1. Take stock of your emotional state. If you were recently laid off or decided that you just had to leave a job, you are probably going through the steps of grief. While taking time to recover, list your best skills and attributes – both professionally and personally. 2. Understand that finding a job is…

When you decide to direct source instead of simply posting and hoping, how do you approach the passive candidate? Do you call and say, “Hey! Would you like to work for us?” I’ve listened as corporate and third party recruiters tried similar lines. Naturally they did not like the rejection – and returned to posting…

As a contract recruitment consulting professional, I listen to companies when they say they are looking for the elusive passive candidate. When I ask them how they plan to attract that person, generally they reply that they want to post a job where they will respond. They then ask where I suggest they post the…

Over my 29 years of recruitment, one of my clients’ biggest problems in sourcing resumes has been retrieving them from their own files. In the “beginning”, paper resumes were stuffed into file drawers after they were reviewed by a recruiter – generally never to be found again. A year or two later they were all…