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Topic: Candidate Pushback on Recruiting/HR/Corporate Jargon: raph. Do we think it might be time to get real with our communication? Direct cut and paste from the cover letter. "To put a stake in the ground at the end of the day, if you want to maximize leverage, then I’m the best in breed change agent who can give 110% by creating win-win-win situations and who looks beyond the low-hanging fruit to manage expectations by taking a global view which creates synergy to help you maximize customer satisfaction and take it to the next level. So there. Fuck you." …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 3:54pm on February 13, 2012

Blog Post: Sitting In The Other Chair: I got laid off in December. It's a pretty common refrain these days. I'd been the Manager of Recruiting for a Federal Systems Integrator for three and half years and in the space of a brief…; Added by Doug Munro at 10:48am on March 3, 2011

Blog Post: Bluegrass Music... What a Life!: By Pat Meehan

A small…; Added by Pat Meehan at 11:37pm on April 14, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Are You A Recruitment Thought Leader ?': a to take seriously. The problem, though, is that there are many so-called "thought leaders" who are pretty much incapable of actually handling the job of being a recruiter -- many of those people being writers (like the trashy Fordyce Letter authors who often had never actually even made a single placement in their careers -- the main reason that the magazine went out of business). I think that a "thought leader" really needs to be someone who has actually been "in the trenches" and fought the battles on the front of "the Talent Wars". Theoreticians and arm-chair recruiters really don't cut it, in my opinion. Nor does anyone who advocates a "one size fits all" approach or recommends "best practices" that are highly debatable... Even worse are those ersatz thought leaders (I can think of some examples) who aren't recruiters and have never been one for a single day, who want to criticize and correct ALL the people who have legitimately been making a great living at recruiting for the past twenty or thirty years. I've run into these kinds of petulant, childish and bizarrely ignorant people who have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about, and insist that they are "The Authority" I need to listen to... That is NOT a thought leader -- more like an arrogant idiot who should learn to shut up. Good article.…; Added by Nicholas Meyler at 9:12pm on November 5, 2016

Comment on: Topic 'Cancel the phone screening or not?': Candidate does the phone screen, HM loves them and says to them on the phone at the end of the interview, when can you come in for a face to face? How about next Thursday. Do you think the candidate will accept a face to face when they have just gotten an offer they are ready to take? a. candidate says, honestly i just got an offer that i am pretty sure i am going to accept by Friday so can i get back to you about the face to face on Monday? HM says, did you tell David you had another offer you were pretty sure you were going to take? Candidate says, i just let him know about thirty minutes ago. What does the new client think about you, maybe no problem, maybe he is mad as a hornet b. candidate says that sounds good, books it , hangs up the phone and calls you on Friday to tell you they have accepted the other job would you please cancel the face to face. You call your new client and say "sorry, candidate accepted another job". New client says, did you know he had another offer before i talked with him? You say, well just a few minutes before the phone interview but i encouraged him to go ahead with it. What does new client think about you, maybe no problem, maybe he thinks you wasted his time. What if you call new client and say. Jim you are a new client. the candidate you are about to phone interview just this minute let me know that he has just received another offer he is pretty sure he is going to take. It's not a done deal yet and i know a lot of things can happen and he may talk to you and decide that your company/job is as good or better than the offer he has on the table. I just want to be totally upfront with you. If you want me to cancel the phone screen i will do so and find another candidate. If you want to move forward knowing the situation i would suggest we do so. It's your call, i work for you. I didn't refer the candidate to the other job so i don't know any details. Consider who you work for. Is it the candidate or is it the new client and which would you prefer if you were in the client's chair? If the candidate had not told you the phone screen would have gone on as scheduled, but he did so now you have knowledge that your client doesn't about this candidate. Most of my clients would appreciate the heads up. If the candidate told you that late before the phone screen he is going to take the great offer and probably will phone interview like a troll anyway. :) …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 7:45pm on January 18, 2012

Blog Post: Gamble In Vegas, Not On Your Technology: “Vegas, baby! Vegas!!” – …; Added by Jed Hamilton at 12:03pm on October 4, 2013

Blog Post: Teamwork According to The Smurfs: This summer the little blue guys came to the big screen. No, I’m not talking about Blue Man Group. I’m talking about the Smurfs! I remember watching the television show as a kid, thinking to…; Added by Kirk Baumann at 8:57pm on September 5, 2011

Topic: My Very First Job In Corporate America: Hard Lessons Learned: classes such as word processing, typing, and stenography (just to name a few). These courses were to help students gain new skills to apply for a secretarial/office career in Corporate America. I had an early morning typing class every day that started at 8:30am. It was a class I selected as my major. Every day I would show up 30 minutes late. I didn’t care for the class much. Never thought I really needed it. I preferred to sleep in and get to class when I was good and ready. Well, When it was time to be a part of the work-study program, the school found me a job and arranged for me to start working at the Palmer House the following week. The position was for a Typist. I was excited about my first new job. I arrived my first day at work feeling very nervous. The head secretary showed me where I would be sitting. She than handed me a hand written letter and said, “We need you to type up the letter.” My heart skipped a beat. I sat in a chair with a big old typewriter in front of me. It was the kind of typewriter where the big metal keys hit the typebar and hit a ribbon. I nervously started typing. Ten seconds into the typing, I yank the sheet of typing paper out of the type writer, balled it up and threw it into the trash. Same cycle continued for 15 minutes. Mistake after mistake. Balled up paper being thrown into the office trash can. I literally over flowed the waste basket. I just couldn’t get it right. Needless to say, I was fired my very first day on the job. I remember as it were yesterday. It was early afternoon. I was pretty devastated and embarrassed to say the least. Since that job experience, I promised I would apply myself to learn new skills so something like this would never happen again. I kept learning new skills ever since and can’t seem to tame that side of me. I wouldn’t want to. Now, making that promise doesn’t mean I didn’t make any more mistakes along the way in my career journey. I’ve made tons but I’ve always chose to learn from them. I wouldn’t go back to change any of my work experiences. Good or bad. It has attributed to my work ethics over the years and who I am today. There are many ways people learn and grow and sometimes life lessons are the most impactful. It certainly was for me. There were many other lessons I’ve learned throughout my working career but that’s a whole other many stories I’ll share with you at a later time. By Jeanna Zivalich …; Added by Jeanna Zivalich at 1:52pm on July 1, 2013

Blog Post: HIRING GENERATION Y SERIES: STEP FIVE – INTERVIEWING MILLENNIALS: by Traci K and BrightMove Staffing Software and Recruiting Software at http://www.brightmove.com

Entitlement and informality are the words of the…; Added by Michael Brandt at 12:09am on May 11, 2011

Blog Post: Recruitment… Champagne or Razor Blades…: I was going to entitle this post Why Recruitment is like the Titanic… but I didn’t. However, sometimes you do really feel like DiCaprio – you remember, the king of the world scene -…; Added by Craig Watson at 7:46am on April 26, 2012