Dear Barb: Over the past two years we reduced our fees and now we are stuck with 10% fees when we usedto get 25%. How can we increase our clients’ fees … Read more
What’s New: HireRabbit; Headhunt In; Gradspring; SortBox, AngelList, Silp; AfterCollege
Some of what’s new, what’s changed, or that you just may not have heard of before. Today’s tools include Facebook recruiting, keeping … Read more
How Important Is Fit When Sourcing? jobFig Aims To Find The Answer
I come from the world of full-lifecycle recruiting; basically being in the process of hiring a candidate from the very beginning to the very end. But many … Read more
Become a Big Biller With A Marketing Plan You Can Follow
Marketing means many things to many professionals in our industry. If your idea of marketing only includes cold calling into companies in search of your … Read more
SourceCon Dallas: We’re Moving, Just Not Very Far Away
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well, count this fall’s SourceCon among those things. We’re growing and that’s forced us to move … Read more
When the Going Gets Tough, the Recruitment PR Keeps Going
I can’t say enough about how important and difficult a recruiter’s job can be. Yes, we have our share of easy-to-fill jobs, and yes there are … Read more
SourceMob, Seelio, LinkedIn and SkillGalaxy Highlight New Products
SourceMob helps you “plug into social media to sell your jobs.” This explains in brief how it works on Facebook; it also works with Twitter and … Read more
Ask Barb: Conducting Reference Checks
Dear Barb: It is getting more difficult than ever to conduct reference checks. Do you think we should outsource checking references to a third party … Read more
The Silliness of Measuring Cost Per Hire, and How it Can Reduce Your Strategic Impact
I nominate the calculating of “cost per hire” as the single most pointless and damaging exercise in recruiting. Even though the cost per hire metric … Read more
Not Watching the Olympics at Work? Try Our Time Wasters
Challenger, Gray & Christmas says good Americans should spend more and stay later at work. Really. That’s at least how we, in our own twisted … Read more