Here’s a true story that took place last week.

I received a phone call last week from UPS telling me that they had an international shipment for me from Canada, but in order to deliver it properly and get it through Customs (we’re based in Buffalo, NY) they needed our Federal ID Number.

We were not expecting a shipment of any kind from Canada so before I even considered giving…

In one of my recent contract recruiting gigs, I got a resume from a candidate I'll call “Mr. L”, an optical engineer who seemed perfect for the search I was conducting at the time.…

Okay, I did say "Shameless Plug" so don't say you weren't warned.

There's a group of incredibly well-connected, entrepreunerial, successful or on-the-way-to-there, creative, talented, beautiful, amazing, awesome women on LinkedIn called... what else... LinkedInPowerWomen! We're the…

Blogger's Note: I've been reading Ralph Marston's Daily Motivator for many years now and find that it really gives me a positive kick to start off the day. After two cups of frothy latte, that is. I'm sure today's message will resonate with all you hardworking and dedicated recruiters out there. I wish you all a…

Penelope Trunk (she’s going to be speaking at ERE’s Spring Expo in San Diego – DO NOT miss her!) wrote an astonishing piece Sunday on her blog – it was called “How to be more interesting to other people”



I know many people are interested in this concept.



In it, she says, “The interesting part of writing is not the part of the…

I am always intrigued to learn why organizations aren't adopting and embracing the power of analytics. Even more interesting is the amount of companies that are not capturing critical data from their employee population. Why is that? Don't have the time? Don't have the resources? Don't have the funding? Don't care?

As important as capturing the many voices within your organization is…

As part of their Talent Acquisition Learning Track, The Human Capital Institute will be producing an hour-long webcast on February 14th, 2008 from 1:00 - 2:00PM ET. I will be presenting Internet Recruiting 2.0 - The Flow of Information. The webcast is sponsored by job search engine Trovix and is free to…

During the past week, I have been preparing for a presentation that I will be giving to undergraduate and graduates students studying Human Resources at Texas A&M. I have decided to speak on what makes a good recruiter in today's market and while I was developing the "back-story".......…

I posted this in the MagicMethod Telephone Name Sourcing group too and if you’d like to join that group go here: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/group/magicmethod

I…

Oh, boy! Another day, another site, another blog, another post, another recruiter.

Nope, not JUST another recruiter! This member, Member #1651, aka Maya Walker, is on sabbatical from the 9-5, or the 8-6, or the 24-7. For as everyone here knows only way too well, the work of recruiting never ends.

Here, you can relate to…

By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc.

(720) 733-2022

Watching this level of talent made me celebrate life today. There is always someone bigger, better, more talented than you - I know that in my own day to day, the question is what are you going to do about it to

Excel? My ham strings however cede excellence to the gentleman crew…

I just discovered this cool site called Twitter.

I'm not sure if I should write "I'm Twittering... I Twitter... I am a Twit" or what. About a Month ago, a friend invited me to follow them on www.twitter.com. At first glance, it seemed fun, but I had no idea how to get started or what value it could offer me as a busy recruiter.

Then, it hit me and I signed up too.

A couple of my friends are…

The last few days at RecruitingBlogs.com central have been a lot of fun. Essentially it’s just me in my red office with a phone a computer and some nice art work on the walls.

This week 4 companies agreed to be a sponsor for a networking event that RecruitingBlogs.com is putting on at the MGM February 28^th. Dave…

On the Radar: Friday, February 8th, 2008

Off the WRAL Local Tech Wire:

Cisco Looks to Train 360,000 Engineers

Cisco’s visionary John Chambers foresees global demand for high-speed networking, video conferencing and other net technologies exploding over the next few years. And the networking giant’s chairman/CEO is ramping up training efforts to meet expected need for engineers to install, maintain and run…