Effective business networking is the bringing together of like-minded individuals who, through relationship building, become walking, talking advertisements for one another.

Keep in mind that networking is about…

Take No Prisoners is a free weekly memo from Scott Wintrip that explores how Radical Accountability prospers companies and changes lives. Instead of taking people hostage with outdated, heavy-handed, and ineffective methods of management, measurement, and motivation, Radical Accountability focuses on creating an unwavering responsibility for getting what matters…

If you are the owner or manager of an Information and Technology company, then you would have thought of the benefits of listing your company’s job openings with many IT recruitment agencies. They are a good source of finding the best manpower for your company. The more you list your company with various recruiting agencies,  the more are the chances of finding a better person to close the position. A company that limits its resources may find it difficult to attract the best possible…

Companies today are forced to face a big talent challenge…acquiring, developing and retaining employees while always reflecting the key business goals of the organization. Employers want to make the most of their talent but are getting more and more concerned about their ability to leverage human capital. Successful companies are managed by…

Ponder these 7 facts, please.

Fact 1: Over the last 10 years I have had more than 1,000 people report to me, directly or indirectly. Over my working life, who knows how high that number is?

Fact 2: 90% of those people are recruiters or recruiting managers.

Fact 3: Just about the biggest issue owners and managers of recruitment companies bleat about, is finding and retaining recruiters.

Fact 4: Our…

Recruiting Generation Y is a topic on the minds of countless recruiters across the globe. As more and more of the Baby Boomer generation approach retirement, Generation X workers disperse into those former roles, and recruiting efforts focus on sourcing from the Generation Y.  This is part one of a two part series. Today,  I will share some information that will help…

Thanks to those who attended the panel I moderated at Staffing World last week in Orlando. 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…

One of the most pervasive, and ubiquitous, topics permeating the recruitment and talent acquisition industry agendas is that of candidate experience, a focus reflected throughout the HR Technology Conference’s agenda and ancillary events, including the Third Annual Candidate Experience…

Looking for fall decor ideas? Pinterest is your site. Planning a wedding? Pin away. Looking for job candidates? See you later Pinterest. 

While extremely popular, Pinterest is often looked at as just a fun, mindless way to pass time. Sure, it's a great marketing platform for dress shops and craft stores, but most service-based businesses struggle to see Pinterest as a viable marketing channel.

But don't…

Construction recruitment agencies mainly work in providing staffing solution to the companies working in the construction field. The Construction industry is one of the fastest and consistently growing industry and is expected to grow more with the continued rise in population. With the growth of…

Winning Formalized Internship Programs

These methods are based on organization's goal is to convert interns to full-time hires and is therefore paying its interns. 

Unpaid internships present a number of problems for organizations focused on intern conversion.

Rich Peterson firmly believes, if you follow these simple rules, you will Hit a Home Run.

 1. Furnish interns with real work assignments:

Furnishing interns with…

Tracking Metrics

Rich Peterson knows there are loads of articles about how the metrics behind recruiting drive the hiring process.

Recruiting metrics provide us an opportunity to take a analytical approach to hiring by allowing us to quantify the hiring process. Tracking day-to-day details provide us a look at the big picture.

Almost all HR metrics record history. It has little value in the fast-changing business world where any of your numbers, positive or…

If you are in a position of interviewing a job applicant, you are by virtue of that role inferring that you believe you are justified in knowing the answer to any questions you decide to ask, relevant or not.

Recently during a twitter chat related to hiring practices I responded to another participant because I felt an interview question s/he admitted to asking…

I caught up with a client the other day. She was actually a candidate I placed many years ago and we’ve kept in regular contact.

She’s a pretty tough business woman (I remember she was a pretty demanding candidate too!) so I felt quite chuffed when she told me that of all the recruiters she’s dealt with throughout her career both as a…

Sourcecon 2013: CV Sourcing Tool

This Session was on a CV Sourcing Tool and was ran by Scott Simmons of Groupon.

Having seen this before I still found it interesting, Everyone knows that sourcers have to constantly make search strings, and most for some reason do not keep…

“Most organizations have at least five different technology products that recruiters touch within a single day.”

As these words escaped from Elaine Orler, President and Founder of Talent Function Group, I instantly reread my notes to make sure I heard the statistic…

You’re trying to get your staff engaged, you’re doling out tokens of appreciation left and right and you are a memo machine, but all of these attempts at …

“Act now, this offer won’t last”

“Limited time only”

“You get what you pay for”

“Quantities are limited”

Slick lines like these are met with derision, as they should be. Effective marketing is credible, concise, and compelling by making clear the value the client will receive. As the marketing evangelists for their companies, salespeople must avoid suave approaches, canned responses, and feature-benefit laden speeches that only serve to put off customers instead…

We are at a point where we have left the discussion whether or not social media is going to be a serious employer branding tool far behind. We are beyond the hype. And we are happy about it. It is about time to measure the ever-changing social media landscape and to find out how the usage of social media for recruitment has changed over the last twelve months. Did employers put more effort in engaging with their target audiences? Did we experience more interaction? And…