How to Choose a Recruiter Based on Recruiting Style
Every recruiter’s individual style has certain merits. However, there are recruiters who are truly exceptional at what they do. Choosing an exceptional recruiter is even more important in a bad market because the methods he or she uses determines if a candidate will find employment. As the CEO of a recruiting company, I am constantly astonished by the methods many use. We train our recruiters very carefully to recruit a certain way and we are always very aware of how they are performing. I have been in the recruiting industry for a long [Read more]
Take Incremental Steps
When I was around sixteen years old, growing up in Detroit, my mother’s boyfriend for several years was a tugboat (also known as a towboat) captain. Since the job was unionized, my mother was always trying to interest me in this as a good long-term career prospect. I did not grow up in the sort of environment wherein I was meeting and being introduced to attorneys, doctors and so forth as role models; instead, I was meeting machine operators, towboat captains and the like. My mother took me down to watch this man and his [Read more]
