I hope this one does not come out like a rant. It doesn’t feel like one…I just need some input and education on this term. I have never quite understood OR identified with the term Executive Recruiter. I am glad headhunter seems to be losing its stigma because it is not just descriptive of what [...]
Executive Recruiter?
July 3rd, 2008
My Favorite Topic of the Moment Again…LinkedIn
July 1st, 2008
I have to start all these posts with I LOVE LINKEDIN as a database!!! I really really do. This is not intended as a direct attack on Don Breckenridge’s position in his Open Door vs Hide n Seek post. That’d be kind of hard anyhow because he covers quite a few positions there . [...]
What’s wrong with “Finder’s Fees”?
June 19th, 2008
NOTHING! I think a bit less of candidates who ask me for them but I volunteer them all the time. Something along the lines of “We’ll hunt you down and send you a finder’s fee of X ,or 1/2 X if it is a split if we ever place someone you introduced us to even [...]
Salary Surveys : a quick morning rant…
June 17th, 2008
I have ZERO interest in picking on the guy who sent me this so I am not mentioning who it was. That he sent it is completely innocent but when I saw it I thought about how looking at these things has never helped me one iota to make a placement. Ever. I don’t place [...]
Is it time for a word of caution on this Millennial fad?
June 16th, 2008
I don’t remember all the details about the X’ers…probably because those details turned out not to matter as much as we all were told. Sure, there’s a group of people who have many things in common while growing up. Will all the new modes of communication play a part in how they interact with each [...]
The best case I have seen for having a blog
June 11th, 2008
Ok, Below I am just pasting in the response to the xtreme.tv Question of the Week on how blogging can help a recruiter. This response and the others can be seen on recruitingblogs.com. Joshua Letourneau just nailed this one, Bill. His 10 item list is reason enough to have a blog without overstating the case for [...]
Paul Hawkinson
May 30th, 2008
Hey, I just wanted to see that name on the front of the website again Just trying to mentally catalog the value I have received from an association that has only involved 3 or 4 minutes of live conversation in a 22 year period is almost like my own self-seminar. I hope the move [...]
Blogging since April 18th of 2005
May 22nd, 2008
At the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia the prior week Danny Cahill told the Pinnacle Society attendees about the importance of blogs. I honestly can’t remember what he said about why but it was convincing enough to tip the scale in favor of starting one up. While I am being more open than strictly necessary my [...]
My favorite “job order”.
May 19th, 2008
“Dave…could you get this person interested in interviewing with us?” It doesn’t get better than having that in an email subject line and having a LinkedIn profile pasted in below. The guy just met with my client. It made me smile a bit thinking back to a company meeting in the year 2000 when someone [...]
Another thing I like about LinkedIn
May 13th, 2008
I thought I’d start this post with a ‘grabber’ headline for those who know me. As I’ve noted lately LinkedIn is very valuable for a number of things. I think gradually I am finding that my problems are more with the way people use it than LinkedIn itself. It feels like the people with 1000s [...]
I just had Shally Steckerl(’s video) for Lunch
April 30th, 2008
Bill Vick has a video with Shally kinda’ buried in his RB.com group. It might be other places but that’s where I saw it. This ought to be available to everyone. I heard about the guy for a few years and finally saw a presentation when we both did The Fordyce Forum last year. I [...]
Comments Shmomments
April 21st, 2008
This is a fun topic. I started to address some comments on Network Shmetwork as another comment but decided to make it a post. I really believe it is worthwhile to pick at this a bit so people understand this is NOT a complaint about LinkedIn as a data source. Dear Interested Third, Tom and Dennis: Let [...]
Network Shmetwork
April 18th, 2008
I did my good deed and put a very mild-mannered comment on Jeff’s industry vs profession column yesterday. Now I am getting the curmudgeon stick back out on an issue that I think Jeff will probably agree with, though I admit he’d do it in a kinder,gentler way. I just saw a message similar to [...]
What an appropriate title for me to steal from Jeff!
April 14th, 2008
I decided to put something here every Friday before I cancel the reminder or to even do it late… but before I cancel the reminder. Some will be short because the day after a Pinnacle meeting and the day before TAX DAY are always a bit hectic. That said, I laughed out loud when I saw [...]
LA Here we come!
April 9th, 2008
Looks like there is a lot going on. Jason’s been too busy to post here and I am leaving for the airport for our Pinnacle Conference at the Ritz Carlton in Marina del Rey. The prospect of my 13th meeting in a row is just as exciting as the first one was at this same [...]
Some may wonder why I care about this. I have no idea how long the MRI franchisee below has been in this business but I have 22 years and the guy who started MRI could be my grandfather and the guy who runs The Fordyce Letter was making placements when they were paid for with [...]
What’s news?
March 31st, 2008
So..saving the meat of the matter for another time, let’s say that a recruiter/manager person publicly leveled accusations so serious and specific as to have someone spreading it via email use the word “unbelievable” in the subject line of the email and report it to NAPS etc. Thinking it to be unbelievable in a more [...]
Another fun email exchange with a ‘candidate’
March 21st, 2008
I see people like this so rarely anymore that I tend to forget they exist. It used to be fun to ‘punish’ them for their stupidity but now I realize their attitude does that for them. I sent him this response to see whether he’ll choose ‘angry’ or ‘Oh, I see what you mean’. They [...]
LinkedIn’s move was no surprise to me…
March 19th, 2008
Interesting…the other comments in a Pinnacle Forum also seemed to interpret that I ‘didn’t see this coming”. I may have to both re-read and re-write that when I have time. This did not surprise me in the least and I remember distinctly thinking ‘yeah right’ the first time I heard someone (and later many more) suggest [...]
LinkedIn just reminded me of a term from my younger days!
March 14th, 2008
But since I am not Jane Fonda or Diane Keaton I will only write it as “sneak-f***ed” and let your imagination figure it out. I am applying this term to the news release this week about LinkedIn Recruiter
Split over Splits
March 7th, 2008
With what feels like a sudden crop of tadpole recruiting boards added to the long-established split networks it seemed like a good time to mention something prompted by a discussion in the Pinnacle Society forum. One end of the ’split stick’ has people who do nothing but splits and the other has the people who [...]
To the Legion of Fans Who Await My Every Utterance
February 29th, 2008
Hi Mom: I moved my blog to The Fordyce Letter. I was SO excited to see the site up and running with content.
Maybe my new sigfile for emails
February 19th, 2008
The information transmitted in this email is intended only for the entity or person to whom it is addressed (and the other 6 million people who think Bill Gates talks to Walt Disney) and may contain confidential and/or privileged material (but is probably only an old joke or a picture of a guy with a [...]
Short post for an obvious reason…
January 11th, 2008
Maybe it’s just me…It sure seems like everyone came back from the holiday vacation and found a memo that said “Ok, go spend your budget money”. I know things are heating up when I find myself not even having time to finish my sandwich at my desk in mid-afternoon. It’s almost like Y2K all over [...]
All for nought…
December 13th, 2007
As I suspected, the previous blog and controversy was valuable only as a philosophical exercise. The guy didn’t get the offer. We were in a good position if he had received and accepted one but I am left with a distinct urge to go work on a better deal. The whole thing reminded me of [...]
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