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Topic: Bad Credit Means Bad Employee?: progress toward a Bachelor's degree. I also have an eighth grader and a ninth grader, so I still have a little time before I am totally free and clear. And frankly, I dread that day... My son, the youngest, is very quick to point out (often) that I will be 51 when he graduates from high school. I am happy to embrace that, though I play along at being hurt that they enjoy my aging process with so much relish. It's hell to get old,especially when your own children keep reminding you. I recently read a post here on RecruitingBlogs.com that suggested a need to run a credit check on any recruiter or individual that may, as a result of a new position, have fiscal responsibility or even any kind of responsibility within a corporation or search firm. A good FICA score proves a worthy recruiter or employee. If this were the case, I never would have been allowed in the profession. Many of you know the story of my start in the industry, so I will give only a brief overview... As a newly-single mom of four children aged four to fourteen, I was working three jobs and taking fifteen units to earn my degree all while just trying to get by. I answered a job posting pinned to the wall of the theater department at my college: part-time administrative work at a home-based boutique search firm near where I lived. They were willing to work around my hours and the job sounded very interesting. I was hired before my interview was even over and set to start work right away. My credit score was in the dumpster, I was barely making it and life was very tough. I found a new life in recruiting. Before long, I was working as an Executive Recruiter full-time and supporting my small family quite well, alone. The last go round of economic strife and a second divorce put me back in the dumpster and I have worked very hard to pay off credit cards and get ahead. Had my ability to do my job been based on my credit, I would never have been hired by anyone. Currently, I have no credit card debt, none, and I paid my car loan off within two years of securing it. I have a student loan and a mortgage that weigh about my neck like a boat anchor. Hmmm..., How's that for transparency? I guess the point of my telling is that had every person that was recently able to land a job been required to submit a credit score in the seven or eight hundreds..., what kind of further hot mess would we be in? Sometimes life laughs at us. Sometimes other people laugh at us. But I refuse to cry. What's the best way to disprove those who think I deserve to be in a debtor's prison based on my FICA? Work even harder. Which I do, every single day, alone. by rayannethorn…; Added by Rayanne at 1:15am on August 18, 2010

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Blog Post: L*nked*n and Why You need to be Prof*le Perfect…. (part *): Time to reach into that special bag possessed by The Sourcers’ Apprentice, and again, lets start the first chorus of a song I know (yes, I do) we’ll be revisiting again (and again…) until everyone…; Added by Daniel J Smith at 8:22pm on February 13, 2012

Blog Post: What is the potential value of Diversity & Inclusion as an Industry and how can Recruiters make money?

My most recent publication on Linkedin titled '…

Added by Robert Haastrup-Timmi at 4:32pm on October 4, 2015

Blog Post: The REKRUTR Vault: Big-Scope Sourcing Part 3 - Get the Word Out!

This week's blog will be the final in our series on Big-Scope…

Added by Amy McDonald at 8:03am on March 8, 2013

Comment on: Blog Post '"dirty rotten job searching tricks"': hat was that google would see it as duplicate content so would lower your SEO, so hogwash on that and hogwash on this latest. You have been asked, and warned and told that if you continue to post a self promoting blurb with a link to your site you will receive an invoice for advertising. Your posting here has long been recognized as a cheap attempt to generate traffic to your site thus generating business without paying for advertising on this site as most reputable companies do who are marketing their product or service. In my opinion your blurbs add nothing, your sick need to moderate comments, picking and choosing which you choose to respond to or allow others to see is just another cheap and chickenshit way to promote yourself rather than contribute anything other than a One way projectile puking of promotion. No , I did not read your article, just your distorted blurb but I truly enjoyed when your link was stripped and was not surprised at your determination to post another link in one of your comments. Take this to your newsletter...people here are generally sick of and bored to death with the users and losers who promote and market on this site. It is obvious that you have not been a recruiter for a long time. A great deal of your advice is out of date, self defeating for candidates and just flat a disservice in my opinion. I wouldn't flatter myself that your advice would take food off of my table or any other recruiter's table The reasons you give for this ridiculous advice are so weak that they hardly require a response, but let me address one of them. Yes, we represent the client but in order to provide the best service to our clients it is imperative that we fully represent each qualified candidate in the best possible manner. A good recruiter will normally represent three, at least, good candidates to a company. Thus we do in fact represent candidates, as our client narrows the field being represented by a recruiter means that candidate is not out there on a limb with no ability to get feedback, refute concerns or just simply sell themselves. As to a candidate going around six recruiters when the company has the job posted on a job board or their career site. Are you kidding me. Are you really telling people it is better to go to the career site or respond through a job board when there are six trained hunters ready to bring a bird back and fight for their candidate. I have never heard of one case, not one ,when a cndidate who was remotely qualified ,submitted through a recruiter, got no result then went direct and got hired. There are certainly some dumb recruiters out there, but even the dumb ones will get a resume to a client if the candidate is even half way qualified. By telling a candidate if they don't get a result from a recruiter they should go around a recruiter is setting that candidate up for more failure. More times than I can count I have been asked by a client if I know of a Candidate who has contacted them. Yes, I do I rejected them because...if a client is using a recruiter they normally trust our judgement. Most recruiters do not reject surface qualified candidates, if we do it's because we know something the candidate doesn't know so they won't get the job going around us after we have told them it's not a fit. Why would you denigrate the judgement of a recruiter who rejects a candidate by advising that candidate to do an end run around a recruiter because they don't agree with no. Why advise a person to do something unethical because they don't like "no" How in the hell can any candidate determine if a recruiter has knowledge of the job or a hiring manager. Most probably the recruiter has taken one look at the candidate and the resume, knows it is not. Fit and is not going to provide more information. Great go around th recruiter, you aren't going to get hired but you will have paid some idiot too much if it was over a buck, to get you one more rejection. Are there situations where it is good for a Candidate to apply direct? Of course ,recruiters only fill a small % of jobs. Advising candidates to waste time, do sneaky crap and set themselves up for more rejecting and failure by digging around trying to go around recruiters is in my opinion, just cheap , cheesy advice. As someone said, why waste time trying to climb a greased pole to get through the backdoor,when one can stand on the ground, be ethical, honest and walk through all kinds of front doors. since your clients aren't recruiters and it doesn't make sense for you to advertise on this site, how about you quit taking up space, posting your linked blurbs and trying to generate traffic to your site. Either pay to promote your crap or quit insulting everybody's intelligence. There are no suckers here, so if it's not worth paying for, take your cheap bastard self someplace else.…; Added by Sandra McCartt at 9:13pm on June 19, 2012

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Blog Post: Work In HR ? Here Is A Question To Think About ...: Are you really selling your companies culture ?

Recruitment as we know it has changed. The ball no longer lies with the recruiter but with the employee. Job seekers…; Added by Joanne McDonagh at 6:59am on June 9, 2017