A few years ago this interesting article appeared on Accuweather.com about a mysterious purple squirrel that a Pennsylvania couple had captured:  http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/purple-squirrel-found-in-penns/61308

Indeed, according to this 2012 article the couple…

How can you hire better? It’s true that there is no one answer to this question, but it’s easy to see that continuing the same practices is not the solution. Today we have sourcing technology,…

Mostly, I have had a blessed career in recruitment. Sure there have been tough times and lots of challenges. But mostly I have had…

To most companies the idea of their employees doing something else on during the work hours might seem threatening. For many young and creative professionals daylighting has become a way of life, and if done correctly and transparently it can benefit the employee while still not harming the company. 

Daylighting must be transparent to your…

Recruiting is not what it used to be. The recruitment field has changed a lot due to the evolution of social media, mobile networking, big data, and digital tools. As a consequence, it’s time to develop new strategies. Here are a few ways you can update your recruiting strategies:

1. Understand the job position – Often, when there is…

Your hours trawling LinkedIn have finally paid off!

You've found the perfect new candidate, you can finally fill that role that's been nagging at you for the past few months.

Except not everything goes to plan. Your cold emails fall on deaf ears, your phone calls go unanswered.

What should you do next? How long can you keep flogging the…

Seeing the last year’s trend, 2016 has raised a new debate on whether any layman person could take recruitment as his/her career. The big answer is NO. Recruitment is a very specialized field. Just like organisations look for core Marketing, Finance & Operation professionals, similar is the need to have trained recruiter.

Here are 6 things, …

A common theme in many corporations is what is in it for us? If we spend this amount to secure this new service or product how much are we going to see in return? Every decision is couched in this idea that decisions must be made dependent on what we will see back from the investment. We avoid innovation and new ways to run more effectively because the ROI equation does not…

Leader Behaviours You Needn't Copy to Succeed

My next statement is considered sacrilegious by 3.5 billion people.…

Coroflot is a Career and community site hosting individual creative portfolios, a global design firm directory, and a database of job and project openings.  Coroflot is not well known in the staffing community and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and…

Benefits packages can determine whether a candidate decides to accept your job offer or your talent competitor’s job offer. So, how are you communicating your company’s employee benefits? Hardcopy manuals? Email? Well, as with most business…

Glassdoor recently published its list of the …

Hi all, 

It's been a while since I have posted here. I thought this blog would be the best resource to ask this question. I've been an agency recruiter for almost 4 years now and I am becoming a bit more proactive about finding a corporate job (this has always been my ultimate goal). I know there are some major differences between the agency and corporate world and I…

In the same way baby boomers looked upon Generation X with raised eyebrows and slightly aghast mouths, recruiters are now looking to Generation Z - the cohort born from the mid-1990s to now - with the same curiously baffled expressions.

But we’re going to have to start hiking up…

What are your strengths as a leader? Possibly communication, collaboration or guidance. Few …

Culture fit is becoming a top priority for big companies. It is simply based on the idea of hiring synchronized individuals who share the same thought process as the company’s culture to create successful and productive teams. A recent study done by …

If you're looking for a great recruiting job in the midst of all these how-to's and what not to do's, you're in luck. In case you didn't know, you actually can find one here, on RecruitingBlogs.

With the power that is Indeed.com, RecruitingBlogs actually has its own mini job board where we're featuring - you guessed it - recruiting jobs. So if you're looking for…