Where did your business come from last year?

I keep records of everything.  Candidates I introduce to my clients, the source of those candidates, job order activity, source of job orders, etc.  Nothing crosses my desk that I am not aware of the “where, why, how, when” background story.

Historically I have used the following to track sources: …

I read a blog post and the content got me thinking about the recruitment industry and how much of it appears to be very short term in its outlook. I don't mean to generalise and I know there a lot of good agencies who don' t take this approach, but a lot…

Have you been to an amusement park recently?  Once you get past the overcrowded parking lots, stand in line for tickets, (just to stand in line more once inside), and finally get to the roller coaster where people of all…

Many employers are mistakenly feeling secure about their current workforce, under the possibly erroneous assumption that no one would dare leave now. There is in fact a real danger of losing great people

within the next year.

Here’s my rationale. I’m assuming that any employer who has let people go has tried hard to keep the “A” players, and let go of only the poor performers. Now the “A”s are overworked, and possibly

under-utilized or under-challenged. If your…

For a little over a year now, I've been writing this blog about the Great Recession -- how it began, and how it is likely to proceed. Back then, I predicted a deflationary cascade, brought about by the collapse and panic surrounding the mortgage backed securities market. I believed that, as the bad debts that existed in the market were recognized, the effect would…

Happy New Year everybody!!  As I was Facebooking and LinkingIn my New Year optimizim, I started pondering my peers and curiously wondering about their New Year recruiting resolutions.  I have come up with a few resolutions that I would like to share (and keep).

1.  Spend more time calling (presenting), set away distractors (email, pins, blogs, tweets, etc., etc.) from the actual phone and compartmentalize those modes of communication to times before calling my list or after…

I hereby declare the opening of the 2011 job hunting season!

The next 5 months will be the busiest time of year for job seekers as they begin looking for a new job. It starts in earnest today. My job board network has released our first ever job seeker activity stats from last year. It shows the busiest times of year when job hunting occurs. 

As you can see from the chart below, Jan - May is the busiest time of…

Here is a list of the top posts on RecruitingBlogs.com for 2010. Top blog posts mean viewed the most.

1. Stupid Girl Loses Job Because of Facebook status

2. The Best format For Your Resume

3. …

Today is Sunday. It is 6:49am and I am gathering the last of my things and putting them into my truck so that I can get on the road. Actually...strike that...I am taking 10 minutes away from

doing that to type this. Then, I am going to finishing gathering what needs to

be gathered, make a cup of coffee, load my daughter…

Here is our last recruitment marketing articles feature of 2010 in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing.  This week we’ll be talking about recruiting myths, candidate experience, social media policies, respect and measuring social media.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

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Everyone knows first impressions count.  When you have an interview scheduled with a top candidate do you leave them waiting in the lobby for ten minutes after your meeting is supposed to start, and then greet them with a greasy handshake while you wipe bits of the steak burrito you just scarfed down from the corners of your mouth?  Of course not!  Plenty of top candidates would walk out, and the rest would never return your calls.  Take it from someone who has actually been…

With the year quickly coming to an end and budgets currently being prepared for next year, people and organizations are looking more and more towards 2011.  While this is commonplace and needs to be done, I strongly encourage you to also reflect on 2010 while you are looking into the future as sometimes the best way to plan for the future is to look at the past.

The question is what should you reflect on in your 2010 recruiting strategy:…

With the year quickly coming to a close, we wanted to take a look back at our blog and share our most popular blog posts from the SmashFly blog over the last year.  After factoring our blog views and re-tweets, here are our best recruitment marketing articles from 2010:

Indeed vs.…

There has been a flurry of research, polls and articles about the recruiting challenges technology organizations will face in 2011. Findings suggest the available IT talent pool lacks experienced professionals who possess both high-demand skills and business intelligence. This month, the Atlanta Business Chronicle  asked several Atlanta tech insiders to discuss their industry. When asked…

Have you ever heard the phrase “Life is just one damn thing after another”? Whether you take on career jobs, or simple jobs for the sake of making money, that is all there is to it. What is different is the utility for someone who takes on jobs as they are building their career versus someone who takes on a job and sees it as nothing but work. The latter is more likely to be…

Hiring Manager wanting to hire from a resume!!!

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Those who have heard me speak publicly or have been clients of HireBetter are very familiar with my insistence that Job Descriptions are largely worthless when written by starting at the beginning.  What I encourage people to do instead…