Ok, so what does a restaurant recruiter and an HVAC recruiter have in common? Well at first blush you might say, not much. However I think you’d be wrong. You see in the restaurant industry, not very many of the jobs we fill require a college degree. I suspect that for an HVAC recruiter the [...]
Have you ever seen the term “concrete scuba tanks” on the Internet? Of course not. One reason is that they don’t exist. The other reason is that because they don’t exist, no one has ever written a web page with the term “concrete scuba tanks” on it. What would happen [...]
Time for this week’s installment of "10 Ways to Make Recruiters Love You," This week marks the eighth article in the series that was inspired by my friends over at ItzBigBlog who wrote on the Candidate Bill of Rights. I did a critique of their series in on of my own that focused on [...]
Got this note from Greg this morning in response to my post about customer service -
Just a quick note to thank you for your last post about the Wal-Mart Optometrist. I am the GM of a 250+ employee call center and your lessons really hit the mark. So much so that I forwarded [...]
I want to talk about customer service and how it can help your career. You see more than a year ago I got my eyes checked to get a new prescription for reading glasses. The eye doctor I went to was a family friend. It was a very pleasant trip and [...]
I like Snap Preview Anywhere and Team Snap sent me an email about an intriguing new feature - so I’m installing it on my site. If you don’t like it, you should be able to simply disable it (based upon a cookie for your particular browser) by clicking here. I’m also going to [...]
Today we explore the seventh of my ten ways to make recruiters love you. The series was inspired by my friends over at ItzBigBlog who wrote on the Candidate Bill of Rights. I did a critique of their series in on of my own that focused on Candidate Rights. They also have a series [...]
So Bob Nardelli has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of The Home Depot Inc. after six years in the top spot of the world’s leading home improvement retailer. But Bob wasn’t content to leave with a handshake or even a golden watch. No, Bob and his supporters (enablers?) at The Home Depot decided that [...]
I was just reading a blog post over on JibberJobber. My buddy Jason, in his post "My network fell apart" was talking about statistics for how executives find jobs and the top way wasn’t networking it was recruiters. Just wanted to post a couple of brief thoughts on the issue:
1) If you don’t have recruiters [...]
Welcome back from the Holidays! Today we explore the sixth of my ten ways to make recruiters love you. I haven’t been around for a while due to holiday commitments, vacation, and general busyness with other things, but now with the new year started, I should be able to post more than I did the [...]
