The goal when recruiting for any position, regardless of the size or orientation of your company, is a simple one. To get the very best person possible. Like most goals, however, it is far more easily stated than accomplished – especially when given the limited size of our local population on Vancouver Island.



When you set out to find your next employee, where and how do you begin your process, and where does it end? If you’re like most companies,…

Benchmarking Your Organization for Pay-Per-Click Recruitment Marketing

I’ve asked each and every member of the HireClix team, whether they think they can dance. The answers ranged from no, to heck no, to things I’d prefer not to put in a blog. While we might not know how to do the worm, HireClix knows…

For ten years I have been ranting about the inefficiency of the resume and how ridiculous it was that a marketing and sales document had become a de facto credit report type document that corporations used to "screen out" people based on the way they did their career selling. Pity…

The school holiday is up on us and for most families it is a time to get away and enjoy a well earned break.

However, if like many companies over the last two years redundancies / scaling down and a ban on recruitment have left you lean enough to survive but too thin to cover holidays then we can help.

Temp Network specialises in providing businesses…

Since I wrote the first Guidelines For HireFriday in May of this year, our community has grown exponentially. As an omnipresent social media community, or more accurately, cluster of online communities; we have learned new lessons about how to grow, and incorporate best practices that will benefit: the job seeker, the recruiting community,…

Who are your best hires?

Aren’t they the ones that were in your little black…

• Walk in their shoes. Understand who they are, where they are in life, in business, and what…

In the course of our talent acquisition work at Kinetix we invariably see both the good and bad habits of both companies and candidates in the process. One item that regularly bothers me on the company side is a behavior practiced by so many corporate and HR folks that we call it the “Heisman”…. that is to say that they feel so overwhelmed by all the applicants to their job postings…many of which may not be…

The Recruiter’s Game of Hide and Seek…

This business has a way of cutting you open and letting you look deep inside yourself. And sometimes, you don't like what you find.

I've trained thousands of recruiters. I've visited dozens of search firms and staffing agency offices. I've personally coached scores of people in our industry. And from what I've learned about the business, every single reason why a recruiter is not…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

I love the saying "Throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks!" That's experimentation at it's finest in trying to solve important…