Recruiting Articles

The 3 Dimensions to Recruiting Top Performers
by Neil LockhartSep 22, 2009, 5:48 am ET

This article, is based upon the book “Cultivating the Pearl” about recruiting top talent. It is scheduled for release early 2010. Neil Lockhart’s recent focus has been on recruiting in the construction industry. His recruiting experience dates back to 1997 with Hall Kinion, a technical staffing agency, where he received the Ultima Award in 2000 for outstanding billing. He has functioned as a technical recruiter at the agency level and as a corporate recruiter. As a corporate recruiter, he recruited top candidates for financial services, online media, advertising, sales/marketing, and technology positions.

http://www.ere.net/2009/09/22/the-3-dimensions-to-recruiting-top-performers/

The Danger of Playing it Safe When Hiring
Posted by Bob Corlett

Hiring can be made more predictable, but it cannot be made safe. Sooner or later you will make a hiring mistake. You will. You simply cannot avoid it, mistakes happen. But here is the problem: most managers work far harder to avoid making a hiring mistake than they work to ensure they hire top performers.

http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/the-danger-of-playing-it-safe-when-hiring/

Counteroffers: Can You Spot the Warning Signs?
By Bill Radin

For a recruiter, no disaster compares to an accepted counteroffer. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that most of us would rather suffer a year’s worth of phone rejection than face those four fateful words, “I’ve changed my mind.”

To protect your investment in time…

http://www.billradin.com/recruiting_tips_counteroffer_signs.htm

Social Media Should Rock Your World
Ten Reasons to Participate in Social Media
By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide

Social media participation is an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If you’re not participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Why not become involved on the social media Web sites while your participation can advance your career, help you obtain superior employees by enlarging your candidate pool, and enable you to easily stay in touch with coworkers and former coworkers at one location.

You will need to explore…

http://humanresources.about.com/od/careernetworking/a/social_media.htm

How to Improve Your Cold-Calling Skills
By Darren Dahl | Feb 26, 2010

Let’s face it: nobody really enjoys making cold calls. But sparking a connection remains a crucial skill to have whether you are a business owner, job seeker or even a volunteer looking to raise money. Here’s a guide to closing more deals with fewer dials.

http://www.inc.com/guides/cold-calling-skills.html

recruitDC “unconference” for recruiters by recruiters
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (ET)
Washington, DC

recruitDC – a new, grassroots organization debuting its first ever event on May 26, 2010 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC – aspires to create a sense of community amongst recruiting professionals in the DC metro area. The conference aims to unite metro-based recruiters in a venue conducive to collaboration, knowledge sharing and numerous learning opportunities geared at recruiting professionals seeking localized career development.

http://recruitdc.eventbrite.com

A message to all members of RecruitingBlogs.com

It’s Sunday so I figured instead of the normal radio silence from us at
RecruitingBlogs.com, I would show you a new site we are building called RecruiterTweets.com

We are going to be adding lots of great resources dealing with twitter
and recruiting and recruiters. If you have any resources you would like
us to add, please let me know.

Thanks

Slouch

http://recruitertweets.com

The “Hippies” are Back in 2.0 Form!

Notice that the “Hippie” movement of the 60′s & 70′s represented a “counter-culture” formed into “social groups and communities”. Sound familiar? It should because today there is a “counter-culture” forming into social groups and communities online that reject established corporate cultures, media and age-old philosophies that accept things as they’ve been done instead of changing things that can be done better.

Today hippies 2.0 are using a different kind of psychedelic drug called social technology. Instead of…

http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=11312#

Social Media for Recruiting u2013 Post and Pray approach?

Posted by Sarang Brahme on August 13, 2010 at 10:27am

Early-users has definitely started calling it ALA u201cDot Com Bubbleu201d of internet. We have to remember that it merely serves as a u201cToolu201d and not as an entire u201cStrategyu201d with a stand-alone usage.

Well, with this post I would like to highlight a big u201cDonu2019tu201d in Recruitment as far as social media goes. Social media does give a large visibility on internet with itu2019s advance tools and technology. However,
just merely using them does not mean that a Recruiter 1.0 (I call it Inbox version) upgrades to…

See entire post here. http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/s...

Linking Social Media and Face to Face Networking

Posted by Mike Waterton on August 11, 2010 at 10:04am

The networking event I attended last night had an unusually low turnout. I appreciate that people are on holiday,but even taking this in to account I still expected there to be more people to a very regular event.

This morning I had an email from a business associate who I had expected to see at the networking evening, so I called him and asked why he couldnu2019t make it. To my dismay, he had chosen not to attend thinking it would
be a waste of time as only a few people would be there! We then had a rather
long discussion as I wanted to demonstrate that he had missed one of the main
points of networking. The epiphany that followed…

See the entire post here: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/l...

What questions should you ask in an interview? Please see the video from Patra Frame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqstmObCOEA&feature=player_embedded#!

Jay, Thanks for the kind comments on the ClearedJobs.net video you linked below. Too few candidates understand that they can and should ask detailed questions about the work, the company, and the future so that they can make a good decision about their own future. Understandable to some extent during any recession, but still critical. Will have a series of new videos up later this spring too.