Where to begin…What first?

Where does one start gathering the knowledge learned from 23 years of working on a placement and search desk to share with readers in a forum such as this?

I have been sharing that information with the profession I love for the last 15+ years.  But literally, I have hundreds of digital files and thousands of pages of information that I have saved, written and used to be successful on my desk.  If I begin this blog to share that knowledge, where do I begin?  What should I share first?  I have been asking myself that since July, and I am just now getting ready to make my first blog post, knowing that there is finally content here to share.

What is the most often requested content, is what I  decided to start with.

So though you will not find all of these pages with as much content as I hope you will find if I earn your eyeballs here as a regular visitor to this site, you will find, if you go to SKRENTNY’S PLAYBOOK, 4 of the most popular articles I have authored plus 2 of my most requested forms, my 31 STEPS to Jefferson Group SEARCH, and my 7 STEP CANDIDATE INTERVIEW OUTLINE, located there for you to view.

It is my hope to provide blog posts at least once per week on topics that range from training techniques to black eyes and successes we get while working our desk, to the conferences and trainers we love and learn from, and everything in between.  Those of you who know me, know I have lots of opinions, and am seldom left with a loss of words.  Give me a topic you want me to consider, and see what happens.

I would love your input to help create this as a digital space that you will learn from and enjoy, whether you are a rookie to search, or a 30 year veteran with millions of dollars in career billing.  Together I hope we can create a blog site that we can all learn from while we laugh and cry our way to the success I could never have dreamed of when I closed my first deal on April 1st, 1987.

By the way, that first deal was a fall off.

See what I mean!

So please, leave a comment and tell me what you think, or if you want to reach me offline, email me at AskJeff@JeffersonInc.com.

Thanks for taking some of your time to spend it here with me today, I hope you will be back soon.

Jeff Skrentny, CERS, had an inauspicious start in the recruiting profession as his first placement quit after 93 days.  Then he was sued.  Despite that start, Jeff  has been an executive recruiter for 23 years, and has also been a trainer, author and motivator for his profession for the last 15 years, as well as being a business consultant and adviser for its producers, managers & owners for the last 10 years; all while still running a busy IT search business in Chicago at his firm Jefferson Group Search.