In my mind, there are four types of corporate recruiting styles. These are shown below. In fact, I’ll contend (and attempt to prove in this article) that … Read more
Recruiting Passive Candidates with Multiple Offers
On the face of it, this title makes no sense. First, how could a passive candidate have multiple offers? Second, who cares? In today’s troubled economic … Read more
The Sad Existence of the Active Candidate
“To see the right and not do it is cowardice.” –Author Unknown A recent article by John Zappe entitled Should We Be Telling the Unemployed Not to … Read more
What We Can Learn About Recruiting From Avatar’s Creator
A long time after the rest of the world, I finally saw the movie Avatar, and I was thrilled. Not from the 3D or the big story, but from the fine details. … Read more
Recruiting Passive Candidates — How to Get Top-notch Referrals
Without question, having a large LinkedIn network is a competitive advantage for any recruiter working on hard-to-fill positions and hard-to-find … Read more
How to Recruit Passive Candidates
We’re now working on a major survey with LinkedIn on determining the percent of its 70mm+ network that is active, passive, or somewhere in between. Recent … Read more
How to Become a Corporate Headhunter
At Chicago’s SMA Symposium last month, I presented an updated version of my corporate recruiter scorecard. Here’s a link to the handout and the ranking … Read more
Should We Be Telling the Unemployed Not to Apply?
A report in The Huffington Post two days ago has sent the recruiting world into a paroxysm of self-examination. Dozens of comments here at ERE and more at … Read more
2010 Talent Acquisition Trends Webinar: Q & A on Recommended Action Steps
by Dr. John Sullivan and Master Burnett On January 13, 2010, nearly 800 ere.net community members converged online to participate in a webinar (embedded at … Read more
How to Recruit Passive Candidates and Early Birds
Maximizing your use of time is the key to hiring more top performers. In a recent webinar with Jobs2Web, I described the sourcing sweet-spot. This is the … Read more