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Is Your Organization Optimized? 8 Questions to Ask Yourself
Our country has gone from conversations about how to recruit and retain quality employees in a market with low unemployment just a few short years ago to conversations about how to find a job in a...
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How to Be Sure Your Job Req Attracts Anyone and Everyone
click to enlarge One of the things that frustrated me when I was a recruiter was a poorly written job description. This was just one of many puzzle pieces that provided the impetus for me to leave...
View ArticleThis Is NOT Recruiting
I recently received an email with a job spec on it. An associate who had received it from a recruiter forwarded it to me because of my feelings on this type of “recruiting.” She (the recruiter in...
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Attn: Recruiting Leaders — When Hiring Recruiters, You Get What You Pay for
Do you know what an experienced recruiter “looks like”? If hiring a recruiter to build a talent strategy, would you know the interview questions to ask to determine if candidates can do the job like...
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Proactive vs. Reactive Approaches to Your Business and Talent
Have you thought about how much it costs to fix a problem after the fact vs. preventing it from happening in the first place? In a February 2011 McKinsey report one of the companies interviewed for the...
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Communication and Your Business
Without effective, intentional communication, your company won’t thrive. Communication consists of three parts: Oral (Verbal) Non-Verbal Written Each of these is necessary and they work together in...
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Are You a Technology Junkie?
There’s probably not a week (or maybe even a day) that goes by in which we don’t read about how technology will help you in your business, whether it be a smartphone, tablet, computer, social media,...
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8 Questions to Ask to Determine the Best Practices You Need to Implement
I received an email recently asking for articles on recruiting best practices within immature companies. It’s a solid request but broad in scope because, depending on who you ask, “recruiting best...
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Advice on Entering the Recruiting Field
Knowing that some readers of ERE.net are not in recruiting, I wanted to address a question that Todd was sent about how to get into recruiting. This is an appropriate topic for recruiters still green...
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This Is Business; Stay the Hell Out of Your Candidates’ Personal Lives
I read an article last week about job candidates being asked for their Facebook passwords so that potential employers can examine their personal activity. It also covers law enforcement agencies making...
View ArticleGot a Minute? If So, Spend it Looking at Resumes
I recently read an article suggesting that recruiters only spend six seconds reviewing a resume to determine whether or not a candidate was a fit to the job they were attempting to fill. 6 Seconds?! My...
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What Every Recruiter Ought to Know About Candidates With Questionable References
If you have ever been in a situation when checking references on a candidate you uncovered negative references and/or performance reviews, you are not alone. What you do with the information is key....
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Hire Like Google … Or Should You?
Sometimes I’m asked about the graphic of sheep on my website. Sheep will follow other sheep — regardless of the danger — and the flash analogizes the importance of breaking the herd mentality. A great...
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How Having as Many LinkedIn Connections as Possible Will Increase Your...
As an early adopter of LinkedIn (member 554,000-ish) I’d like to think I have a bit of experience and insight into this business network. I am not a LinkedIn expert, but I do know enough about it to...
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Why You and Your Candidates Should NEVER Accept a Counteroffer
(Editor’s note: With so many new ERE members coming on all the time, we thought that each week we’d republish one popular classic post. Here’s one, below.) For the sake of this article I’m going to...
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Why Some Recruiters Will Almost Always Be a Success
There is nothing like a good controversy to stir up one’s feelings and subsequently a fierce debate. One of my favorite things about reading articles on ERE is how some of its contributors have a...
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Sit Down and Listen Up — What the Best Recruiters Already Know That You...
As a recruiter, the way you communicate can make or break you. It can keep you employed and keep your candidates loyal to you. I’m sure you have all heard the saying, “It’s not what you say. It’s how...
View ArticleYes, There’s No Shortcut If You Really Want to Recruit Like Google
Sometimes I’m asked about the graphic of sheep on my website. Sheep will follow other sheep — regardless of the danger — and the flash analogizes the importance of breaking the herd mentality. A great...
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Why Clients and Candidates Need Independent Recruiters
There is nothing like a good controversy to stir up one’s feelings and subsequently a fierce debate. One of my favorite things about reading articles on ERE is how some of its contributors have a...
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Contingent Conundrum: Building Relationships or Slinging Spaghetti?
We’ve lost the human side of recruiting to the tools and repetitive tasks of recruiting. I could go into a long diatribe, but a short one will do. I’ve said over and over in many different ways that...
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