I have been in the recruiting business for 20 years. (I started work when I was 10 . . . wink, wink.) I have to say that 2016 was the STRANGEST year ever in the business.   I don’t even know what to attribute it to, so we’ll blame the fact that it was an election year. Below are two of my most memorable transactions:   1.) I was fired for the first time ever. (See my blog post “Don’t Blow Off Your Prom Date.”) I’m still unclear as to why. Was it because I called the HR rep … [Read more...]

I have been thinking about this post for a while and finally just need to sit down to write it. My community lost a really great track coach in a car accident in August. He was one of those people that was so full of life, it’s hard to believe that he was gone. I knew he had an impact on the kids that he coached but didn’t realize the depth of it until I attended his funeral and memorial. One thing about attending funerals that even in sadness you can reflect on the person’s life. Lance had so … [Read more...]

(And Start the Onboarding Process from Offer Acceptance) We all recall seeing the “teen angst” movies where the girl gets stood up on prom night. If I remember correctly, in the Drew Barrymore movie Never Been Kissed, her prom date actually threw eggs at her. As the scene faded, she stood there in tears with egg on her face.   If you follow my blogs, you know that I like to use dating analogies. You have to admit that interviewing is a LOT like dating.   In my previous … [Read more...]

I recently received a nasty email from an HR professional telling me how unprofessional it was for me to gather selling points in trying to sell a candidate on an offer. Let me give you the back story . . . A candidate really likes the company with which they’re interviewing and has a lot of questions. The typical process is for the candidate to communicate the questions to their recruiter, and then the recruiter finds out the answers. I am NOT a “control freak,” but the candidate in this … [Read more...]