Travis Furlow, colleague, recruitment professional, and friend of Aspen Search Advisors offers his advice and professional experience below: ________________________________________________________ So the deal is this; I have been a hiring manager, a recruiter and a candidate (off and on) for 14 years. I have experienced frustration as a provider of services, the pain of a hiring […]
In March I was interviewed by NYU for ARCHtypes, NYU’s newsletter of the SCPC undergraduate student council. I was asked what needed to be considered when looking for a job, and what advice could I give the graduating class as they hunted in this economy. I focused on social networking, and getting people to understand […]
That’s right. All the googling, hunting, twittering, blogging, myspacing, linkedin-ing (that one is hard to say) in the world is not going to close a hire for you. But guess what – neither did the cold calling, Monster crawling, careerbuilding, or yahoo-ing (this is getting fun). All these processes and tools just identifies the candidate. […]
On March 20, 2009, I moderated a panel of recruiting leaders in Chicago about how this economy has affected their processes and the techniques they use in order to lead effective recruiting organizations. The Human Resources Management Association of Chicago was kind enough to ask me to facilitate. Prior to the questioning the panel in […]
Recruiters Must Become Indispensable while Co-Sourcing Flexible During this economic downturn, recession, slump – pick your phrase, we have seen more contract recruiters and search companies take a hit. Not a surprise. Less hires, and thereby less to outsource to third parties. As I talk with third party recruiting organizations, many are trying desperately to […]