I’ve always felt a bit as though a New Year’s resolution was contradictory to my practice of setting progressive goals…

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I was due for another post anyway and what better subject for that post than ME! I’ve never put a lot of thought into what makes me a smart recruiter, I’m usually much more focused on what will make me a “smarter” recruiter.



1. So I guess that’s the first thing – I am a sponge, always looking to learn new ways to do what I do better.



2. I came to in-house, corporate recruiting from a TPR background. The learning experiences from that part of my career have carried over to… Continue

I’ve been talking with people in various stages of panic over the past few weeks (ummm, months..?), from those beginning to hear the rumblings of imminent layoffs, to those just having felt the axe drop, to those having found themselves on the market for longer than they expected or are comfortable with.



The bad news is that I’m going to continue getting those panicky calls, there is no swift end to the concerns that folks are having about their current or impending… Continue

Still focusing on candidate experience, I began thinking today about communication style and its role in developing relationships with candidates. My train of thought was de-railed by visions of the application of this question in my newer pursuits of social networking for recruiting. Social media has added a whole new layer to communication with potential recruits in our industry. But this doesn’t mean that the skills we’ve all honed to deal with people via all of our other modes of… Continue