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Comment on: Blog Post 'Grunts & Groans Sound Gross': ycle, and just won't die. Some of them are: 1) The boiling cauldron of hate between HR and Recruiters and blog posts from both sides of the field 2) Experienced recruiters bashing inexperienced recruiters. Trashing the quality of cold calls they put out, the jobs postings they throw together, and smashing their quality of work altogether. Even implying that a particular breed of high volume/ low avg fee agency recruiter is on a lower rung of humanity's ladder. 3) Everyone, mostly inexperienced recruiters shocked that our industry has a "bad name" and posting all the reasons why this is unjust, usually blaming SpamBots from overseas while writing self-serving articles on LinkedIn explaining to the Engineers and Developers of the world that, "no really, my email to you is way different than the other 5,000 you've gotten". I like rants, I've been known to launch some pretty epic ones myself, but will the recruiting folks ever find some new topics to rant about? We all started somewhere. Maybe you graduated from Yale and were immediately recruited as an associate at some fancy retained firm who sealed every document produced with 14k gold, or maybe you got canned from your job selling pretzels at the mall and out of desperation took a 100% commission role at a sweat shop recruitment firm who puts out crap job adverts all over cyberspace. The industry purges: good ones stick and get better, bad ones fail and go away and find something else to do, like working on the client side- heading up Corporate Recruiting and HR :-) And this whole myth that bad recruiters give us all a bad name? Not true. If anything, the slop out there gives clients and candidates a sincere appreciation for our quality of work. Kelly, sorry for hijacking your thread to discuss this, but I'd love to see more data-filled posts and problems that we're having and hearing solutions from you guys as opposed to the constant rookie-bashing. Aren't we all more secure in the quality of work than to worry about our reputation being tarnished by job posts with some typos from a non-english speaking robot out of who-knows-where? I'm with you on the grunts and groans though. Not so much at the gym, I think it's generally accepted there, but holy smokes, getting stuck next to a grunter/ groaner/ snorter/ smacker at a restaurant is my idea of what dinner in hell would look like. Happy Independence Day, people. …; Added by Tyson J. Spring at 12:11pm on July 3, 2014

Blog Post: Surprising Facts About Brand Popularity: It’s easy to get carried away with our stereotypes and assume we know which countries love specific products. We would rightfully expect sales of Yorkshire Tea to be high in…; Added by Caitlin Purvis at 4:01am on June 24, 2020

Blog Post: Tech Tuesday: Saving You Money & Keeping It Local

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Added by SkillStorm at 10:16am on April 24, 2012

Topic: Stuck in the Recruiter Wasteland!!!! Someone help me get out!!!!!!: I previously worked for 1 firm for 7 years, left when the market downturned in late 2009 and proceeded to destroy my career as well as almost my family. I wandered from firm to firm confident i would find what i had previously, the same environment, the same success and i have not found it. I tell myself, it doesn't exist anymore. I was with a large Tech Staffing firm. I was the top recruiter in my office in New York City and top 5 in the entire company which did roughly $80 million a year. Until the downturn, and my 50 people on billing and 1-2 full-time deals a month turned into 10 on billing and 1 ever few months. So i jumped ship, and i have been regretting it ever since. I became a pro at interviewing. In one turn, i went on 9 interviews for recruiting roles and received 6 offers. 6 offers. And at one time or another, i went to each and every one of those jobs. I would accept postions, convincing myself this was it, show up, and before the end of the day, go to lunch and not return. Terrified of the larger firms, i accepted offers in small boutique shops. I was sure i would be better off. I could be the guy to build up the business, get a piece of it, do it the way i saw fit. Not the smartest thing to do in a down market. Started off like gangbusters, until my paycheck bounced. uh oh. Time to go. So it was interview time again. How may more could i get. I got 3 out of 3. And of course, i took the wrong job. Went to another small shop. They specialized in the finance space, placing front office people, quants and all. They wanted me to build up the tech group, contracting and all. I saw it as a way to get myself into another space, learn the financial marketplace not just technology, a new niche as i longed to get out of technology. Cranked out 5 deals real quick. In 3 months i was rolling. Rolling until the owner advised that his deals worth a hell of alot of money had fallen through and he couldn't afford to pay anyone anymore. So back again on the street. Again, wandering the recruiter wasteland. A family to suport, bills to pay and no desire to pick up the phone and call techies anymore. A desire to do something different. To get outside the game and not battle with a multitude of agencies both local and overseas for the same candidates. Candidates who are finding the jobs on there own now as well. A desire to find a small, tight little niche that i could become an expert in. A small marketplace, less clients, less candidates, less competition. But what is it. What industry? What candidate doesn't get 50 calls a day from recruiters? Doesn't have there pick of 100's of job boards to look at posted rolls. Someone who would actually appreciate and respect the knowledge, experience and connections i am bringing to them. Who see's the worth and the value. Until i find that someone or something, i will continue to wander the recruiter wasteland. …; Added by Greg at 11:59am on October 12, 2011

Blog Post: Job Board trends Down Under: The past often reveals what the future holds. I looked back at some of the major job board related trends in the Australian marketplace.

1.Vibrant but volatile industry

In…; Added by Phillip Tusing at 9:10pm on January 7, 2009

Blog Post: A Yahoo Lesson to Employment Candidates--You Can Lose Your Job When You Lie About Your Education: Fish got to swim, and birds got to fly. And some employment candidates have to lie. About their education, mainly. Given the competitive job market, small wonder some will...ahem...stretch the…; Added by Gordon Basichis at 6:30pm on May 15, 2012

Blog Post: Latest Updates on Proposed Changes to 457 Visa