Management training for your recruitment managers often falls at the end of a long to-do list for most recruitment business owners. With many other urgent and important activities piling up, planning and delivering training is probably the last thing on your stretched mind.

The truth is though that spending time helping your recruitment managers improve their overall skills will potentially help you put many thousands on…

There is a common misconception that contract workers are somehow inferior, lower-level, or not the "cream of the crop." However you want to say it, the belief is that candidates only take contract assignments because they were passed up for direct hire jobs.

That is definitely a myth.  For many high quality candidates, contract staffing is not a last resort. They are…

Attention corporate recruiters:

You spend your days promoting other peoples' careers - GooodJob wants to help you further yours.

Check out our latest SlideShare presentation, …

Well, we've come to the point in the First in HR series where it's time to talk about what to do when you have to let someone go. It's not an easy topic to tackle, in fact it's the hardest. Coming to terms with the fact that someone isn't a fit within your organization is rarely…

Cross-posted from The Green Suits:

Visitors to The Green Suits likely know my devotion to the AMC TV dramatic series, MAD MEN--or as it is known in my household--art imitating life times two. Both my wife and I are veterans of large MADison Avenue ad agencies.

The art…

Millennials are entering the workforce by greater numbers than ever before. Businesses are looking for ways to recruit top talent, including those who are recent college graduates. As businesses and startups look for ways to recruit high-quality candidates from GenY, they should take a look at the mindset of Millennials to gain better insight into the aspects of their business they should sell to those sought after applicants. A Spring 2013 …

And so it goes that sometimes we're our own biggest critic.   I've spent the last four and half years pulling together all of the most robust tools I could find to create "The Avengers" version of a boutique recruiting office. 

We have four busy-body recruiters pounding away on the phones, moving and shaking, making money calls, and always marketing.  I believe our system is unique and we approach everything we do with as must honestly and perseverance we can muster. 

Through a…

One of the most frequent questions Careerify receives is, “Which company has been the most successful when it comes to social recruitment?” Sodexo USA comes to mind immediately. Led by the very energetic and strategic Arie Ball, VP Talent Acquisition, Sodexo has created a strong and communicative network between its HR team and its potential candidates and applicants. Unlike other companies, Sodexo began experimenting with social recruiting in early 2007, well before many global corporations…

Innovative works are occurring all the time and it is the duty of a patent lawyer to examine whether the creations are novel and innovative and eligible to get patented. With a combined knowledge of law, science and language, patent lawyers carry out their tasks. Certain skills also help them in accomplishing their duties. Such professionals help companies as well as individual inventors navigate through the complex process to receive a patent. In case patents are violated, they work to put…

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 recruiter / candidate relationship, candidate experience, job fit, getting a job and sourcing on LinkedIn.

Before we get to the articles, I have a quick reminder.  The Candidate Experience Awards have…

There are many good reasons to reject Contingency Search in any form, but for today’s post, I’ll deal with only one reason.  Quantity vs Quality. In most cases, by no fault of their own, recruiters are forced to produce poor quality work or get left in the dust by other recruiters with a quicker trigger finger. The inherent weakness of Contingency Search lies in this conundrum: The more you endeavor to vet and qualify your candidates, the less likely you…

I suppose it started almost 10 years ago - when the economy was coming out of another flat line scenario - indeed when the Rome of the Innovation World - Silicon Valley even had economic troubles and when I needed to know that I personally could make a difference.  I had through High School and now through the beginning years of college wondered what it took to succeed in life, and how to get myself hired. 

So there I was working in my first HR job at ADT and…

Hello again, everyone! Since the last discusson was very informative, I want to pick the brains of corporate recruiters now. Since I am an agency recruiter and new to client development, I want to know the opinions of recruiters on "the other side" of the game.

I know HR and corporate recruiters are tired of being approached by one agency after another saying that they are "different" and can provide some sort of magical recruiting service that the rest cannot. When I call HR and…

By no means is this post meant to be a dig at the recruiting industry, nor a gripe on my career choice.  My purpose of this post is to give some of the newcomers into the industry some sound advice on what to expect.  When I first received the call about working for a staffing company, I had no idea this industry even existed.  It was completely new to me! A company would pay another company to find talent for their organization?  When I was initially contacted about this exciting…

Video is taking over. This week on a Recruiting Trends webinar, Maren Hogan and Joel Cheesman shared some pretty astonishing statistics about …

Check out iCIMS' latest blog post from iCIMS blogger Jennifer Carpenter.

There has been a lot of chatter about the state of job boards as recruiters and candidates shift towards using different media to connect and apply for jobs.  Are they still relevant?  The answer is a resounding YES.…

It’s a hot summer day with no perceptible breeze. Lying across the way is a haphazard pile of debris, having been blown into what almost looks like a small pyramid. A spotlight of sun, the size of a small flashlight beam, suddenly appears on the pile, having been channeled by a pane of window glass. Suddenly, a burst of flame erupts as the wood, grasses, and other assorted…

I had a great show today. Because I had a great guest. Steve Nehez sent me a detailed list of things he wanted to talk about that laid out the plan for the whole show. I added questions but I didn't even get to most of his…

Check out iCIMS' latest blog post from guest blogger Sharlyn Lauby. Sharlyn Lauby, SPHR, CPLP is the HR Bartender, whose blog…

On this blog and in our conversations with recruiting organizations, we talk a lot about having a “comprehensive recruitment strategy”.  But in some of the conversations I have with folks, it’s not really clear what this means.

So let’s aim to clear this up!

It’s not just one thing

Now in the marketplace today, there are a number of voices locking into a few areas and stressing their importance.  “You need to be doing Mobile”, “A CRM is a must”, “Social needs…