Last week, I heralded the wisdom and brilliance of my father. While I still hold that my father eats lightning and discharges marble, he was never alone. Those who know me well, understand that there is absolutely no way that one person alone could have parented me. It took a village... and a…

One of the most important recruiting tools that recruiters and hiring managers need to have is a resume database of qualified candidates. Although the above statement seems to be familiar to the recruiting fraternity, the words “qualified candidates” means a lot to the recruiters and hiring managers as it determines their success. Why qualified candidates?



Resumes and candidates are available in plenty but as a recruiter/hiring manager, you need to have “qualified candidates” to…

“Let’s face it. The only thing that really differentiates your business from the competition is your people.” - Rusty Reuff, Talent Force

Originally posted on Q4B Marketing Blog…

Today’s "Top Echelon Recruiting Tip" comes from industry trainer Jon Bartos of Jonathan Scott International. According to Bartos, there are two things that recruiters should be doing right now:

1. Increasing their call volume.
2. Being very selective about which job orders to…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about a lot of cool stuff from different observations about this year’s RecruitFest, how to present metrics to executives, if your hiring process is affecting your employer brand and Twitter’s lead in click-through…

With the abundance of resources available online to anyone today; and the service subscriptions that provide informal online information with a keystroke, how does a candidate approach the executive job market when they have bankruptcy, foreclosure and tax issues haunting them? I recognize the rules with FCRA but informal online checks can provide all of this information without running afoul of the FCRA. What…

In reply to Ruth-Dinaz Sarkari hopefully these two Tubes will help...…

What you are about to read is not designed to improve your sales performance or boost your recruiting efforts. There are no secrets hidden between these lines or techniques woven into the text. This post is for one simple purpose only…to feed a need that is a part of every human soul. That need is acknowledgement.

So, here are my acknowledgments for you and for the choice you made to be in this…

We all have days when we need to shut out the noise and get back the job of making money. Nothing drives this point home more than Jerry Albright’s…

If you’re in HR or a recruiter, you’ve had offers declined. What I find absolutely enchanting about such a miserable outcome is the underlying qualities that sneak out during this downhill process. AND, what if the candidate who declined is really the best candidate for the job?!?

Sometimes the most impressive candidates can suddenly get nasty during offer negotiation. They can become arrogant and demanding in their communications, suddenly ask for $20K more than they’d…

how to get a counter offer - hopefully you're joking...right?

LinkedIn continues to be the new face of Professional Networking. The buzz in Social Networking is still inclinated towards Facebook and twitter. However LinkedIn has come up

aggressively in the networking segment by enabling more applications in their…

This week I read a great post on RecruitFest by Glenn Cathey. In the post, he provides his insights into the conference and some of the issues discussed during it. One topic in particular that I found particularly interesting was his take on technology and recruiting. As he had in his post:…

OK. So you’ve decided you’re underpaid. A few of your team mates are making considerably more than you.

You know you’re as good (if not better) than them, so what gives?

You really do like your job. The company Christmas party is off the hook! The drive is less than 5 minutes and your best buddies work there too…….but you keep seeing jobs all over the internet paying more than what you're making and it's starting to weigh on your…