Whether to use internal corporate recruiters or a third-party recruiter is a decision a lot of companies are faced with making. The primary reason for this … Read more
Recruiting is Sales: How to Become a Better Salesperson Today
Before you begin reading this article, write down all of the reasons your candidates and hiring manager clients give you for not moving forward. … Read more
Don’t Be Too Quick to Criticize Harvard
In a past article, an amazing number of people weighed-in to trash professional education in favor of practical experience. Some of the commentators … Read more
Boomerangs: The Strategic Process of Rehiring Your Former Employees, Part 2
As previously discussed in Part 1 of this series, a corporate boomerang/alumni rehire program is an excellent, low-cost, high ROI recruiting approach … Read more
Boomerangs: The Strategic Process of Rehiring Your Former Employees, Part 1
Boomerang efforts have one of the highest ROIs in recruiting. When you take the time to examine the profile of new hires who produce the best on-the-job … Read more
Build a Candidate Pipeline Through Internships
It is getting more difficult to attract the best college graduates. For the first time in several years, the demand for a broad spectrum of college … Read more
Harvard Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Let’s face it — there is no bar in recruiting. We don’t have to pass a state exam, there is no recruiting major in college, and we … Read more
Crossing Over to Corporate Recruiting? Not for Me
In a recent discussion on ERE, one commentator felt that great third-party recruiters would become corporate recruiters if they could make the same level … Read more
The Recruiter’s Guide to Being Totally Miserable
Someone once said that in this life, suffering is mandatory but misery is optional. I concur; but so many of us live day to day with more frustration, … Read more
College Recruiting 2010, Part 2
In Part 1 of this article series, I discussed how Generation Y (or the “Millenniums”) views the world differently than do Generation Xers or … Read more