The Five A’s of Becoming an A-List Recruiter
How does a new recruiter become an “A-list” recruiter? This thought is on the minds of many who are just beginning their recruitment careers. I have spent more than ten years as a recruiter, with the...
View Article4 Things Recruiters Can Learn From Musical Theatre
As theatre lovers know, there’s nothing as amazing as a musical (1). Art forms like musical and non-musical theatre, movies and literature encourage the gamut of human emotions so that the audience...
View ArticlePurposefully Picky: Choosing Cream of the Crop Candidates
When you buy fruit from the grocery or local market, chances are you take a close look at each piece before placing it in your cart. Not because you are super picky, necessarily, but because you want...
View ArticleWhy 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....
View ArticleGetting 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...
View Article3 Ways to Uncover a Candidate’s Soft Skills in a Phone Interview
During the interview process, recruiters and hiring managers look for certain requirements to be met. We evaluate levels of experience and skill, looking to find the best candidates for our open...
View Article21 Questions You Should Ask to Find the Best Candidates
If you were to jot down a list of moments that make or break candidates, the interview almost certainly makes your top three. The interview is where a sheet of paper becomes a personality, stated...
View ArticleNational Healthcare Recruiter Day 2016: A Note of Appreciation
What does National Healthcare Recruiter Day mean to you? Depending on your role within healthcare, it might mean any number of things. Today, healthcare recruiters are needed more than ever to support...
View ArticleCelebrating Social Media Day 2016
Today marks the seventh annual celebration of Social Media Day. As a Recruitment Process Outsourcing company, Cielo takes this day to recognize the many ways social media affects the recruitment...
View ArticleMaking Hiring Managers Your Raving Fans
Organizations continue to solve for the candidate-driven job market through a strategic focus on their employer brand and candidate experience. But your company’s ability to successfully recruit top...
View Article10 Outstanding Qualities of RPO Recruiters
In Cielo’s Talent Acquisition 360 research, we found that consistently hiring the best people available is the number one talent acquisition priority for C-level executives and business unit leaders...
View ArticleGen WHY?
Baby boomers. Gen X. Gen Y. Gen Z. It is rare that a day goes by in employer branding without the generational speak. We’ve all seen the stats: “53% of hiring managers say it’s difficult to hire and...
View ArticleCelebrating Healthcare Quality Week 2016
Cielo is celebrating Healthcare Quality Week by highlighting the work our recruiters do every day to find quality talent for our healthcare clients. We are firm believers that better talent results in...
View ArticleMost Musicians are Not Prince, and Neither are Most Recruiters
Prince had expertise. Recently, the world lost Prince. The late musical icon was a multitalented singer, songwriter and producer who could play the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, piano and several...
View ArticleWE BECOME YOU: Cielo Recruiters Share Their Stories
One of the principles we are most proud of here at Cielo is WE BECOME YOU™ – our total-immersion approach to serving our clients. This philosophy guides each of our partnerships, directing us to...
View Article5 Ways to Jump-start Your Career
We all have goals we want to achieve in our careers. We make plans and have the best intentions to stick with them, but it’s all too easy to slip back into bad habits. Here are a few pointers to help...
View ArticlePut Maintaining a Work-Life Balance on Your To Do List
Just like every other recruiter I know, recruiting does not make up my entire life. But sometimes it sure does feel like it! I mean, I do have other things going on – I’m a wife, mother, and let’s not...
View ArticleHey, Recruiters! Be Your Candidate's Biggest Cheerleader
You’ve spoken to the hiring manager and have posted the new position. You know who the ideal candidate is and the market data is saying what you’re looking is probably the mythical purple squirrel. BUT...
View ArticleEmbracing Technology, Working Smarter: Recruiting Then vs. Now
It must seem like an eternity ago to some of my co-workers, but I started in recruitment back in 2004. I was a raw (and young) graduate with bags full of passion and determination to succeed. Believe...
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