***This post was originally posted on Bulls Eye Recruiting (www.wthomsonjr.com) and has been extremely controversial.  Love to hear your thoughts.  

There has been a lot written about the job market lately.  “The good jobs” aren’t posted anymore.  Don’t apply to jobs on the Internet!  Don’t bother putting your resume in…

Check out iCIMS' latest blog post from iCIMS blogger Angelo Gagliano.

Improving process in the work place has been an extremely rewarding job for me over the past 17 years. In my personal resume cover letter I have a sentence that reads “Inefficiency makes me…

Let me know if you're attending this conference.  Would love to connect. 

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The Needle Online, an HR Tech recruitment business specialising in Video Interviewing, announced today that recruitment entrepreneur and founder of CVSeeMe.com, Keith Mabbutt, has joined the company. Keith joins The…

Luck in Staffing!!

As we all know there is a great deal of skill, experience and dedication in being a great staffing professional. What some us may not realize is there is also a great deal of luck. How many times have we been banging our heads against the wall looking for a particular candidate with a specific skill, only one day to have them…

I'm a studious reader of sites like ERE.net, SourceCon, TLNT, and RecruitingBlogs. I've read the debate over the demise of agency recruiting. A debate which is filled with emotion, and where sentiments are strong.

Reading the commentary and online debate provides perspective, but to me it's not enough. That's why a recent conversation with a Director of Talent Acquisition [let's call her Jane]…

A lot of recruiting professionals find themselves sidetracked by the Drama Monster.  The Drama Monster presents itself in many forms including, planning a wedding, moving an office, or even making coffee in the morning.

 What recruiters need to remember is that the Drama Monster is self-created and only in your head. The Drama Monster is a beast that relies on…

Last week, LinkedIn became the latest (and biggest) job board to jump into the mobile apply game with the introduction of a new feature allowing job seekers to apply for positions directly from their mobile devices. LinkedIn’s announcement was the latest in a seemingly daily deluge of new solutions, entrants and…

Having a recruiter or headhunter provide professional help for an individual's career can prove to be a huge advantage. A recruiter can help someone climbing the corporate ladder secure a position at a larger, more prestigious company. He or she can help someone get the promotion they want, or land a coveted position elsewhere on the fast track to career success.



Although there are many…

For a few years now, I have tried to spread the word that recruitment strategies and processes would be undergoing a radical transformation away from what recruiters have been doing for the past 10-15 years. The shift in technology advances and possibilities, along with a new generational workforce would demand it. Some have paid attention and started to make the transitions…

In chatting with a colleague a few days ago, we both agreed that all of us, including people who are highly successful, experience doubts and fears. The difference between those that have tremendous success and those that do not is whether or not the negative thoughts turn into a cerebral flogging.

Often, stinking thinking begins after a mistake, poor outcome, or disappointment of some kind, and it’s quite normal that the first thought is less than positive. Highly successful people,…

After 8 years in the recruitment industry, working in various industries and different parts of the continent, I felt it was time to sit back and look at what‟s happening in our industry. I have to be honest; I am disappointed with HR professionals that fail to differentiate quality from quantity. Little has improved in the industry over my working life. Talent acquisition has become easier since…

A Pig and a Chicken…

How to Source Mechanical Engineers is the topic of this episode of "The Jim Stroud Show." Tune in to discover how to find mechanical engineers (and other passive candidates) under the radar of your competitors. Plus, find out who gets a shout-out! Was it you?

Links cited in the video:…

I'm awake late tonight - much on my…

I was born in 1967. From my earliest of days, I remember being competitive. I remember playing football in the neighborhood with friends and always having to win. I remember having a basketball goal in my driveway and imagining hitting game winning shots at the final buzzer to win a championship. I remember playing checkers with my dad and not just wanting to win…but wanting…

I live, eat, and breathe recruiting. I came into the industry in an entry level role and tried to learn as much as possible through asking endless amounts of questions and watching/listening to recruiters around me. I have done pretty well and have been fortunate to be successful in this world of mine. I am now a Partner and the …

“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde

"I don’t know."

Have you ever used this phrase before?  I sure have. I have not used it with pride or a smile. I have not used it in arrogance but frustration.  It seems to me in the office these days it is used in another fashion.  One of disrespect, one of arrogance in…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about candidate experience, recruitment’s promotion, mystery shopping, relevance of the resume and sourcing.

I’d also like to share the articles from our blog this week that you should check out:

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