“We are stronger when we listen and smarter when we share.”

Rania Al-Abdullah

I develop people for a living; it’s my thing, my speciality. In that capacity it can be tempting to try to be the most knowledgeable person in the room, to try to be the person with all the answers and to be ready to convey…

Sourcing is dying. As Dr Sullivan eloquently points out, new tools make what was once hard, finding people, easy. With the birth of online tracking tools, software, and social media the cost of finding people will dramatically decrease. Bad news for recruiters, good news for companies.

However, the next recruiting frontier is not selling but assessing the multitude.…

The number one purpose of a resume is to enumerate the skills of a job candidate for the person who might wish to hire him or her. If it does not serve that end, it fails completely as a resume. And one of the most valuable skills that a candidate can offer an employer is language…

Can you look at yourself in the mirror?

Long ago I made a promise to myself. I promised myself I would live by 4 simple rules.

1. I would never do or say anything that would make me not like the person I see when looking in the mirror
2. I would not  do or say nothing that I would not be willing to share with my wife…

I am exploring some vendors for outsourcing our reference checks and I'm wondering if anyone currently does this in their recruiting department.  One of the vendors we are looking into is Chequed.  Has anyone used them in the past, and if so were you pleased?

Thanks!

Scott suggests ways to align your organization with belief, choice, and action to make your organization a place where people want to stay and work.…

Thanks to those who attended Revolutionary Recruiting at the Staffing Industry Forum. I promised 20 more potential Points of Gravity for enhancing your company’s gravitational field in the market. Here those are:

1. College and trade school recruiting
2. Providing outplacement services
3. Contacts from trade association…

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 career sites, candidate experience, people analytics, Valve and social recruiting.

Also, here is…

Let’s start off with first identifying exactly what a talent community is not. There is skepticism around the concept because I feel that a lot of recruiters still don’t actually get it.

A talent community, although it has similar benefits, is not an ATS (Applicant Tracking System). An ATS is a software application that people use to electronically…

Regular readers of TheGreenSuits.com know that we embrace telework. We believe that talent who are allowed to work remotely tend to work longer hours than their traditionally officed counterparts; they are nimble, creative, productive, well-rested, and inspired. Typically, they achieve some semblance of work/life balance that eludes talent who must work from a…

Do you welcome feedback or does it fill you with dread? Do you live for the constant updates on Twitter and other social media sites or do you wait for more traditional views over time? ….Or do you just ignore everything?

In this fast paced, open society that we live…

That's right we're talking about $ money $.

Money buys us stuff that we need and stuff that we want. It's a sensitive topic when you're negotiating a salary because both sides have opposite goals in mind. One side wants to pay as little as possible and the other wants to get as much as possible.

The bottom line is everyone wants more of it. We all know that going into the conversation. The …