Recruiting Animal's Blog (63)

Get off it JD

JD: Hello Animal: Did you break your arm? JD: Whaddya mean? Animal: I hear you want to talk to me? Why can't you pick up the phone? Did something happen to you? JD: No, I'm fine..... Hey, did you see? You're # 1 on twitter. Animal: I'm # 13 JD: No you're # 1. Animal: I'm # 13 JD:… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on October 24, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Becky Metcalf on Candidate Experience

The Gen Y Mommy, Becky Metcalf, was the special guest on the Recruiting Animal Panel yesterday. She told us about her change from arrogant young punk to mature woman.

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Added by Recruiting Animal on March 5, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

How To Sell To HR

09.02.18: EDITED… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on February 19, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Jenny DeVaughn - Referral Queen

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Added by Recruiting Animal on February 5, 2009 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Prejudice, Lack of Initiative and Thank You Amitai Givertz

I happened to be speaking to Ami this morning. I told him that ning changed the music player on RBC. There used to be a little arrow beside each listing. If you clicked it the song would open up in a new window and you could copy the url and link to it from another site. That arrow had been replaced by a scroll bar. Ami clicked on the Edit link below the music player. He saw that each entry there had a little arrow beside it that worked the same way the arrows I had been using did. Of cours… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on January 16, 2009 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

A Revolution for Recruitingblogs.com

Jason Davis thinks that we have too many friends. All the pop psychology books say that you can't have a meaningful network of more than 150 people. Beyond that it is more like a customer database or a fan club. So I'm suggesting that RBC try having a formal policy of 150 friends per member. It would be the social network version of Twitter. This would give RBC a chance to institute the kind of trusted network policy… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on January 9, 2009 at 9:30am — 6 Comments

Social Media Rookie of the Year, Maren Hogan

The Recruiting Animal Awards

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Added by Recruiting Animal on January 8, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Recruiting Animal Awards

I'm handing out recruiting social media awards Wed at noon EST. Categories & winners are picked but input is still welcome. By that I mean that you can suggest new categories and designate people and websites for special mentions -- See here: http://cli.gs/awards Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on January 5, 2009 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

Greetings From The Recruiting Animal Show

Dear "friends" (I mean social networking friends, not real friends) We weren't smart enough to wish (non-specific) holiday greetings to our many fans this last week, so here's the one we used last year. As The Marketing Headhunter said at the time: "These are some of my favorite people, yet I have never met any of them in person." CLICK HERE.

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Added by Recruiting Animal on December 22, 2008 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Animal Show Wed Dec 17 NOON

Jim Durbin, The Social Media Headhunter on his new Social Media Cafe. 1pm: Maureen Sharib answers your questions about Telephone Sourcing. All call in and listen info here. Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on December 17, 2008 at 11:17am — No Comments

Sheila Greco's Search Technique

Source: Dave Mendoza

Sample Search:

Goal: Get names of brand managers
Tools: Directory listing brands for each target company
Technology: Phone

Method:
- research from the top level down
- set a target of 10 names per call.
- if you can, find out who they report to

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Added by Recruiting Animal on December 16, 2008 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Animal Show Wed Dec 10 NOON

GUEST: MEDICAL SALES RECRUITER - PEGGY MCKEE ALL CALL IN AND LISTEN INFO HERE Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on December 10, 2008 at 10:47am — 2 Comments

Animal Show Wed Dec 03 NOON EST

08.12.03: LISTEN HERE… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on December 3, 2008 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Gen Y Boosters Are Dumb

Audio version here

Frizzy-haired, New York-based, Canadian author, Malcolm Gladwell has just released a new book that everyone is talking about. It's surely going to be a bestseller.

And perhaps that's partly because the main premise is very simple and easy to understand: even naturally talented people need practice to become really go

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Added by Recruiting Animal on November 24, 2008 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Animal Show Wed Nov 19 NOON EST

GUEST: CHUCKIE KRUGEL Chuck is a Labour & Employmen… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on November 19, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Jason Gorham, Recruitment Advertising

GUEST: Jason Gorham on The Recruiting Animal Show… Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on November 12, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

No Animal Show Nov 5, 2008

I'll be out all morning. Back next week. Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on November 6, 2008 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Client Relationships

The Minnesota Headhunter on client relationships. 5 minute audio. http://is.gd/590A With Jim Durbin, Jerry Albright and Carl Chapman. Excuse me. I reposted the audio on recession by accident a few minutes ago. Now deleted. Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on November 4, 2008 at 10:35am — 1 Comment

Is Recruiter Blogging Worthwhile?

The glamour has faded, that's for sure. But the Minnesota Headhunter thinks so even though he neglects his blog. He spells out the value in detail here. (Short audio) Continue

Added by Recruiting Animal on November 3, 2008 at 9:57am — 6 Comments