Bozofication Alive and Well: Utah Companies Will Pay for Stupidity

UPDATE: Please leave comments about BOZO things you have experienced at your or other companies! Anonymous submissions OK
I hate to say it, but I am seeing some of the most foolish and downright stupid things coming from Utah companies these days. These things may not be approaching the Yee-Haw ‘Bozofication’ problems that Guy [...]

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If Colleges Blog To Recruit, Why Don’t You?

I don’t think Steven Rothburg is bitter:
Virtually all employment-related blogging is coming out of the offices of job boards and third party recruiters. With very few exceptions, virtually no corporate recruiters are blogging. That’s a real shame as those same corporations are crying the blues about how hard it is to recruit the best Gen [...]

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It’s the People, Stupid

Recently, I had the opportunity to review my business performance with my colleagues and managers. It was a great experience and I owe a great deal of respect to my region’s leaders who consistently challenge each branch to inspect themselves and make adjustments accordingly.
Thanks to that introspection, I am trying to look deeply into [...]

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A Good Recruiter

Someone asked me today in a comment what they should do as they are wanting to be hired as a recruiter.
Here's my reply:
I never would have pegged recruiting as the place I’d be *ever* in my life, but–for me–it is the perfect intersection of things I love: People, Technology, Communications and Sales.
Skills that are [...]

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Lying Through Your Job Posting

Employers complain at-times that they "just can’t find the right people".  They’ve posted job ads, emailed their network, schmoozed their employees for referrals and they keep ending up with the wrong candidates in the interviews.
Maybe the wrong people are showing up because you’re lying about what you really want.
Time and again, I find employers posting [...]

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Private Company = Better Recruiting?

Devin Thorpe, Mid Market Maven, gives many reasons for taking your company private–one of them (the sixth one, to be exact) is better recruiting:

The question of public or private impacts recruiting in four areas:

Options…

Cash Compensation…

Focus…

Scandal Aversion…

I would continue on Thorpe’s point about focus.  For me, working in a company that was private and went public [...]

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So, You Wanna Be A Recruiter?

Sharing a gem I gleaned from the ERE Recruiting Leadership Forum this morning, a posting by Nicole Cox, Director of Recruiter Network Quality at Decision Toolbox about the ten criteria she uses to choose a good recruiter:
1. Tenacity2. Strong communication skills3. Ability to set expectations with the client and candidate4. Ability to push-back on requirements5. [...]

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What IT Recruiters Are Good For…

Anthony Meaney’s tag over at recruiting.com points us to an interesting rant about IT Recruiters, interviews, attire, and more.
Truth is, I respect this post: Are IT Recruiters Worthless (part 1) because the author (Sean McCown) does a good job of respecting the recruiter’s role, while simultaneously showing clear oddities (and downright stupid things) recruiters do.
For [...]

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Where Do Top Talent Come From?

If you wanted to take on a company like Apple, it only makes sense that you would possibly want to recruit the kind of people they recruit, boosting your company’s brainpower while shortening the supply for your competitor.
As LinkedIn Kung Fu Master Shally Steckerl over at ERE found out, there is a way you can [...]

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What is a Contingency Recruiter?

I found an incredible article titled Getting the Most From Your Relationship with a Contingency Search Firm, written by Bob Marshall, Recruitment Educator at Recruiter.com.
If you’re a hiring manager (or you might be) keep this handy!
Like any successful relationship with a consultant, working with a contingency recruiter will be more productive when each party understands [...]

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