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Tom Bolt

How To Become a Lightning Rod Recruiter

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In the politically correct recruiting world, there are three subjects that are unmentionable. To break the taboo can result in replacing cooperation, professional courtesy and friendship with polarized rhetoric, unwavering bias and strife. Of course the forbidden trio of subjects are: religion, politics and the candidate experience. The reason that there is so much disagreement on the subject of the “candidate experience” is that those words mean different things to different people and most who… Read More »How To Become a Lightning Rod Recruiter

Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 9

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If you have done the homework on yourself and the company you have targeted, you are ready for a dialog with recruiters, hiring managers or peers. If you have felt some sort of discouragement at the length of the process to get you to this point, you are not alone and it is for good reason. From the recruiter perspective, think of this process as a funnel where large volumes of candidates enter at the… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 9

Time for a Recruiter Declaration of Interdependence

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.” The Serenity Prayer is the name we give to an untitled prayer attributed to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr in 1943. It was distributed by the US Armed Forces and several church organizations at the time giving him widespread notoriety. He was later quoted as saying that it had probably… Read More »Time for a Recruiter Declaration of Interdependence

Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way

A memorable piece of my life is still tucked away in Fort Benning, GA. There was a statue in front of Infantry Hall carrying the label “Follow Me” which we lovingly called “Iron Mike” for some reason I never knew. It shows a World War II infantry soldier with an upraised arm motioning for those around him to follow him into battle. His courage and unquestioned leadership is forever frozen in bronze not just as… Read More »Lead, Follow or Get Out Of The Way

Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 8

♫ Cellophane Mister Cellophane Shoulda been my name Mister Cellophane ‘Cause you can look right through me Walk right by me And never know I’m there… ♫ — “Chicago” – Music by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb We live in an age where there is a diversity of thought on privacy. There are those who live their lives openly with no reservations about inviting total strangers into their most intimate thought processes. For… Read More »Job Seekers: Think Like a Recruiter – Part 8