This post is the second on a series on ways to speed up your search. I am exploring common yet often overlooked ways to be more effective as you research online. On our last post we discussed the importance of brainstorming. Now I want to delve somewhat on specificity.
The keywords or terms that you […]

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Everyone wants to know how to speed up their search through queries. Is this even possible? First, let’s start with the definition of search query: “the sum of the keywords, Boolean operators, operator modifiers and field command describing to the search engines what we intend to find and by which results are made available.”
By that […]

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One of the great privileges for me in blogging is to present a “Guest of Honor” to the recruiting community. I regularly get approached by people from my network about possible positions and unfortunately they are not in an industry segment that I may be focused in. I have decided to use my blog to […]

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It was a fantastic visit to Denver. Now, I have tell to you, I was especially jazzed about this meeting for several reasons, one being I was traveling to the Rocky Mountains, but more importantly….I was going to meet and spend the evening with a few people I have met and known only through the […]

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I was reading a brief article by ITNews.com titled Hackers attack myspace and facebook in it the author states that Criminal hackers now view social networking sites as their best target for attacks. He explains that the reason is that such sites are designed to be usable by “unsophisticated” consumers, meaning that the barrier to entry […]

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I was reading this series on Dilbert and I could almost say that Scott Adams has been a recruiter.  It seems he describes the plight of a sourcer to a tee, we are given what we now endearingly call a “purple squirrel” requirement and when thru a miraculous freak streak of luck we are able to […]

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I was reading this interesting article on workforce.com. It was more of a book review on a book titled “Talent on Demand” by Peter Cappelli. It mentioned something that I often thought about and recently discussed with Don Ramer and John Sumser after the Recruiting Roadshow in Las Vegas last week. It was about to […]

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I was reading an interesting article in workforce.com about the 7th Annual Sources of Hire Whitepaper produced by CareerXroads. Needless to say, I had to find that white-paper and see for myself. It shows some interesting data but it gave me so much food for thought I got a headache. (just kidding). The truth is that I began […]

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The recruiting roadshow “Las Vegas” is over but its influence is certainly nowhere close to being over.  I was not disappointed in what I experienced.  Let me give you a rundown. First we saw an engaging presentation by Doug Geinzer from www.recruitingneveda.com about the recruiting landscape and what it meant for Las Vegas.  Listening to him and looking at […]

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I am so thrilled to be here in Vegas. The MGM Grand Las Vegas is so huge and beautiful. Even at this late hour there are so many people around and you just can’t but feel the excitement in the air. It is quarter to one in the morning and can’t still sleep. I am […]

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I found an interesting article thru Recruiting.com posted by a blog called JobMob the article was titled Did Scott Adams get David Steward fired?about a man who got fired from a casino for posting a dilbert cartoon on a company bulletin board.
What struck me was the length to which Scott Adams the author of the Dilbert comic […]

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Every so often I hear a request for a degree and wonder why? Why is the degree necessary?
We don’t have to have a degree to be a professional engineer, one can be a P.E with experience; in fact some states you don’t even have to be educated to be a lawyer, so why do we […]

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1 Sales Recruiter *and* 1 Researcher/Sourcer

A well-funded startup business services company based in Evanston is looking for a “rockstar” recruiting team to join the organization. This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly-growing startup, led by a three-time CEO. The Sales Recruiter will recruit “A-Player” sales representatives on behalf of our […]

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Anyone that knows me, knows that I love sourcing, linkedIN and my IPhone. I phone this cool article About how linkedIN just went mobile. It just made me drool.
I just thought some of you might appreciate this as much as I.
Tags: recruiting, LinkedIN, IPhone, sourcing technology.

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A few days ago in an article titled “The recruiting Treadmill” I made fun of the reasoning that companies need to get fit. Colin Kingsbury COO from HRM Direct, in an article titled Getting on the recruiting treadmill says that in fact there is a recruiting treadmill. He calls it “competition”. After thinking a while […]

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