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Category Archives: Recruiting

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  Choosing a Recruiter to Help Your Job Search

  How much time do you invest in your career? When it comes to purchasing big ticket items such as a car or a home, we shop around to receive the best deal. We go out of our way to introduce ourselves to multiple car salespersons, or even visit 20-30 homes before we buy. Most of… more

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  Recruiters, Be All That You Can Be

  At the most recent recruitDC, I had the privilege to share with the recruiting community tips on how to incorporate veteran hiring into a recruiter’s mindset. The poignant beginning of this presentation was the opening by Colonel David Sutherland, former Special Assistant to th… more

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  5 Tips for Transitioning Military and Cleared Job Seekers When Emailing Your Resume to a Recruiter

  May is National Military Appreciation Month. Each day this month we highlight articles to aid transitioning military in their job search and stories to honor our nation’s veterans. Have you ever emailed your resume to a recruiter and simply said something along the lines of … more

• Recruiters Are You Chasing Purple Squirrels

  The job market has gotten complicated lately – and not just for people out hunting for work. For those of us on the other side of the equation things are just as challenging -- try and remember the last time you had an honest-to-goodness “easy to fill” requirement to work o… more

• When Is a Job Board Not a Job Board? When It Is an Influencer

  The most recent Career Xroads Sources of Hire survey was released recently. If you are not familiar with it, Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler have been conducting this study for over a decade. The survey looked at data from 36 companies with over 200,000 job openings to determine th… more