“If you ignore the opportunity to lead, you risk turning into a ‘sheepwalker’ – someone who fights to protect the status quo at all costs, never asking if obedience is doing you or your organization any good.”  - Seth Godin, Tribes

There has been a good deal written recently about leadership, what it is and who exemplifies it.…

 Tim,

Thanks for taking an ACTIVE interest in RBC members and our posts--regardless of subject, group, time of day...or night.  You, your comments, appear to be showing up all over the place like an infectious and…

An acquaintance called a few days back to inform that they had recently started their own business and wanted to know if we could help them with recruiting & HRO.

We had a preliminary meeting where the couple ( the acquaintance & her spouse) insisted that they were in a tearing hurry and wanted everything related to HR done up in 30 days, so that they could focus on business thereafter. They wanted everything to be automated so that right from the day a new employee joined,…

Following on from last weeks post, "Send us your resume and we will send you a cow!", there was some concern expressed in some of the comments as to how to manage the volume of response and disapointed candidates. Earlier this year I was involved in supporting a…

My name is Michael Creighton, I am a Realtor with Fathom Realty. I was introduced to this blog by Rob Clarke with Medicus Partners. I would like to tell you a little bit about the services I provide to recruiters. I have a team of Realtors known as the Creighton Group and we are currently working with four different physician recruiting companies (Medicus Partners, Medstaff, EmCare, and Northstar Anesthesia). The services we provide give your clients the best possible information available.…

My colleague, Mike Vilimek (@mikevilimek) recently wrote an interesting blog post about Googling Candidates, which I would like to share here. 

He wrote...

Be honest…yeah, I thought so. We live in a world now where…

Don't Stare at The Road

So given the unemployment rate went up a week or so ago, I thought I would repost a 3 part series I did about a year ago on resumes, finding a job and more. So here we go.

Part 1

Your Resume the Key to new Opportunities!! 

Your resume, think of it as the key to opening doors to new possibilities and opportunities.  So given it is the key, you should probably learn how to write a great resume. First there are 3 main styles of…

Today I have decided to talk about a key part of business and operations: The Mission Statement. For a full definition of what a mission statement is, please refer to Wikipedia or a fantastic book by Stephen R. Covey entitled “7 Steps of Highly…

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. This week we’ll be talking about Employee Recognition, Interview Questions, Affecting Change, RFP’s and Recruitment SEO.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

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In an age where the millennial generation wants to practically wear their PJs to work how often do recruiters consider the outer appearance of candidates? Specifically, there was a time where women wore skirts, stocking and closed toes shoes and men were expected to be shaved, groomed and in their best in a dark suit and tie. Though I probably shouldn’t be I'm always surprised just how far we've allowed the dress code line to....move. Where stockings are not so much the expectation and men…

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Besides the apartment locating, we are a full service real estate company based in Dallas, so if you have any clients coming this way and they need information as far as the…

The Silicon Valley is known for IT and Computer Programming jobs and has seen strong hiring demand so far this year. In July, more than 6,500 new jobs were advertised online for IT related openings in the Silicon Valley – up 9% from July 2010. To determine the tech jobs that were the most…

Rule number 1: Research:

Congratulations! You have been invited for the interview. Now what do you do?

The first step is beginning to research the company. Once you have done this you will be ready to prep for the interview questions, learn how to improve your interviewing skills and begin to think about what you’re going to wear to the interview.

In order to succeed in the interview you need…

The…

I’ve recently talked about building your Talent Network and the value that it can provide as a inexpensive recruiting channel that can produce results for your recruiting marketing organization.  In this blog post, I would like to talk about a similar inexpensive…

Should you apply online? The age old question I guess eh? Do you send in your resume thought the online application and hope it’s not a black hole?

So we have ourselves another social media platform. Google wanted in on the world of Social Media and thus, Google+ came into being.

Now, apart from having some trouble registering for Google+ (here I must thank Ben for his patient phonecall to me) I was perfectly open-minded and ready to see how it would work and be received.…