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I just spent some time reviewing a number of predictions from 2009, getting a good laugh, and wondering how many of the predictions from 2010 will be as equally off-base, including my own prediction from last year that given everything that was happening in the economy, and the dearth of remaining corporate recruiting assets, companies [...]

In 20 years of being in, on, around, over, and under the recruiting industry, recruiting services, recruiting technology, and recruiters and their recruiting processes, there typically comes a point where I ask each of them a simple question, the answer to which is universally the same:  do you want quality candidates, or do you want a LOT [...]

Since we last wrote, the economy has continued to dissolve in what has become an all too familiar news cycle:  Credit is tight, consumers save rather than spend, sales decline, layoffs occur, credit gets tighter, consumers spend even less, sales decline more, more layoffs occur, and so on.
We’ve also inaugurated a new President in an [...]

So the news comes out that we’re in a recession and oh…by the way…we’ve been having one since December of 2007, which makes this one a year old already.
Funny…it feels like it started about 6 weeks ago.
So in the midst of this recession, several BILLION dollars of spending has occurred in the areas of executive [...]

I opened the morning newspaper to yet another dose of economic cold water, and a host of companies announcing more layoffs (am I the only one that finds it incongruous that companies look for economic improvement by individually doing the one thing that collectively ensures it doesn’t happen?). The Dow was up 500+ points yesterday, [...]

I’ve talked about the importance of branding for nearly 10 years, in virtually every capacity, to pretty much anyone who would listen. It is the sine qua non to any successful recruiting effort, for without it, no one is going to know what a great place to work you’ve got and all your efforts depend [...]

#7) RPO Doesn’t Work (or so I’ve heard…)
One of the reasons (among several) that I could never be a journalist is that, at heart, I’m a completely optimistic human being. People are generally good, I live in a great country, our economic system is the best in the world, and overall, life moves along in [...]

Myth #8: RPO Costs Too Much
As we continue down the list of what I’m calling “myths”, or rather misperceptions, surrounding the use of recruitment process outsourcing to augment or replace an organization’s recruitment/staffing function or processes, somewhere on the ranking order we’d have to come to cost. The notion that RPO, by providing so many [...]

#9) You’ll lose control
This should probably be ranked number #1 or #2, but since we’re not going in any particular order here on the myths that surround recruitment process outsourcing, let’s get this one taken care of right from the start.
Part of the advantage of using RPO to drive your talent acquisition processes is the [...]

I’m certain there are more than ten myths that surround this always touchy subject within every HR/Recruiting department, but we’ll try to confine it the most pernicious.
One of the most surprising things that I encountered when I entered the brave new world of recruitment process outsourcing was the pervasive antipathy of recruiters to the services [...]