The (almost) daily trials and tribulations of being an executive restaurant recruiter…. running a restaurant executive search firm…. and how to survive.
Posted in Economy, Humor, Job Seekers Tips, Other Blogs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Sep 11th, 2007
For the longest time, I’ve been saying that my friend (and now world famous author), Jason Alba is not related to super attractive movie star, Jessica Alba. But after seeing commercials for her new movie (Good Luck Chuck) I’m now convinced that I may have been wrong all this time.
Look at the evidence, Jessica plays [...]
Posted in BlogSwap, Humor, Job Seekers Tips, Other Blogs, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant News, Restaurant Recruiter - How To, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Jul 31st, 2007
Oh man, I’ve been TAGGED by Troy Bettinger of NotJobs. I’ve been tagged before, by my buddy Jason (not related to Jessica) Alba [and yes you can scroll down to the end and find a fresh pic of our favorite eye-candy] and enjoyed the links that game provided as well as getting to learn about [...]
Posted in Humor, Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Jul 23rd, 2007
Now that is one ugly mug, don’t you think? I can only imagine the face behind the name Recruiting Animal, if he prefers using a weird little puppet as his countenance.
The mental image that I conger up when I think of the Animal is of Morton Downey Jr. Morton was a wildly popular shock [...]
Posted in Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Jul 5th, 2007
I guess I have some new readership over at Jobster. Seems that my post about their misspellings in their mass email didn’t fall on deaf ears. The picture to the left is from the latest email that I got from them. As you can see, all the errors that I pointed out have been corrected. [...]
Posted in Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Personal Stuff, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Jul 2nd, 2007
OK, just a short blurb on a subject with which most of you may not be familiar. While I’ve written about Jason Goldberg on a couple of occasions here, I haven’t done so lately. Jason Goldberg is the CEO (for now) of Jobster. Jobster is some sort of career tool that tries [...]
Posted in Economy, Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Politics, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant News, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on Jun 25th, 2007
I was just reading today about a class action lawsuit that was approved to move forward in the courts. It seems that servers of Applebee’s are an approved class and the action is against Applebee’s International Inc. The suit alleges that servers are required to spend more than 20% of their time doing un-tipped work [...]
Posted in Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on May 15th, 2007
Sorry for not writing any lengthy articles lately but I’ve been swamped. Had lots of business in my recruiting firm, lots of things going on with the SEO services for search firms and small business, and lots going on with my secret project.
I wish I had a bigger staff so that I could assign [...]
Posted in Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant Recruiter - How To, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on May 10th, 2007
Back in March wrote a post, actually more of an invitation, about connecting to me on LinkedIn. At the time I was approaching 4 million people in my network. I had gotten the idea from my good friend Dave "El Dave" Mendoza. He has a post where he invites people to connect to him on [...]
Posted in BlogSwap, Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Restaurant Jobs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on May 3rd, 2007
When it comes to motivating a hiring manager or internal recruiter to move on your submittal, remember the catchy saying….â€Time kills all dealsâ€.
One of the most frustrating things to a recruiter is the lag time between finding and submitting a good candidate and getting meaningful feedback through the screening process. Think about it: how often [...]
Posted in Job Seekers Tips, Miscellaneous, Other Blogs, Restaurant Recruiters - Viewpoint on May 1st, 2007
Hey another notch on our gun belt. I’m please to announce that the blog has won another award. This time we have won the coveted Silver Award from the folks at Personal Branding Blog. Dan Schawbel is the engine that drives the blog there, and you can tell by his blog (and his bio) that [...]
Confessions of an Executive Restaurant Recruiter
The (almost) daily trials and tribulations of being an executive restaurant recruiter…. running a restaurant executive search firm…. and how to survive.
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