If you’ve ever met a game developer, you know that they can be interesting characters. While sourcing them can be a pain, it can help to have a big, … Read more
Candidates On Vacation? Connect With Them Using These 4 Methods
Traditionally, summer hasn’t been considered the best time to source and recruit new job candidates: as people take time off to travel and vacation, … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Insights Into Hiring First-Time Employees
Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle ran an interview with a teen-ager on the subject of her first “real job.” Here are the highlights (a link to the … Read more
Take This Smog and Shove It (Or Ignore It and Sell the Weather)
Where’s it easier to get candidates to move to, and where’s it harder? That’s a question the search firm Heidrick & Struggles asked 50 of its U.S. … Read more
Facebook Is Seriously Revamping Internal Search… “Soon”
For those of you hoping that Facebook might go on to compete head-to-head against Google’s bread and butter search, you’ll have to wait a … Read more
8 Skills Recruiters Should Have
When I attend career fairs, hiring conferences, recruiting events, or through conversations with prospective candidates, I keep learning that the wrong … Read more
Amazon Takes Over Homepage to Announce New Employee Program As It Gears Up To Hire Thousands
As Amazon prepares to open two, massive warehouse facilities in the next six months or so, the company took the unprecedented step of announcing a new … Read more
Three Reasons Good Recruiters are Good at Recruiting
I was reminded this past week that recruiting is very hard. No, it’s not hard to post a job on your careers page and wait for a resume that you won’t … Read more
5 Ways to Revamp Recruitment to Deal With Realities of a Shaky Job Market
The recent jobs report doesn’t quite offer enough to cheer about. Payrolls expanded by a mere 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate remained … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: It’s Not as Much About What You Pay as What You Offer
By Mel Kleiman Food retailing is a business about people and food. It’s about people who like people and people who love food. Share the love.” – George … Read more