http://rightproadvisors.com/blog Recruiting Industry Perspectives with a Difference. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:06:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2010/01/05/predictions-for-2010-%e2%80%93-what-have-we-got-to-lose/ 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2009/07/09/the-false-choice-quality-or-quantity/ 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2009/01/27/turning-towards-tomorrow/ 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/12/02/its-official/ [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignleft" width="271" caption="Our Mainstream Media"][/caption] 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/11/14/the_economy/ [caption id="attachment_45" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Branding You Know"][/caption] 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/10/27/employment-branding-matters-more-than-you-can-imagine/ #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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/10/27/top-ten-myths-around-rpo-cont-7/ 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/10/27/top-ten-myths-around-rpo-cont-8/ #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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/10/27/top-ten-myths-around-rpo-cont-9/ 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 ... http://rightproadvisors.com/blog/2008/10/26/top-ten-myths-around-rpo/