Most of my life, somebody has been trying to make me part of their team. If it was not Little League, it was the Boy Scouts. If the Boy Scouts gave up, it … Read more
Observations from the Internet Recruiting Trenches
As a Managing Partner of Recruiters-Aid, I still try and spend a good portion of my time sourcing and screening candidates for my clients. I am in the … Read more
An e-Recruiting Primer Five Tips for Getting Started in e-Recruiting
So you’re “on the net” now and are feeling pretty good. A few keys clicks away lay thousands of great resumes and access to an almost … Read more
The Recruiting Effectiveness Act of 2050
The year is 2057. The Recruiting Effectiveness Act had been in effect for about 5 years now. The Polymorphous Party had passed the act after the Great … Read more
Why Do We Try To Keep Propellers On Jets?
In today?s recruiting market, we often hear two complaints. One: the web is great but we receive too many unqualified applicants. Or two: with the web, our … Read more
The Tenets Of 21st Century Recruiting
If you are going to be world class in recruiting you need to meet the following: Employment must be able to prove the real value of a great hire and the … Read more
Non-Traditional Recruiting Methods – Some Ideas and Examples
So you’re exasperated, tired and confused? Every time you bring in your sourcing net, you feel like Tom Hanks in Forest Gump when he pulled in his … Read more
If the Customer is Always Right? (Trapped Again By Our Own Good Intentions)
In agency recruiting and human resources, we call our hiring managers “clients.” It is a fact in the agency side, and a state of mind that … Read more
A Bright and Shining Light
If, as we noted last week, FAST Search is a rising star among search engines, then Northern Light is aptly one of the brightest lights. With a growing … Read more
Finding The ?Names? Of The Best In Your Field (Develop a ?Who?s Who? list of top talent)
Part II of a II part series Recruiters classify people they ?look at? into a hierarchy that goes like this: Suspects ? Names of people that might have a … Read more