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Tom Bolt

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons

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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. They fit like a glove, but are not absolutely necessary for excellence. Other add-ons are environmental in nature and even though… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 2: Business Add-ons

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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. Corporate recruiters participate as a member of a team moving their organization toward mutual goals and objectives.… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 2: Business Add-ons

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

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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. The recruiters who wake up in the morning and are in top notch recruiting mode before that first cup of coffee will hit… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

HR and Made-up Rules

Here is the rule for making a sandwich with Swiss cheese: There is a two-slice minimum. The second slice must be rotated into such a position that there is no exposed gap from a hole beneath it in another layer. To do otherwise would degrade the flavor experience of enjoying the taste of Swiss cheese with every bite and adversely impact the quality of the sandwich-eating experience. Ridiculous? I have written before about my low… Read More »HR and Made-up Rules

The Smells, Sounds and Sights of Aftermath

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I don’t see my son often enough. Since he moved to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania, our busy lives take us in opposite directions more than they bring us together. Family is so important to both of us, so we do our best to make special occasions more special. We had been planning for months to visit him at his home in West Pittston for his birthday, but we never could have predicted how the… Read More »The Smells, Sounds and Sights of Aftermath