Let’s face it; most of us who do recruiting are not very good at marketing. We may be relatively good salespeople and we may know how to close a … Read more
Wrap A Sourcing Program Around Your Current Recruiting Efforts
How can you ensure maximum efficiency from your sourcing routine, while freeing up many hours per week to recruit? Consider segregating, and then … Read more
World Class College Recruiting: How is it Different From Other Recruiting?
Did you know that the average male college graduate got 2.65 offers and the average female graduate got 2.53 offers last year? Did you know that fewer than … Read more
How To Ruin A Great Recruiting Effort With The “Orientation From Hell” – Part I
This is the first of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort. SALES REPS KNOW IT – FIRST … Read more
Robots, Spiders, Hands
Should search robots/spiders replace, or simply augment, the searches you perform by hand? If you are a recruiter or staffing professional, you may already … Read more
Ten Things You Can Do to Select the Right People
Have you ever hired someone who seemed perfect for a job, but who later turned out to be quite a bit less than perfect? Stressed by today’s … Read more
Becoming an Employer of Choice – Part II
FIRST STEPS IN BECOMING AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE (EOC) Do a preliminary survey of top management to identify possible support or resistance. Read more
The Myth of a Labor Shortage: There is Only a Shortage of Imagination and Responsibility
I hope you all had a very happy holiday season and that you are ready to face what looks like him a challenging 1999. To start the year, I would like to … Read more
A Thank You and Some Predictions for 1999
Thanks for so many of you responding to my recent survey about this column. Virtually everyone seems to think that the topics covered this year have been … Read more
Becoming an “Employer of Choice”
Have a shortage of candidates? An “Employer of Choice” (EOC) like HP, for example may get as many as 1,000 resumes a day! Becoming an EOC … Read more