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The Real Recruiting Revolution Has Nothing To Do With Recruiting
I modified a comment I made on Ere.net slightly to make it a post here. I feel it’s right on the money, other opinions vary of course. It’s not a revolution in recruiting that’s needed. There’s plenty...
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Opportunity!
This is advice for candidates. Recruiters are always trying to sell you on a great Opportunity! Yeah, the pay is maybe better than what you’ve got now, usually not. The benefits are about the same,...
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More Advice for Job Seekers
I come across this all the time from job seekers, and it’s really annoying. I send out a mailer via email to people who have specifically asked to be contacted about positions in their area. Initial...
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Recruiter.com Reply
Since Recruiter.com keeps deleting my reply to Art on this article, I figured I’d post it here. Just got back from a Caribbean trip and catching up with work, missing the blue water. Reply to Art: I...
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Another Denied Comment
I like Recruiter.com, but they definitely seem to put a stranglehold on the comments to make sure everything is nice and shiny. Here’s an article they put up concerning dress code, and my response:...
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Recruiting Reality Check – Bulk Emailing
I’ve written on this before, but it bears repeating in more succinct terms: bulk emailing is a reality of modern recruiting, get used to it and stop getting pissed about it if you’re a candidate. And,...
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Good LinkedIn Post
Definitely worth reading this, I’ll comment on it later, but I wanted to get it up here when I saw it. Update: Ted makes some good points, but I think he misses the underlying problem: Sales! The...
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More “Recruiting is SALES!” Bullshit
Here again, and predictably on LinkedIn, we have more Recruiting is Sales! nonsense. First off, while the market has shifted a little, the labor participation rate is still absolutely fucking dismal,...
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The Broken Window Fallacy and Sales and Recruiting
The broken window fallacy is simple, yet most people don’t get it. Most news anchors will commit this fallacy whenever there’s a hurricane, and in the aftermath they say something along the lines of,...
View ArticleInterviews, or How to Fuck Up Hiring
There’s a nice article here on interviewing, it’s short and sweet, but pretty much sums up my views on the matter entirely. The TLDR of it is, you’re wasting your time with interviews unless they are...
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