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Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from October 5, 2011) 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… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 3: Personal Add-ons

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 2: Business Add-ons

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from October 5, 2011) 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… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 2: Business Add-ons

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

(On vacation this week. This article reposted from October 4, 2011) 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… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Resume DNA

Two things came together to make this week happen. First and foremost were the requests from people that ask what they are doing wrong in their job search. I also felt a need to return to a “theme week” and cover one topic more completely by taking a five-day look from different angles. Many job seekers seem to think that the chore of putting stuff in writing to make up a resume is a onetime… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – The Resume DNA

How To Make Your Resume Fit and the Tailor It Swiftly Methods

All of this talk about resumes, how to write them, how to use them, and how to fix them is dangerously close to creating an expectation in the eyes of some job seekers that if you only could just find that right format and style that the Fairy Godjobber will wand you and POOF you have a job. Think again, Cinderella! Real life doesn’t work that way. There are two key FACTS that every job… Read More »How To Make Your Resume Fit and the Tailor It Swiftly Methods