Recruiting
Your Dream Job Candidates Are Falling Through The Cracks
By Steve Margalit One of the collateral challenges of our strong economy is the shortage of high quality, active job seeking candidates. As Executive Recruiters, we have an enormous opportunity to partner with both our client companies, and the network of high caliber candidates we have developed over the years yielding a win-win-win situation. The…
Read MoreDoes The Perfect Candidate Exist?
By Steve Margalit Has the internet led you to believe that there is an unlimited pool of talent in your given field? Is it fooling you into believing you can find the perfect candidate? If you answered yes, you are not alone. As a result of this false perception, the average time to hire has…
Read MoreCompassion: The Secret Ingredient to Business Success
On May 13th, 2018, Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, spoke to the graduation class of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In his speech, he highlighted that the secret to his success, and the model that propelled him to where he stands now, is compassion. Weiner broke it down this way: “I vowed…
Read MoreDoes Artificial Intelligence Spell The End of Recruitment As We Know It?
By Jeff Herzog, FPC President Mankind has been held in the grip of fear for many centuries. Or perhaps more than fear, it’s a creeping anxiety that the latest advances in technology will inevitably lead to unemployment. It’s a deep seated anxiety that we’ll see work being undertaken by machines, computers or robots that had…
Read MoreYour Job Search is a Bare Knuckle Fight Ch 3: This is a sales job whether you like it or not
Everything until now has been designed to get you ready to accept the prescription that follows. The hardest pill for most job searchers to swallow is that the bare knuckle job search is a sales job! You are the product. Unless you are a salesperson, those looking for other roles will likely find the idea…
Read MoreYour Job Search is a Bare Knuckle Fight, Ch 2: Outplacement is out of place in a bare knuckle job search
The information you get in outplacement is way too soft: Write a cover letter. Email it with your resume or send out a fax blast. Wait a certain number of days. Email again. Don’t call. Don’t bother people. Sorry. This doesn’t work. If you’ve received outplacement services as part of your severance package, here are some points…
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