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Chris Murdock |
Research Diamond
I think diamonds are a recruiter’s best friend. It’s because we all love shiny bling. Actually, I’m referring to a research process that builds a pipeline before you do long listing and name generation. An efficient and methodical research process is important in closing searches quickly and efficiently. After doing research for nine years, I finally learned something about the structure of my own research process. Most people think of research processes in a few…
Stunt Recruiting
Do you want to live dangerously? Do you want to make headlines? Do you want people to remember you as someone who takes risks? If you said yes to any of these questions you should become a Stunt Recruiter! I did a Yahoo! Search to see if anyone had used the term Stunt Recruiting to describe unique recruiting events or activities. I found references to activities that stunted recruiting efforts, but nothing cool. I think we…
Giving Good Phone
When I got my start in executive search in the Fall of 1999, I joined a firm that relied heavily on using the phone. They taught me how to leverage the phone for research, sourcing, and getting candidates engaged. After a few months of learning the art of the phone, the recruiters I supported said that I gave “good phone.” I should also note that this firm still used their old 3x5 card catalog along…
Cool (and relatively) New Alumni Tools for Executive Recruiters
In my last article, I talked about the benefits of leveraging the alumni of the companies for which you’ve worked. This time I’m going to go a little deeper into how various online tools can be used to build collaborative alumni relationships that are easily maintained that will also provide value to every member. But first, in the interest of full disclosure, I want to start off by saying that I joined Yahoo! in June of…
Recruiters Invented Social Networking
If you really think about it, social networking sites automate what recruiters have done on their own for years: collect data about people, and find out who they know. Today’s social networking sites store and maintain this data for us. This makes it easier to keep track of our contacts, but because this data exists in the public domain it can be used by the competition. Leveraging employer alumni…