The talent war is very real when you are faced with your competitors stealing your best people, courting the same college students on campus and stealing … Read more

NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles from Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, who are covering SHRM’s Annual Conference and Exposition this … Read more

Online recruiting is in many respects a kind of online selling. Not only does a recruiter have to sell the company and the position, but he or she also has … Read more

NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles over the next few days from Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, two of the recruiting industry’s most … Read more

It has been an interesting month. I have received feedback from my last article [Internet Recruiting is Doomed!, June 15, 2000] telling me I was an idiot, … Read more

Lately, it seems as though the recruiting industry has become challenged by resumes. On the far right there are the extreme conservatives, who still hold … Read more

Some recruiters in large organizations are throwing up their hands when faced with competition from the dot-com, start-up world. If you are a recruiter or … Read more

In my family, we hated inhaling. Exhaling was by far our favorite respiratory function. You could talk while exhaling (not so much while inhaling). You … Read more

There’s a lot of traffic out there. Nielsen/NetRatings estimates that over 134 million people in the United States are now online. But with all the … Read more

Most recruiting is relatively straightforward and easy to understand. But there is one crucial aspect that is counterintuitive. That aspect is the ease of … Read more