Most of us who are involved in recruiting focus on the concept of cost per hire. We all want to hire great candidates at the lowest possible cost. Average … Read more
Mine a Rich Seam of Talent Through Recruiting Transitioning Military Personnel
Every year over 280,000 military personnel transition out of the military and into the civilian workplace. These job seekers represent 280,000 highly … Read more
Give Yourself The Midas Touch: Stay in Touch After They Leave
Most of us look at retention as a closed issue. People either choose to stay with our company or leave. As many of you know by now, I always take the … Read more
Reverse Searching: An Idea That Might Stick
It’s Monday. Again. Maybe this morning you woke up tired of the hunt. And even though thousands of new pages are added to the Web each day, … Read more
Recruiting as a Long-Cycle Process
It is a simple fact that there are shortages of people with good skills looking for jobs, and a REAL shortage of people with programming and other specific … Read more
Creative Searching
Complex search queries have their place, to be sure. But so, too, do the advanced search features of Alta Vista . Take a moment to think about what … Read more
How To Pick a Web-Site for Your Recruitment Ad
As in print publications, recruitment advertising on the Internet usually has several objectives. Obviously, the first and most important is to locate high … Read more
The Two Rules of Searching
If you find that searching the Internet isn’t producing the candidates you want, maybe it’s time to change your ways. Let’s consider two … Read more
Turning Over Rocks … Without the Work
“Recruiters spend half their days searching for resumes and not doing the job for which they were hired: to recruit.” That’s the downside … Read more
Are Candidates Clicking?
Pssst. I’ve got a job for you. “Banners that whisper are more likely to be listened to than banners which shout.” That’s the view … Read more