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You’re Not Really A Recruiter.

Recruiting Daily

In fact, this “expert” (according to his LinkedIn profile) had a degree in macrame or some s**t like that, and his entire recruiting experience amounted to about six months spent at a small staffing firm, working on low skill, high volume searches. And they’re going to love you over there.

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Born Into This: Recruiting Isn’t Always What You Think.

Recruiting Daily

In staffing, Make It Happen is more than a mantra – it’s a maxim that determines whether or not you’re going to have any modicum of success whatsoever. In retrospect, I’m pretty sure I got the role because I cost next to nothing – in the economics of agency recruiting, cheap is always an asset.

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Be Here Now: Making Candidate Experience Live Forever.

Recruiting Daily

Here’s what I was given before I set out on my Quixotic quest to fill this req: a really boring job description , a vague intake meeting with the hiring manager that got cut off halfway through and gave me nothing whatsoever to go on, and one shared license to a Monster.com account I could use two afternoons a week.

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The 9 Circles of Recruiting Hell: A Divine Comedy.

Recruiting Daily

But after rereading The Divine Comedy recently, I realized that there were actually some pretty poignant lessons for recruiting and staffing professionals in there, too. This doesn’t happen to male recruiters, and shouldn’t impact our female counterparts, too. ” I’m kidding, of course. ” Really.

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Recruiters In Name Only: Why Real Recruiters Should Be Hunting for RINOs.

Recruiting Daily

If you do none of these things, then you are not a recruiter. I know this sounds obvious, but if you don’t self identify primarily as a recruiter – and you’re not damn proud of that identity – then you’re probably right in not even trying to play pretend. Hey, a guy can always hope.