Even when other recruiters are dropping like flies, you can easily be one who never goes out of business. Pasquale “Pat” Scopelliti, a writer for The Fordyce Letter and well-known industry consultant, says there is always a need for your service. Optimistic, perhaps, but it’s this sort of positive thinking that landed him MRI’s 2009 “Best-in-Class [...]
Artices Tagged ‘candidatesourcing’
The Path to Becoming the Greatest Recruiter In the World
May 11th, 2010
Jigsaw’s Fowler on Cold Calls, Passive Searches, and More
April 27th, 2010
Jim Fowler, founder and CEO of the online business directory Jigsaw, chatted with us following last week’s news of the $142 million proposed merger with Salesforce.com. Jigsaw, best known in the recruiting community for helping with passive candidate searches, will pretty much stay the same. “Salesforce recognizes that recruiters have played a huge and key role [...]
Salesforce to Acquire Jigsaw’s ‘Contact Gold’
April 21st, 2010
The computing company Salesforce.com is working on a $142 million deal to acquire Jigsaw, the online business directory that has been praised as a marketplace for contact information but reviled for its controversial privacy practices. Thousands of independent recruiters use Jigsaw every month. In its own words, Jigsaw touts that its services can provide “company [...]
Can We Talk?
November 2nd, 2009
One of the more frustrating aspects of the recruiting and staffing industry is the speed in which sourcing, interviewing, and hiring processes progress. One of the most common speed bumps in this process is how we work and communicate with one another. Chances are you work with others in your daily routine in many different staffing [...]
Fordyce TV: Client Sourcing, Part 2
October 22nd, 2009
Are you looking for some fresh client prospect sourcing tips? Then save the date for Tuesday, October 27, when Shally Steckerl returns to Fordyce TV! This is a follow-up show to his episode back in August, which explored Shally’s best sourcing tips and how he reverse-engineered his world-famous Internet sourcing and research techniques. In this [...]
ERE Acquires SourceCon
October 6th, 2009
ERE Media, the parent company of The Fordyce Letter, announced Tuesday it has acquired SourceCon, the only live, in-person event for sourcing professionals in the world. Over on The Source’s blog, the team shares its own thoughts on this acquisition, adding that “The Source will still be published as its own blog/newsletter.”
PracticeMatch Focuses on Sourcing
August 3rd, 2009
St. Louis-based PracticeMatch says it is closing its three-year-old physician recruitment division and focusing only on sourcing and data services. With this decision to step out of the recruitment arena, the company says it will focus on providing data to an in-house recruiter client base. PracticeMatch says it uses physician databases with both graduating and practicing physician [...]
Twitter for Recruiters: Value Your Tweets, Part 2
May 27th, 2009
Yesterday in part 1 of this article, I discussed the best ways recruiters can immerse themselves in Twitter — from what to say, to how often, to what not to say, and beyond. Today, I’ll discuss the second way to find value with Twitter. As a recruiter, Twitter is a must-have tool to find clients and [...]
Twitter for Recruiters: Value Your Tweets, Part 1
May 26th, 2009
I was having a conversation the other day with a recruiter colleague of mine and he was asking me about Twitter. He hasn’t used the service yet, but after hearing all the recent hype from Oprah, Larry King, and Ashton Kutcher, he felt like it was time to jump on the Twitter bandwagon. I spent [...]
Five Tips to Survive a Tight 2009 Market
March 18th, 2009
We have never experienced this type of economic strife in our business before. There is no handbook for these times. Unemployment has exceeded 8%, the highest level in 26 years, and experts say it will grow to 10%. We must be in survival mode, each and every day — focusing our time and energy on building [...]
What Does Quality Mean?
January 29th, 2009
Having been on the client side as a corporate human resources professional, I have designed RFP processes and worked closely with hundreds of hiring managers as well as staffing service providers. Whether it was deciding on which recruitment and staffing provider to place on our vendor list or awarding contracts, direct hires or temps, our [...]
Recruiting from the Middle of Nowhere
October 30th, 2008
The evolution of the Internet, teleworker technology, and the current shift in workforce demographics offer employment possibilities we once only dreamed about during our daily commutes. For a growing number of recruiters, working remotely is the new virtual reality. I am one of a growing number of people who work virtually. A couple of years ago, [...]
New Social Networking Sites to Explore
August 4th, 2008
It’s great you’ve found your way to The Fordyce Letter Network (have you added me as a friend yet?). Like you, many other recruiters are recognizing the importance of online social and business networking through sites like Fordyce Letter Network. And many are also venturing beyond the “tip of the iceburg” sites like LinkedIn, Spoke, Plaxo, [...]
No Time to Learn Search-Engine Marketing?
July 21st, 2008
Sharkstrike says it is launching an application/job keyword tool that allows employers, job boards, recruitment advertising agencies, and search engine marketing professionals to search only job-related keywords. Sharkstrike CEO Jason Gorham says customers can “reach active and passive candidates in seconds” by placing all of their search engine marketing needs in one application. The key component to [...]
Identifying Talent with Shally
July 8th, 2008
When Google became a verb, it definitely crossed that invisible threshold into gold standard for most people searching for everything from news to candidates to sports to old flames. But Google isn’t the be-all, end-all, turns out. And if it’s the only search engine you’re using, your method needs some updating, according to Shally Steckerl. So step [...]
This recession has been difficult for people in our industry. I started to say past recession because there are some positive signs that companies are hiring and reaching out for our help. I know first hand that the contract recruiting industry is booking significant business. In past recessions, increased use of contract recruiters was a [...]
Successful placement firms use an effective tool that enables them to conduct and complete more assignments. Once perceived as the sole property of retained search companies, candidate research has become a powerful addition to the arsenal of 21st century recruiting firms. Some forward thinking practitioners not only have in-house researchers but also sell candidate research [...]
If Indiana Jones had been a recruiter, he would have certainly been great at gathering names. He saw no obstacle as impenetrable, no opponent as undefeatable and was always ready for the hunt. The most valuable characteristic of “Indy” was his constant state of readiness and capacity to think on his feet. [...]
Almost 31% of practitioners in our recent Consultant Earnings Survey indicated that they employ a “researcher” or an “administrative assistant” in some capacity. Often this is just a secretary/receptionist. More frequently it is a sort of junior consultant. In fact, many firms start all people off as researchers as a prelude to a possible promotion [...]
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