Do you love what you do for a living? I remember hearing this quote when I first started out as a recruiter: If you love what you do, you’ll never have to … Read more
Evolve or Die: A Former Skype Executive on Hiring Challenges in a Smaller World
I was lucky to get an interview with Sten Tamkivi from Teleport, a tech entrepreneur, most recently residing at Andreessen Horowitz. After starting a few … Read more
The Performance Driven Agency: Making It Work in Practice
Note: In this four part series, Kim Shepherd details how her agency, Decision Toolbox, uses a performance driven workforce model to achieve success. In … Read more
Get Rid of the Unconditional Candidate Guarantee
Most candidates are not aware that the recruiters who place them are guaranteeing that they will not leave their new company for a specified period of … Read more
4 Critical Signs You Need to Improve Your Relationship with Recruiters
You’ve been working with the same recruiter for a while, but their results have gotten stale. They’re not helping you find the best candidates, and you’re … Read more
How They Reached the Top: Nine Questions for Derek Duval
The Internet-TV series “Top Recruiter” shows how some headhunters do business, and as we know, it is only some. But the outlook of the show is limited. It … Read more
Your Employer Brand Happens With or Without You
The ease of access to a vast amount of information is dramatically changing the talent market — it’s a “talent-sumer” world. Today’s candidates do … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: How You Gonna Keep Your Best From Jumping Ship?
What are you doing to ensure your best team members don’t jump ship? I ask because, this past July, the BLS reported 5.7 million job openings, 1 million of … Read more
LinkedIn’s Recruiting Survey: The Big Question – Why So Little Data From the U.S?
There’s no denying that Linkedin is a 600 pound gorilla in the talent acquisition space. But as I write that, I wonder in what space exactly Linkedin is. … Read more
The 12 Practices of Every Big Biller
Once I had the honor of coaching a recruiter (I’ll call him David) who wanted to bill $1,000,000 in one year. He called Paul Hawkinson, then the editor of … Read more