Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

One thing was for sure: I did not miss recruiting. Not having to talk hiring, or talk shop, or talk about anything even remotely related to business gave me a chance to actually get to make a few friends with the locals. The ethical recruiter should, and hopefully will, be part of the rule in the future, rather than the exception.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

Pick up the Phone and let candidates know where they’re at in the process throughout every step of the way, and do so with as much feedback as possible as quickly as possible so they never have to guess or wonder where, exactly, they are in the hiring cycle. If you can’t communicate, you can’t recruit.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 26, 2015

After all, I’m a recruiter, and it’s true what they say. Especially if those people also happen to be hiring managers. Or candidates, for that matter. Because at this point, I’m pretty convinced that if recruiters keep at their evil ways, we’re doomed. That’s what real recruiters do.

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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. How, I thought, could someone I’d put so much time into repay it like this – wasting not only my time, but my hiring managers, too.

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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. But as an “active” candidate, his odds were p**s poor at best.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 3, 2015

Recruiting, therefore, is a job – and for most, doing that job means little more than putting a butt in a seat and a paycheck in their pocket. A profession is viewed collectively instead of individually, for good or for ill; reputation is a shared responsibility, not a personal attribute or individual outcome.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

When I started out at my very first agency, part of my training was having to learn simple search strings that I could use to uncover candidates from within our existing database. Forget candidate experience. Let me tell you, this recruiter experience was frustrating as hell. So I get it.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

It seems I can’t watch the news or even read headlines these days without thinking of one very special, very different candidate named Carl. ” I admired the hell out of that sort of tenacity – too many candidates could give two s s about you, but here was one who was actually doing the hard sell for once.

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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. One minute you’ve got your new hire; the next, you’ve got to start from square one.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 26, 2016

It gets harder as you get more experience, of course, because you realize exactly what you’re up against when you’re trying to fill a req, and have a much more realistic sense of the odds you’ve got to beat to make pretty much any experienced hire. The answer, not surprisingly, is decidedly old school.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

Recruiters are sinking their own ship, and meaningful advances seem effectively blockaded by general animosity and disdain for those of us who find ourselves at work in the business of finding work. Derek Zeller draws from over 16 years in the recruiting industry. 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. About the Author: Derek Zeller draws from over 16 years in the recruiting industry. Currently, he is a Senior Sourcing Recruiter at Microsoft via Search Wizards. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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