This week’s inquiry comes from Christine Hoffman-Hicks: Hi Jeff, I am a regular subscriber and reader of your insightful and informative column. My … Read more
July Jobs Report Offers Some Relief After a Week of Bad News
With Wall Street braced for the worst, the U.S. Labor Department had good news this morning. The U.S. economy added 117,000 jobs in July and the … Read more
What Leaders Can Learn From the Newest Mr. 3,000
There couldn’t have been a more perfect scenario for Derek Jeter on Saturday, July 9, against the Tampa Bay Rays. In the third inning on a full count, … Read more
Private Employers Added Jobs in July, But Other Reports Suggest Stalling Economy
Payroll processor ADP says 114,000 private sector jobs were created in July, a number inline, if on the high side, with what economists expected. All but … Read more
Pessimism Growing in Advance of July Jobs Report
Now that the drama queens in Washington seem (see “It ain’t over till it’s over”) to have reached a debt-ceiling compromise we can … Read more
Jeff’s On Call!: Relocation Reimbursements
This week’s inquiry comes from Marc Stevens: Hi Jeff, I’ve been recruiting now for about 11 years and as you would imagine, I’ve seen a … Read more
Converting Industry Experience Into Recruiting – The “Credibility” Factor
Everyone knows that the recruiting business is a phone business. Without that basic communication tool, we wouldn’t be able to interface with as many … Read more
Ask the Sourcing Dude and Dudette: Sourcing Screening Questions
We haven’t done any ‘Ask the Sourcing Dude’ posts in a couple years because, frankly, we weren’t getting any formal requests. … Read more
June Jobs Report Worse Than Expected
Expectations that the seesawing U.S. economy might be stabilizing were cruelly dashed this morning with the release of official numbers showing a mere … Read more
Private Sector Job Growth Handily Beats Estimates, Buoys Markets
This morning’s news that new private sector jobs quadrupled in June over May’s anemic 36,000, while new unemployment claims dropped by far more … Read more