One of my readers recently wrote me with a very good question. He wanted to know how to verify all the claims and data flying around. What?s true and … Read more

Many sourcing tools are centralized and depend on resources from the corporate level. However supervisors and line managers need to be able to identify … Read more

Popular buzzwords have been floating around recruiting circles for quite some time: ?passive candidates? and ?active candidates.? What makes a passive … Read more

I got a call the other day from an Agency Headhunter. He wanted to set up an “informational interview” for one of his candidates. I said, … Read more

In the ?war for talent,? companies need to be aware that competitors are continually adding new tools and strategies in order to ?poach away? (translation: … Read more

Last Sunday, while traveling in New England, I read an article in the business section of the Providence Journal that exemplified my beliefs on the … Read more

Xyz Corporation, a software firm, with immediate needs for a variety of web programmers, HTML and Java experts and some platform engineers also has a large … Read more

Interviewing for a job is a lot like a first date — neither party wants to look like a dufus. But it happens all too frequently, and I’d like … Read more

Recruiting is one of the least scientific of all business functions. Very few recruiting departments take that time to track which recruiting tools are the … Read more