LISTEN HERE…

I met Vinnie Brown just a short while ago. I guess he was reading my pleas for guests on Twitter and decided to raise his hand.

Before the show he posed as someone who was kind of nervous to be coming on and facing the crew but once he showed up everyone could tell that he wasn't a guy who gets nervous very…

Today we had the great Steve Levy - @LevyRecruits - on The Recruiting Animal Show.

Sometimes it's hard to tell what the show is like while you're doing it but I just listened to half of this one and it was a lot of fun and I didn't even get to what I thought (during the show) was the best part.

Levy…

I couldn't get a guest today. (Two recruiters volunteered but neither could get permission from their managers). So, we just went with a round table discussion featuring the Recruiting Animal Panel and I think it went pretty well. It reminded me of the first show.

Jerry was particularly vocal today. In…

This was a pretty funny show. There was some good info, too. Unfortunately, about half way through we started getting an echo on everything we said and that pretty well wrecked it for 20 minutes.

Here's what happened. Sometimes Skype calls or even cell phone calls create distortions on the line and I have to mute each caller to figure out which one is causing the…

Our good friend, Derek Zeller, the @DerDiver returned to The Recruiting Animal Show today as a guest and, as a pleasant surprise, long lost former regular @MaureenSharib came back as well. In fact, she took some of Derek's time at the start of the show to…

Remember the movie, Tell Them Willy Boy Is Here? (It's about a big chase). Well, Willy Boy Will Thomson Jr was on The Recruiting Animal Show for the second time on August 13, 2014 and we had a big chase of our own and I had hard time running him down. 

I asked him if people ever have their…

 Amy Ala returned to The Recruiting Animal Show today and I thought it was a really good show.  We got into the nitty gritty of a number of really basic topics such as: What is sales? How do you start a call when the other person answers the phone? How do you approach a person on Linkedin?

Also on the show:…

My good friend, @Rayanne invited me to be a guest on her new radio show HR Latte.

I said, "Rayanne, dear, I'm not so interesting so why don't you invite some people from the Animal Crew as well; you know a bunch of people who regularly call into the Recruiting Animal Show?"

She said "Okay" and, of…

Last week we had Jeff Newman on the show. This week we had his colleague, Melissa Adamo.  I'll tell you right off the bat that they destroyed us on the aftershow. 

I'd say the average score was 50 out of 100 but you know what? Lots of times the…

Al Guzman had started speaking to me on Twitter and he seemed like a smart guy so I invited him to come on. He's an ex-marine but he doesn't try to sound tough. He's very friendly and it was a very popular show.

And the guy who liked it most, to my surprise, was the erstwhile attack dog, Mike Astringer.…

Jeff is a good speaker but when he and his colleague Melissa Adamo were on the line the accents were so strong I felt like I was in a foreign country. His boss, Marty Burns called in too, from Amsterdam. And there was a guy we called Joe The Plumber…

This was an interesting show. I read some of Amy's articles about recruiting here on Recruitingblogs.com and in the comments I challenged her to come on The Recruiting Animal Show and defend her ideas. And, to my surprise, she accepted. Not many people do but she said that she has a lot of brothers so she knows how to deal with a bunch of rowdy guys.

Of course, the…

Mark has a good blog. I liked it because he is very honest about the ups and downs of his career.

However, on the show I wasn't really able to dig into how Mark wrestles with problems and here's why. It seems to me that after 18 years in the…

Back in 2013, I attended Geoff Webb's TRUToronto unconference and there I met a nice young guy named Phil Noelting, the CEO of @Qwalify. He gave me his card and we talked briefly about him being a…

Well, we had a very controversial show this week. I don't know why. I didn't expect it to be.

My friend's son got an offer from a company. He saw that they put all new employees on a 3 month probation period so he wondered if he was let go what his severance package would be. I think he was due 7 weeks from his old employer.

I thought it was a fair concern,…

@Jeff_recruiting --- LinkedIn -- Skywalk Group - Blog…

 Todd Schecter volunteered to be on the show via Twitter. I didn't have to go running after the guy begging him to be a guest. I didn't even know him before he just showed up and raised his hand.

And I thought he was a good guest and so did Jerry -- and in this case Jerry's opinion counts because he's in…

Today we had the great Frank Zupan as our guest. Frankie is a Recruiting Animal pal and a peripheral member of the #AnimalCrew but like all guests he preferred the general to the specific and I had to bug him to give us real life examples of what he believes to be true.

I thought it was a good show. I got to ask a top corporate recruiter questions that I assumed a 3rd…

I'm a fan of Stephen Nehez. He's an engineer and he plans his recruiting strategy like an engineer would.  And here's the thing: his standard candidate interview is 4 minutes long.

That's the focus of this terrific episode of THE RECRUITING ANIMAL SHOW…