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Eric Larsen commented on Marvin Smith's blog post 'Haunted by the Ghost of Old School Recruiting'

Sure this highspeed driving course called social networking/recruiting is fast. Heck, it can be easy at times. If recruiters want to be used car salesman, dig up a porsche for some client that wants one but doesn't really look under the hood,…

Jul 23, 2010

Eric Larsen commented on Les Rosen's blog post 'The Six Biggest Applicant Lies'

Stuart, Dan say a time honoured tradition, not an american tradition, to pad ones CV. As he used CV and a U in honored, he's from the common wealth, more particularly, Australia and well... that country was founded by cheats and criminals…

Nov 23, 2009

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Name: Eric Larsen

Location: Bremerton

Company: Examplar

Which best describes your profession?: Contract, Independent, Sourcer/Researcher, Recruiter, Human Resources/staffing, Vendor/Consultant

How many years have you been in the business?: 5 - 9 years

Which industries do you work in now?: Government, Services, Technology

What kind of networking are you open to?: Open networking, Referrals between friends, Very targeted/niche, Invitation only

How do you introduce yourself to people you meet in business?: Preferable in person and with a firm handshake.

Which blogs would you recommend people read?: Local Newspaper blogs, keep connected to your area.

What recruiting tools can you not live without?: The telephone

What do you like best about RecruitingBlogs.com...: Just started, so I don' t have an opinion yet.

...and what would you change and why?: I would change the way you connect with people. While having a network is good, having the right people in your network is better. Just adding people for the sake of adding people is like trying to be the most popular on MySpace. Now you have a big bulky contact list full of people that make no sense for you to have them as friends in the first place.