There have been numerous books written on the subject of communication. One of the best is "Conscious Business" by Fred Kofman. I am reading this book now, but have read numerous others on the subject. The one thing that sticks in my mind has been how the littlest words, can have the biggest impact on…

Wanting to Connect but wasting my Time!!

I get a lot of requests to connect on various social sites. I am pretty picky about who I accept. That said I will never understand why anyone would take the time to send a connection request with no message and worse with a profile that says nothing, thus wasting my…

So, we as staffing professionals are held accountable for candidate and client (HM) satisfaction. This is measured with a survey and subsequent percentage for success according to a set of question that are answered with a rating scheme.

However so much of our ability to be good, is dependent on our HMs. If you have a good HM you will…

Words and Phrases to recruit by!!!

In no particular Order

1. Take control!!- This means to come in and establish yourself with your client. You must establish credibility, in order for them to truly work with you and for you to have the type of presence needed to be viewed as the…

That’s right; I said it, “The dumbing down of Staffing”. As much as we all love technology, and tools, I mean one of my monikers is “the Tool Guy”, technology and tools are dumbing us down. What I mean by that is we have a breed of staffing professional, that all they know is checking their ATS, checking the Monsters, LI, Dices, CareerBuilder’s,…

So one thing I have been hearing a lot of is Proactive vs reactive vs just in time vs pipelining. Or more specifically what do they mean. So here we go;

Proactive; when someone, usually a staffing professional, proactively goes out and searches for candidates. Of course you are still publishing the position every…

Recruiters can suffer from the same negative effects of success that anyone else does. The main issue is complacency. Sometimes a recruiter or anyone who has great success can become complacent. Sit back on their laurels so to speak. Sometimes with recruiters, it can also happen because they think they know the business they support too well, or they…

Leaders VS Managers

Recently I was asked by a fellow professional what is the difference between a leader and a manager. I thought long and hard about it, and came to several realizations. Now keep in…

We all know there is a requirement for a certain amount of administrivia as a staffing professional. Whether it is; writing to contact a candidate, writing a job description, or writing up your interview notes, there will always be some administrivia.

However there comes a point when administrivia becomes counterproductive and even…

Losing candidates? Look at your process.

Given how hard it is to find good candidates, when you do find one and then loose them it can be very difficult and nerve racking. Of course you always want to know why, and while in some cases it will be things like salary, location. In others it is simply your…

This is a repost of an earlier post I did. This report is by request from numerous people so here we go

For those of you that have been following me, you know whenever I post about lesser sites, I always say at some point use your social detective skills. Well while I Have spoken about it, showed it, and perhaps did a video about it, I…

Project Management.com is a huge online community of Project Managers offering

over 12000 how-to articles, templates, project plans, and checklists to help you do

your job. It is also a great place to source, however few recruiters know about it or

how to source from it. Well to do this without you need go no further than into…

The Lawyers of Distinction is an organization that recognizes lawyers who have shown explementary

Skills, and humanity while doing their jobs. In other words, the best of the best. It is also a great place to

source, however, few recruiters know about it or how to source from it. Well to do this without you need

go no further than…

The Amazon Builders' Library authors are long time Amazonians and are delighted to share the learnings

on each one of topics they've written about various topics. However few recruiters know about it or how

to source from it. Well to do this without you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out

an old…

Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published

under the MIT license. However few recruiters know about it or how to source from it. Well to do this

without you need go no further than…

NPINO is a site that allows you to search for medical professionals based on their NPI number which is

is a unique identification number for covered health care providers (doctors, dentists,

chiropractors, nurses and other medical staff). However few recruiters know about it or how to

source from it. Well to do this…

Allnurses is a Nursing Career & Support site. Our mission is to Empower, Unite, and Advance every nurse,

student, and educator. However few recruiters know about it or how to source from it. Well to do this

without you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool,…

The Google Code Archive contains the data found on the Google Code Project Hosting Service, which

was turned down in early 2016. However few recruiters know about it or how to source from it.

Well to do this without you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and

true tool, called…

Facebook is huge Social site that everyone knows about. However few know about its Developers

Blog section which boasts a huge number of blogs written by developers for developers. And even

Fewer know how to source from it.  Well to do this without you need go no further than into your

bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and…

CodeMentor is the largest community for developer mentorship and an on-demand marketplace for

software developers. CodeMentor is not a well known site and as such few have tried to source in it. Well to do

this without you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool,

called…