4 Traits That Separate a Great Recruiter From a Good One

Recruiting is unfortunately often a way station in a career. It is one stop on the way to becoming an HR executive or to moving on to other things. There are often very limited opportunities for advancement as a recruiter within most organizations, which further limits the number of people who choose to dedicate themselves to doing it well. Success also requires abilities that are not necessarily the strengths of those who choose traditional human resources as a career. I have found that many of the most successful recruiters had no intention of working for or in HR. They were interested in sales, marketing, communications, or similar areas and found themselves accidently being asked to do recruiting.

If you take the time to talk to recruiters who have garnered a reputation for success, you will discover that they share a few traits in common.

How many HR/Recruitment Departments use PR as a way to generate response?

The "Holy Trinity" of Recruitment - HR/Recruitment, PR/Corporate Affairs and Marketing.
So how many HR/Recruitment Departments use PR as a way to generate response?... seems to me, that the focus is on "Social Media" but what about "Media"?

Online Recruitment Conference 2011: The Year Ahead

The Enhance Media Conference is just a few days away, Thursday 27 January 2011.

This is your chance to hear an excellent line-up of speakers:

• Learn how to save money and hire better candidates from the Head of Recruitment for Olympics 2012 and the Head of Online Recruitment for Boots.
• Learn from Microsoft why targets within recruitment can damage your success and why a website without walls is the future of talent acquisition.
• Hear about the future of job boards - currently the largest online candidate channel - from the Director of TotalJobs, the UK's largest job board.
• In the new innovation platform, hear from four companies who each think they have the recruitment game-changer. Do they have the solutions to your recruitment challenges?
• Plus, results from the world’s largest piece of online recruitment research and three giants of recruitment discussing how to get more value from recruitment suppliers.

What Corporate Recruiting Can Learn From the U.S. Military

Several Mondays ago, I watched a National Geographic documentary called Restrepo. Restrepo is a feature-length documentary from National Geographic that chronicles the one-year deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in one of the most dangerous and remote locations on earth, the Korengal Valley. Named “Restrepo” after PFC Juan Restrepo, who died on a hillside 7,000 miles from home on July 22, 2007 the Korengal Valley was a Taliban-infested death trap where nearly 50 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in five years of conflict, according to the Miami Herald.

This was one of the most gripping and moving war documentaries I have ever watched. The documentary followed the daily lives of the platoon members assigned to the valley outpost. By now, you are probably asking yourself what in the heck does this have to do with corporate recruiting? The answer is EVERYTHING. U.S. Military recruiters SELL.