Shaker's award-winning creative team has done it again. We're proud to announce these winners of 2007 EMA Creative Excellence Awards. Click here to view the winners.

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Shaker Recruitment Consultants (SRC), a division of Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications, is a full-service consultancy that facilitates the creation of local online job boards by fostering strategic alliances among local newspapers.

Check out our new site today at www.shaker.com/src

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Shaker Shares, the philanthropic outreach program established by the Shaker Foundation, empowers Shaker employees to give back to the community and raise money for good causes. Every month, Shaker employees identify a charity and the funds raised through participating in fun Shaker Shares-sponsored activities go to the charities of the month. The Shaker Foundation matches all monies raised by Shaker employees.

In the month of February, Shaker supported the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which provides the majority of food for all the food pantries in the Chicagoland area. Shaker employees sorted, stacked, stretched, strained, and managed to have a good time while packing food for over 600 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters served by the Food Depository. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food to almost a half-million people every year.

Shaker sponsored its first Chili Cooking Contest with employees who volunteered crockpots full of their favorite chili recipes. Employees had the opportunity to taste the different chilies and vote for their favorite. Funds normally spent on lunch were also donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

In March, Shaker supported Chicago-based House of the Good Shepherd, a shelter for battered women and their children dedicated to ending the cycle of domestic violence in families.

The April Charity of the Month was Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a long-term residential home for troubled young men and women.

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Shaker was honored to host an onsite assembly for the National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources (NAAAHR) on March 22nd. Mike Temkin, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Development, and Joe Shaker, Jr., Director, Media Initiatives presented, "Beyond Job Boards: Using the Internet to Recruit Quality Active and Impulsive Job Seeker."

Temkin and Shaker focused on effective new online advertising options that can be used for recruitment, and explored how these new tactics enable employers to advertise to target audiences in a strategic and cost-efficient manner. These online advertising outlets and newly emerging media include social networking, blogs, podcasts and mobile devices - which enable a company's employment message to be seen not only where candidates begin their job search, but also where they go to find information about vocational and personal interests.

NAAAHR's mission is to increase the presence of African-American professionals – at all levels, in all industries and throughout all regions.

To learn more, please visit the organization at naaahr.org.

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In May, Shaker sponsored two speaker sessions titled Hiring Millennials Out of College and Recruiting In An Age Boom at the Employment Management Association (EMA) Chicago Staffing Symposium 2007: Changing Workforce Dynamics.

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Jerry Digani, Vice President of Health Care, will present "Re-branding Nursing: Altering the Traditional Image of Nursing" in August at the 2007 Nursing Solutions Summit in Arlington, VA. Digani will focus on the wide variety of careers nurses can have, strategize ways to promote nursing as a career path with advancement, and how to attract new nursing talent by crafting a message of the opportunity for professional development.

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There's a lot that goes into finding just the right candidate for your company's open positions. It can cost you quite a bit of time, money and manpower. But with Shaker's new technology solutions, your efforts can be simplified greatly. And the result will be faster hires at a reduced cost.


HireRoad candidate management system
An easy-to-use candidate management system, HireRoad is an exceptional package of career-site services that are designed to streamline your recruitment efforts and provide you with applicable reporting/metrics. Five pages of career Web site design/content, a searchable database of applicants, the ability to track candidate progress and rapid setup/deployment are just a few of the features available.



firstlook at-a-glance resume sorting
Using predictive-matching technology, this tool gives you immediate insight into which applicants best match your position criteria. It collects all incoming resumes, scores them, and generates auto-reply messages for each resume received. You can choose to receive resumes via e-mail or on-line from a web-based application page branded with your company image. Incoming resumes will also be tracked by media source, providing detailed reports regarding both the quantity and quality of responses.



Delivered by Velocity and presented by Shaker, On-Demand Resume Sourcing, Screening & Qualification provides clients 3 days of aggressive sourcing of active job seeker resumes from major career hubs and niche sites. After calibrating resumes with the client, our process continues by contacting candidates and screening them as "qualified, available and interested," up to five times by phone, and three times by e-mail. Clients will have full access to Velocity's "Candidate Manager" web portal to track and review candidates and the progress on any job. Connect with the best available talent – fast.


Each of these technology solutions is cost-effective and affordable. Any one of them could provide you with a powerful advantage in your search for quality candidates. So contact your account team today for more details on each of these solutions and to determine which ones would best benefit you.

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