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Articles by Bill Vick

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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