Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Why do we not have a governing body that’s responsible for professional accreditation and certification? I looked at AIRS, but their programs are pretty general and more focused on sourcing than bigger picture professional competencies or even ethics. It’s not that I’m bitter, it’s that I’m bemused.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 28, 2015

As a profession that’s got such a poor public perception, establishing trust in candidates and clients as a recruiter can be a bit tricky at times, to say the least. And our own experiences as candidates is something every recruiter should think about every day on the job. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 24, 2015

That list, which is prominent in my mind because, well, it’s the only one I’ve made was titled 10 Recruiters Who Should Be On Your Radar #SundayShoutOu t, from the inimitable Bill Boorman. Considering the source, and the novelty, I’m not going to lie. 35 Recruiting Influencers Who Actually Influence Me.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

There are certain candidates you can place anywhere, and most of the time, you know it more or less immediately. Those are every recruiter’s favorite kind of candidate, which is why a couple years after the fact, Carl still stood out in my mind as one of my better sourcing success stories.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

If you’re still dubious about the need for identifying best practices in our profession or creating a way to consequently educate and reinforce these best practices to recruiting practitioners, consider the ramifications of continuing with recruiting business as usual. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

This year, unlike last, I wasn’t a passive attendee, but rather, was flattered to be asked to lead one of the sourcing roundtables offered during the breakout sessions, which quickly turned into the kind of tool time hack-a-thon that geeks like myself (and anyone else whose idea of fun involves sourcing and slating candidates).

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2015

See, recently, my role has focused more on sourcing than recruiting, which has been a recurring theme throughout my career, with the line between these two continuously shifting from req to req, client to client. How Crappy Job Descriptions Kill Candidate Experience.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

While frankly, many of those “thought leaders” and “influencers” are just my friends, plain and simple, the fact is when it comes to respect, there are a plethora of sourcers and recruiters doing amazing things every day who, like Rodney, never get respect. Hey, if you’re a recruiter, you’re family.

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Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Agency Recruiting Con is On. What follows is a true story, and a tragic one, about what happens when crappy candidate experience, craptastic employers, con artistry and capitalism collide in a perfect s**t storm. In short, he recruits not with the goal of closing reqs, but improving lives by improving careers.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 3, 2015

Hey, even in recruiting, this is probably doable. source: Perks, R.W.(1993): An international speaker, author and acknowledged thought leader, Gerry founded a non-profit, Talentboard, with colleagues Elaine Orler and Ed Newman to better define the Candidate Experience, a subject he has been passionate about for 30 years.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 31, 2016

We can sit around and talk until we’re blue in the face (and do) about how important candidate experience is, how ethical we are in our recruiting, how the employer brands we represent are genuinely great corporate citizens and even better companies to work for. Currently, he is a Senior Technical Recruiter for Oracle.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 5, 2015

And the point is that we, as recruiters, could take a page from Dante’s book and learn that in our industry, too, there are differentiated degrees of sin, resulting in what could be construed as the 9 Circles of Recruiting Hell. You make our lives harder, the least we can do as recruiters is try to return the favor.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If your company has a database, whether in an ATS or another centralized repository where you’ve been storing resumes, you’re likely sitting on one of the biggest assets – and best data source – any talent acquisition function has at its disposal. Forget candidate experience. So I get it.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 26, 2015

All I know is that in the 18 years I’ve been in this business, I’ve seen us move from Rolodexes to resume databases to the rise of online employer branding, social sourcing and mobile recruiting. If you can’t put the candidate first, then please – get the hell out of recruiting.

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