Recruiters blog is for HR Professionals and recruiters, this is not a blog about recruiting, it is a piece of history relevant to South Africa that I have a duty to share, as I am a South African. 

16 June 1976 - The Soweto Uprising.

The accounts of how many people died vary from 200 to 600, with Reuters news agency currently reporting there…

Recently, we have been spending a lot of time on the question “how many recruiters do we need in our corporate staffing function”? When corporate staffing budgets were decimated over the last three years, and have (very) slowly moved back up again as the economy has trickled upwards, there has been a renewed dialogue on this age-old question. We have at least three…

Next week I throw myself back into recruiting (this time, corporate – something new!).  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to handle the candidate experience.  Surely some things are out of my control – I will be working with a recruiting coordinator, flexing to the needs and schedules of my hiring managers, and of course the whims of the candidates themselves.  (Of course I want to work for your company.  Unless this other offer comes through.  I can interview anytime.  Except…

There is no doubt that recruiting is becoming a more strategic function within the corporate world.  Companies are continually looking to improve their recruiting strategy to help them bring in more talented people in a more efficient way.  With this need for better recruiting strategy they are looking for their recruiting organizations to evolve and become more strategic.

When we look at the continued evolution of the recruiting function, we continually compare it to sales,…

Starting on June 26-29, the Society for Human Resource and Management’s annual expo is taking place in bright and bustling Las Vegas, Nevada. With a huge number of sessions, exhibits, presentations, no doubt your days will be full of new ideas and connections. Once you leave the exhibit hall, however, there is a whole city at your feet. Whether you plan on taking a new acquaintance out to dinner or strolling along the strip, human capital is first about humans, so here are some Las Vegas hot…

There are different message boards, blogs, and think engines abroad these days out in the world of staffing.  One we have grown to love is recruitingblogs.com.  It is a wonderful place where we gather to think, write, share tactics, and in so many words harness a collective wisdom of what makes greatness.

So many things to consider in how we approach our involvement here.  We the user community will be the important keys to ensure future success of this wonderful community. …

So we had great fun working with I Wear Your Shirt to promote ClearedJobs.Net. They were wearing our Summer Concert T-Shirts and did some of their usual wacky things they do to promote companies they work with.

I thought this was a great take on the Common Mistakes in a Job Search.

the following post was originally published at www.sendouts.com

I was inspired by the - let's call it compelling - visual Valentino Martinez gave in his "Mother of All Speed Bumps" blog post to…

…but rather what you can do with Social Networking...

Very simple and straight forward isn’t it?



A lot of time as a sourcer OR a recruiter, you wonder how best any specific tool or website can help you. I think it is about your approach and mindset as a sourcer that decides the outcome. Many times we…

A topic of discussion in many an interview I've had with senior sales professionals is 'lead generation' and 'cold calling' and their willingness to pick up the phone to generate a new business opportunity. Many well established career sales people I've met feel as though they have moved…

Interesting data on facebook Business Insider

The WOW factor is slowing down possibly, most people figured out what it is and are losing interest.

We have seen this affect Myspace a while ago. Is Facebook compelling enough for long term success ? We'll find out..

Onshore, Offshore, Outsourcing, Insourcing....there are all different words for it but one great Constant: Talent Pipelines

I've been interviewing with a large breadth of companies.  These are stellar organizations all technically innovative and all have the same challenge.  How do they create a new ecosystem of talent for their current and future needs?  Talent is their number one concern but yet many are approaching employment strategies in tradition ways and are not ready…