by rm_admin | Jul 31, 2013 | Recruiting, Uncategorized
How does a team of technical co-founders recruit a top notch designer? Maybe they realized it; maybe not. But whoever posted that question to Quora asked what every recruiter on the planet has wondered at one time or another: How can I recruit the best candidate for...
by rm_admin | Jul 31, 2013 | Recruiting, Uncategorized
David Sandler wrote an interesting book on sales called You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar. His underlying point was that the skills and techniques you learn from reading his book, or any book for that matter, need to be consistently reinforced through...
by rm_admin | Jul 30, 2013 | Recruiting, Uncategorized
In case some of you are wondering who the best is, they are up here on this plaque. That line from the 1986 film Top Gun — a film about Navy aviators — sums up the surprising problem besetting the Air Force. It can’t retain its fighter pilots. Increasingly, its pilots...
by rm_admin | Jul 30, 2013 | Recruiting, Uncategorized
Last year I did some work for a large company that decided it would not hire anyone who was unemployed. It would automatically reject any candidate who had been unemployed even for a day. As I’ve learned, this attitude toward candidates is pervasive — many employers...
by rm_admin | Jul 29, 2013 | Recruiting, Uncategorized
Amazon couldn’t have liked the bad press it got from a recent letter from a temp/contractor saying “the revolving door of new hires encourages low quality work, inconsistent productivity, and wastes useful resources on training.” It’ll get better ink today, though, as...
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