Confessions of an Executive Restaurant Recruiter

Not often do I ask a favor of my readership, but today I am. I really don’t need I dime, I need your input. If you don’t have much time to read today, either come back when you do, or skip down to the last paragraph and read the bolded sentence.
I don’t really know how [...]

Many of you may not be aware of the news items section that we have on our corporate website. On Monday mornings, we typically aggregate the most interesting stories from leading restaurant industry news sources and place them on our "Restaurant Industry News" page. You can also review the history of news items on our [...]

Roscoe meets Doobie
It’s been a couple of long days for us here at the Chapman household. In the space of two weeks we’ve gone from no dogs to two. Doobie you should already know.

 
 
Our second dog is a show quality Rottweiler who is now 9 weeks old. The two boys are getting along very [...]

Today, I’m a man on a mission. Several of my closer friends in the recruiting community know that I am currently working on a project that is very important to me… I’m very passionate about this particular topic. In fact, I’m close to being obsessed.
The subject, which will be revealed fully as the [...]

The resume experiment has wrapped up over on JibberJobber.  Besides Jason and myself, there were 10 others who could be considered experts, many of whom make their livings by crafting fantastic resumes for jobseekers.
I would highly encourage you to read the series there and see what the experts have to say about formatting, content, power [...]

Today’s lesson isn’t a long one.  I was watching Doobie play with Zaiden, who is the son of a great friend of mine.  They were playing while I was taking some pictures to send to the Benkiser’s so they could see how Doobie is doing.  The first picture is one of Doobie and Zaiden just [...]

As a quick addition to the post that I prepared for Jason Alba’sResume Experiment, I thought that I would include an blind resume from a real candidate so that you could see how the principles that I outlined in my first post come together in the real world.
This particular resume was used to great effect [...]

Just wanted to post some follow-up information regarding the new member of our family. Jules an I have been expecting the arrival on a new Rottweiler puppy from a breeder that we contracted with who is in Tennessee. The puppy (Roscoe who was whelped on Jan 4th) was scheduled to arrive the 3rd or 4th [...]

My friend Jason Alba of JibberJobber (see the end of the article) has asked a number of recruiters and professional resume writers and coaches to participate in critiquing a resume. I was asked to do it from a recruiter’s perspective and agreed at first to just be a judge of the final [...]

Not much time to write a long post about the whole story, but thought that I would share some quick pictures of our new household member. Doobie is a rescued Rottweiler puppy about 4 months old.

Doobie getting dried off by Anna after his bath. (just home from the vet)

Doobie at the sink after being dried [...]