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Articles by Bill Vick

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Jordan Rayboy – Big Biller

by Bill Vick January 20th, 2009

Jordan Rabyboy is one of my recruiting heroes. Not only was this million dollar Big Biller rookie of the year at MRI when he first came upon the recruiting scene at Sales Consultants Plantation, Florida, but he has maintained his Big Biller status while being totally virtual and traveling around North America in a [...]

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Barry Hinckley – President Bullhorn Software

by Bill Vick December 21st, 2008

Barry Hinckley has over 20 years of entrepreneurial leadership experience and a passion for bringing people together, and he has helped establish Bullhorn as the largest and fastest-growing On Demand front-office software provider in the staffing and recruiting industry. As Bullhorn’s president and the driving force behind Bullhorn’s sales to more than 1,400 customers around the [...]

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Shally Steckerl – CEO JobMachine.net

by Bill Vick December 9th, 2008

Shally Steckerl started his career in technical recruiting in 1996 and has experience consulting with and building sourcing organizations at many Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Cisco Systems and Motorola. From early in his career he has developed techniques that dramatically increase recruitment productivity and allow companies to exploit the Internet. [...]

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Paul Forster – CEO Indeed.com

by Bill Vick November 19th, 2008

Paul Forster is CEO and co-founder of Indeed, a search engine for jobs that pioneered a radically improved approach to job search. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access instantly, in a single search, to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers, blogs, and associations. Indeed was selected by [...]

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Greg Doersching – Recruiter, Trainer, Speaker

by Bill Vick October 28th, 2008

Greg Doersching is Managing Partner and Founder of The Griffin Group, a National Search Firm working in the direct hire placement industry. For the past 13 years, Greg has been recognized as one of the most cutting-edge voices in the recruiting industry. He is an International Trainer and has presented for the National Association of [...]

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Michael Gionta – Big Biller, Recruiting Trainer, Consultant

by Bill Vick October 14th, 2008

Michael Gionta opened his firm, The Hudson Group, in early 1990. Between 1990 and 1996 Michael cashed-in $1 million as a billing manager. Frustrated, and wanting more, he drastically changed his approach to both the client and candidate side of the business. The result? Michael cashed in over $5.6 million between late 1996 and the [...]

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Harry Joiner – Recruiter and Blogging Super Star

by Bill Vick September 25th, 2008

Harry Joiner is a management recruiter based in Atlanta. As the son of a cofounder of one of Georgia’s largest privately held companies, Harry has spent his entire life studying how small businesses become hugely successful. Harry’s articles on marketing and management have appeared in Institutional Distributor magazine, Optimize, Information Week, Competitive Edge, Logistics Today, Inbound [...]

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Alan Whitford – UK Recruitment Thought Leader

by Bill Vick September 10th, 2008

Alan Whitford has 25 years experience in Recruitment, Human Resources and Technology Solutions. He is known as a thought leader in Europe on creating and managing recruitment strategies with the aid of Internet technologies. Alan managed the identification and selection of HR and Recruitment solutions vendors for Times 100 companies. Alan is a founding Board [...]

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Margaret Graziano, Founder Keenhire, Big Biller

by Bill Vick September 4th, 2008

Margaret Graziano says “KeenHire is the culmination of my past 22 years of experience in the recruiting and staffing business. For the nearly three decades I have been researching and sampling methods that work to find the right people and match them to the right company in the right job. With this knowledge, I guided [...]

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Bill Radin – Trainer, Author, Keynote Speaker

by Bill Vick August 27th, 2008

Bill Radin is a top-producing recruiter whose best-selling books, CDs and training seminars have helped thousands of recruiting professionals and search consultants achieve peak performance and career satisfaction. One of the most popular and highly regarded trainers in the recruiting industry, Bill has trained many of the largest independent and franchised recruiting organizations, including Management Recruiters, [...]

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Stacy Ethun, Big Biller, Industry Leader

by Bill Vick August 25th, 2008

Stacy Ethun is the owner of Park Avenue Group, an Executive Search and Recruitment firm located in Orlando, Florida. Park Avenue Group is a part of the MRI (Management Recruiters International) network, the largest Executive Search firm in the world. Stacy opened her office in January of 1998. Given her nineteen years experience as an executive [...]

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Mark Demaree – President Top Echelon Network

by Bill Vick August 18th, 2008

Mark Demaree is the dynamic President of the Top Echelon Network, founded in 1988 and created to help executive recruiters fill their clients’ needs with qualified candidates. With close to 600 firms across the country as Preferred Members, Top Echelon offers a tremendous opportunity for recruiters to make split placements with one another. [...]

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Barbara Bruno – Good As Gold Training CEO

by Bill Vick August 4th, 2008

Barbara Bruno, CPC brings with her over 25 years of experience in search, retained search, contract, temp, and training. Her expertise has covered most specialty areas and from 1996 – 2000 she was the VP of training for a publicly held company in Dallas employing over 500 recruiters specializing in IT, Telecom, Engineering, and upper-level [...]

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Frank Risalvato – Founder IRES

by Bill Vick July 23rd, 2008

Frank Risalvato earned his degree by paying his own way through college while working full time, graduating Cum Laude in 1984 from the New Jersey City University. He went on to a management career in the corporate world with California and New York based companies upon graduation. Having met exceptional recruiters that inspired him along [...]

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Jordan Rayboy – Big Biller and Virtual Recruiting Master

by Bill Vick July 17th, 2008

Jordan Rayboy is re-defining the recruiting industry by building his virtual search business with his wife Jeska while traveling the country in their Fleetwood RV. They have been on the road since September ‘06, and thus far have been to 36 states, 3 Canadian provinces, got married on the beach in Santa Barbara, and are [...]

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Video on Demand: Xtreme Cheeze

by Bill Vick July 9th, 2008

Joel Cheesman is a well-known blogger of online recruitment topics, speaker, entrepreneur, and agent of change. As an employee and insider of online job sites since 1997, Joel founded HRSEO in response to a growing opportunity to help employers learn what the big job sites already know: search engines rule. Joel is an evangelist of search engine [...]

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Lou Adler – President, The Adler Group

by Bill Vick July 2nd, 2008

Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group. His Amazon best-seller Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 1997, 2002) started the performance-based hiring and selection movement. This was followed-up with the award-winning Nightingale Conant audio tape program, POWER Hiring: How to Find, Assess, Hire and Keep Great Talent (1998). Adler is a noted [...]

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Scott Love – RecruitingMastery.com – trainer/consultant

by Bill Vick June 18th, 2008

Scott Love improves recruiter performance by getting them to think at a higher level and showing them a step-by-step system that anyone can duplicate. Over 2,000 search firms and staffing agencies have invested in his training tools, seminars and consulting. Visit his website for free videos, training tools and articles at www.recruitingmastery.com. Scott is a [...]

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Amybeth Hale – Research Goddess

by Bill Vick June 12th, 2008

Amybeth began her career in research in the summer of 2002 as the sole researcher for an award-winning MRI-affiliated executive search firm in Ohio. After that, she served as the Manager of Internet Research for a recruiting franchisor in Ohio where she provided research support to franchise offices and implemented, customized, and conducted training classes for [...]

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Mark E. Berger – Internet Recruiting Guru

by Bill Vick May 18th, 2008

Mark E. Berger, C.P.C., AIRS CIR has been in recruiting and staffing since 1979. He is currently the proprietor of Swat Recruiting (www.swatrecruiting.com), a firm supporting the technology needs of the recruiting and staffing industry. He is also a partner in Ramsey Fox, Inc., an IT services firm, and its predecessor, M.E. Berger & Associates, [...]

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Don Breckenridge – President Sendouts.com

by Bill Vick May 14th, 2008

Donald E. Breckenridge Jr. is the co-founder and president of Sendouts, which develops and markets Sendouts Pro, the leading on-demand applicant tracking system for the recruitment industry. Under Breckenridge’s leadership and vision, Sendouts has grown into a profitable software company serving more than 850 recruitment firms internationally and serving more than 5,000 users. Prior to Sendouts.com, [...]

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Hank Stringer – Recruiter, Entrepreneur, And Innovator

by Bill Vick May 7th, 2008

Hank Stringer has over two decades of experience as a successful high-tech industry recruiter, entrepreneur, and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process. Today, Stringer is CEO of Stringer Search – www.stringersearch.com, an executive search services and consulting firm based on the philosophies and best practices of his book [...]

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Doug Beabout – on Researcher Training

by Bill Vick May 6th, 2008

Doug Beabout feels that as the candidate pool shrinks, competition to reach candidates first is fierce, and a Researcher, properly trained, can help recruiting professionals win the battles! Doug brings over twenty-nine years of expertise in personal top billings, personnel services firm ownership, and industry training. His tenure in recruiting has resulted in his personal success [...]

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Jeff Skrentny – Trainer, Speaker, Recruiter

by Bill Vick May 1st, 2008

What an incredible career and success story  Jeff Skrentny, CPC/CTS has had. After his first deal in 1987 fell off, and after he was voted least likely to succeed in his training class he went on to become the firm’s top producer. From top producer, to manager, to entrepreneur, Jeff has grown his IT practice [...]

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Dave Staats – Big Biller, Industry Leader

by Bill Vick April 25th, 2008

My friend Dave Staats is one of those people who just seems to get it. He understands that you give before you get and he freely gives of his time in any number of groups but his efforts as a board member in The Pinnacle Society and The Tennessee Recruiters Association stand out in [...]

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