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Recruiting fees are expensive.  I know.  I often am the person sending out the invoice for a recruiting fee.  So if these are expensive, you should only call when necessary.  The top four reasons for calling a recruiter are when; You have a confidential search When replacing someone or recruiting for a sensitive new position [...]

Top steakhouses know that it is not just the steak, it is the sizzle that sells.  It is all about the presentation.  Smart bosses make job offers with this maxim in mind.  Here is what they do. First, during the interview process, they identify what is most important to the prospective hire and they make [...]

Employment recruiter coaches farm employers to attract and retain talented employees. The Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge was held near Auburn, NY this year on October 26-28. In this intercollegiate competition, four-person teams from different universities receive information on a real-life dairy farms and then are challenged to develop a comprehensive program, including recommendations for nutrition, reproduction, milking procedures, animal [...]

There are many reasons why a company would let an employee go. While they might seem understandable on paper, it is never easy for the person who was let go to deal with the loss and the rejection that comes with this development. Moving Forward Requires Looking Back You might have fallen victim to necessary [...]

By Daniel C. Simmons, CPC Recruiting in agriculture can be difficult. Unemployment levels for professionals or managers in agriculture is extremely low, therefore, passive candidates will always be significantly greater in number than active ones.   Passive candidates are those that are aren’t actively looking for a new job.  They are passively and selectively looking for [...]

By Daniel C. Simmons, CPC In an effort to find top candidates to interview for a position some hiring managers think it best to hire a half dozen or even more recruiters to scour the planet. They think they will have more candidates to interview in less time than if they worked with just one recruiter. [...]

Can “Coasters” be Reengaged & Rehabilitated? By Dan Simmons, CPC What, if anything can be done with coasters? And I don’t mean the kind you place your drink on. What I want to discuss here has to do with long-standing employees who seem to have lost the drive they once had, and for some reason [...]

Dan Simmons, CPC Recruiting Tips from Daniel C. Simmons, CPC  When a hiring manager begins looking for candidates to fill an open position, they often consider this a one-way proposition, that there is only one person on the hot seat trying to sell themselves and that is the candidate who is interviewing. However, that’s [...]

Recruiting Tips from Daniel C. Simmons, CPC When a hiring manager begins looking for candidates to fill an open position, they often consider this a one-way proposition, that there is only one person on the hot seat trying to sell themselves and that is the candidate who is interviewing. However, that’s not necessarily true because while you’re [...]