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Why is it that candidates ALWAYS seem to get a review, raise, additional responsibilities right before your client is about to make them an offer? Alright, it doesn’t ALWAYS happen. As recruiters we tend to exaggerate just a bit, but it happened again this week to not one, but to two recruiters I know and have [...] In his excellent recent article The Future of Recruiting: The More Things Change…, Glenn Cathey, aka BooleanBlackBlt wrote: “The Information Era of recruiting enables recruiters with solid e-sourcing skills to no longer be limited solely to candidates with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. These recruiters can find and attract the best candidates, [...] Yesterday Bill Vick posted an article titled “Traditional RESUMES Are Worthless” on EmploymentDigest.net. My first reaction to the title of the post was, well, I have heard this before, and despite trying to use resumes that were not “traditional” with my candidates and clients, the resistance to that change has and continues to be most surprising [...] In a Conference Board Report released today: http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/pressPrinterFriendly.cfm?press_ID=3820, (also see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34691428/ns/business-careers/) researchers have found that employee satisfaction is at the lowest point since they began measuring this in 1987. Employee satisfaction in 1987 was 61%. In the most recent survey it was only 45%. Surprisingly, the authors do NOT believe that this lowest ever employee satisfaction measure is just [...] In my mind one of the most overlooked parts of the search process for most executive recruiters and third party search professionals, along with the candidates they represent, is how to select references that will speak candidly and intelligently about the candidate’s skills and abilities, and do so in the most positive, enthusiastic and realistic [...] It wasn’t a client calling to make an offer. I didn’t get any offers last week. Nor did I close any deals last week. So it wasn’t that. And it wasn’t a client or prospect calling with a great new search for me to work on; I didn’t get any new searches last week. I did set up [...] |
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Jeff Skrentny CERS, Jefferson Group Consulting, AskJeff@JeffersonInc.com, 773.463.1362 |
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