Confessions of an Executive Restaurant Recruiter

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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Today marks the final installment of my series on "10 ways to make recruiters love you." I know that it has been a bit delayed, but circumstances being what they are, I’m lucky to have a functioning computer [see my post on moving your office.] We started our journey some months ago with an original [...]

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Hey, I’ve got exciting news… Through a special partnership with USA Biz Mart we have arranged for them to provide us with a feed of all their restaurant related businesses for sale.  You can now access the most recent 50 restaurant related businesses for sale regardless of location in the USA by visiting our page [...]

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Just wanted to give folks notice that I’m going to be making a slight change and I hope that there isn’t a negative effect. I’m changing to a different plugin to handle comments. I’ve not liked the one that I have been using because it doesn’t point to the URL of the person [...]

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Are you trying to get ahead in your job and having a tough time? Do you feel like you are losing out because you haven’t had as much education/training as your co workers?  If so, maybe now is the time to look into ways to further your education and expand your career opportunities.
Studies confirm that [...]

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Usually when I am putting up a post about my friend Jason Alba I include something about him not being related to Jessica and then I put in a picture of her (this seems to please quite a few of my readers.) Since I’m posting today partially about Jason, I decided that I couldn’t stop [...]

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