Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Being a recruiter isn’t always easy. We talk a ton about “candidate experience,” but the truth is having a good experience works both ways, really, and most of the time, it’s the candidate treating the recruiter like s**t, not the other way around. Charles de Lint.

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Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The conference will house 30+ internal talent acquisition, employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent analytics, and sourcing experts, sharing their tricks and tips on recruitment. Sourcing Lead at Lockheed Martin, Derek is actively involved in sourcing and recruiting top technical talent for the organization.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

Recruiters, have the common decency to pick up the phone and call candidates to tell them that you’re seeing other people. I can’t understand how so many have so little courtesy that they can’t take the minute to make a call that makes all the difference when it comes to candidate experience. I promise.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 9, 2015

It was then I learned that you can never really gauge anything about a company’s talent acquisition function until you see it through the filter of how they treat candidates, first. And I guess whatever I’d done wrong in terms of candidate experience was catching up with me. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 24, 2015

Bill is a brilliant connector of great minds and great topics, resulting in a great learning experience for everyone involved. His Boolean Blackbelt blog is one of the most helpful resources for any hands-on sourcer or recruiter, with invaluable how-tos and insights on tools and techniques that will hook in anyone who reads his stuff. .”

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

We’re lambasted by job seekers, internally ridiculed by hiring managers, and seen as a convenient scapegoat for the many frustrations and aggravations inherent to finding or filling a job – a broken process that’s falling apart largely because recruiters are failing to fix what’s broken. Lord knows we could use it.

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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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Linkedin Talent Blog

JULY 10, 2017

These innovative recruiting practices are broken down into the three strategic areas of recruiting: Employer Branding, Sourcing and Candidate Assessment. Employer Branding Innovations. Change your employer brand rapidly using TV ads. Improve the candidate experience by reducing stress.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

And if you’ve been reading this blog at all, you already know many of mine – I hope you have as much fun hearing them as I do telling them. “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.” . Emma Goldman. We all have stories. Follow Derek on Twitter @Derdiver or connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Standard Operating Procedures: The body would create a set of general guidelines outlining acceptable practices, defining responsibilities and outcomes, and creating specific coursework and certification around both candidate experience and client service. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2015

We’re all looking for “top talent,” and if your opportunity sounds generic or has absolutely nothing to do with the actual job – like “Systems Analyst” or “Technical Support,” then you’re asking for generic or unqualified candidates. How Crappy Job Descriptions Kill Candidate Experience.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

They keep their heads down, fight the good fight, and give candidates great experiences without talking about “candidate experience.” ” In short, I respect recruiters who get s**t done – even if they don’t keynote conferences or write rambling blog posts. Satisfy My Soul.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

Technical Recruiter at HP), Amybeth Quinn (Global Strategic Sourcing Manager at HP), Dean Dacosta (Strategic Sourcing & Research Technologist for Lockheed Martin), Recruiting Toolbox consultants Matt Grove and Carmen Hudson, Stacy Zapar (Global Employer Branding Strategist at TripAdvisor), growth hacker Hakon Verespej and yours truly.

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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 Blogs

MAY 11, 2021

Another thing we had to do to re-invent the program was getting our employer brand together. The other thing which is frustrating if you’re not in the marketing team, what you should do is get super good about your employer brand–what is it you stand for, what is the promise you make, which is different than a corporate brand.

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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. Well, you know what? Sounds corny, I know.

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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. Plus, those who recruit are often too busy to blog, tweet or post about it.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Forget candidate experience. Let me tell you, this recruiter experience was frustrating as hell. So I get it. You can read his thoughts on RecruitingDaily.com or Recruitingblogs.com or his own site Derdiver.com. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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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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