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

Good! Now that I have your attention, I’ll repeat. This is NOT a catchy statement to get your attention. Internet recruiting is a “dead” … Read more

For the past two days, I have been attending and speaking at the first ever Talent Officer Conference in Austin, Texas. Where else for BIG ideas? Sponsored … Read more

If the search for candidates has you coming up empty-handed, you might want to consider going back to school…to look for candidates, that is. … Read more