Not all of us can earn Bill Gates’ salary. But, many prospective candidates we speak with sure seem to want to try. So when you’ve got them on … Read more
Resumes Stink, Start Asking For A Portfolio
Recruiters have been “placing ads and reading resumes” for decades. As an HR professor I get to review hundreds of resumes and I never have … Read more
Are You A Networker? Or Are You Just Bothering People: Building Your Network
You may have just come into the business, and want to get started building your network. Or, you may have been in the business for years, have a pile of … Read more
An Unrecruited Pool of Candidates Lies All Around You: Here are 6 Tips on Tapping It
A significant percentage of college graduates spend the first few years after graduation in a sort of never-never land. Rather than seek a job right away, … Read more
Selecting Your Employment Strategy
Imagine the head of the function that has one of the most strategic impacts on the business not even having a name for their own business strategy? Many … Read more
Are You A Networker? Or Are You Just Bothering People?
Several years ago I was giving a seminar on job search techniques at an outplacement center that was supporting a recent, and dramatic lay-off at a major … Read more
What’s It Take To Be A Winning Recruiter Today?
The workforce is constantly changing. The economic conditions and demographics have changed significantly in the past 10 years. I had dinner with some … Read more
Selecting Your Employment Strategy: Possible Suggestions
Imagine the head of the function that has one of the most strategic impacts on the business not even having a name for their own business strategy? Many … Read more
So Many Sites, So Little Money: Thinking Strategically About Your Recruiting Plan
In Part I of this series we covered alternative ways of allocating your recruiting budget to include the Internet without sacrificing other strategies that … Read more
Enterprise Recruiting: What is it all about?
Over the past decade recruiters in many organizations have migrated from folders of resumes and stacks of paper to some type of computer system to help … Read more