Smaller Staffing Agencies can play in the Big Leagues What is the difference between a small staffing agency and a big staffing agency? Well, how much time do you have? Obviously the larger the company, the bigger the profits, the impact, and the notoriety. However, a the list of pros comes a list of cons. [...]
Recruiting Relationships Start with Trust When I contact, or am contacted by candidates interested in working with me, or in a particular job I may have advertised I routinely find myself listening to a five or ten minute ‘elevator pitch’ ostensibly presenting a laundry list of skills and accomplishments. Very little time is spent trying [...]
Resume 101: Creating an Effective Resume Impactful Resume: As a 30 year technical recruiter, I have conservatively read 800,000 resumes. Printed out they’d fill a good size room. When the vetting process is complete, I have ultimately represented approximately 1% of those resumes / candidates to our highly selective clients. Approximately eight thousand introductions have [...]
Recruiting Younger Tech Professionals Recruiting is just like any other business it is constantly changing, evolving, and improving. Right when you think you’ve figured it out, the rules change. When you specialize in the technology focused positions that our company does the recruiting process change, the technologies that companies are looking for are constantly changing. [...]
A Baby Shark is Still a Shark I’m sure my first job in recruiting was very different than most people. I started when I was 23 at a small family style company of about 10 people. Now just because we are small doesn’t mean we aren’t good at what we do, our 2:1 submittal to [...]
Keep Clear of IT Career Killers Want to have a long and relatively satisfying career in technology? Here’s a list of 7 things to definitely avoid doing! 1- Don’t stay current. There are lots of ways to fall into the comfort zone trap of allowing your skills to become dated. Simply taking your eye off the [...]
Recruiting Top Talent in the Modern Era Companies need to revolutionize their approach to attracting talent and they need to do it NOW. There is a shortage of qualified talent in today’s market – driven by the retirement of Baby Boomers and a much smaller class of Gen-Xers to replace them, growth in the need [...]
Learning the Ropes in Recruiting Getting Started as a Recruiter: I’ve been a recruiter for a little over a year at this point, and it would be an understatement to say that I have learned a lot. When I think back to what I knew of recruiting beforehand I simply laugh. I had NO idea [...]
Five Important Traits for the IT Professional If you have a technical career of any form, be it Information Technology, Engineering, R+D…doing, teaching, managing or supporting…here are 5 tools you should be using as much as possible! Phone: So what is THE most efficient form of point-to-point communication today? The phone, of course! In an [...]
Implementing Traditional Recruiting with Modern Technology Modern Technology and Traditional Recruiting: When I began recruiting (1987) there were no ‘job boards’ and few real ATS as we know them today. We posted some newspaper ads but primarily we called people. We kept hard copy resumes, filed them by skills. We called into companies and talked [...]
