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Articles by Todd Raphael

Video’s Going Up From the Fordyce Forum …

by Todd Raphael June 8th, 2008

… check it out on the Forum site.

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Recruiter 1, Wells Fargo 0

by Todd Raphael June 6th, 2008

An anti-recruiting motion is denied.

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The Fordyce Forum and the Fordyce Letter

by Todd Raphael June 5th, 2008

If you’re here in Vegas, hope you’re having a good time and are getting useful information. I’m bouncing back and forth between Frank’s presentation and Michael’s presentation at the moment. If you’re here at the Flamingo and you’d like to get more involved in Fordyce … whether it be writing for the Letter, speaking next year, [...]

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A little Friday news

by Todd Raphael May 2nd, 2008

SearchPath going public. The company says it is “the nation’s fast-growing talent acquisition professional services firm, with more than 60 offices opened in its first 30 months.”

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More from NAER

by Todd Raphael April 24th, 2008

Darth Vader didn’t come up this afternon at NAER but these things did … Joe McCool, amped about his new book, jokes that specialist recruiters are in such demand nowadays that a generalist recruiter should call themselves a “multispecialist” … McCool also has some interesting stuff (which he goes into more detail about in the book) [...]

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Finding Darth Vader

by Todd Raphael April 24th, 2008

Chris Murdock, executive sourcer & knowledge manager, Yahoo!, shared some of his thoughts on popular sourcing tools today at the NAER conference in Redondo Beach (a good place for a weekend afternoon but a pain in the kiester to get to on a work day). ZoomInfo: Murdock notes that he has seen Darth Vader listed as [...]

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Acquisition

by Todd Raphael April 23rd, 2008

Addison buys HireSynergy.

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Express’ Bday Present

by Todd Raphael April 18th, 2008

For its 25th anniversary, Express does its part to banish the word “personnel” from the business lexicon.

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Spherion’s Seasonal Staffing Struggles

by Todd Raphael April 17th, 2008

It was a bad day for Spherion and its stock, which was down a sharp 11% Thursday. Pessimists may see it as a sign of a bad recession; optimists (me) are saying, “wait a second, it’s still doing well over half a billion dollars in revenue in three months.” We’ll know more on the 29th.

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Korn/Ferry’s Facelift

by Todd Raphael April 10th, 2008

The search giant is running a new campaign for itself, called “The Art & Science of Talent.” Meanwhile, it redid its website in keeping with the new theme. Korn/Ferry’s emphasizing what most every HR/recruiting/talent/OD/related consulting company and their brother are emphasizing … that they handle the full-life cycle of talent acquisition and talent management — they don’t just [...]

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Contract vs. Full-time Recruiters

by Todd Raphael March 19th, 2008

Alan Lee, who has been involved in recruiting (and downsizing) at Coca-Cola and NationsBank, and Gregg McCormick, a Gartner VP, share how their experiences in tough economic times have shaped their views on the use of contract recruiters vs. full-time recruiters. Lee: In the downsizing at The Coca-Cola Company, we did have some contract recruiters on our [...]

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