A year ago today I married the beautiful Holly in New York’s Central Park. What a day that was, a mixture of bliss, joy, and anxiety. No, I wasn't anxious about marrying her, nor did it have anything to do with fear that one of our guests would get awkwardly drunk and start removing their clothes (although that would have made for an interesting blog post). It was about rain on our wedding day.

While marital lore says this brings good luck, the approaching storm looked like anything…

I'm not quite as glib and bullet-proof feeling as I was on Friday (Reference the "Day 4" blog posting).

Yea.  The weekend was OK but I kind of feel like I'm planning for a wedding all over again.  Mountains and mountains of preparation all to be shot in a short period of time.

It wasn't that reading a ga-zillion resumes doesn't seem satisfying, my mental burdens was the stuff on the outskirts.  Friday night was a pure blow off.  I decided to run six miles on Saturday morning…

Starting a recruitment agency is something that crosses the mind of most recruiters at some time or another. It is understandable particularly for recruitment consultants who are high performers. A quick look at billing’s delivered and take home salary has motivated many any ambitious recruiters to go it alone.

The reality of starting your own successful recruitment…

How to grow a recruitment agency is a common question when a group of recruitment business owners get together. The industry is filled with many high performing recruiters who decided to try their hand at running their own recruitment company only to find that they are now stuck. Everything is going OK and yet the growth and profits are not happening exactly…

Recruitment training is vital for any recruitment business to grow. So often though it is a missing step that new recruitment business owners miss out on. The most productive and cost effective person in your team is your recruiter. Your recruiters are the front line and helping them perform at a peak level will add more to your bottom line than almost anything else you invest in. It can be a huge assumption to think that all your…

This week's marketing campaign was such a smashing success that my Macbook Pro with retina display will be chugging some electrons this weekend. 

Somehow, someway, we're gonna need to squeeze around 30 or so experienced Program Managers our of DB to present on four new JO's....all pretty close siblings to one another so there should be pretty good synergy.  One of the FOUR NEW CLIENTS I found this week also is seeking an engineering liason with Korean language skills so they can…

For awhile now I have been thinking about this post, how I would write what I am thinking, how to share with my fellow recruiters exactly what I mean by Linkedin is like a bar. So I will write simply, I feel like every time one of our candidates logs into LI to do a bit of professional networking on ideas, thoughts that they are having, we are all lingering with a drink or in this case a…

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 data driven stories, social recruiting, sourcing / recruiting partnership, skill shortages and great developer job ads.

Also, a reminder.  The Candidate Experience Awards have started accepting applications for…

For some recruitment consultant training providers, hard work will get them wherever they need to get to in their careers: they'll slowly work their way up, and everything will fall into place. And, while this is a very real possibility for many companies with years of experience with recruitment consultant training, for the majority it usually takes some…

Recruitment training is vital to any business that wants to either hire employees for themselves or for another company. The recruitment industry is huge and growing by the day. This is not surprising when you appreciate how important it is to hire the best person for the job. Mistakes can be costly financially and in lost time, clients and candidates. That is why it is vital to train your recruitment consultants from day…

Recruitment training is vital if you are in the recruitment sector and want your business to grow. If you're in the recruitment training part of the company, the chances are that you possess a few key skills which come fairly naturally - things like intuition, the ability to sense a person's hidden skills, and determining when someone isn't suited to a certain…

Training for recruitment consultants should be a major priority for any recruitment agency. Picture the scene: you run an established Recruitment company - business has been on the up for some time and it shows no sign of slowing down soon. Then, just at what feels like the height of your success, you get the news you've been dreading: your top recruiter is…

Starting a recruitment agency on the surface might appear quite simple. Especially if you have been a successful recruitment consultant in the past. It might be quite easy to be hands on bringing in new clients and candidates and growing at a rapid rate. Then suddenly there is no just you. The new team arrives and you have to manage them. This is often where the challenges start.



Of all the job roles out there, the…

I've been busy.  I think quite a few of us have - hopefully.  So lately I haven't been able to drop in as much.

The past few days I've visited hoping to join in on the fun and I notice the spammers are back.  Bummer.......

Note to "social recruiting training marketing resume coaches" just now finding this wonderful, treasusred community:

Please consider just hanging out, jumping in to the discussion, and make new friends.  We don't need your spam.

Better yet, let…

SEO myths abound online. This is a classic one that I spotted on a well read recruitment forum recently. In fact last week I was in a conversation with a recruiter who was suffering from a classic case of SEO gobbledegook….is that a word? It seems to be appropriate in this particular scenario.

I used to get frustrated by all the SEO…

Marketing your recruitment company is easier than most people think. It just needs some attention to a few key areas and you will see results. The recruitment business is fascinating and different. Not only do you need to attract clients willing to pay your fee you also need to be able to produce high calibre candidates that your clients will go crazy for.

First as a recruitment business owner you need clients and a steady stream of them so that you have enough placements coming your…

We are marketers who listen intently to what our clients and prospective clients say to us. The one phrase that has stood out over the last month is………

How Do We Stop Being The Best Kept Secret In Recruitment? There is an answer, in fact there a few. For today let’s just focus on one to get the ball rolling.…

Digital Marketing for Recruitment Companies has taken many twists and turns over the past few years. Since the explosion of digital and social media, recruitment companies are now using these mediums as a way of engaging with both clients and candidates online. Done correctly, content marketing…

Please indulge me while I tell three stories to clarify words I stated a couple weeks ago.

My first real job with a real paycheck was at a McDonald’s in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, when I was 15 years old.   The Manager is one of the most serious people I had encountered by that age.  Before allowing me to work in the kitchen, I was handed a plastic bag and told to go outside and clean the property.  It was mandatory to call it “trash” as we were not allowed to use the word “garbage”. …

Crawled into the office this morning after a five mile morning run that didn't go so hot.  And what was waiting in my voicemail inbox???? 

Answer:  Only a 1 minute 58 second message from the Vice President of Sales at a HUMUNGOUS Tier 1 automotive supplier expressing that his Program Management group is in dire need for NOT ONE, NOT TWO, BUT THREE Program Managers here in Day-twah!  (That's Detroit for outsiders.)

So I waited a couple hours because I'm so busy and gave him a…