Confessions of an Executive Restaurant Recruiter

I got an idea from my good friend Dave "El Dave" Mendoza.  He has a post where he invites people to connect to him on LinkedIn.  I’ve been doing some things to update and strengthen my network in the past few weeks so I decided that it might make sense for me to run the [...]

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Well don’t read it if you expect it to be entertaining or funny (that means that the Recruiting Animal can go back to his cave.) Nope this post is going to be about succeeding at your job. Most people have figured out that I work as an executive recruiter in the restaurant industry, [...]

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My friend the Recruiting Animal has challenged me to a duel, and he did it right out in the open, in front of all my peers. OK, I’m not sure that any of them want to be considered my peers, but heck he includes a bunch of noted Internet personalities along with me.
Just to [...]

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I had a request and made a promise that I would create a PDF compilation of my series on “10 Ways to Make Recruiters Love You.” Well I got a note from Pat Lefler this morning asking me when I would be finished with it.
As luck would have it, I had a few minutes [...]

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Funny thing happened this morning…. it’s a long an involved story so it may take some time for me to weave the tale and have it make sense for you…. but here goes.
There is an ongoing buzz in the recruiting blogopshere which I think was started by Dave Mendoza with his series of articles on [...]

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Not long ago my wife did an article [Supercharge your career with a college degree] on getting a degree as a way of earning more money. Not sure how many of my readers realized that there was a free, no-obligation, web information service where you could sign up by simply giving them your email and [...]

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