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
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
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
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
Excite Your Candidates With A Project And Opportunity Description (POD)
Applicants know it and recruiters know it to… Job descriptions are boring! We WOW applicants with great web pages and savvy recruiters but when we … Read more
Evaluating Recruitment Websites
With the thousands of websites offering online recruitment how do you establish a standard of evaluating these sites? The steps outlined below will help … 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
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