Whether you’re hiring for assistants or lead engineers, posting a job listing often brings an onslaught of interested applicants hoping that they are the right candidate for your open position. Of course, not every candidate will be perfect and, in fact, many of them will be completely unsuited in either competency, capability, or personal work attitude but these disqualifiers are hard to see looking at resumes alone. Often two candidates with nearly identical apparent work h

The War for Talent has been stewing slowly for nearly twenty years, coined back in ’97 referring to the increasingly competitive recruiting environment and the steadily shrinking workforce. Back then, the causes of the war for talent were less clear but today we know for certain. The Boomers are retiring, leaving technician, lead, engineer, and senior management positions open wherever they have been. And the much smaller Gen-X generation of professionals just isn’t enough to

Recruiting is often a tricky business, that much is certain. It can be incredibly rewarding when the right candidate is found, but the actual search for a candidate can often be draining for higher managers. In a recent survey, 60% of hiring managers felt that there was a “significant lack” of candidates in the overall market, and that was one of the biggest challenges they were currently facing. While that statistic may seem gloomy, and maybe it resonates, it does not have t

Working with headhunters is a mutually beneficial experience. The job seeker receives the opportunity to get a great new career. The headhunter makes the client happy by making the connection. Everyone wins. But, there is still a lot of questions regarding headhunters. What exactly do they do? Who do they work for? How does one become a headhunter? Headhunting: Headhunting is the process of hiring talent who fit a specific skill set the client seeks. At times, they are alread