Aside from the 'corporate training' provided from some recruiting companies when you are an internal employee, where you do you go for additional training?  Do you actually 'go' anywhere? Online?

I've been in the industry for almost 16 years and have been looking into additional training, not just for myself, but for other recruiters who often ask the same question.  I am not looking for 'how to be a recruiter' type training, but I am at a loss to identify what sort of training I am…

Companies know innovation is critical to long-term survival, but even creative giants like 3M and Google have struggled with policies that give their engineers time to tinker.

While popular creative wisdom suggests leaders must schedule time for innovation to occur, the question becomes how much time companies should devote each week.

There are two…

If an interested and qualified applicant contacted you directly (or was referred to you by a mutual professional connection) for one of your open/posted requisitions would you:

A) Call him/her ASAP to discuss

B) Email him/her ASAP to schedule a phone call when convenient

C) Look him/her up online to…

InMails are included in paid LinkedIn accounts, both personal and the LIR (LinkedIn Recruiter). I've recently run into InMails working not in the way we'd expect. I sincerely hope that LinkedIn will fix this soon and will update you when they do.

This is what sending an InMail dialog looks like…

One of the most common questions we get asked as executive search consultants is “What is the market like for job hunting?”

It’s a fair question and perfectly valid. As the vast majority of people we speak to come from an IT sales background, candidates are always qualifying to see whether it is…

Like color blindness, some people on your team may have developed Leadership Blindness. Here are a few of the symptoms:

• You have to repeat instructions or requests two or more times.
• Directives, especially those in print, appear to go unnoticed.
• The same mistakes happen again, and then yet again.
• Important details are being overlooked, especially when dealing with customers.

Leadership Blindness…

Digital entry-level jobs could provide employment to young Brits struggling to find work, according to specialist jobs board Bubble Jobs.

The jobs board advertised just under 4,000 junior and entry-level positions in 2013 – seven per cent of the total roles posted,…

The mobile revolution has dramatically changed the way we live and work. With a pace of adoption that far surpasses both the uptake of personal computers and residential Internet connections, the way in which we have embraced mobile has given us numerous opportunities to connect with others in ever more engaging and interactive ways - especially when it comes…

Hey Agent!

Firstly a very Happy 2014 to you. I am not going to chat about New Year resolutions or your bucket list for this year – blah blah blah.

What I would like to discuss is our role in your life. Somewhere, somehow, our purpose and value has been tarnished and this is the time to start owning it. In the UK, USA, Australia, China or maybe I should say the…

In part 1 you read about using Lean Staffing to improve your process. This time we are going to talk about Lean Staffing to help your organizational structure.  

So in order to utilize Lean Staffing to improve your organizational structure you first need to…

Contract staffing recruiters in engineering/manufacturing can look forward to a good 2014 as staffing in the sector is expected to outpace service sector hiring.

Having added 500,00 jobs since the recession, manufacturing growth is expected to continue with manufacturers planning to increase hiring by 2.4% in the New Year, according to…

Public speaking consistently ranks at or near the top of the list of professional and personal phobias, and truth is, it can be kind of scary. Particularly when that public involves HR and recruiting practitioners – a notoriously tough crowd, considering. But even though it might not be your favorite thing to do, leveraging speaking opportunities can be a key way to establish…

My very first business trip ever, I went to Atlanta for the National Black MBA Association annual event, thrilled by the prospect of a transcontinental flight crammed in coach, a non-nondescript high rise hotel room and a 40 dollar a day per diem – a pretty sweet deal, I thought, considering I was completely unqualified.

It had…

In the flood of sourcing tools and (sometimes) cluttered marketing messages around them, one type of tools stands apart and is worth your attention. It's no replacement for LinkedIn or for job boards; it's a new concept, introduced in 2011, that can be combined with existing resources and…

Some interactions with customers almost seem to be divinely inspired, while others feel like you’re trudging though mud and muck, getting nowhere fast. What’s the cause of these very different scenarios?

The Inspired Sale, one in which the buyer feels a compelling need to buy and buy from you, always has two components: trust and compulsion. Without both of these, selling becomes a difficult, if not impossible task.

Without trust and compulsion, you…

We’ve all heard the bad news about the state of today’s workplace. Years of economic recession, business upheaval and intense global competition have taken a toll on…

There has been a great deal of news surrounding the uplift in recruitment recently, Jobsite stated that in a recent survey 43% of people in a new job, are already…

Last week and early this week the world was abuzz with news of various controversies regarding LinkedIn. The hacker lawsuit and …

You read that real quick didn’t you? But go back and really consider the implications of the words themselves to the human resource professional in the daily exercise of their responsibilities.



Yesterday is History



There is no organization that is free from having made really bad human resource decisions. We have all fed into the corporate mantra, even though we may believe differently. We have been fed the Kool-Aid that the corporate organization is…

An interview with EEOC attorney Edward Loughlin on how employers can mitigate risk on social media.

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can be synonymous with discrimination charges, enforcement and litigation. But an interview EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Edward Loughlin showed us…