“I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.” These are the words of arguably the greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali.  He gave everything to be the best at what he did.

With Gold, Silver and Bronze up for grabs in London, is it ok to strive for less than the best?  In my opinion it’s not.  That’s the opinion of someone who is not a world class athlete that has not earned the right to be part of the greatest show on earth.  I absolutely respect each competitor who…

Something interesting happened!!

So to be honest I was not sure what I was going to write about this week. On Monday morning I was not going to write anything, but then I remembered an interesting chain of events that took place at work a few months ago, I thought you might find entertaining.

I had a potential candidate come to be by way of a recent hire. This person was very nice, great communication, smart; they…

By Dan Ridge, Senior Contributing Consultant, Q4B

I would like to think that our recruiting and management team at Q4B started something. A few months ago we decided to target a part of our recruiting process in an effort to improve the end results of the process. We noticed that this part of the process is a part of every recruiting organization’s process and that for years and years and years we have all been doing it the same way, with pretty much the same results.

The part…

This post was inspired by Keith McIllvaine’s blog post Recruiting on the Move.

With the number of smartphone owners rising by the year (by all accounts), it’s not hard to predict that mobile applications are the way that most people will interact with the web. …

What does a worker who has only been out of work for a month have in common with one who has been unemployed for six months to a year? It appears they are both just as likely to be rejected for job based on their employment status (or lack thereof), even as legislators move to make "unemployed discrimination" illegal.

A recent Huffington…

Knowing the business of contract and contract to hire is worth billions of dollars every year, is it worth the risk and time investment for an independent recruiter to start doing contract and contract to hire?  And if so, how?

Last week, I came across an article from Tech Cocktail which gave some great advice on how to hire top talent for your startup. Oftentimes, startups are overlooked in the topic of recruitment; a fact that I find to be pretty misleading when it comes to highlighting both the importance of this issue, and the reality of how…

Using the right recruiting email to recruit. Customize the recruiting email each and every time!

Scott shares the four “ates” to stop the feeling of overwhelm. These are: eliminate what is not an absolute necessity, delegate either internally or externally, automate, and integrate.

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I can listen, I hear you say. But, can you?

Listening is a very developable skill. Listening is far harder than speaking. Really listening takes effort and skill. Really listening means ignoring the urge to speak and to leave questions waiting. It is a kind of magic.

Being able to actively listen can truly transform the way we interact and communicate, not only…

You are a recruiter. Doesn’t matter where you work, or what you do. If you recruit, especially in an agency, you will end up with a future that looks like one of these three.

1: You are superb at it. You learn the skills, you earn the relationships. You enjoy high self-esteem, respect from your customers, and reap fun and money. Your job is exhilarating, and it feels like a vocation and a hobby, not work at all, because you tackle it with…

A friend of mine forwarded me this article from Yahoo on McDonald's. It's interesting because he said "check out this video from Micky D's. I guess we have to stop saying would you like fries with that and ask if they want an award for cracking eggs...."

Funny thing is that he is unemployed.... Even funnier the people in the video…

Like a lot of business people, I enjoy reading business books. I read on all kind of topics, but find myself regularly coming back to the writers who really fire my imagination.

If you’ve been on any of my workshops you will know that I often quote from my two favourites: Tom Peters and Seth Godin.

Tom I enjoy, but Seth inspires me.

Seth’s word help me…

Scott explains that mastery is achieved by practice and education that happens before the skill or action is actually needed.

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Source: http://blog.gooodjob.com/2012/06/recruit-right-with-a-goood-candidate-experience-part-1-in-candidate-experience-series/

An oft-discussed recruiting topic is the candidate experience. Maintaining an excellent relationship throughout the recruiting process, from the candidate’s initial exposure to the company and jobs through the…

In the last 3 years I have become obsessively interested in social recruiting, and using social media for public relations, talent attraction and certainly passive talent sourcing.  I'm sure that any recruiter in Sydney by now has a 'cheat sheet' on their desk with a reliable and changeable search string right?  It's an unavoidable subject and I so love hearing from rookies to experienced…

by Joelle Schoenherr

Since the first Amazon Kindle was released around the holiday season of 2007, we have watched print quickly fade away. Borders and Barnes & Noble stores closed almost as if overnight. I don’t believe print will disappear any time soon, but it is obvious that it is being replaced. E-readers and tablets offer not only books, but magazines, movies, games, music, newspapers, and a slew of…