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…

Twitter is, hands down, my favorite social network. It's a great source of information and learning, and a wonderful way  to connect with people who share similar interests. As a recruiter, it's also great…

From snazzy one sheets to tightly scripted, carefully rehearsed webinars competition for the billions of dollars in annualized spend in HR technologies seems predicated not necessarily on the actual use case and business impact of the product itself, but rather, on the…

Sourcecon 2013: Turbocharge Your Front-End Talent Sourcing Efforts for (Nearly) Free

This Session was on resources for searching and sourcing.

Glenn Gutmacher one of the top sourcers in the country ran this session. He spoke at first about which you would rather do; buy expensive software, use inexpensive tools or build it…

Best Practices for New Employee Onboarding

Rich Peterson says, "Most new hires fail within 18 months on the job."

Smart Onboarding is critical in making career transitions much smoother.

Why Onboarding Matters?

It s proven that new hires without an effective onboarding program will fail over the course of their short lived career with your organization.

One of the important ways that HR can impact the workforce and…

Sourcecon 2013: Five Easy Steps to Building Winning Boolean Search Strings

The Session was a Boolean operator/search string 101. John Childs who ran the session went through the most common operators; AND, OR, wild cards, and more.

Johns 5 step…

This year has been a year of many conferences for me, most of them being dedicated to sourcing: speaking at SourceCon in Atlanta in February 2013, at Sourcing Summit New Zealand in May, at Sourcing Summit…

SourceCon Seattle 2013: An interview with Glenn Gutmacher

While I was at SourceCon in Seattle, I had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the top sourcing professionals in the country, Glenn Gutmacher, to discuss SourceCon, sourcing and more.

Dean: So, Glenn, how do you…

Featured Guest Post by Gerry Crispin, Principal & Founder, Career XRoads

During the last three years TalentBoard, a US non-profit overseeing the Candidate Experience Awards, has been collecting data that the organization’s volunteers…

“Vegas, baby! Vegas!!” – Trent

SEO Alert: This is an #HREvolution preview post, but since if you haven’t already booked #HREvolution tickets, you're SOL, I wanted to lay out what Ben Eubanks and couldn't cover about Gen Y in 45 minutes during our #HREvolution session Sunday.  Hope to see you there, but either way, read on and if you tweet, add #HREvolution to the end. See you in…

I have been using LinkedIn since the beginning and have had a LinkedIn Recruiter account for the last few years. I was doing a audit of my current account usage, as well as trying different formats to increase responses. With a current accept rate of 15%, I should be happy with the results, right? I look back to comments by Lou Adler about how to get a much higher response rate. I use templates and personalized messages. I try both direct and indirect recruiting. 

In doing a deep…

So, another year at the HR Technology Conference. It’s the chance to see the newest and greatest cutting edge technologies from vendors that were founded decades ago or ones you've already gone through an RFP with.  It goes to show the fact that while HR relies on technology to justify spend, for…

The only thing cooler than having a conference in your home city is to have it hosted by your employer. I was lucky enough to snag a seat to the hottest sourcing conference around and the first time ever in Seattle. My day started out like any other, except instead of heading to my office I got to join 400+ recruiters and sourcers from across the country at The Mixer. Need a haircut? New…

New Haven, CT – October 2, 2013: RecruitingDaily, LLC announced today that it has hired Matt Charney as Managing Editor for RecruitingDaily LLC and RecruitingBlogs.com. Noel Cocca, CEO and…

I have very fond memories growing up.  I had the best father and mother a child could ask for in parents.  My mother was always there for me.  She had a hot meal ready for our family every night.  We always had everything we wanted, and more than we ever really needed.  Both parents taught me morally what was right and wrong. My father taught me how to be a man and…

This industry of ours is fundamentally flawed, and the reason is simple: in a world where the barrier to entry is more or less a pulse, an entire category of “thought leaders” has emerged who, really, aren’t thinking about HR at all. Rather, their primary focus seems to be on creating problems which don't actually exist and making them seem pressing enough to spend money on.  I’ve written extensively on these topics, but I firmly believe that if HR in general,…