Plaxo is a Naymz.com is a professional social networking platform that allows users to network with other professionals

and manage their online reputation. Naymz is a known in the community but few have tried to

source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and

pull out an old  tried and…

When building out a team, a new division or staffing your company in general, it’s of course important to focus on skills, both hard and soft. You want team members to know what they’re doing and work well together. But many companies overlook the importance of building a diverse team, and there’s reason to believe, it hurts the bottom line. Here are some hard…

'Terrifying recruitment stories. In 6 words', caught the imagination of many. 12,000 unique blog views, dozens of blog comments,(On the Savage Truth site) and endless social media shares are testament to…

Talent acquisition strategy is changing, requiring new skills to help attract consumer-minded candidates. This change currently underway in recruiting is similar to how the marketing function has evolved over the past 10 years.

Marketing has largely turned “inbound” in the last decade―customers are finding their own paths to products and services versus companies…

Too many unqualified applicants. Poor candidate pipeline. High cost-per-hire.  

Sound familiar? 68% of recruiters have said they are dissatisfied with the job boards they are currently using to post open jobs and recruit talent to their organizations, based on a recent Glassdoor survey.  

Personally I like job boards.  I’ve mentioned this before but I think of…

There is a new reality in recruitment, which Agency recruiters who want to thrive need to understand, and act on.

Clients are…

As we approach this holiday time, let keep in our payers, minds and hearts all of those who have served. Let’s go out of our way to help, acknowledge, and appreciate those who fought to provide the liberties that we live under. If you know of any who are looking for work, direct them to my Vet page below, to any of the links below and also please…

In the previous post Why You Lose Potential Candidates with LinkedIn Job Posts, I talked about the (wrong) estimated salary ranges shown on LinkedIn Job posts and - unfortunately! - used in the …

Entelo made this video about recruiting emails their developer received and I thought it worth sharing.  Great stuff in here...if you have done it, stop.  

And yes, mistakenly posted twice but I laughed both times.  

From Entelo:  

Ok big venting post coming. You have been warned.

Read this article real quick which was posted recently on www.ere.net - go ahead I will wait:

http://www.ere.net/2015/05/04/your-future-as-a-recruiter-you-better...

Okay - now let's get 15 things straight about why this is…

How to source on the lesser known sites!! Plaxo

Plaxo is a site were you can have a kind of one stop shop for your address book, were you cannot

only store your address book, but it will keep your address book updated and consolidate all your

address books from most sites.…

I had a guy debating some recruiting matter with me on social media last week. To make his point, he finished with what he clearly felt was a telling coup de grace.

“Well, I have been recruiting since before LinkedIn came along, you know!”

In his recruiting world, LinkedIn was the ultimate game-changer. He considered it a badge of…

It's Casino Night for my kids' school. I don't expect much from this event, but it turns out to be more fun than I would have thought. It's surprising how PTA volunteers can really let loose when alcohol is consumed at great quantities. I talk with two stupid-drunk people at length, and another person with whom I have an interesting conversation.

The interesting…

This has become a cause of great hilarity for me, to be honest.

So many buffoons predicting the demise of recruiters.

Tech-legend wannabees, internal recruiters with a barrow to push, disaffected clients, and a host of other misinformed or biased loudmouths…

I have seen a number of great articles recently discussing the importance of the marketing function to the recruitment industry. The nature of recruitment has evolved and recruiters must treat candidates as businesses treat their best customers, engaging at every point of the ‘buying cycle’ and not just when they are ready to buy, or in this case, change jobs. As one article describes it, trying to place a candidate who is already looking to move jobs…

Did the day LinkedIn introduced their ‘Like’ button mark the beginning of the end for the integrity of the ‘professional business’ platform?

Sourcing passive candidates is one thing, but connecting with them is quite another. In this video, Jim Stroud demonstrates how to find and contact passive candidates based on the content they produce or share online. Plus, Jim gives a heads up on his international speaking engagements and a near-death experience. Yowza! Tune in for all the fun.…

Mad Men, one of the most talked about television dramas of our time. Over it’s 7 seasons we have witnessed the growth, decline and merging of businesses, the acquisition and loss of clients and the rise and fall of staff. Sound familiar? The competitive world of recruitment has a lot in common with the world inhabited by Don Draper. This blog shares some Mad Men…

Hiring your first senior salesperson is daunting when your business is new—you don’t know much yet about what has worked so far. And even if you do manage to find the perfect hire, you may find yourself needing someone with different strengths as your business grows and changes over time.

Here are the common mistakes we’ve seen founders make when pursuing their first startup…