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Why Recruiters Should Help Candidates Polish Their CVs
Although I am no longer working within operational recruitment, I love this industry and remain a part of it. To this day, people ask me for help with their CVs, or whether I know anyone in a company...
View ArticleLook Beyond Resumes to Find the Perfect Fit
Picture this: A group of miners venturing into a dark cave, equipped with only their pickaxes, helmets and a strong desire to do the work. They each have a mission to find valuable mineral deposits....
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Getting Ahead in RPO
So, you are a great agency recruiter with an amazing network of clients and candidates, but you really want to take your career up a notch and move into the dynamic world of Recruitment Process...
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Why RPO Recruiting is Good for Your Career
I suspect many career-minded people share my paralyzing fear of making the wrong career choices. More than most, recruiters are particularly prone to self-analysis about their careers and their career...
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The Art of Building Real Relationships with Virtual People
When I started recruiting a little over ten years ago, I always looked forward to meeting candidates in person as they arrived for interviews. It was mostly curiosity, but I also wanted them to feel...
View ArticleClosing a Requisition: Persuasive Techniques to Secure a “Yes”
There isn’t a recruiter out there who hasn’t experienced an on-the-fence candidate, claiming they need time to consider accepting (or rejecting) an offer. Perhaps candidates are hesitant about...
View Article25 Interview Questions for Value-Based Healthcare
Ages come and pass, leaving memories that fade to legend. Legends become myth, and even myth is soon buried. In one Age, called the Age of Quality, a swift wind billowed in the cliffs of healthcare....
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#IWantThatHat! On Twitter, Hashtags & Recruitment Marketing
I spent some time the other day exploring recruitment-related articles, blog posts and the like, specifically those related to recruiting via social media, and one story in particular jumped off of...
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Answering Today’s Recruiting Challenges: “Pick up the Phone!”
The 2013 Recruiting Trends Conference was held on October 24-25 in Las Vegas, Nevada; along with a number of recruiters, sourcers, talent acquisition managers and other recruitment professionals, I was...
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Survey Results: The Most “Broken” Operation in Healthcare
Talent Acquisition is the most broken operation across hospitals and health systems in the U.S., this according to a survey conducted by Pinstripe Healthcare during the ASHHRA 49th Annual Conference...
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New to the Field? The 5 Social Recruiting Essentials.
As recruiters, our primary goals are to represent our organizations as brand ambassadors, drive traffic and positive attention, demonstrate competence and tech-savviness, inspire meaningful...
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7 Reasons Why Being a Recruiter is Downright Awesome
If you’re in recruiting, my guess is you didn't grow up seeking to join the profession (I sure didn't). Like most youths with stars in their eyes, you probably dreamed of space travel, dancing, acting,...
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The Final Puzzle Piece to a Complete Employer Brand
The world of Human Resources (HR), talent acquisition and management spent an awful lot of time in 2013 discussing the topic of employer branding; conversations that will only intensify in the years...
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Social Recruiting: There’s Shakespearean Method to the Madness
Full disclosure, I'm a gigantic fan of William “The Bard of Avon” Shakespeare. I’ve seen and read it all, and the amount of Shakespeare trivia knowledge inside this head of mine would astound you. I'm...
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4 MUSTS for Creating & Curating Social Media Content
There are few things less intimidating than the blank page. That diabolical blinking cursor, bent on destroying your will—blink, blink, blink… The whiteness of the blank page is terrifying,...
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Let’s Get Rural: 5 Tips for Sourcing Talent in Isolated Areas
As sourcing techniques become more sophisticated with new and innovative methods of finding people online—for instance, Sourcing Meetup Groups, x-ray searching social networks and leveraging list...
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Reverse Engineering the Recruiting & Job-Seeking Process
During SourceCon 2014—“The must attend conference for all things sourcing”—which took place in Atlanta, GA, reverse engineering the recruiting process was a topic of hot debate. Reverse engineering is...
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6 Reasons We Must “Listen” to Our Candidates!
Humans of New York is a fascinating Facebook page. Photographer Brandon Stanton travels around New York City snapping pictures of the people he encounters and inserts brief quotes with each shot he...
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Like Dessert, Don’t Over-Indulge on Social Media
As the saying goes, “Less is more,” usually proves to be true in all areas in life—over-spending during a shopping spree, indulgent dinners, dessert and… recruiting via social media? Logically, they...
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Work-Life Balance: Banish FOMO for Good
I love a good pop culture acronym, and FOMO has been on the scene for a while but perhaps hasn’t received the amount of tactical consideration it deserves. Fear of Missing Out is a very real thing...
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