Rebecca B. Sargeant's Blog (50)

WAKE UP!….Fear and Worry are Calling!

 

It 5am, and of course you are up!  As an entrepreneur these 5am, 4am (or my personal favorite: 2am) wake up call times quickly turn into regular patterns.  The two little demons, "Fear" and "Worry," are quite happy to push that buzzer for you today.  As an entrepreneur, over time you will develop the stamina to simply use these nasty little wake-up calls as a way to…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on December 17, 2010 at 5:01am — 2 Comments

Top 10 Reasons WHY Having ADD Is Truly A Benefit When You Are a RECRUITER!

1. Compassion ~ People with ADD have a tremendous power to connect with other people. But it goes a step further than that. We also have an advanced ability to empathize with others, and to see many different perspectives.

2. Creativity ~ Have you ever met an ADDer who wasn’t creative!???? Recruiters, Writers, painters, musicians, film makers, designers, sculptors, comedians – the list goes on! Artistic talents are…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on November 10, 2010 at 2:57pm — 12 Comments

This week has been a while wind of activity and it’s only Wednesday.

Hello Everyone ~

Yesterday Dawn owner of Trans-logic, Heather of Ranstad, Doreen of WWWworks, Tracy, owner of The Job Route; Brian, owner of Campbell Morden and I took time out of our busy schedules to attend…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on October 27, 2010 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Need a kick in the butt?

We all have days when we need to shut out the noise and get back the job of making money. Nothing drives this point home more than Jerry Albright’s…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on October 14, 2010 at 4:14pm — 1 Comment

Do you want a career or a pay cheque?

I received a call from a Recruiter today asking for information about a particular agency they are scheduled to interview with later this week. To aid Recruitment Professionals in their career search we provide this information to Recruiters for free, making these kinds of calls a part of our everyday routine. Issues only arise when the same Recruiter calls over and over again wanting to make a lateral move and their expectations are that the…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on September 22, 2010 at 10:55am — 4 Comments

The Changing Role Of The Corporate Recruiter

This weekend in the Globe and Mail on the front of the business section was a small article about the stubborn U.S. jobless rate. If you noticed the article, you would have viewed it as an indicator of the first signs that we are moving out of the “Information Age” and into the “Knowledge Economy”. This could be causing that ever talked about talent shortage we as recruiters have been preaching about for years. Raghuram Rajan (a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on September 7, 2010 at 3:31pm — 3 Comments

Do you know about www.RecruitingBlogs.com?

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As a seasoned Recruiter I have been extremely frustrated with how to practically apply the use of “Social Media” to my full desk environment. The more times I posted positions to my LinkedIn signature, groups, et cetera the more silence I seem to have been creating. As my frustration reached a…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on August 30, 2010 at 9:51am — 2 Comments

The Life Span Of A Recruiter

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Not one of us dreams of becoming a Recruiter, let alone plans a career that will span our entire professional life. But it is possible. As a Recruiter who recruits Recruiters we see it everyday in the backgrounds of the business owners,…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on August 2, 2010 at 2:01pm — 19 Comments

Bad news – There Are No Phone Psychics!

After hearing a few words from a candidate, the recruiter seems to have an uncanny ability to sense and uncover important details or hidden objectives others will not notice until much later in the recruiting process. Often their opinion and projections about individuals turn out to be dead on.…

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Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on July 26, 2010 at 7:55am — 3 Comments

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