I am taking a blog break this week to work on some secret projects that you guys will hear about in the near-future. Rest assured, blogging will resume as per usual on next week. In the meantime, I would very much like to learn more about my growing audience of readers. If you would, take a quick moment to answer [...]

Understanding the position, sourcing candidates and what to say when they pick up the phone. Today’s successful recruiter knows the critical first steps in filling a position are in understanding the hiring manager’s need, successfully sourcing candidates and getting them interested on that very first call. These are the real basics of getting your search off on the right foot. This [...]

"The Professional Recruiter Series" presents… LinkedIn Loves You (and I can prove it!) I am a big fan of LinkedIn (no surprise to my audience), so when a technical glitch kept me from using it, I became a bit perturned. After emailing for help and not receiving any "love" from customer support, I decide to vent about it online. Well, [...]

Understanding the position, sourcing candidates and what to say when they pick up the phone. Today’s successful recruiter knows the critical first steps in filling a position are in understanding the hiring manager’s need, successfully sourcing candidates and getting them interested on that very first call. These are the real basics of getting your search off on the right foot. This [...]

  Linked In, Congrats on your nomination! I am a long-time user and consider myself a friend to your company as I have blogged favorably about your product for quite some time.  Today however, I have a complaint regarding your service. I have been having issues with my LinkedIn account for just over a week now. I can not send any [...]

AffinityCircles presents… Quality Time with Howard Adamsky Jim Stroud chats with Howard Adamsky who (somehow) manages to explain recruitment success in two minutes (or was it less?) and then expounds on it with wit and grace. Very interesting and informative. Thanks for your time Howard! powered by ODEO Click here to download this episode of The Recruiters Lounge Listen to [...]

My top 15 for the week… 1. What is Sourcecon? 2. Hmm… Its the same in the US 3. How to make $600K recruiting from a mobile home 4. Maybe its best to just fire all of the unhappy people? 5. All you need is a good resume (and other workplace myths) 6. Who needs a job when you have [...]

Have you heard of SourceCon? Probably not, it’s a conference that will have its inaugural event here in Atlanta. Now before you say, gee, another recruiting conference, let me tell you what makes this one a MUST-SEE event. SourceCon is all about SOURCING!!! That’s right! Learn new and innovative strategies and techniques for leveraging the internet, phone and other ways [...]

Stumbled across this free tool and immediately saw how it would be of use to phone sourcers seeking to circumvent gatekeepers. Its called BRINGO and if it does all it says it does, its a must-have tool. At this writing, 172 companies are in its database (unless my math is wrong). Check this out from their website… Tired of dialing [...]

Howard Adamsky makes the complex , very simple to understand. In a recent article on ERE, he discusses "Two Essential Recruiting Skills to Master Today." Here is the cheatsheet: The capacity to use technology in order to find candidates. (Not that hard really; think science.) A solid understanding of how to architect the deal. (Much harder; think art.) Click here [...]

Hmm…  If this caught on in the workplace, would the mandatory hours of work change to 45 hours a week? I wonder. …snip-snip… Get ready for the 25-hour day. A new study, funded by NASA, shows that it’s possible to cram an extra hour into the day. The researchers included Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD, director of the sleep medicine division [...]

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A new U.S. Senate proposal would allow limitless H-1B visas and green cards for foreigners with master’s degrees or higher in any field from an American university–or anyone with such credentials in the science, technology, engineering or math fields from abroad. Like other competing proposals in Congress right now, the "Skilled Worker Immigration and Fairness Act," introduced on Tuesday by [...]

My (belated) Fab 15 for the week… 1. Wow! Who would not want to work with these guys? (I love low-budget vids that make high impact) 2. Twelve Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know 3. I got Gurutosis, and the only prescription is more cowbell. 4. Moolah, moolah, moolah!!! 5. (And more moolah please?) 6. Spock is illogical? [...]

The Recruiters Guide to Google presents… Is there a work-life after 50? Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen discuss age discrimination with Bob Skladany, Vp of Research and Certification for RetirementJobs.com. WoW! This guy knows his stuff. Listen now to see what I mean. 00:30 – Thank you sponsor: Jobs in Pods 01:31 – And let’s not forget our other sponsor: [...]