“I’d be ashamed to be human

Afraid to say

My time has seen it’s day

’cause’ I’m living in a time of inconvenience

living in a time of inconvenience living in a time of inconvenience

It’s an inconvenient time

This is the time of greed and power

Where everyone needs to have someone to shove around

Our children come to us for answers

Listening for freedom but…

It surprises me in this day and age that there are still managers out there blaming their staff for poor performance!! Yes, you heard me correctly!

Do you trust a resume more than your IT staffing partner? If you do, you’re most likely losing out on top IT talent.

So often, hiring managers get too focused on the resume – what information is included, the style and tone it is written, the number of keywords (per the job description), etc. They want the resume to tell them everything they’re looking for; they want…

So this is part 4 the end.

Over the last few weeks I have posted allot of info about the 3 models. I posted roles, responsibilities, positive and negative point about each as well as metrics used to measure the success of each.

Now for a few tidbits, things to keep in mind when deciding, and my overall thoughts.

The A-z Model or monofunction is the oldest. One person does it all. It can work, but to make it work you need to ensure the following are in…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting, recruiting metrics and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about knowing your recruiting competitors, who to recruit first, recruiting and social media, recent HRTech acquisitions and…

How many people took part in this weeks election? Of that, how many voted based on the local candidate and how many went with the party as a whole? I know that’s pretty much the same question, but sometimes staying with the local guy will help with local problems. Enough. Here is the real question, How many of us understood the big picture; and how many of us went in thinking that one vote won’t change the landscape?

How does the preamble relate to recruiting, sourcing and our place…

If you don’t have a “Ballerina File” you’re losing money!

One topic that seems to be a hot button for many is the lack of qualified candidates derived from job board ads.

First, let’s be clear the role of a job board.  A job board is not the Holy Grail or a guarantee of a quick placement with little effort; neither is an ATS, Linkedin.com, target lists, etc.  A job board is a tool and like any…

Have you ever sat in a job interview and been sweating uncontrollably as you stumble through the interview questions? Have you found yourself shaking hands with the hiring manager on the way out of the job interview and thinking to yourself how you just completely messed up the entire interview? Of course you have. Who hasn’t!

Why does this happen? Do you remember back in school…

On this blog, we talk a lot about building your Talent Network and we go over all the ways that you can start building it today.  But the question that comes up most when we're talking to recruiting professionals is how do you leverage your Talent Network once you've built it?

Your Talent Network is a group of recruiting contacts that you collect through both active and passive sourcing efforts and store in a database,…

The number one question HR professionals in Canada ask me everyday is "When will the market heat up for HR talent once again?"

The HR Talent market has been through a roller coaster of demand over the past few years.  Many organizations cut back on resourcing within HR starting in 2008.  Many areas of HR were hit very hard including Talent Development, Talent Management and Recruitment.  Many senior HR roles were eliminated as part of a corporate wide cost cutting exercise.  Many…

In the recent issue of Inc. there is a page that directs readers to Inc’s online presence. There are ten different topics listed with an appropriate link to each. In this month’s issue all of the content was related to celebrating National Small Business Month. And here I thought that every month was National Small Business Month.

One of the topics,…

Judi Wunderlich posted a good blog this week entitled, "Why Recruiters Get A Bad Rap (a cautionary tale)".  There were a bunch of responses including one from me saying that recruiters should be held to a higher standard.  I thought I would share a story which I originally posted on my blog, www.viewfrommadisonave.blogspot.com.  I thought it would amuse all professional and above board recruiters so I am repeating it in its entirety…