Most of the recruitment training content I’ve seen seems to simply reinforce the behaviours that has helped create the state the agency recruitment market finds itself in today.

Cold-Calling (or Business Development as many seem to prefer calling it) is a popular training area – and if there is anything more circular that teaching recruiters to…

Great tools by themselves do not make a great relationship, but they sure can make it easier to foster a great relationship. When HR reps and recruiters work together, they need many open lines of communication. The more they utilize those lines, and the more effectively they use communications tools, the better the relationship will become between recruiter and HR…

Cheers from Bournemouth on the southern coast of England where I’m spending week two of my vacation with my wife and kids. Not only is spending time with my family here giving me something to look forward to each day, the anticipation of this trip had a positive pull on me for the last few months. The planning, the anticipation, all of it has given me something to work towards. This is the power of…

The "War for Talent"...... "Talent” - the key vital in an organizations marketplace survival"..... "Talent, a critical business asset for competitive advantage"..... oft repeated slogans, business insight, nuggets of wisdom, we are free to pick our chose. However, the votaries of talent fail to see the biggest irony of…

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Two weeks ago, one of our candidates signed an offer to begin as a Director of Ops for one of our clients. John is to begin work next Monday.

BIGDEAL INC.  has given us four positions to fill. We are working with an Exec VP (Not HR) to fill the positions. Talent Acquisition Specialist Suzie is coordinating the…

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 HR C-Suite Influence, providing candidates with feedback, community building, he said – she said and…

Check out iCIMS' latest blog post from iCIMS guest blogger Sharlyn Lauby.

Sharlyn Lauby, SPHR, CPLP is the HR Bartender, whose blog is a friendly place to discuss workplace issues.…

It is approaching quickly.  1 year.  1 year ago I wrote my first blog.  It was called "The Simple Things" http://bit.ly/MjKaeQ  it trended better than I would have ever imagined.  I had never written anything other than a college paper.  Why did I start writing?  Why did I start blogging?  I think I wanted to tell a story.  I wanted to help…

I had yet another fantastic stay with Omni Hotels, most recently in New Orleans.  The hotel staff at the Omni Royal Crescent is amazing, and the boutique feel of the Omni Royal Crescent provides easy access to numerous New Orleans desitinations, but remains an oasis of calm and serenity. The General Manager, Mark Hirsch, is very hands on, providing support to ensure the stay is as…

News stories continue to surface about how industries, companies, and researchers are harnessing the power of 3D printing, also referred to as additive manufacturing, for innovative ideas and products. Princeton University recently created a functional ear that can…

Contract staffing is not just a singular service offering that you can add to your business model. It provides a variety of ways to help solve your clients' unique staffing issues. In fact, there are six commonly recognized types of contract placements that you can offer to your clients:

1. Traditional contract staffing

• Recruiter gets contract…

This blog post is bred out of a lot of conversations I’ve been involved with in the past few months around the Career Site and the overall candidate flow into the ATS application.  I hope it helps you think about how these two resources flow together and the difference between the two.  Also feel free to check out our White Paper on Career Site Optimization,…

College students who are willing to change career paths mid-stream, and workers who desire more advancement opportunities, are finding encouraging possibilities within reach. The three career paths below are targeted to experience higher-than-average growth in the next few years.…

Selling is simple. It just requires consistent, persistent, intelligent behaviors.

The policy in our company is all employee referrals get a phone call, regardless of qualifications, and I follow that policy.  Because I am so dedicated to this particular policy, I have come across this most recent employment nightmare.

Let me preface this story by reminding everybody that my voicemail actually says, “Hi this is Ryan… leave your name, phone number, and a brief message and…

They always say the best way to build a great product is to “scratch your own itch”.  Well, in the case of Tactics HR, that is exactly what we did.  As a startup, we were challenged with a problem that many organizations have (small and large) - identifying and recruiting great talent.  We had been using LinkedIn and reaching out to our own networks to find developers but…

A VERY big shout of congratulations goes out to Chandra Bodapati (et al) for receiving a patent on "methods and systems for determining email addresses." How cool is that?! I hope, hope, hope to interview him online about this soon. (fingers crossed)

In the meantime, I can only speculate what this means to all of the other recruiting tools on the market today. Will they have to pay Chandra a…

Do you endorse anyone (and everyone) who asks? For the record, I do not. Tune in to the latest episode of "The Jim Stroud Show" to see why. Hat tip to Meghan M. Biro and a shout to #SOSUEUROPE.

AND DO THIS NOW: Recruiters and jobseekers,…

As stated in an earlier blog I have been studying lately about the whole area of socio-technical systems within our organizations as advanced by Larry Miller. It is a very unique way to look at our organizations. In one of the articles I was reading we came across a very profound statement. A statement which, on its face value, would totally reinvent our organization’s both now and in the…

I'm curious to see if anyone uses Recruit Military as a resource to find veterans/retired military job seekers.  We've gotten a few calls about job fairs and job posting packages, but costs are a factor and we don't normally see a great ROI on job fairs.  We're always looking to hire vets, so if anyone has bought a package I'd love to hear your thoughts. …