Before Old Man Sumser was talking about influence in no uncertain terms, his Electronic Recruiting News (aka ERNIE) was THE must read. I might be mistaken but John has been the longest writing recruiting curmudgeon in our profession; his is one opinion – agree with him or not – that you must read if you […]

Over on Recruiting Bloggers, we find the usual excellence from Jim Stroud and his Recruiter’s Lounge (I know, because I’ve been there and the questions asked by Jim are right on target) in a thread entitled, “VIDEO – The Recruiter’s Lounge with Ami Givertz and Call Girl Vicky.” Very entertaining banter from both Jim and […]

Not sure how it happened, by this blog is up for Recruiting.com’s Best Blog Awards in the Best Recruiting Advice Blog category against such luminaries as John Sumser, Microchick Gretchen, and Tiffany’s Magic Pot of Jobs.   I think the nomination occured because someone doesn’t want to wind up as a character on Desperate Sourcers… […]

Since recruiting is all about developing relationships, here’s another New Yorker who recruiters should know about. My friend Sue Williams is running this year’s New York Marathon for Team Continuum whose collective goal is to raise funds to provide immediate help to cancer patients being treated in New York’s cancer treatment centers.   From their […]

Just received an email from Mark Israel, the bookish recruiting manager at Barnes and Noble.  He has decided – at the last minute – to ride the MS Bike Tour on Sunday, October 16th in NYC. Last year he raised $2,025 – with this being the 20th anniversary of the MS Bike Tour, he hopes […]

Just an observation…   A real bad but highly entertaining 1988 movie (They Live) detailed “John Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like ‘Stay Asleep’, ‘No Imagination’, ‘Submit to […]

On the one hand, I wish John Sullivan hadn’t added fuel to the creative recruiting fire because I was hoping – perhaps in a Pollyannaish sort of way – that some of the people with the loudest ?nay? voices might just go away (curiously enough these are also the ones who appear to be depauperate […]

In an article in today’s destinationCRM.com about adhering to compliance and ethics standards, Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First states that, “It takes far more energy and resources to get a customer back after you’ve lost him than [it is] to keep him.” He further adds that “Good CRM is […]