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Recruiting is selling. There's no way around that. You sell the company, you sell yourself and you sell the pay and benefits. I struggled with this at first because

Ah...the joys of election season. I love watching candidates try to convince us that the reason we should vote for them is because the other guy sucks. Mitt Romney

Editors Note - Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn did a FOT session in Omaha yesterday at HRAM - see the preso here, session titled "How to Raise Your

I hate the Miami Heat. I know, I don't get it.  "It's a new age, KD".  "Talent should be able to go wherever it wants, KD".  "Free Agent Nation,

I don't get it. (Right - like most things in life!) I don't get it - I don't get why somehow over the past 5 years it's not alright

Let's face it - sometimes you're locked in a scuffle for talent (it's hardly a war - wars have guns, grave consequences and these days, hot deserts) and

Ah, the internal executive search assignment—for some corporate recruiters, it’s the pinnacle of the talent acquisition world. Goodbye, days of customer service rep phone screens and hello, exploratory

I'm an HR Pro. Have you ever wondered what that really means? Like what images come to mind when someone says, "I'm an HR Pro"?  My guess is

I was speaking to a friend the other day who had been in the process of interviewing at a large software company (not Microsoft, in case you were