Hello Jeff – I enjoy reading your columns. I experienced an incident on which I’d value your opinion. I submitted a candidate (blind profile) … Read more
Four Ways to Quickly Lose A Client
If there’s anything that’s close to certain about our industry, it’s the fact that clients aren’t easy to get. Like that pretty girl you’d like to date … Read more
Employers Turning to Agencies to Fill In-Demand Jobs
To fill their toughest healthcare and tech jobs, the nation’s employers are increasingly turning to staffing firms for help. Research firm WANTED … Read more
Employers Relying More On Agencies to Fill Their Toughest Jobs
To fill their toughest healthcare and tech jobs, the nation’s employers are increasingly turning to staffing firms for help. Research firm WANTED … Read more
Another Sign of Tighter Labor Markets: Time to Fill Rates Getting Longer
With the economy adding jobs at the fastest clip since the depression began eight years, it’s taking longer and longer to fill vacancies. In January, the … Read more
Stop Relying on Job Descriptions and Find Candidates You Really Want
Job descriptions, those horribly written, barely comprehensible strings of roughly 500 words of stuff that only barely resembles reality if you squint … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: HighPo’s Are Great, But High Producers Pay the Bills
High Potential, or High Producer? The difference between these two desirable types of recruits or employees are that the High Producer is a proven entity … Read more
Document Your Referral Performance With a Receipt
Editor’s note: Jeff Allen has heard every employer excuse you can imagine for not paying up — and dozens more that defy imagination. A few years ago he … Read more
How a Veteran Recruiter Generates Contract Placements
Recruiting is a profession built around relationships, and contract staffing is no exception. The key to generating quality contract staffing leads is … Read more
Why We Need to Put an End to the “War For Talent”
When resources are vital but scarce, our basic instincts lead us to provoke a conflict, to fight, and to go to war in order to claim it all for our own … Read more