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Cody Horton Interview: Diversity Sourcing Expert

WizardSourcer

After several assignments in IT leadership roles, I decided to leave the Navy and joined Microsoft and eventually returned to my passion as a recruiting professional. What’s your favorite recruiting tech tool? Today he is a top leader at a very successful non-profit.

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If I Only Had A Brain, Part II: Rise Up

Recruiting Daily

Sadly despite a slew of qualified candidates coming from these universities, there have been multiple cases in which corporations have used this as a discriminatory tool. The last 11 years he has been involved with federal government recruiting specializing within the cleared Intel space under OFCCP compliance.

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Bad Influence: Why Industry Lists Should Kick the Bucket.

Recruiting Daily

Definitely a cool tool – unlike Michael, who’s just plain cool. If you’re a technical recruiter, than this event should be blocked off on your calendar every year. John has been in this business for a long time and. ” One of the original 3 Amigos. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

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Talent42: Why The Future of Tech Recruiting Does Not Suck.

Recruiting Daily

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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Happy Hour: A Recruiter’s Guide To Hooking Up.

Recruiting Daily

Of course, going after Intel was no easy task at the time, even though today with all the tools at our disposal, it wouldn’t be hard to target tech talent who had some experience working at Intel at some prior point in their careers. About the Author: Derek Zeller draws from over 16 years in the recruiting industry.

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Be Here Now: Making Candidate Experience Live Forever.

Recruiting Daily

These connections, these relationships, the ones that make recruiting worthwhile, once in awhile, have always been relatively rare. ” But it’s a distance that for recruiters, I promise, is always worth walking. About the Author: Derek Zeller draws from over 16 years in the recruiting industry. Here’s why.

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Cash Is King: How (And When) To Have That Compensation Conversation.

Recruiting Daily

There are myriad conferences and credentials devoted to total rewards and salary trends, a ton of tools and resources (many low or no cost) HR can utilize to determine what the market is paying and how much a competitive package should come in at, but for some reason, it seems even the best offers only come in at average.