Many thanks to Barb Bruno for her fantastic appearance on Fordyce TV. If you have a job order flow, check out Barb’s tips for success, such as reactivate past clients, develop a client-referral program (”Our client referrals tripled,” she admits, after her firm instituted such a program), and pull out every candidate application form in [...]
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Fordyce TV: A Recap of Barb Bruno’s ‘No BS!’
March 10th, 2009
LinkedIn Launches ‘Talent Advantage’ Suite
February 2nd, 2009
“Roughly one new member per second,” explains Francois Dufour, LinkedIn’s senior director of Enterprise Marketing. He is, of course, referring to the rapid growth of LinkedIn, which now tops 35 million members. And due to replies to job postings on LinkedIn having doubled over the last six months, the company has unveiled a “new” suite of [...]
Unemployment Hits 7.2%!
January 9th, 2009
A staggering amount of jobs were lost in December, the highest jobless rate since January 1993. The news out Friday morning reveals that 524,000 jobs were shed, leading our country’s unemployment from 6.8% to 7.2%. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed Americans has grown by 3.6 million, according to the [...]
Recruiter Job Trends
November 18th, 2008
Shout-out to the the good folks at Indeed.com for this recruiter job trends graph: Also this week, a report released by the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) shows a dip in in worldwide executive search revenues. The AESC reports a decline of 6.3% from the previous quarter, accounting for the first quarterly drop since Q4 [...]
Pony Up for Craigslist
October 16th, 2008
You already have to pay to post in places like New York and Boston and Chicago and San Francisco. And now you’ll have to shell out $25 per listing if you are posting jobs in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, or Phoenix. (Ugh. Is everything more expensive now?) At least Craigslist has posted handy information on [...]
Authoria Gets New Owner
September 29th, 2008
Talent management provider Authoria announced Monday that it is being acquired by Bedford Funding for $63 million. This news is big among corporate recruiters, naturally, who wonder about the next phase of growth for Authoria, a company that started in 1997 and counts Aetna and Intuit, among others, as clients. The private-equity firm will also help [...]
Say It Ain’t So: Paying Candidates for Placements?
September 12th, 2008
Have you heard the one about the new career network that shifts the commission fees to the candidates? If you’re waiting for the punchline, sorry, but this is no joke. The reality is that PaidInterviews has launched a new service that pays candidates when hired. It combines social networking and matching technology in a new way, [...]
Are Online Degrees a Joke?
July 15th, 2008
Are online degrees the educational equivalent of a brick-and-mortar campus? Or do online degrees reflect a less-serious commitment to education on the part of the degree-holder? Vault.com’s CEO Erik Sorenson recently pointed out that “Everything has moved online, including education. Though more and more Americans are getting educated online, there is still a bias toward traditional [...]
Best of Breed: Phone or Online?
July 10th, 2008
Which contact method is the best, and why do you think that way? If you’re an online person, why do you think some people prefer the phone, and vice versa? Do the new online and social tools available make the phone less important in the recruiting world? Jump right in, leave a comment, and let us [...]
With Big Dog or Alone, Break Through Your Barriers
July 2nd, 2008
There I was, 40 feet in the air, having just climbed the pirate’s net to the top of the high-ropes course. Sitting on the perch and looking at where to go next, it occurred to me that I was scared x&*%less. I called to “Big Dog,” the group leader, and asked what to do next. His response [...]
The Video Challenge
April 23rd, 2008
Staats called me “obsessed” as he commented on my post last night. Wow, in such a short time, he understands me better than most! Dave - here’s a video just for you, my friend! Since I’m spending way too much time these days obsessing over various recruiting-related things, I thought I’d go overboard on [...]
After spending the day yesterday doing a full day in-house training program for one of my most loyal training clients in Columbia, MD, I wandered down to Washington, DC, last night (after an O’s game at Camden Yards, of course, w/friend and peer Dan Simmons) to attended the ASA Chapter Leadership Council Meeting [...]
I read my first issue of the Fordyce Letter about 20 years ago. I was a junior recruiter working my butt off to bill enough to become a senior consultant in a large clerical placement operation in downtown Chicago. The owner of my company put a Post-it Note on a copy of the [...]
Once again, one of the “Golden Rules” in our business regarding the principles of a “Class A search assignment” has proven to be gospel. In my twenty-fifth year of headhunting I have become vigilant about qualifying the searches I will and won’t spend my ultra-valuable, only-thing-I’ve-got-control-of, straight-commission time on. However, every now and then I [...]
Diversity In Recruiting - Director Of Diversity - Dead End Job?
August 1st, 2004
The world of work in America today seems to look to the human resources professionals for all the answers to diversity issues. This expectation is not only a mistake but it is grossly unfair. We know where the leadership belongs. We also know that in far too many instances the leadership passes the buck to [...]
The statistics of our 19th Annual Earnings Survey are in with some surprising results. The survey was Emailed to about 3,500 readers who were picked at random from our current reader database. As of this writing, we received usable information from 1,100 firms. The increased response was due to the Emailing’s ability to allow participants [...]
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