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Of Mice and Men

—Running the maze of HR behavioral psychology "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."—Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, thesis 11 "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I...

Evaluating and Purchasing Recruitment Technology – A Vendor's Perspective

I was lucky enough to attend this Tuesday's #TChat (which you should attend if you are on Twitter) and there was a great conversation on "Best Practices Evaluating, Purchasing Implementing HR/Recruiting Tech Software". Long title, but a pretty interesting conversation between HR / Recruiting professionals with a few vendor opinions mixed in. I encourage you to read the recap...

Natural (Initial) Selection: The Job Applicant as Gladiator

"Nos morituri te salutant! (We who are about to die salute you!)"—gladiator salutation to Caesar in the "games" arena of the Coliseum "As a game it is comic. The woman sets up the competition, and while the two men are fighting, she decamps with a third. The internal and external psychological advantages for her and her mate are derived from the position that honest competition is for...

How to Find the Right Career for Your Unique Skills

It can be hard to find the right career for you, especially if you're not sure what you want to do for a living. Searching for jobs and planning your career path can seem overwhelming, but you can find a great career if you carefully weigh your options and think about what kind of work inspires you. When trying to find the perfect career for your unique skills, talents and interests, there are...

Career Questionnaire: How Tests Can Help You Find A Career

A career test reveals aspects of your personality and helps you narrow down your career choices, and sometimes a career questionnaire will be called a career or job aptitude test. Luckily, this isn't the kind of test you can fail. By taking a career test, you can find out how you work with others, what kind of work activities best suit you, what sort of work environment is best for your...

Choosing a Career Path

There are a great number of factors that can go into choosing a career path. For some individuals the decision is already laid out for them in the form of a several generation old family business or by way of some undeniable talent that simply can't be ignored. For others choosing a career path is a much more difficult and time consuming process that can feel overwhelming or even downright...

Characteristics of a Successful Marketing VP

Consumers' spending habits change over time, mostly due to the state of the economy and according to their own financial goals and objectives. Businesses that want to increase their profit margin have to change their habits as well if they want more lead-to-sale conversions. A successful marketing VP not only keeps up with the marketing trends, but also buying trends of consumers. Nowadays...

Seven Bad Habits IT Managers Should Avoid

An IT manager's work is never done. From developing and implementing information systems to supervising server maintenance to researching methods to ensure the security of information that passes through the information server, a workday in the life of an IT manager is seldom a dull one. Even the best IT manager is guilty of a few management bad habits, however, and these habits could prove...

Hobby Analysis

The serious information conveyed by what applicants do for fun "Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print."—Dave Barry, syndicated columnist, author and humorist It's speculation, but it stands to reason that a hobby is always more than just that—especially...

How to Make a Recruit Quit

—a 2-factor model of setting up for failure "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."—General Douglas MacArthur Almost everybody thinks about quittingat least once during a lifetime of employment. I don't know everybody, but I would bet on it. It's an even safer bet that the most likely reasons are the most obvious: low pay, poor advancement prospects,...

Career Recruiting

Recruiters are not career counselors. They are not career advisors, job mentors, resume writers, personal brand advocates, interview coaches, nor personal success advocates. A recruiter's primary mission is to identify and place talent, not to develop and nurture candidates' careers. Career recruiting, for most, means a recruiter who doesn't make very many placements... It is therefore...

Emergency Recruiter TSP Networking: "Life-Webs"

A prudent enhancement of your networking capabilities It is unlikely that anyone reading this is unaware of the cataclysmic earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear reactor disasters that have rocked Japan since the most massive earthquake in recorded Japanese history struck Sendai, northeast of Tokyo, around 3 pm, Friday, March 11, Tokyo time. Recently upgraded to a 9.1 magnitude...

Play 20 Questions to Develop a Successful Mentoring Program

Training and Development. Why do some organizations achieve great success in rolling out a mentoring program, while others achieve only a modicum of success? We believe that the companies that are most successful view corporate mentoring as an organic process, meaning that they understand that mentoring programs evolve and grow. Our experience demonstrates that the difference between...

Unfiring: Re-Recruitment Models

—Are IBM, the IRS and your local high school fire-rehire trailblazers? "Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me – I quit.'" –Bill Maher What is a recruiter supposed to do if a candidate she placed is fired? Specifically, and in addition to any expressions of regret, acts of contrition and patches to be put on the client relationship, what about the...

Take Charge of Conflict

The drama that often accompanies conflict is what gives conflict its bad name. Most of us veer away from screaming matches, stand offs and personal attacks. But, conflict does have redeeming value ... especially for those of us over 50. According to Barbara Strauch, author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain, we need to present our brains with things that make it wake up, pay attention,...

The Art of Networking

Networking is an art, and like any artist, you need to constantly practice, refine and critique your work. Networking makes a huge contribution to your life and career, and it's a skill that anyone can acquire. These networking tips can help you get started: Be open. Be open to new ideas, opportunities and people. Be prepared. Success in networking is when preparedness...

The Recruiter as Stand-Up Comedian

"A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time."—old joke The concept of a stand-up recruiter comedian sounds frivolous at first. You know at least one recruiter who is a "stand-up", stand-out guy, but none who is a stand-up, stand-out comedian. However, when you think about it, you, as a recruiter, may find some useful tips and parallels if you consider how...

Recruiting Seen Through the Lens of Charlie Sheen

"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?" –Charlie Sheen What was your immediate response to seeing Charlie Sheen's name just now? While most of the denizens, hangers-on and analysts of pop culture are focused and/or fixated on what is making Charlie...

Make the Most of Your Mentoring Relationships

Mentoring is one of the best ways to learn, to get feedback, and to take your career to the next level. Here are ten tips for making the most of your mentoring relationships. Tip #1 Self-assess. Ask yourself, "What skills do I need to get where I want to go?" Tip #2 Identify your learning goals. Put them in writing. Tip #3 Decide together how the mentoring relationship will work...

The Naked Truth About Public Speaking

When I was in high school, given the choice between giving an oral report and a written one, I always choose the written report. In college, I did the same thing. My reason: fear. I was terrified of public speaking. When I graduated from college, my father gave me some advice. He said, "If you want to succeed in the business world, you will need excellent presentation skills. Take a job that...

Are You Willing to Pay the Price of Success?

It's a new year, and there is resolution in the air. With a new year comes a fresh start, and new opportunities. Many people will set lofty personal and professional goals in these first weeks of 2011 in hopes of changing their lives and careers in significant ways. Unfortunately, very few of us will actually manage to achieve these goals, or to even remember what goals were set come March...

Insuring Your Success in 2011

I've never been more excited about a new year as I have this one. After a long, challenging 2009 and 2010, we can finally begin shaking off past difficulties, and lay the foundation for a bigger, brighter, happier, more rewarding 2011. This is the best time of year for a guy like me. Every get together is a chance to meet new people and discover what makes them tick, what motivates them....

LinkedIn Lessons: How to Stand Out and Level the Playing Field

I love LinkedIn. It's one of the best networking tools out there to help you expand your reach. It's "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" for the business world. But it can be a big, foreign maze. To stand out in the LinkedIn crowd, here are ten quick tips: To increase your Google search rankings, make your LinkedIn profile 100% complete Brand yourself by using a professional headshot...

Universal Truths of Recruiting and Staffing

There are a few things you can count on in this world. The sun will rise in the east and set in the west. What goes up must come down. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The funniest guy at the bar on your office party will regret it Monday morning. In recruiting, as in life, there are absolutes. Unshakeable truths that simply aren't negotiable. In our industry, they are the...

How to Write a Job Description

Think of a job description as a "snapshot" of a job. The job description needs to communicate clearly and concisely what responsibilities and tasks the job entails and to indicate, as well, the key qualifications of the job – the basic requirements (specific credentials or skills) – and, if possible, the attributes that underlie superior performance. Following is a quick look at the...

Rebranding Yourself as a Career Recruiter

In today's job market, enticing potential clients to work with your firm can be challenging at best. With unemployment levels at consistently high levels, candidates are flocking to companies with openings. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we focus on branding ourselves as something new. Rebranding has worked for soda companies, clothing designers, retail chains and just about every...

Ignoring Sexual Harassment Is Expensive: 5 Tips To Prevent Lawsuits

In the 1980s, after a $1 million dollar sexual harassment lawsuit against the government, I developed and conducted the first-ever training for federal employees. Fast forward thirty years and the workplace is still rampant with sexual harassment claims and lawsuits. In 2006, the largest sexual harassment lawsuit ever, at $1 billion dollars, was filed. The complaint cites lewd behavior and...

What do You Mean My Organization Is a Stepping Stone?

I remember the moment I swore that I would always value my employees. It was the late 90s, I was the head of sales and my boss was sitting across the table. "Sales people are a dime a dozen," he said. "I could replace anyone working here tomorrow and not miss a beat." That told me everything I needed to know about my value to the organization and it didn't take long before I left and...

Your Biggest Challenge In Recruiting and in Life

Recruiters are saddled with many challenges. If it's not a jobless recovery to worry about it's the potential for a double dip recession. Many of us are searching for magical formula in these tumultuous times in hopes of getting through to better times. If there were such and thing – and that simple, someone would find it, bottle it (or put it on the net), sell it and we would all...

The Uncovered Secrets of Million-Dollar Billers

In the world of executive recruiting, success is ours for the taking. So why do some people achieve superstardom and others quit in frustration? What does it really take to become a multi-million dollar biller? Obviously, it's not going to happen for everyone. Only the top half of one percent of all recruiters bill over a million dollars a year. Most people are unable or unwilling to climb...

Ten Reasons to Move Your Training Online

In today's knowledge based economy, business skills and knowledge are the pillars of career success. In order for businesses and individuals to stay afloat it is vital that professionals continuously update these skills. However, finding the time and the resources necessary to do so can be challenging. Not sure if online learning is right for you? Here are the top ten reasons why...

The Pepsi Challenge Approach to Recruiting

"More than 50% of Coke drinkers prefer Pepsi to Coke" — Pepsi's trumpeted results of the now-classic "Pepsi Challenge" What if one of the most successful soft-drink marketing campaigns of all time could be replicated in the realm of recruiting to promote clients, recruiting firms, individual candidates or recruiters? The well-known, long-running "Pepsi Challenge" to...

Smart Choices: Hiring the Right People

Need an office manager or a front-desk person? Pay and benefits are important but a successful search may depend more on patience. Physicians — most of whom are accustomed to making quick decisions — often don't put enough time or thought into hiring, says Elizabeth Woodcock, an Atlanta-based practice management expert. "Until physicians come to realize that they are leading...

Elance as a Sourcing Tool for Creative Recruiters

Elance has become the single most popular place for freelancers, or Elancers as they may call themselves, of all types to search for gigs. The design of the site is easy to use and the jobs are plentiful. Companies of all sizes are turning to Elance to tap a pool of creative people: writers, designers, voice actors, coders, photographers... and the list goes on and on. Creative recruiters can...

Got a Hollywood Job for Me?

"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."—Marlon Brando "Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it."—Cesar Romero A very ordinary-looking fellow walks into a Hollywood employment agency, is invited to sit and quickly makes it clear exactly what he is...

"Max" vs. "Min" vs. "MaxEx"—Which Recruitment Strategy for You?

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."—George Bernard Shaw, Act IV, "Man and Superman" In making your decisions about which candidate to push most aggressively, and even which employment sector to specialize in, about which client to engage, and, in general, how to utilize and allocate your resources of time, energy, money...

Will Facebook Become a Job Board?

Recruiters have long fantasized (or worried, depending on your opinion) about using Facebook as the ultimate job board. Recruiting with Facebook, however, is notoriously difficult and confusing. Navigating the complexities of privacy settings and friends vs. fans vs. likes vs. shares leaves recruiters with little to work with. The end result is that right now Facebook is much more of a personal...

Placing and Trading Staff: Go Long, or Short?

"I made my money by selling too soon."—Bernard Baruch, financier and presidential advisor Reflecting on a recent conversation with an old friend and financial whiz about "short-selling" stock—something I've never tried, I realized that the Wall Street stock market concepts of "going long", "going short" and "shorting a stock" have interesting implications for...

Hedge Fund Employment Branding

Hedge funds have been viewed in a quite negative light over the past few years. What's to like about hedge funds? They make billions for a relatively small number of people, appear to have a different tax method than the rest of us, and may have played a part in the financial collapse. But they do at least one thing right: employment branding. Of course, many of our companies live in the...

Dogs, Sticks and Recruiters

—How an old dog can teach you new recruitment tricks "Walk softly and carry a big stick"—Teddy Roosevelt What does or should a recruiter have in common with a dog chomping down on and loping along with a stick in its mouth? More to the point, what can a recruiter learn from a stick-fetching and wood-toting dog? SOFT WALK, BIG STICK/Photo: Michael Moffa To answer that, it...

Resume Presentation is Key

Key words are important when a résumé is being scanned, particularly when being scanned by software which a very few companies are doing now. However, when a human being is reviewing resumes, which is 98% of the time, resume presentation also plays an important role in winning an interview over the other candidates who are applying for the same position as you. When a resume looks almost...

Is Your Resume Hurting or Helping You Get That Interview?

You spend hours finding just the right words for your resume. You struggle over which font to select and what "action" words work best. But, do you know the way you format your resume and the information you include can undo all your time and energy? NEVER – I mean NEVER – use columns or tables. Most companies and many recruiters use databases to keep track of applicants. When...

Linkedin Year in Review and Profile Stats

With Linkedin's IPO scheduled, they are apparently in the dual mode of increasing profits and delivering new product innovations. Their product development appears to have kicked into overdrive - recently, there have been new tools and services announced regularly. Two relatively new services useful to recruiters are the new "Year in Review" tool and the new profile stats tool. Recruiters...

Split Considerations

Agency recruiters, especially those in smaller recruiting firms or working for themselves, often "split" fees with other companies or external recruiters. The aim is to improve recruiting bandwidth and coverage on a requisition, especially when it is a position outside your core competency. Conversely, by recruiting on splits, a recruiter can immediately have business to work on without spending...

The World's First Recruiter

THE ANCIENT ART OF RECRUITING/Image: Michael Moffa "And the woman said, 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."—Genesis, 3:13 Quick: Who was the world's first recruiter? Don't think, just answer—in terms of a specific real, legendary or mythological individual and/or a specific category. Your fast answer may reveal something about how you see your own profession, about how your...

The Impact of the "Flynn Effect" on Recruitment

—Have globally skyrocketing IQs affected applicant screening? "It is as if some unseen hand propelled scores upward at an unvarying rate between 1952 and 1982, a rate of 6 IQ points per decade, with individual nations scattering randomly around that value... Culture-reduced tests of fluid intelligence show gains of as much as 20 points per generation (30 years); performance tests show...

Google Tweaks Search... and your Job Postings?

Last night, Google announced a major improvement in the way they rank search results. Search results have been typically easy to manipulate and the result is that commercial sites focused on technical optimization do better than sites with high-quality, original content and research. These new tweaks by Google to its algorithms will apparently focus results on original, high-quality content....

Managing Third Party Recruiter Calls

Corporate recruiters often get bombarded with rather generic requests from staffing and recruiting firms. Fielding these third party recruiter calls and managing the relationships can become a big part of a corporate recruiter's job. Especially in this economy, third party recruiters are of course scrambling to dig up business (which really should be commended.) Third party recruiters...