A while ago, HR thought leader Dr. John Sullivan published a list of the dumbest things recruiters do, asking readers to choose their top five from a list of thirty. (Here are the results of that survey.) Those lacking a sense of humor may find Sullivan’s...
How to Recruit a Luminary with Google Adwords Executives often “google” themselves. They do it to see what’s been written about them. So if you are attempting to recruit a newsworthy executive you suspect might be googling his or her own name,...
For Reference Checks: Consider the Source Reference checks struck me as odd when I was first became a recruiter a little more than a decade ago and it still seems strange. The reference checking process consists of calling names given to you by the candidate. That...
