcoming contracts.

Brainhunter Profiles also allow a member to manage previous employment history, education, contacts, groups, career interests, apply for jobs, and access group rate discounts and benefits. Members can also register for additional CompTIA certifications and training manuals at a discounted rate, and then display those enhanced certifications to peers and employers.
For more information, visit www.Brainhunter.com and www.comptia.org.

¹: Source: http://certification.comptia.org/getCertified.aspx

Brainhunter Announces New Opportunity to Earn Points

Brainhunter Social Media enables members to earn points and compare scores with friends and connections.

Brainhunter Social Media now offers the opportunity for members to earn points for skills and activity. A new leader board enables members to compare scores with friends, connections and other members with public profiles.

Members can now earn Brainhunter points for creating a complete profile, adding new skills, adding contacts, joining groups, making group comments, and even daily activity. Members can compare Brainhunter points with connections, friends, and members with public profiles.

Brainhunter consultant members can now automatically earn extra points for every week on a contract. This means that a member can earn extra points simply for working.  

Brainhunter members also have the unique capability to “select a recruiter” listed in the Brainhunter Social Media community to provide personal services.  A personal recruiter can review and optimize resumes, coach job seekers on interview techniques and specific interview tips by a prospective employer, and match high level consultant skills with available and upcoming contracts.

The Brainhunter Social Media site provides access to discounted group rate insurance benefits, discounts on laptops and other products, as well as a daily refreshed list of new job openings and contracts.

Brainhunter enables each member to manage personal privacy settings, including the option to share information with prospective employers only, or as a public profile. This enables job seekers to share information with potential employers while also keeping the job search confidential.

About Brainhunter

Brainhunter provides a comprehensive integrated combination of software technology and service to enrich and empower employers, job seekers, recruitment agencies, and communities.  Brainhunter Social Media empowers job seekers to manage profiles, search for jobs, access benefits and discounts, and select a recruiter for personal career path guidance. Certification Verification services enable members to validate certain IT Certifications in real time online and show the confirmed Certifications to potential employers.

For more information, visit www.Brainhunter.com

Brainhunter Announces New Feature for Job Seekers to Recruit a Recruiter

Brainhunter Social Media puts the control of picking a job in the hands of the job seeker, and the control of selecting a contract in the hands of the independent consultant.

The Brainhunter Social Media community turns the tables by empowering job seekers and consultants to view recruiter profiles and select a recruiter to represent the job seeker or consultant to potential employers.

The new feature in www.Brainhunter.com enables the job seeker to view profiles of professional recruiters, evaluate the recruiter years of experience and areas of expertise, spoken languages, education, and recruiter highlights. The job seeker or consultant can select a preferred recruiter to represent the job seeker to employers, and submit consultants for open contracts.

Professional recruiters listed in the Brainhunter Social Media community provide personal services to review and optimize resumes, coach job seekers on interview techniques and specific interview tips by prospective employer, and match high level consultant skills with available and upcoming contracts.

The Brainhunter Social Media site also includes access to discounted insurance benefits, discounts on laptops and other products, as well as a daily refreshed list of new job openings and contracts.

Brainhunter enables each member to manage personal privacy settings, including the option to share information with prospective employers only, or as a public profile. This enables the job seeker to share information with potential employers while also keeping the job search confidential.

About Brainhunter

Brainhunter provides a comprehensive integrated combination of software technology and service to enrich and empower employers, job seekers, recruitment agencies, and communities.  Brainhunter Social Media empowers job seekers to manage profiles, search for jobs, access benefits and discounts, and select a recruiter for personal career path guidance. Certification Verification services enable members to validate certain IT Certifications in real time online and show the confirmed Certifications to potential employers.

For more information, visit www.Brainhunter.com

CPAC Professional Day Features Recruiting by Zylog on May 25th, 2013

Zylog Recruiting and Consulting Experts will perform in-person pre-screening for Top Jobs at the CPAC Professional Day hosted by the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada (CPAC).
Applying for top jobs and meeting Zylog’s Professional Recruiting and Consulting Experts is easy at the CPAC Professional Day in Toronto on Saturday, May 25^th, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, 5183 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario.

Zylog represents Fortune 500 clients and recruits top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. Being actively engaged in the career path development of qualified professionals enables Zylog to maintain prestigious status as a top ranked human capital management, staffing, and placement organization.

CPAC Professional Day is an annual event on career and professional development for internationally trained professionals (ITPs). The event consists of empowering keynote presentations, educational breakout workshops and a job fair where service providers and employers showcase their services and career opportunities to job seekers. Job seekers interested in this unique event can register at http://cpacpday2013.eventbrite.com.

Job Seekers interested in accelerating career advancement are encouraged to visit Brainhunter.com, Zylog’s Social Media Career Site, and select positions of interest prior to attending the event. Zylog Professional Recruiters and Consultants will be on-hand to answer questions from job seekers help them map a personal path to achieve individual goals. Among the many available positions are:

¡  Project Manager

¡  Business Analyst

¡  Programmer Analyst

¡  Technical Support

¡  Tester

¡  Quality Assurance

¡  Networking Engineer

¡  System Administrator and much more.

Interested job seekers can also search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.

About ZylogZylog provides professional services and solutions with local delivery teams. Zylog proudly represents top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. As an application designer and developer, Zylog has introduced an Enterprise Social Media CRM to empower consultants, contractors, and employers with powerful HRIS supported by highly skilled recruiting and customer care representatives. Brainhunter.com by Zylog provides contractors with unparalleled services, benefits, training and personal development previously reserved for employees of Fortune 500 organizations. Zylog recruiters take a personal interest in independent consultants and the community.
For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca, www.chineseprofessionals.ca and http://www.chineseprofessionals.ca/?p=6241

Career and Training Exploration Fair Features Recruiting by Zylog on May 3rd, 2013

Zylog Recruiting and Consulting Experts will perform in-person pre-screening for Top Jobs at the Career and Training Exploration Fair hosted by Toronto Employment and Social Services.
Applying for top jobs and meeting Zylog’s Professional Recruiting and Consulting Experts is easy at the Career and Training Exploration Fair in Toronto on Friday, May 3^rd, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Scarborough Civic Centre (Rotunda), 150 Borough Drive, Toronto, Ontario.

Zylog represents Fortune 500 clients and recruits top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. Being actively engaged in the career path development of qualified professionals enables Zylog to maintain prestigious status as a top ranked human capital management, staffing, and placement organization.

The Career and Training Exploration Fair provides city residents with employment and training opportunities; here job seekers can meet employers and understand employers’ hiring needs.

Job Seekers interested in accelerating career advancement are encouraged to visit Brainhunter.com, Zylog’s Social Media Career Site, and select positions of interest prior to attending the event. Zylog Professional Recruiters and Consultants will be on-hand to answer questions from job seekers help them map a personal path to achieve individual goals.

Interested job seekers can also search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.

About ZylogZylog provides professional services and solutions with local delivery teams. Zylog proudly represents top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. As an application designer and developer, Zylog has introduced an Enterprise Social Media CRM to empower consultants, contractors, and employers with powerful HRIS supported by highly skilled recruiting and customer care representatives. Brainhunter.com by Zylog provides contractors with unparalleled services, benefits, training and personal development previously reserved for employees of Fortune 500 organizations. Zylog recruiters take a personal interest in independent consultants and the community.
For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca and www.toronto.ca/socialservices/job_fairs.htm