Jordan Greenberg’s average fee collected in 2009 was down 53% from 2008. He had had a good life, home, and education for his kids — but things sure turned awful, he told the Fordyce Forum today. He made sure things wouldn’t stay that way. In short, here’s what he did: He started saying, “no.” Greenberg was “workin’ a lot of crap in 2009,” he says.... (more...)
One of Shannon Myers‘ favorite tools is one you’re also likely to find valuable in your recruiting and contact management. Myers, speaking at the Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas, suggests you take a look at “Friend or Follow.” With the “Friend or Follow” site, you can type in a Twitter name, and find out three things: Who the person’s “friends” are.... (more...)
Recruiter Carolyn Thompson has been quoted by major news organizations like CNN and the Wall Street Journal. Thompson gave Fordyce Forum attendees today in Las Vegas some of the useful resources for other recruiters looking to get their expertise in the news. Idea Calendar — a list of what’s happening when (right down to National Oatmeal Month) to help you relate your message to what... (more...)
Jenifer Lambert says she knows what recruiting firms’ clients want, and has even boiled those wants down to something so short it could fit on a Twitter tweet, as follows: Good news! Your clients want to pay you. They would be happy to pay you, but they have expectations that you must not violate. Lambert, speaking at the Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas today, knows clients can be pains in the rumps. One... (more...)
Do you and your firm have a competitive advantage? Have you defined it? Sanford Rose Associates’ Tim Tolan, speaking at the Fordyce Forum today in Las Vegas, says his competitive advantage is defined as follows: Our competitive advantage is our ability to assess executive talent and match a candidate’s skills based on our client’s requirement. We do this by having real-world experiences... (more...)
On a 99-degree day in Vegas, Jon Bartos told Fordyce Forum attendees some of what’s made him a recruiting success. Attitude matters. “There’s no time for loser recruiters,” he said, smiling (as he played the Queen song “We Are the Champions”). Practice the “golden rule.” Bartos’ gold-plated guideline is to never let an offer go out that could... (more...)
A marine recruiter in New York City is exiting the military and launching a website he describes as a “hybrid of Facebook and LinkedIn, tailored to the military.” Michael Abrams knows this won’t be the first website offering support or job help for veterans. To name a handful of dozens, you have recruitmilitary, hireahero, hirevetsfirts, hiremilitary, vetjobs, of course the new Recruiters-of-Light... (more...)
What do you do when you create a community, but your job candidates don’t seem so interested in it? That was a topic of an informal discussion led by Lance Haun at the #socialrecruiting summit in Minneapolis. For Generation Y, one conference-goer in the session said she created an online group for college-age students and interns to interact. Well, she tried. They didn’t take to it.... (more...)
There are three ways a company can handle social recruiting, says Jenny DeVaughn. The second is better than the first. The third is better than the second. DeVaughn, from the agency Bernard Hodes, says the first method is a centralized recruiting approach. This is a social recruiting strategy managed by recruiters. Among its faults: It’s not scalable. The second approach is an employee-centric... (more...)
Social media and social recruiting are “kind of everybody’s job” at Best Buy, Joshua Kahn told the Social Recruiting Summit in Minneapolis today. Kahn joined three others from Best Buy on a panel at the conference, held at Best Buy’s headquarters, a complex complete with an ATM, Caribou Coffee, pool and chess, a gift shop, as well as a vending machine stocked with electronic... (more...)
