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The 7 Biggest Mistakes College Recruiters Make

CareerBuilder

The long-expected retirement of baby boomers means tremendous opportunities for graduating college students looking for work, as well as companies looking to find top talent. So, where can companies go wrong when recruiting college students or recent grads? Use EMSI’s College Analyst program for college recruiting research.

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Recruiters: Stop Talking And Learn How To Listen.

Recruiting Daily

Once Upon A Time… Some of the best stories I have started back during the nascent days of my recruiting career, back when I was working the desk at a small staffing agency in Phoenix. And I guess whatever I’d done wrong in terms of candidate experience was catching up with me.

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Without Bias: Pride and Prejudice and Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

Pressure builds, tensions soar, and even the best of us is bound to screw up in the staffing pressure cooker. The answers were routine, but my staffing sixth sense told me that not everything with Carl was exactly as it seems. Call it a hunch. But the truth was, he was terribly shy and insecure, and it showed.

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Be Here Now: Making Candidate Experience Live Forever.

Recruiting Daily

Being a recruiter isn’t always easy. We talk a ton about “candidate experience,” but the truth is having a good experience works both ways, really, and most of the time, it’s the candidate treating the recruiter like s**t, not the other way around. Charles de Lint.

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The Grifters: Con Artists and Agency Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

The Agency Recruiting Con is On. What follows is a true story, and a tragic one, about what happens when crappy candidate experience, craptastic employers, con artistry and capitalism collide in a perfect s**t storm. He sent in a signed offer letter, knowing that he’d pretty much sold his soul through a staffing firm.

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You’re Not Really A Recruiter.

Recruiting Daily

In fact, this “expert” (according to his LinkedIn profile) had a degree in macrame or some s**t like that, and his entire recruiting experience amounted to about six months spent at a small staffing firm, working on low skill, high volume searches. You’re not too busy, you’re just being lazy and rude.

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Don’t Ask Me How I Know: Life Lessons Learned From A Life in Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

Stay informed about what’s going on in recruiting – and just as importantly, in the rest of that great big world out there that doesn’t give two s s about staffing. There’s knowledge to be had in both business related blogs and books by great authors like Bukowski or Whitman. about 6 years old. he sat beside me.