I’ve missed posting my insight on talent acquisition. I’m back with “lessons learned from the other side.” My first post has to be about the Candidate Experience. For the first time in a very long time, I find myself in…
Hello Friends! This will be my last blog entry for a while, however I have been asked to continue to contribute to this blog in the future. After almost eight years of a successful consulting practice with Riviera Advisors, I…
Recently I was cleaning out my computer files for the New Year. As I reviewed the over thousands of contacts and emails, I thought to myself… "Do I really know all these people?". I started going through the contacts and…
From our periodic and ongoing video series, Weird Interviewing Experiences, comes this latest video from Wayne Finger, North American Recruiting & University Relations Manager for Schlumberger (one of the world's largest oil & gas engineering and technical services companies). In…
There is always a lot of talk about the sexy recruiting being done in Engineering, R&D and highly technical industries. There even more attention on the "hip and cool" recruiters who's job it is to find those " in demand" candidates. …
Yesterday a friend forwarded me a resume for an HR professional. It presented the job seeker’s story in a functional resume format, providing a long list of bulleted skills and accomplishments without tying each of them to a particular employer.…
The other day, I arrived at the airport just in time to get on an earlier flight home. That never happens to me anymore. Ah, the good old days when we used to have flights every hour on the hour…
We need good recruiters. We will always need good recruiters, even better... great recruiters. We will need good recruiters during the tough times, the good times, and at all times. Without good recruiters, we don’t find the top talent that…
With the announcement of the Wal-Mart class action suit this week, I started thinking about our profession and how “the law” still dictates so much of what we do. I’d hope by now, we’d be past being required by law…
Here is a great quick videocast from PepsiCo's Talent Acquisition Sourcing Leader Jim Schnyder. Jim typically starts his interview by asking all candidates one question: "so tell me about yourself", which in this situation turned into a mini-therapy session for…
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