Steve Levy

Shocking Recruiting Trend – Old School!

Steve Levy
In my last column for RecruitingTrends.com, I began describing some classic, old school “brick and mortar” methods for successful, albeit not easy at first, recruiting. I'm certainly not advocating abandoning the Internet (I've been using the Internet for recruiting since 1985), but I am strongly suggesting that you work diligently to develop the in-person skills necessary to identify talent while you're not surfing, for example, to read body language. Here are a few more brick and…

Shocking Recruiting Trend – Old School!

Steve Levy
Talk to any old-school recruiter about the “old days” – for most that would either mean before the Internet boom of the late 1990’s, or before Al Gore “gave birth” to the Internet in the early 1980’s – and they would likely respond with how they built their pipelines by first developing relationships the political way: shaking hands and kissing babies, one person at a time. Back in December 2006 on the day before Recruiting 2006…