Contracting is a great way to bring in an additional stream of steady, more predictable income. But many recruiters shy away from contracting because they don't want to take on the financial, legal, and administrative burdens that come with employing their contractors.

Luckily there is a way to sidestep those burdens and still reap the rewards of offering contract staffing to your clients - by utilizing a contracting back-office. So that just leaves…

My kids have always summed up my career in this fashion: “People pay mommy lots of money to find other people”.  They have never questioned the logic of this.  Mommy plays a mean hide n seek.  Now that my baby has graduated from Kindergarten, I have come to realize that really, some of the most important elements of recruiting he has now mastered.  Since school let out I’ve been watching him interact with his friends – and here’s what I’ve found...

Have something good…

Now this statement seems pretty self-explanatory right?  Obviously with every recruitment marketing campaign you run, you want qualified candidates above all else.  But the real question is how are you measuring which candidates are qualified and which are not.

There are a few levels of qualified candidates that should be pretty easy to track and measure:

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Light Summer Reading!  I just ordered this brand new book called The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management (got it on Amazon for less than list), which includes chapters from 20+ authorities, including: David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Edward E. Lawler, Jon…

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A recent ranking by Moody’s and Brookings reported the employment changes in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas. We took a look at hiring demand over the past 90 days in their top 10 locations.

Moody's and Brookings Top 10 Metropolitan Areas for Employment…

Resume is an official document that is require while searching job. It is a one way of presenting individual skill to recruiter. So one should be very careful while writing resume. If you are fresher or you are not confident about writing a resume then you can apply for online resume writing services.

Professional resume experts will help you in writing an outstanding resume. They are expert in writing resume as…

1. We work with the business to develop a plan to recruit talent (often includes developing the position profile,  the recruiting strategy, and other activities)
2. We go out and “find” prospects and candidates using “sourcing” techniques.
3. We assess…

It’s 3:00am and I’m churning away on business, tweets, discussions, blogs and paperwork …suddenly, silently, a brightly lit and light flashing ambulance rolls up just outside across the way…

It immediately reminded me of poet John Donne’s famous last lines from his poem, “For whom the bell tolls”

Therefore, send not to know

For whom the bell…

A few days ago I visited Belgatos Park in Los Gatos. Los Gatos literally means the cats. It is in this park where Mountain Lions, Deer, Bobcats, Boar, Hawks, Coyotes and a whole host of wildlife call home near the perennial Silicon Valley. It is interesting to return to nature, and view from a distance the downtown of the valley that has been at the forefront of so much change.



Wikipedia has this to say:…

Today, I'm excited to interview my friend Neil Spivack, who started and runs the 800-employee Direct Sales Force.  Neil recently sold DSF to Pareto, after ranking 7th in the…

As recruiters, it's our profession to identify talent in which a company would want to invest (aka: hire, train, develop.) In the search for sound investments, we at PepsiCo try to look at much more than what you'd normally expect to find on a resume or spelled out in cover letters. Skills, experience and references…

Companies have long set aside resources to develop and market consumer brands. Now, some are finding that to attract the best job candidates, they need to put similar efforts into their so-called employer brands.

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Today, Dan Kilgore on my team wrote a great post that I thought would be great to share with everyone:

A start up recruitment firm has sizable number of clients and a decent recruitment team in place. It has managed the show well so far but wants to scale up the business to next level now. But being a start up it has limited resources. 

Now as a strategic move the company wants to decide between either going after new clients or hiring more recruiters to ensure that it does not miss out on commitments and delivery excellence.

One worry is if it hires more…

As we fight the uphill battle against Recruitment’s dire reputation by striving to provide the best service we can and be as ethical and incisive as possible, we do occasionally come across an instruction from the client side that never fails to shock me. I’m sure it’s something that many Recruiters will recognise, a little throwaway comment that is couched in a joke and a twinkling smile but is actually as concrete an instruction as any of the immovables on the brief.

It…

Online advertised demand for labor in the US fell 2.0% in June, the first decline since December. After a good start at the beginning of this year the job market is slowing now leaving little hope for more activity during the summer. This development is worse than a year ago when the job market leveled of during the same time. The difference is that growth rates last year, while small, remained positive.

United States Job Openings, January…