Cold Calling or Consulting: No Time for Both By: Toby Marshall Virtually all training provided to recruiters is about cold calling and transaction selling. It’s the focus of nearly every recruitment conference I’ve been to ” how to get your billings up’. This Rant will help outsiders understand how the industry got to its appalling state. With refreshing honesty, trainer [...]
The Recruiters Lounge is known for a lot of things, but not for supporting worthy causes. This year, I plan to change that. First Thursday from Jim Stroud on Vimeo. The Recruiters Lounge is teaming up with BlitzTime to conduct a series of online networking events to support worthy causes. To join this event, all you will need is a [...]
My fab 15 for the week This week featuring Military Recruiting Videos 1. Wages for IT talent go up, up, up! (in Singapore) 2. Can HR Staff Have Friends at Work? 3. Another One Bites the Dust? 4. Hmm… Does every job board do this? Or just Indeed? 5. Survey says… 6. Cheezhead has seen the future and its litigious 7. Are [...]
Can you name this company? This company has a “Talent Platform” which enables organizations to manage their entire talent lifecycle from applicant tracking through onboarding and beyond through a single web-based application. This company is a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of talent management platforms with over 600 clients. This company was recently named to the 2008 Inc. 5000 list of [...]
Click here to fill out the 2008 Reader Survey (Thanks!) — Judging by the Tweets, Emails and casual conversations I receive, the economy still sucks, especially if you are an unemployed, under-employed or unhappily employed Recruiter. Not too long ago, I gave a few tips on how Recruiters can find hidden job opportunities during a recession. Well, here are a [...]
Jim Stroud shares his “home movies” based on his time at SourceCon 2008. In this video you will witness attendee interviews, a new job opening for Sourcers, a surprise celebrity appearance and a mini-rock concert devoted to Sourcing. Truly, there are no HR conferences quite like SourceCon. Enjoy… Did you miss out on SourceCon 2008? Be here next year! Related [...]
SourceCon 2008 was all about the love and the learning. Jim Stroud interviews more attendees, goes “berserk” over Kelly (why?), gushes over the winner of the Poker Challenge and welcomes a few virgins to the fold. As always, be sure to watch this video to the very end.) Are you enjoying these home movies of SourceCon? Only one more to [...]
At SourceCon 2008, Jim Stroud plays the roving reporter and interviews the presenters (most of them anyway) and the gamers competing for the Grandmaster Sourcing Challenge. Enjoy… SourceCon 2008 – Meet the Presenters and the Gamers from Jim Stroud on Vimeo. Related PostsVIDEO – SourceCon 2008 – Random MomentsSOURCECON – From the desk of Leslie O’ConnorSourceCon 2008 – A few [...]
Jim Stroud works the crowd at SourceCon 2008. These interviews occur the day before the actual event begins. Good times. And oh, be sure to watch it to the very end. (wink) SourceCon 2008 – Getting to know you from Jim Stroud on Vimeo. Related PostsVIDEO – SourceCon 2008 – Random MomentsSourceCon2008 – Its Official! They’re bringing sexy backVIDEO – [...]
Here are a few shots from SourceCon 2008. I networked with a lot of cool people and made some new friends. One of my most favorite things to do at SourceCon was give out money to people who answered my questions. Between myself and those “Secret Agents” in the various presentations, SourceCon gave away over $1,000.00 in cash and prizes [...]
