In observing an interview on-site with a client earlier this month I recognized a disturbing trend across everyone in the organization that, upon further research, is happening in nearly every company and in every interview. When asking someone a tough question, instead of waiting for a response, the…

Today I tried to get back into the mood of the first two weeks, focused on how to try and build again a strong pipeline of opportunity. I knew I didn’t have the time to focus on it today but I had to think it through. Over the…

Day 18 was dominated by it being my last day in my current job and the day my gardening leave honeymoon period came to an end. All of the company property needed to be returned; laptop and power lead, PDA, fuel card, company…

What better way to spend a weekend than by thinking about your corporate recruitment strategy?

For those of you now rolling your eyes, roll them back this way and press play:…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

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Yes, the staffing market may be recovering, but every day we read of recruitment companies going into liquidation. And even in the best of times, I know plenty of recruitment business owners are frustrated by how hard they work for such modest returns.

And the tendency is to blame clients, or the market or the government.

But often the real culprit is much closer to home. Profitability of a recruitment business is totally…

Companies are beginning to change the way they recuit employees with the use of web 2.0 and its rapidly evolving social networks. To some, the idea of recruiting through Facebook or Twitter comes off as ludicrous, but after a recent Jobs2web conference downtown Minneapolis, MN, it appears these outlets will now be the driving force behind finding the…

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HR professionals have been trying to control health care costs by continually tweaking the medical plan designs, which result in shifting more costs to employees but do not reduce the cost of health care. That is why the new focus needs to be on prevention and wellness.

While this is not a new concept there needs to be more focus on it in order for it to make a difference. Some of the moderate plan designs (such as 100% coverage for preventative testing and wellness exams…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

I’m a huge movie buff and I have to say that I love movies that keep me guessing. Movies with plot twists…

As #myjobhunt has progressed I have been considering options and opportunities in Central London.



I have not worked in London on a daily basis since 1986! Back then they still had horse drawn carriages, smog and the…

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”

–Russell Baker, American journalist and humorist

Monday marked the official start of the summer and while most of us may be concerned with losing a few extra pounds around our midsection or toning up our pecks before hitting the

shores this season, this might not be the only shaping up that needs…

In HR technology, you get pretty used to dealing with HR departments of all types. Proactive, innovative and creators of real business value … and the rest. In the most frustrating of days, we really start to wonder what the world would be like without HR.

Consider this scenario… when you show up for work tomorrow, the HR department has disappeared. Your first thought is:…

This is less of a blog of thought, and more a blog of questions proposed to all of you.

Recently the BP spill occupied front pages around the globe. Yet with all of our intellectual capacity on earth no one fixed the problem. Why?

I know of several engineers and folks with products that could have aided. They tried to get through. They wrote, they sent emails, they made calls to no avail. Then one day a man drove down to Louisiana and…

Are You Delusional?

I was watching…

After meeting with a significant number of agency recruiting professionals over the past several months, I’ve generated the following takeaways:…

Video did more than "kill the radio star". They could also seriously handicap your job search if you are not careful. Read this brilliant article by SmartMoney that in my opinion perfectly frames the discussion about the value (or lack thereof) of video resumes.

What really burns me is that there are companies out there who are completely taking advantage of…