Class is scheduled for 9:00 am. Only a few students are there at that time, so the class waits and finally gets underway at 9:20. The first 20 minutes are … Read more
Reverse Marketing Recruiting (Or how to recruit at a mediocre firm located in “Nowheresville”)
Not every firm can offer the glamour of a Cisco, HP, a “dot com” firm nor can they be lucky enough to be located in the Silicon Valley. But the … Read more
Discovering a Hidden Talent Pool: Transitioning Military Personnel
If you or your company is faced with the recruitment dilemma of too many openings and too few qualified candidates, it may be time to grow your own. The … Read more
I Don’t Get No Respect! or Why Recruiters Are Often Treated as Second-Class Citizens
Managers frequently complain to me that their recruiters are ineffective and expensive. Many feel that their recruiters are incapable because positions go … Read more
Developing an Internet Recruiting Strategy – Marketing 101
Determining how to spend your recruitment advertising dollars is not unlike what a marketing manager for a consumer products company like Kraft or S. C. … Read more
Five Tips for Starting Off the College Recruiting Season
It’s back to school time, and back to campus recruiting. The routine of information sessions, on-campus interviews, follow-up interviews, and … Read more
Recruiting Season–Continuation
?Let?s see, here. Please give me a moment to review this stuff.? Hume tilted his head back until his trifocals brought his computer screen into focus. A … Read more
Recruiting Season
Sandy thought back on her first exposure to GreatBig Industries. It was almost five years ago. She quickly made Regional Manager and recently promoted to … Read more
The Manager’s Role in Measuring Recruiting Success Guidelines for Hiring Managers
How do you measure the success of your recruiter’s efforts? In a quick survey of the companies I work with, the shocking fact is that most of you … Read more
Building An Employment “Brand”
Employment branding is the hottest strategy in employment. It is one of the few long term solutions to the “shortage of talent” problem. Where … Read more