The Recruiter's Review

Send us Fan Mail Are You Experiencing Job Offer Turn Downs Due to Salary? There is a cost to each job vacancy in any business.  And while there may be a short-term reprieve of that monthly salary expense, the hidden costs start chipping away at both the P&L and your current staff.  I have found that in most cases where a position is going unfilled, it is due to the salary being too low.  And I...

Send us Fan Mail “Everything you do teaches people about you.” My wife coined that saying and lived by it as a career elementary school teacher.   Remember that as you go through life. Interviewers, hiring managers and related, everything you do or don’t do when it comes to interviewing another person says a lot about you. I had an interviewing situation that reminded me of the human piece to hiri...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I will be discussing the fluid nature of recruiting, and how some hiring managers and/or those in talent acquisition try to keep their recruiting process static.   When a hiring manager tells me, “Send me your top two” , it is a flag to me that this manager may not be fully aware of how fluid recruiting is, nor are they aware that what they think is saving them ti...

Send us Fan Mail Are you experiencing job offer turn downs due to salary?  This episode discusses how to avoid those turn downs!   Since my last episode regarding the employment market demographics and thin talent pool, several of my listeners and clients asked me to visit salaries.  I had a very good episode for the candidate side on how to negotiate salary, but I am realizing that many employers...

Send us Fan Mail An Employer’s Edition of The Recruiter’s Review! In this episode, I will give an overview of the market itself to include trends and a few key demographics any hiring professional needs to know so they/you can take action if you want to win in the ongoing war on talent.   We received so many great reviews from our last twenty-four episodes, both from candidates and employers.   Ju...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special candidate side episode before I release The Recruiter’s Review: Employer’s Edition (coming this fall) . As I move into the Employer’s Edition, I will still provide more of these strategic candidate topics. If there is a topic you wish me to air, email me or send me a message on LinkedIn. The material in this episode has been inspired by a few final interviews I h...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of Season Two, Emily Mulicka and Monia Smith of NCR VOYIX are my special guests.  Special on two fronts! The first is that both are seasoned and top performing Talent Acquisition Professionals and have worked at all levels of hires and disciplines. Whether you are a sales representative, in a technical role or a leader, listen to what they have to say!  Both...

Send us Fan Mail Counter offers are often knee jerk reactions to an unexpected resignation. But whose best interests are really being served? I am in my 35th year of recruiting and have tracked many counter offer situations; recruits I found who shared with me their last counter offer experience, as well, some recruits who made the mistake of accepting counter offers when offered positions I recru...

Send us Fan Mail A bonus episode on the candidate side of the desk! You have just cleared the hurdles and obstacles of the interview process, and have secured the offer that you were hoping for. Just as you breathe a sigh of relief because the interview process is all over, you realize that you have to face what could be the toughest part of the interview process – your resignation. If you truly h...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you find opportunity, sometimes opportunity finds you.  This holds true when it comes to job opportunities, too. Sometimes you find the job you are looking for, other times it finds you by way of a headhunter or an industry connection that reaches out to you. But how do you evaluate it? The money? What? I see many make the money mistakes – saying “no” without full unders...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to say, “I do”, or “I will”, or “I did?”  It means just that.  When you say, “yes”“ to what culminates a process and now begins the next phase of planning and execution,  the other party takes that in good faith and proceeds in good faith, investing the time and money to make it happen.   I Accept…The Ethics of Accepting a Job Offer is both about doing what is ri...

Send us Fan Mail Early in Season One, I had an episode titled “The Pendulum Swings” where I discussed the return of the pre COVID and pre hiring boom  job market dynamics.  Industry has re-embraced higher standards and practices when it comes to hiring, and that includes the return to formal interviews that are behavioral, situational and performance based.  Those who are not prepared for these ty...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, I had three different individuals who were dropped in the first interview because they did not answer that question very well.  All three were highly interested in the jobs they were interviewing for, but the inability to answer that question to the hiring manager resulted in a “no go” for each.  In this episode, I will discuss how to answer the question, whether you are...

Send us Fan Mail A continuation of my last episode on job loss – how to be prepared for it and what to do when it happens. I promised guests on my show who would lend relevant experiences to all of you who are listening.  My guest in this episode is not only someone who can lend some firsthand experiences and advice, he was the inspiration for this two-part "mini-series." Joining me this...

Send us Fan Mail In the good times and the “not so good” times of the economy, job loss happens.  I have worked through several hiring booms and several hiring busts over my career. I was a hiring manager myself in the mid 80’s in Pittsburgh, PA while the area was still feeling the pains of the steel industry’s setbacks. I have recruited in the hottest of markets, and I have experienced Black Frid...

Send us Fan Mail As the employment market rebounds, I am seeing multiple job offers in the hands of most recruits my firm is working with.    In this episode, I will discuss how to handle and keep multiple offers in play, how to evaluate them, and when it is time to accept one. And no, seldom is it the highest salary offer that becomes the auto pick!  Another strategic advice session is available...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ten is the Season One finale.  Joining me in this episode are three hiring executive guests. Todd Beemer sales leader in the banking/credit union technology field, Brook Mansfield, a global marketing leader in the financial data and consulting field, and Bill Zoli, a human resources leader in the manufacturing field. Bill has some great advice about virtual interviewing.  ...

Send us Fan Mail A dual trend I am seeing is a return and increase in the administering of assessments and surveys to interview processes, and resistance on the part of some candidates to complete them, for reasons ranging from test anxiety to feelings of them being intrusive and demeaning, or simply that they are too time consuming.  This episode explains these assessments and surveys, the do’s a...

Send us Fan Mail Chances are, you have already signed one and chances are even better that you will be asked to sign one, or all three. And that is whether you change jobs or remain with the job you have now. These agreements have become more common place, and even in the “right to work” states, they do have teeth.  Yet, we are still moving people to their competition, and I am seeing people clear...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is to stop you from making any rash decisions to cancel an interview or not attend a next interview because you read or heard bad things on a Glassdoor review, or heard some negative information about the company. Don’t cancel that interview or withdraw before your next interview because you heard or read something about the company or someone there.   A shorter episo...

Send us Fan Mail The first interview  and what you do – or don’t do – before, during and after, plays a big role in the employer’s decision to advance you, or not. Building upon my last episode, I will be discussing the  first interview strategies, correspondences and pre interview exercises that make people stand out and win second interviews. This episode contains my proprietary advice that is s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I discuss the true importance of your resume and why it will be the strong kick off to your interview process, or the end of it - EVEN IF YOU GET AN OFFER!   Also discussed are the key correspondences to be sent after your first interview.    In the second half of  the episode, we are joined by a pharmaceutical industry hiring executive, Renick Blosser, who will g...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode Four,  I will discuss winning the job offer, how to set salary increase expectations,  how to negotiate your offer,  when to accept it and how to keep several job offers alive before rendering your decision. Included in this episode is a short segment that highlights my paper, ‘The Ethics of Accepting a Job Offer.”  I close this episode with “The Resignation.” For some,...

Send us Fan Mail In this special edition, I am side stepping from my schedule to get some very important information about a rapid shift in the job market dynamics.  While I have seen this before, it has a different feel to me this time.   I am talking about recession fears, current layoffs, and a sudden change to employer behavior  that should be short lived, yet will leave some long lasting effe...

Send us Fan Mail The next phase of your career journey begins with your decision to stay or to go. And it is a huge decision!   If you are now entering or into the job market, stop where you are and please take heed of this episode. ESECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A JOB OFFER IN HAND AND ARE GETTING READY TO RESIGN!! This is a must listen to episode to save you from the pitfalls of hasty decisions and knee...