Along with all your other recruiting responsibilities comes the need to have what could be called “critical conversations” with your HMs and/or HRBPs when they do not seem to be ignoring you, going around you, leaving you out of important meetings, etc.– in other words, not treating you like a …
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Tough Times? Let Your Inner Recruiting Consultant Out
When your company is going through a big change, especially if it hits the news, you have a new recruiting challenge. And with everything going on, your hiring manager may not even be thinking about how this change could influence how candidates feel about taking a new position at your …
Read More »Streamline Your Screenings with These Smart Questions
I’m always on the lookout for good questions that can give me critical information about a candidate. And if those questions can streamline the screening process at the same time–so much the better. That’s why the questions in this article can be helpful. However, you will see that the wording should …
Read More »5 Straight Forward Ways to Build Your Consultative Recruiter Image
Even though they may not ask outright, I think your hiring manager clients will welcome your consultant approach to help them hire the best for their positions. And the more they trust you as their consultant, the more input and impact you will have. So here are five things you …
Read More »The 3 Writing Secrets to Great Postings Even if You Tanked in High School English
Unless you are the only recruiter in the country looking for a certain type of candidate, you are facing stiff competition to get your positions filled. In the world today, it’s important to stand out if you want the sought-after candidates to be interested in your position. Your posting is a …
Read More »When “Playing Nice” Backfires: How to Lose Credibility While Trying to Trying to Build a Business Partner Relationship with Your Hiring Managers
Recently one of the recruiters in my consultative recruiting master class shared a challenge she had with some of her hiring managers. Denise admitted she had probably created the situation when she started working with a new group of hiring managers, prompted by wanting them to like her. So in …
Read More »OMG The HM Wants to See More & More!
picture source:.flickr.com/people/kalexanderson We’ve all had this happen: just when we thought there would probably be an offer made to one of your great candidates, the HM tells you they want to see more candidates. Even though the ones you’ve sent so far meet the requirements, they ask “Got any more resumes?” …
Read More »Questions You’ll Be Glad You Asked
NOTE: Ask these even if you think you know the answers (and you probably do) because you need to know what the hiring manager is really thinking. What makes this a great career opportunity? What is happening in the company overall, this portion of the company, etc., that would be …
Read More »Take A Different Route To Get Your HMs to Change
As recruiters, we can provide an incredible service to our hiring managers by helping them understand how to do their best hiring possible. But if you’re finding that your traditional methods aren’t working, here is a more covert way to share critical information. Sharing some of this information about Elon …
Read More »The Ideal Time for You to Write Job Postings
You probably know by now I feel strongly that using job descriptions for your postings is the best way to prolong a search, often to the pain point where we’re soooo tired of working on it! Job descriptions simply do not convey enough of the good stuff to excite and …
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