I have been unemployed for a few months and finally decided to do something about it. I will no longer be embarrassed and negative about my situation. I have decided to follow up on an idea and start an internet business. What better time to pursue a dream and use my talent wisely. There are no guarantees that my idea will work, but at least I have chosen a low investment idea. I have been working on my idea for a few weeks and already see a return of my…

Do You Have “A” Players in Key Positions?

Achievement of aggressive company objectives depends on the solid performance of key leaders who are uniquely capable of producing essential results.

Recent studies have shown that employers are developing new executive profiles as they select people to lead their company into the millennium, especially in early stage and rapid growth organizations.

These critical factors will…

If you are an IT Professional in the DFW area, there has never been a better time to test the market. We are starving for good talent in IT. While there are more marketable skills sets than others, there has not been a better time in the last three years to see where you stand as an IT Professional. If you have read some of my earlier postings, I have consistently written about IT Staffing and Services firms that are having their best year in the last three or four years as…

The current economic situation has made screening resumes more difficult for recruiters. Today, a large employment gap is commonplace and the percentage of applicants that are currently unemployed is significantly higher than just a few years ago. The first inclination may be to write off applicants whose last full-time employment was a year ago or more. However, dig a little deeper into why they have remained unemployed all this time and the answer may surprise you.

According to a…

Last week, I heralded the wisdom and brilliance of my father. While I still hold that my father eats lightning and discharges marble, he was never alone. Those who know me well, understand that there is absolutely no way that one person alone could have parented me. It took a village... and a…

One of the most important recruiting tools that recruiters and hiring managers need to have is a resume database of qualified candidates. Although the above statement seems to be familiar to the recruiting fraternity, the words “qualified candidates” means a lot to the recruiters and hiring managers as it determines their success. Why qualified candidates?



Resumes and candidates are available in plenty but as a recruiter/hiring manager, you need to have “qualified candidates” to…

“Let’s face it. The only thing that really differentiates your business from the competition is your people.” - Rusty Reuff, Talent Force

Originally posted on Q4B Marketing Blog…

Today’s "Top Echelon Recruiting Tip" comes from industry trainer Jon Bartos of Jonathan Scott International. According to Bartos, there are two things that recruiters should be doing right now:

1. Increasing their call volume.
2. Being very selective about which job orders to…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about a lot of cool stuff from different observations about this year’s RecruitFest, how to present metrics to executives, if your hiring process is affecting your employer brand and Twitter’s lead in click-through…

With the abundance of resources available online to anyone today; and the service subscriptions that provide informal online information with a keystroke, how does a candidate approach the executive job market when they have bankruptcy, foreclosure and tax issues haunting them? I recognize the rules with FCRA but informal online checks can provide all of this information without running afoul of the FCRA. What…

In reply to Ruth-Dinaz Sarkari hopefully these two Tubes will help...…

What you are about to read is not designed to improve your sales performance or boost your recruiting efforts. There are no secrets hidden between these lines or techniques woven into the text. This post is for one simple purpose only…to feed a need that is a part of every human soul. That need is acknowledgement.

So, here are my acknowledgments for you and for the choice you made to be in this…