Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Bestowing Recruiterhood

This week has been a week of vacation time for many… including this writer. Damn that commitment to blog daily! Oh well, I can look over some of the more popular posts of the past, warm them up, and serve them as leftovers. Whether you consider recruiterhood as an art, a science, a business, or just a confusing thing that somebody else does, it is a profession that has intricate parts and all of these elements must be touched to be successful. Going beyond average means doing something else above and beyond the basic elements, but it all begins with understanding the basics. I guess that could be said of any job, but I know little about plumbing so I will spare you my opinions on plumberhood.

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July 1 - Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons - The definition of good recruiting is to be able to successfully fill requisitions or job orders in a cost effective and timely manner. This measure of excellence is really not based on the years of experience of the recruiter, although that sometimes helps, but rather some intelligence-based gene that makes it effortless. – more –

 

 

July 2 – Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 2: Business Add-ons – Recruiters who go above and beyond what is required of them are not necessarily doing all that they can do. I have already mentioned several professional aspects of the human resources realm which can offer enhanced abilities to a recruiter and allow going beyond excellence. Very few practitioners in the field are isolated to the industry of recruiting. – more –

 

 

July 3 - Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons – I have used the analogy of software add-ons to describe how we can take excellence, add something that is not part of the original design and improve the product. Some recruiter add-ons are professional in nature and there is not much of a stretch to dovetail them into the main characteristics of the profession. – more –

 

 

July 4 – Declaring and Maintaining Freedom - On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and voted to legally separate the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. In today’s world, the news would have been tweeted around the world in seconds, but for those days taking an additional two days to prepare the formal announcement was actually something like traveling at light speed. As a student of history, it has always fascinated me that the document actually went through several drafts before it was finally approved by Congress on July 4^th. – more –