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Blog Post: Networking Networking Networking: Take a moment to think about all the business interactions you had last week…..are you thinking? OK, in how many of those interactions were you alone? Were there any?

The truth is so much of…; Added by Chernee Vitello at 8:52am on August 7, 2009

Blog Post: Greed is Good!: A catch cry of the 80's! A time of opulence, bad style and probably even worse music. It was the predecessor of the last recession, a time most famously known in…; Added by Dan Nuroo at 8:47am on February 9, 2009

Blog Post: Part IV: "Guess how much I love you?" - Gen Y v Gen X and Baby boomers.: I can't help it... I was going to write another blog tonight, but was given this book from my kids to read tonight and couldn't resist.

"Guess how much I love you"…; Added by Dan Nuroo at 8:16am on February 7, 2009

Blog Post: 10 Tips to Getting More Retweets on Twitter: Have you been ignoring your followers?…; Added by Laurie DesAutels at 8:51am on April 11, 2011

Blog Post: Top 8 Most Vital Social Skills Needed To Succeed: Before we cover the eight most important social skills worth developing in life, let’s examine just what are social skills and how we use them in today’s world. Essentially being the manner in…; Added by Jenny Richards at 4:07am on December 13, 2014

Blog Post: Takers and Givers: Which Are You?

There are two types of people in this world: Takers and Givers. While pretty self-explanatory,…

Added by Tim Saumier at 12:06am on November 13, 2014

Blog Post: Networking using LinkedIn®, part 2 of 2: 2

OK, so last time we spoke about setting up your…; Added by Bill Meirs at 1:49pm on May 19, 2009

Blog Post: How is the beauty industry becoming more environmentally friendly?: Following David Attenborough’s Life on Our Planet documentary on Netflix, we are once again reminded of the responsibility we have to reduce our impact on the planet. We are all becoming more aware…; Added by Caitlin Purvis at 6:50am on November 10, 2020

Blog Post: Using Shared Experience To Build Your Network: How many experiences do you think you share with the hundreds of people you walk past on the street?

Last weekend I went to an annual road show networking event held by my high school’s…; Added by Valerie Gonyea at 7:38pm on March 30, 2008

Comment on: Blog Post 'Dear John...': t working in-house if you’ve never been there. As an in-house recruiter your aim is always to do what is best for the company. Ideally you will do this through direct means in order to return healthy cost and time-per-hire metrics (not forgetting the most important metric – Quality of hire). I am completely of the opinion agencies still play a vital part in the process but come on guys. How many of you are on PSLs with some of your other clients? Where you’ve worked your butts off to be accepted on to that list? Where you’ve built up a REAL partnership with them. You know their culture, the hiring managers, the teams, culture, dynamics etc. And then how do you feel about that company when you hear they’ve gone outside the PSL because an opportunistic firm happened to have one suitable candidate on their books and the client said, “oh what the hell, we don’t value our relationships with our other 3rd parties, let’s just use this guy / gal because they happened to be in the right place at the right time.” Frustrating isn’t it? And I bet you lose all respect for that client don’t you? Anyone would if that lack of integrity, honesty and trust was demonstrated. Okay fair enough. If you know the client has been looking for several weeks / months and still hasn’t successfully hired anyone then that’s your chance to shine. But to fall on the old counter argument of, “but surely you’re ultimate goal is to find the best candidate” is only part correct. Of course we want to find the best candidate but we want to do it ethically, giving our partners (and I emphasise the word “partners”) every opportunity to service the contract they worked so tirelessly to agree in the first place. Hiring managers are naturally an impatient bunch. I’m rarely briefed on a role that wasn’t needed “yesterday!” In their rush to get a bum on a seat they sometimes loose the foresight of quality and longevity. Agencies know this and often use this sense of urgency to good effect. Hell, I was trained on how to use it at every agency I worked for so I guess it’s still being taught to today’s consultants. You know what? To a point someone made earlier. We in-house recruiters are a protective bunch and I’m not going to apologise for this. We want to protect our hiring managers from being bombarded and hassled. We want to protect the agencies we have agreements with and have invested time fostering trusting relationships with. We want to protect our company and its reputation of honesty, integrity and trust with EVERY supplier we partner with. And We want to protect every candidate submitted to us – To ensure the agency representing them knows us as if they were an extension to our HR department, and that the they’re coming to us with their eyes wide open regarding what they’re getting themselves into. I implore you not to confuse this with cutting our noses off to spite our faces.…; Added by Ben at 4:47pm on May 3, 2011