It's the age old question all potential employers dread - how do you know you are hiring the best person for the job?

My apologies for no post last week. I have been very ill. But am back up, sort of, and running so here we go!!

Change can be good!!!!

Change, one of the scariest words in the English dictionary, also one of the most exciting, and perhaps one of the most important. Change means - to become different, or make something or somebody different. For us in staffing it means the ability to be flexible. This means just…

In our line of work, underemployed and unemployed friends and relatives seek out our advice.  Usually a resume rewrite, LinkedIn account, and updated resume on a job board will get them further in a hour than 6 months of blindly applying for jobs. For my two nephews, this helped them land in 3 weeks in a down market.  "Uncle Bert, people were calling me the next day." Way to go Patrick and Aaron!

I have a…

The end of another successful week, people placed, invoices paid, a bottle of champagne for top biller of the week, and all for doing a job I love !!

I had some real win, win, wins this week candidates that have really needed my help, clients with problems solved and a healthy income for me, I dont think any other job can tick so many boxes for a job well done.

Have a great weekend everybody back at the coalface Monday !!

So it seems that al-Qaeda is struggling to find a new leader.

It is apparent that all interviews have gone well, until the last minute when the candidate has asked

“So…how did this vacancy come about?”

Asking the right question at the right time is the difference between taking on a great vacancy and taking on a dog. A dog, will lead you all over the place, take you up the garden path and then leave an awful stench when it goes wrong.

We have all…

Here are some ideas that I have tried recently that have found the hard to find needle in a haystack - trust me they work the miracles when the chips are down and you need to find your rock star diamond hidden in the rough:

Candidate pipelining - build the network and they will come - on LinkedIn join user groups of which you can have 50 - create a compelling blog which lists your latest opportunities and post to the user groups every two weeks.  Soon compelling candidates…

You use your connections, recruiting software, and interview skills to land the perfect candidate. Then, a year or two later, he or she leaves, following another great opportunity. It’s a recurring nightmare (and occasional reality) for recruiting and staffing professionals everywhere.

What can be done about it? The short answer: pay attention to all top performers. The long answer involves five ways of encouraging that helps to keep great…

“People will hate you, rate you, break you, and shake you; How strong you stand is what makes you”- Judy Reynolds, Facebook 2011.

Interesting comment I received via Facebook the other night. And how timely and true it could really be. Everyone wants to be number #1, sometimes so much so, that they forget the things they felt were important at one time, or feel that success is the be all and end all. To me, this all comes down to merit, how much faith we place in ourselves; and how…

First, I would like to congratulate the employees and executives at LinkedIn.  What a tremendous day for your company.

The LinkedIn IPO has and will spark up the debate about an impeding Social Media Bubble.  But, if you are involved in the recruiting space in any way, you should be excited…

This week a few staff members at Agile attended WIT’s monthly forum: “OMG, Can U Succeed with a Social Network Vocabularly? The Impact of Social Media on our…

In theory and in reality a wolf in sheep's clothing is a key concern for employers and recruiters to be wary of in the selection process.   

It begs the question, "Which candidate are you most comfortable with in assessing for employment consideration—the raw and somewhat transparent candidate, or the highly polished, highly confident one?”  On the one hand, the raw/transparent candidate may not impress as much as the highly polished interviewee.  But under all that gloss and glow may…

This week was ERE’s #RecruitingInnovation Summit and I was able to live stream Amy Wilson’s great presentation “Shiny & Useful: Recruiting Technologies You Should Know About”!

During the presentation, there was a lot of grumbling about Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and their lack of functionality when it comes to Talent Acquisition (mostly criticized for…

The “value added” for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.

-          Tom Peters

I just finished reading The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley the general manager of IDEO, the successful design consulting firm in San Francisco. IDEO as you can imagine is all about innovation and applying new and creative approaches not just to product design but to…

A rapidly growing trend for both small and large companies is the use of Software as a Service (SaaS).

SaaS provides software to customers as an on-demand service rather than the traditional method of delivery software as an on-site installation with upfront costs. Unlike traditional software licensing, where you buy a license and subsequent upgrades, SaaS typically involves yearly or monthly fees to allow access to the software. Once the end user…

As I was browsing through the Sunday paper last week there was one article in particular that really caught my eye.  It was written by Paul Sullivan of the New York Times and it shared the findings of a new academic…

So.... I'm now ten months into this job with Peerlo now, time flies huh?

It's been an interesting journey, it's been a fun journey, but I tell you what.... I feel like I've learned a lot, about a lot of things, even myself!  So far some of the interesting discoveries have been

1) I broke a promise to myself over the last couple of years.  Almost 10 years ago I promised myself that I wouldn't out stay my welcome in a company again (after doing that)  However, I think I…

Recruiting agencies and employers posted over 36,000 new online job ads for marketers in April.  This is a 29% increase over April 2010. 

Hiring Demand for Marketing Managers — 4-Years:

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