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Mar30	What Are Your Candidates Going Through? Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 Know More: Attracting Talent 2.0, Attracting Talent This morning I had to register for a service on Yahoo and I was presented with the above CAPTCHA in order to prove I wasn't a computer program pretending to be a human being. I had to correctly decipher the above image into a string of characters, then type it back to the web-page I was on or else I would be denied access. The image was SO unreadable that I saved it just so I could share my pain with all of you. What do YOU think it said? More importantly, have you followed your company's own resume submission process from start-to-finish? Do you know what, exactly, candidates who want to work with you are going through? One of my clients this week discovered that--due to an administration error in their IT department--she had been taken off "the list" of recipients for resumes sent to the company's jobs@ email address... the problem is, she's the only one on "the list". (She only found this out because an applicant had the tenacity to call after submitting and ask if it was received) My own company's website had a bug recently where it would erase your recently-uploaded resume if you also filled out our online application (oops) Another client of mine didn't inform their front-office staff that they were hiring again. The receptionist-as-gatekeeper followed her previously-given instructions and politely turned away somewhere between 20-50 people who came in the door responsding to the job ad. At the end of the day, making it easy for people to wave a red flag and get your hiring manager's attention is a critical part of your recruiting process. What are you doing to make it easy? What are you doing to make it easier than it was last month? How many incredible candidates are walking away from you because your submission process is broken/annoying/confusing/too restrictive/too secure? Will you ever know? Time to hire some secret-shoppers, if you ask me. Posted at 2:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar30	CTO Breakfast Was Great Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 I mentioned yesterday that the monthly CTO Breakfast/Forum was happening this morning in Orem, hosted by Phil Windley. Continue Reading Posted at 2:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cash On Tap Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 They're offering more than $1,000 per qualified referral you send them who is hired and works for 90-days. Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You Gotta Be Kidding Me Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 This has officially earned the first posting in my new "rants" category. The Recruiting Edge blogged about how The EEOC Doesn't Get It and I completely agree. Read the article there because I'm too fired up to blockquote anything. Is... Continue Reading Posted at 6:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Wet Jello -- No, not a Utah thing Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 This year's college graduates have had webcams on their computers since they were freshman in high school. More recently, their cell-phones have videocameras built right in as well. Wet Jello is trying to tap that market and put it to some use. Continue Reading Posted at 5:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	CTO Forum in Orem, Utah tomorrow Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 For those of you in the Utah area, I will be attending the always-fun CTO Forum hosted by Phil Windley tomorrow morning at the Canyonlands Technology Park in North Orem. The group of people attending is at-once interesting and ecclectic. I... Continue Reading Posted at 2:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	So, You Wanna Be A Recruiting Blogger? Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 There are many people jumping on the blogging bandwagon these days, and I don't have any problem with that as long as the motives are this side of greedy. Continue Reading Posted at 6:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You're Still Paying Fees... Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 The value of a recruiter is easilly defined: The dollar-amount of their fee plus the value your new hire will bring to the table, plus the ability to actually sleep at night since the day your previous employee gave their notice and walked out the door. Continue Reading Posted at 6:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	An Inbox of Resumes Does Not Equal Recruiting Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 Honestly, I don't care if a company uses my recruiting agency or not. But I do care that companies understand that hiring is not something you can blindly do and expect reasonable results--let a lone great ones. Continue Reading Posted at 4:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar28	Dating Like Hiring? Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 In a humorous look at dating as if it were hiring, CountryGirl912 posts a "boyfriend application" on her myspace blog. Like a seasoned interviewer, she asks good, open-ended questions and leaves them vague enough that you can't tell what answer she... Continue Reading Posted at 11:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Many Mistakes Does It Take? Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 In the end, "recruiting right" seems to stack right up there with the fastest way to build--or blow--your new venture. Heed the voice of warning: pay very close attention to who and how you recruit! Continue Reading Posted at 10:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Nine Questions To Ask A Startup Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 Unfortunately these are the tough questions to ask as much as they are to be asked. If you've become emotionally attached to the company, you may be convincing yourself, or "going with gut instinct" that the company will make it, the product will sell, and that your salary won't turn to severance any time soon. Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar24	Experience Versus Education Rob Merrill March 24, 2006 Continue Reading Posted at 12:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Generation Y Wants Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T Rob Merrill March 24, 2006 Enter Generation Y. They really don't care about your many years of dedicated corporate service (They're wondering what's hiding in your past that's keeping you from getting a better job). That watch you have isn't really that exciting to them (a watch? Seriously? And this is supposed to be a reward?). They really aren't interested in water-cooler conversation, and, yes, the screensaver of your puppy is actually lame after-all. Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar23	Researchers (A.K.A. Sourcers?) Rob Merrill March 23, 2006 Anthony at Recruiting.com talks about retained/contingency candidate researchers who are assigned by your company to "identify potential candidates at other companies and may do reference and background checks." This sounds like a great option for companies who need extra recruiting assistance,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Recruiting On Rails Rob Merrill March 23, 2006 These days, I am all about simplifying our processes and helping our clients achieve the same or greater satisfaction with less headaches and costs on either end. Half a year ago, I blogged about Reducing Transaction Costs in Recruiting where I... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar17	A Million Little Cuts -- Driving Your Employees Away Slowly Rob Merrill March 17, 2006 You may be driving your best talent out the door--not because of salary, not because of benefits, not because the work isn't interesting or challenging--but because of microinequities. Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Show Me the Money -- Talking Openly About Salary Rob Merrill March 17, 2006 For me, I think this is great. One thing I have always been annoyed at is when talking about salary--arguably one of the main reasons people even go to work--is silently made taboo... all to protect companies against (yet propogate) the fear that your cubicle neighbor is making more than you are. Continue Reading Posted at 2:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar16	On The Radio Rob Merrill March 16, 2006 Patrick Wiscombe and I have started a weekly tech radio show in Utah County that we're now podcasting as well. Patrick is a new technical recruiter in my office, and we're having fun with this new show. Since we're technical... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help People Network With You Rob Merrill March 16, 2006 Scott Ginsberg is on a mission to help people do a better job at communicating, and he believes it all comes down to helping people communicate with you, trust you, and remember you. I agree with this. One way he... Continue Reading Posted at 9:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar14	Three Questions Found in Interviews Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 There are 3 types of questions typically found in interviews: Theoretical questions -- Questions that place you in a hypothetical situation. These questions are more likely to test your skill at answering questions rather than in doing a good job.... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You're Not the Boss of Me... Or Anyone Else Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 It's interesting to see how the work world is continuing to evolve. College Recruiter points out two interesting book-ends that are accelerating this change: Baby Boomers are retiring in droves Generation Y is choosing entrepreneurship over corporate citizenship. That means... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Dress For Success Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 Blake Snow over at Provo Labs talks about how his recent wardrobe update causes him to wonder how many deals he may have lost last year from a less-than-ideal appearance. He says he responds to it just as much as anyone... Continue Reading Posted at 10:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rate Your Recruiter Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 From the Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters Blog: Jason Goldberg (aka JGo), CEO of Jobster an online referral firm, has discovered a site that allows you to rate your recruiter. Uh-oh! Here it is: The Recruiter-Rater Canadian Headhunter I... Continue Reading Posted at 4:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar13	Job Trends Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 Indeed.com has a cool new feature that graphs the jobs it has found as it crawls the web. For example, as a Technical Recruiter, I am often asked what is most-popular--Java or C#... or variations of that. In my opinion,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Maybe you deserve it Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 The name of the game is Talent Management and Retention. Period. The best companies have known this for years--others think it's not worth it, until they're stuck, literally, without a prayer in the world because their top-talent just left. This... Continue Reading Posted at 3:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hiring Top Performers Can't Happen Under Pressure Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 David Perry (of Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters) gives us a gold-nugget of wisdom about finding the best people for your company in this talent-driven market: Changing jobs like most major buying decisions is rarely an impulse purchase and you... Continue Reading Posted at 3:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	Hire Better People by Letting Your Employees Blog Rob Merrill March 12, 2006 The old B-School adage says: "Your greatest asset--and largest liability--walks out the door every night." True it is that people make great companies great. In fact, great people make fairly lame companies great... but many companies simply lose out on... Continue Reading Posted at 5:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar11	Got Skillz? Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Fellow Know More Media blogger John Gratton at Core Character made me laugh with this post about boys and girls: “Girls only want boys who have great skills,” says smooth talker and well-known ladies man, Napoleon Dynamite, “you know, like... Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hard Job To Fill? You're Not Alone Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Does it seem impossible to fill one or two positions on your staff these days? Are they the same ones that, a year ago, you couldn't seem to stop people from applying... and now you can't get anyone to apply... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	This Problem Can't Weight Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Christine at The Monster Blog talks about the issue of overweight at work. I’m currently doing Weight Watchers at Work, as I have at former jobs. So far, the scale hasn’t budged. But the combination of a great leader and... Continue Reading Posted at 3:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar10	Laryngitis? Rob Merrill March 10, 2006 The funniest thing about moving my blog here to GoodRecruits from Utah Tech Jobs (and, before that from point-n-click) is that I keep changing my focus and somehow I feel like I have lost some of my voice along the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	US illegal migrants up almost 500,000 a year Rob Merrill March 10, 2006 Today's Interbiznet Bugler points us to the following alarming statistics: The number of illegal immigrants in the US has continued to grow by nearly half a million each year in spite of US efforts to increase security at the country’s... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 9	Utah Valley Big Business & Technology Expo! Rob Merrill March 9, 2006 The Big Business & Technology Expo in Utah Valley has been going well yesterday and wrapping up today. It was great to get in there and see the companies in the area, talk to new people, and see what technologies... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 8	Where Do You Shop? Blog About It Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 Joshua Steimle, a web entrepreneur in Utah has an interesting page on his blog for referrals, subtitled: "People & Businesses I Trust." I'm hoping this is a trend that will catch on with other bloggers, because I think it could... Continue Reading Posted at 8:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mental Capital Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 Ryan Money of HireVue has a category on his blog called 'Mental Capital'. I like that name as a way of describing the awesome equity some people posess with the things they know--and share. In this post he talks about... Continue Reading Posted at 12:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Eight Steps to Recruit High-Tech Sales Professionals Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 InternetVIS has an article titled: Eight Steps to Recruit High-Tech Sales Professionals which I think is a must-read if you agree that: Finding the right candidates is mission-critical. Here's the eight steps, but you've got to read the whole article: DO-IT-YOURSELF... Continue Reading Posted at 8:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	'Recruitmax' Now 'Vurv Technology' Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 The HireAbility blog notes that RecruitMax (an applicant tracking software maker) has changed their name to 'Vurv Technologies', apparently to show their desire to capture a more-full spectrum of the talent-management marketplace: The new name – which is a derivative... Continue Reading Posted at 8:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 7	Why You Need A Recruiter Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Whenever people find out I am a recruiter, I get funny looks--sideways glances, or wrinkled-up noses. People don't like recruiters, I am not sure why. But, you need them in this economy for one very simple reason: The Person You're Looking... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Value of Today Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Here are a few quotes that have inspired me over the years: Nothing is worth more than this day. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and... Continue Reading Posted at 9:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Recruiting Predictions 2006 Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Simon Meth's SittingXlegged won Recruiting.com's post of the week award for the post: Recruitment Predictions for 2006. Here's one of the ten: Recruitment wiki’s will get started. HR leadership won’t know what a wiki is. I like the sound of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 3	You Have to Fit In, If You Want to Change Rob Merrill March 3, 2006 Johanna Rothman has a great post up about how the resignation of Larry Summers from Harvard was bound to happen because he was not a fit for the culture. Cultural fit is critically important for any knowledge worker. I don't know... Continue Reading Posted at 5:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Post of the Week Rob Merrill March 3, 2006 I didn't know I was in the running for the Recruiting.com: Post of the Week for my post about recruiter fees. Robert says it's because we get payed after the placement has been made and the urgency is gone. At... Continue Reading Posted at 9:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Mar30	What Are Your Candidates Going Through? Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 Know More: Attracting Talent 2.0, Attracting Talent This morning I had to register for a service on Yahoo and I was presented with the above CAPTCHA in order to prove I wasn't a computer program pretending to be a human being. I had to correctly decipher the above image into a string of characters, then type it back to the web-page I was on or else I would be denied access. The image was SO unreadable that I saved it just so I could share my pain with all of you. What do YOU think it said? More importantly, have you followed your company's own resume submission process from start-to-finish? Do you know what, exactly, candidates who want to work with you are going through? One of my clients this week discovered that--due to an administration error in their IT department--she had been taken off "the list" of recipients for resumes sent to the company's jobs@ email address... the problem is, she's the only one on "the list". (She only found this out because an applicant had the tenacity to call after submitting and ask if it was received) My own company's website had a bug recently where it would erase your recently-uploaded resume if you also filled out our online application (oops) Another client of mine didn't inform their front-office staff that they were hiring again. The receptionist-as-gatekeeper followed her previously-given instructions and politely turned away somewhere between 20-50 people who came in the door responsding to the job ad. At the end of the day, making it easy for people to wave a red flag and get your hiring manager's attention is a critical part of your recruiting process. What are you doing to make it easy? What are you doing to make it easier than it was last month? How many incredible candidates are walking away from you because your submission process is broken/annoying/confusing/too restrictive/too secure? Will you ever know? Time to hire some secret-shoppers, if you ask me. Posted at 2:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar30	CTO Breakfast Was Great Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 I mentioned yesterday that the monthly CTO Breakfast/Forum was happening this morning in Orem, hosted by Phil Windley. Continue Reading Posted at 2:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cash On Tap Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 They're offering more than $1,000 per qualified referral you send them who is hired and works for 90-days. Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You Gotta Be Kidding Me Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 This has officially earned the first posting in my new "rants" category. The Recruiting Edge blogged about how The EEOC Doesn't Get It and I completely agree. Read the article there because I'm too fired up to blockquote anything. Is... Continue Reading Posted at 6:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Wet Jello -- No, not a Utah thing Rob Merrill March 30, 2006 This year's college graduates have had webcams on their computers since they were freshman in high school. More recently, their cell-phones have videocameras built right in as well. Wet Jello is trying to tap that market and put it to some use. Continue Reading Posted at 5:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	CTO Forum in Orem, Utah tomorrow Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 For those of you in the Utah area, I will be attending the always-fun CTO Forum hosted by Phil Windley tomorrow morning at the Canyonlands Technology Park in North Orem. The group of people attending is at-once interesting and ecclectic. I... Continue Reading Posted at 2:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	So, You Wanna Be A Recruiting Blogger? Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 There are many people jumping on the blogging bandwagon these days, and I don't have any problem with that as long as the motives are this side of greedy. Continue Reading Posted at 6:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You're Still Paying Fees... Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 The value of a recruiter is easilly defined: The dollar-amount of their fee plus the value your new hire will bring to the table, plus the ability to actually sleep at night since the day your previous employee gave their notice and walked out the door. Continue Reading Posted at 6:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	An Inbox of Resumes Does Not Equal Recruiting Rob Merrill March 29, 2006 Honestly, I don't care if a company uses my recruiting agency or not. But I do care that companies understand that hiring is not something you can blindly do and expect reasonable results--let a lone great ones. Continue Reading Posted at 4:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar28	Dating Like Hiring? Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 In a humorous look at dating as if it were hiring, CountryGirl912 posts a "boyfriend application" on her myspace blog. Like a seasoned interviewer, she asks good, open-ended questions and leaves them vague enough that you can't tell what answer she... Continue Reading Posted at 11:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Many Mistakes Does It Take? Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 In the end, "recruiting right" seems to stack right up there with the fastest way to build--or blow--your new venture. Heed the voice of warning: pay very close attention to who and how you recruit! Continue Reading Posted at 10:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Nine Questions To Ask A Startup Rob Merrill March 28, 2006 Unfortunately these are the tough questions to ask as much as they are to be asked. If you've become emotionally attached to the company, you may be convincing yourself, or "going with gut instinct" that the company will make it, the product will sell, and that your salary won't turn to severance any time soon. Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar24	Experience Versus Education Rob Merrill March 24, 2006 Continue Reading Posted at 12:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Generation Y Wants Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T Rob Merrill March 24, 2006 Enter Generation Y. They really don't care about your many years of dedicated corporate service (They're wondering what's hiding in your past that's keeping you from getting a better job). That watch you have isn't really that exciting to them (a watch? Seriously? And this is supposed to be a reward?). They really aren't interested in water-cooler conversation, and, yes, the screensaver of your puppy is actually lame after-all. Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar23	Researchers (A.K.A. Sourcers?) Rob Merrill March 23, 2006 Anthony at Recruiting.com talks about retained/contingency candidate researchers who are assigned by your company to "identify potential candidates at other companies and may do reference and background checks." This sounds like a great option for companies who need extra recruiting assistance,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Recruiting On Rails Rob Merrill March 23, 2006 These days, I am all about simplifying our processes and helping our clients achieve the same or greater satisfaction with less headaches and costs on either end. Half a year ago, I blogged about Reducing Transaction Costs in Recruiting where I... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar17	A Million Little Cuts -- Driving Your Employees Away Slowly Rob Merrill March 17, 2006 You may be driving your best talent out the door--not because of salary, not because of benefits, not because the work isn't interesting or challenging--but because of microinequities. Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Show Me the Money -- Talking Openly About Salary Rob Merrill March 17, 2006 For me, I think this is great. One thing I have always been annoyed at is when talking about salary--arguably one of the main reasons people even go to work--is silently made taboo... all to protect companies against (yet propogate) the fear that your cubicle neighbor is making more than you are. Continue Reading Posted at 2:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar16	On The Radio Rob Merrill March 16, 2006 Patrick Wiscombe and I have started a weekly tech radio show in Utah County that we're now podcasting as well. Patrick is a new technical recruiter in my office, and we're having fun with this new show. Since we're technical... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help People Network With You Rob Merrill March 16, 2006 Scott Ginsberg is on a mission to help people do a better job at communicating, and he believes it all comes down to helping people communicate with you, trust you, and remember you. I agree with this. One way he... Continue Reading Posted at 9:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar14	Three Questions Found in Interviews Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 There are 3 types of questions typically found in interviews: Theoretical questions -- Questions that place you in a hypothetical situation. These questions are more likely to test your skill at answering questions rather than in doing a good job.... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	You're Not the Boss of Me... Or Anyone Else Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 It's interesting to see how the work world is continuing to evolve. College Recruiter points out two interesting book-ends that are accelerating this change: Baby Boomers are retiring in droves Generation Y is choosing entrepreneurship over corporate citizenship. That means... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Dress For Success Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 Blake Snow over at Provo Labs talks about how his recent wardrobe update causes him to wonder how many deals he may have lost last year from a less-than-ideal appearance. He says he responds to it just as much as anyone... Continue Reading Posted at 10:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rate Your Recruiter Rob Merrill March 14, 2006 From the Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters Blog: Jason Goldberg (aka JGo), CEO of Jobster an online referral firm, has discovered a site that allows you to rate your recruiter. Uh-oh! Here it is: The Recruiter-Rater Canadian Headhunter I... Continue Reading Posted at 4:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar13	Job Trends Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 Indeed.com has a cool new feature that graphs the jobs it has found as it crawls the web. For example, as a Technical Recruiter, I am often asked what is most-popular--Java or C#... or variations of that. In my opinion,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Maybe you deserve it Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 The name of the game is Talent Management and Retention. Period. The best companies have known this for years--others think it's not worth it, until they're stuck, literally, without a prayer in the world because their top-talent just left. This... Continue Reading Posted at 3:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hiring Top Performers Can't Happen Under Pressure Rob Merrill March 13, 2006 David Perry (of Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters) gives us a gold-nugget of wisdom about finding the best people for your company in this talent-driven market: Changing jobs like most major buying decisions is rarely an impulse purchase and you... Continue Reading Posted at 3:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	Hire Better People by Letting Your Employees Blog Rob Merrill March 12, 2006 The old B-School adage says: "Your greatest asset--and largest liability--walks out the door every night." True it is that people make great companies great. In fact, great people make fairly lame companies great... but many companies simply lose out on... Continue Reading Posted at 5:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar11	Got Skillz? Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Fellow Know More Media blogger John Gratton at Core Character made me laugh with this post about boys and girls: “Girls only want boys who have great skills,” says smooth talker and well-known ladies man, Napoleon Dynamite, “you know, like... Continue Reading Posted at 9:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hard Job To Fill? You're Not Alone Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Does it seem impossible to fill one or two positions on your staff these days? Are they the same ones that, a year ago, you couldn't seem to stop people from applying... and now you can't get anyone to apply... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	This Problem Can't Weight Rob Merrill March 11, 2006 Christine at The Monster Blog talks about the issue of overweight at work. I’m currently doing Weight Watchers at Work, as I have at former jobs. So far, the scale hasn’t budged. But the combination of a great leader and... Continue Reading Posted at 3:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar10	Laryngitis? Rob Merrill March 10, 2006 The funniest thing about moving my blog here to GoodRecruits from Utah Tech Jobs (and, before that from point-n-click) is that I keep changing my focus and somehow I feel like I have lost some of my voice along the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	US illegal migrants up almost 500,000 a year Rob Merrill March 10, 2006 Today's Interbiznet Bugler points us to the following alarming statistics: The number of illegal immigrants in the US has continued to grow by nearly half a million each year in spite of US efforts to increase security at the country’s... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 9	Utah Valley Big Business & Technology Expo! Rob Merrill March 9, 2006 The Big Business & Technology Expo in Utah Valley has been going well yesterday and wrapping up today. It was great to get in there and see the companies in the area, talk to new people, and see what technologies... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 8	Where Do You Shop? Blog About It Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 Joshua Steimle, a web entrepreneur in Utah has an interesting page on his blog for referrals, subtitled: "People & Businesses I Trust." I'm hoping this is a trend that will catch on with other bloggers, because I think it could... Continue Reading Posted at 8:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mental Capital Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 Ryan Money of HireVue has a category on his blog called 'Mental Capital'. I like that name as a way of describing the awesome equity some people posess with the things they know--and share. In this post he talks about... Continue Reading Posted at 12:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Eight Steps to Recruit High-Tech Sales Professionals Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 InternetVIS has an article titled: Eight Steps to Recruit High-Tech Sales Professionals which I think is a must-read if you agree that: Finding the right candidates is mission-critical. Here's the eight steps, but you've got to read the whole article: DO-IT-YOURSELF... Continue Reading Posted at 8:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	'Recruitmax' Now 'Vurv Technology' Rob Merrill March 8, 2006 The HireAbility blog notes that RecruitMax (an applicant tracking software maker) has changed their name to 'Vurv Technologies', apparently to show their desire to capture a more-full spectrum of the talent-management marketplace: The new name – which is a derivative... Continue Reading Posted at 8:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 7	Why You Need A Recruiter Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Whenever people find out I am a recruiter, I get funny looks--sideways glances, or wrinkled-up noses. People don't like recruiters, I am not sure why. But, you need them in this economy for one very simple reason: The Person You're Looking... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Value of Today Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Here are a few quotes that have inspired me over the years: Nothing is worth more than this day. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and... Continue Reading Posted at 9:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Recruiting Predictions 2006 Rob Merrill March 7, 2006 Simon Meth's SittingXlegged won Recruiting.com's post of the week award for the post: Recruitment Predictions for 2006. Here's one of the ten: Recruitment wiki’s will get started. HR leadership won’t know what a wiki is. I like the sound of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 3	You Have to Fit In, If You Want to Change Rob Merrill March 3, 2006 Johanna Rothman has a great post up about how the resignation of Larry Summers from Harvard was bound to happen because he was not a fit for the culture. Cultural fit is critically important for any knowledge worker. I don't know... Continue Reading Posted at 5:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Post of the Week Rob Merrill March 3, 2006 I didn't know I was in the running for the Recruiting.com: Post of the Week for my post about recruiter fees. Robert says it's because we get payed after the placement has been made and the urgency is gone. At... Continue Reading Posted at 9:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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