Recruiting is a job that has essentially defined multitasking. On any given requisition, a recruiter must find time to source several candidates, make … Read more
The Internet has Free Resumes – SO WHAT?
BEWARE: This post takes a contrarian (yet fact-based!) view of the Internet as a sourcing tool that may be unsuitable to some readers. If you don’t want to … Read more
Quora For Sourcers
It seems that the whole world is a-buzz about this new website called Quora. Every day for the past week or so, I have at least fifteen new emails in my … Read more
Mobile: The Next Recruiting Revolution for 2011
Our world of sourcing/researching/recruiting is much more complicated these days than it used to be. As staffing consultants, you can’t just post an … Read more
Back to the Past With The Ladders New, Free Recruiter Service
Channeling its past, The Ladders is launching today a new recruiter product it’s calling Passport. At no cost, recruiters can post openings for … Read more
Back to the Past With The Ladders New, Free Recruiter Service
Channeling its past, The Ladders is launching today a new recruiter product it’s calling Passport. At no cost, recruiters can post openings for … Read more
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2011. Due to the timeless nature of the content, it was the most popular post of 2013. I firmly … Read more
Unexpected Lessons
We learn some of the damnedest things in our work. One of my telephone list builders works part time at the Y as a lifeguard. She’s a 50-year-old woman who … Read more
What’s 2011 Going to Bring?
John Smith began 2010 with the hope that hiring would ramp up slowly over the year and that he would be able to re-establish his crackerjack sourcing team … Read more
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting, Part 4
In Ben Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, he talks about the issues associated with carrying unnecessary inventory, “You call them goods; but, if you do not … Read more