As posted April 14, 2008 on the Minnesota Recruiters web site

During our quarterly (un)Conference events a frequent request has been to have specific topic sessions during the off months. This is our first topic session.

Minnesota Recruiters and JobDig are…

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Over the past four weeks, the two preceding the Minnesota Recruiters (un)Conference | Winter 2008 and the two since, the number of Recruiters and HR professionals in this informal group has grown significantly.

Leading up to the event there were around 340 members and now…

February 29^th a group of 125 local Recruiters, HR professionals and a few college students attended the third Minnesota Recruiters event at Best Buy corporate headquarters sponsored by JobDig, LinkUp, and Oberon.

For complete information on the…

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Many thanks to Kevin Donlin of The Simple Job Search and The Simple Job Search Blog for referring the folks putting on the event to me.

Click Career Expo to see those presenting and list of the exhibitors with the job fair.

I was a late edition to the web…

Not a recruiting story but a project being worked on by a recruiter. Sort of like what the definition of the word "is" is.

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More than a year ago I acquired the domain TwinCitiesBlogs.com. I was not sure what I wanted to do with it but it…

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Celebrates 10 years, more like survives.

10 years is a long time to do something. Other than being a recruiter and a Gopher football fan I am not sure what else I have done for 10 years. Besides obvious things like being a son, friend, etc.

Ten years, 2 months to be exact. I am not big on anniversary dates so I missed…

Tips For The Unemployed Job Seeker

By Matt Krumrie

Last update: November 19, 2007 - 7:52 AM

Paul DeBettignies, managing partner, Nerd Search, LLC (www.mnheadhunter.com) and an IT search firm recruiter for eight years, says finding a job is a contact sport. The more people you are in contact with the better the odds of a short job search. Making contacts is part…

First, many thanks to Jason Davis for walking me through this a few months ago.

And yes I know it is a little odd to announce a group is launching next week. But I thought you might want to know.…

I love it when people start a message with “Dude”...

Yeah I know I have not posted…

As posted on my MN Headhunter blog...

I have received a few email the past two weeks wondering where I have been and why I had not been writing.

Between the day job of recruiting and the other day job of “Cruise Director” for the unconference I have been very, very busy. Mix in with that a volunteer stint at the University of Minnesota to help with the hiring of a graduate assistant I have been a little overwhelmed.

But it has…

As posted this evening on my MN Headhunter blog...

I have been so involved in the planning process I failed to keep people up to date here. Response to the invitation below has been phenomenal. We have space for 100 attendees and have been on a…

For those like me who are sometimes (in my case frequently) challenged about how to make a profile page look better here is how to add a LinkedIn button (one that connects to your LinkedIn profile) to your profile page.

After doing this I invite…

Many weeks ago I contacted my local career blogging colleagues about getting together for…

As posted this afternoon on MN Headhunter:

Two years ago Monday, May 21^st, I started this MN Headhunter blog. This post also hits a milestone of 500 posts.

Before getting into this I did not intentionally make this the 500^th post.…