When you receive a cold call at your office from someone you’ve never met, are you ready to pull out your credit card after a five minute conversation? … Read more
When It’s Time to Tell the Boss Goodbye
You made the decision to leave. You put together a competitive resume, circulated it through professional recruiters and online, interviewed with too many … Read more
Ask Barb
Q. I subscribe to many Internet Job Boards like Monster, Dice and others that cost me thousands of dollars a year. It seems my recruiters spend all their … Read more
Reference Checks: Versatile and Profitable
Properly conducted reference checks can be one of the most versatile tools for building your business and increasing profits. Good referencing techniques … Read more
Answers to the 7 Sign-On Bonus Questions
Nobody likes to pay a candidate. But sometimes that’s the only way to get one to interview or accept an offer. If you’ve thought about the idea but … Read more
On Becoming a Great Recruiter, Part 3
We’re into the third week of our eight-week program on becoming a top 10% recruiter. Aside from reading the two previous articles, there were four … Read more
Southwest Hopes to Fight Off Low-cost Imitators with Its Culture
Everywhere you go, they are held up as the standard for a successful employment brand. They have managed to take their customer promise and make it real to … Read more
Interviewing Doesn’t Work Very Well
My Recruiting Trends Survey for 2006 will be available within a week or two, but one of my main findings was that candidate quality remains your number one … Read more
Let’s Put an End to Our Inferiority Complex
HR conference season is nearly complete, and 2006 was a banner year for attendance at all of the conferences. Lots of people were out in force seeking to … Read more
Identity Fraud Protection Increasingly Offered as Recruitment Lure
While a just-released SHRM survey reveals that rising healthcare costs are employers’ chief concern, a growing number of insurers and corporate … Read more