I am often asked, “give me a list of companies that have used your third party recruiting services”. Very often this is a verbal request and I cannot remember them all so I am providing the following list of companies where we have placed candidates recently:
2003- Ecowater, Novapak, Cycle Plastics, Amcor, Community Health Partners, [...]
As a Third Party Recruiter for the Plastics Industry, I get a big kick reading postings and spam e-mails telling people how easy it is to make big bucks as a recruiter. The e-mails usually say the only tool one needs to earn $30,000 a month, as an executive recruiter, is a telephone and [...]
As a Third Party Recruiter for the Plastics Industry, I know paying money to third party recruiters is difficult for companies given the profit compression in the plastics industry from world wide competition. My question is, can you afford not to use third party recruiters, especially to find those talented workers?
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We know that finding qualified personnel for the plastics industry is difficult — and that you may need a bit of help in that area right now. Have you wondered why that is? With internet sites boasting of “smart” searches and “targeted” ads, shouldn’t it be simple to find expert candidates? With the myriad of [...]
Companies looking to fill a new or replacement position within the company usually post a job description on their web site, run an advertisement in the local newspaper with an abreviated job description, or hire a third party recruiting firm (headhunter) to fill the position after giving them the job description. There is nothing [...]
Yes Virginia, according to the Mayo Clinic, workplace generation gaps do exist. This finding was published on the MayoClinic website on July 6, 2005. I will be referring to this article freguently.
As a 30 year veteran of the workplace with 16 years of that time spent (or misspent) in management, I have long [...]
I was asked a few days ago by one of my client companies, “how does Discovery Personnel find its candidates”? At first I was worried that the company might be trying to learn my hard learned secrets and then circumvent our services (just remember even paraniod people have enemies). After thinking about the [...]
I just read a very interesting article titled “Why We Hate HR” by the deputy editor of Fast Company, Inc. While I do not share the “Why We Hate HR” sentiment (I don’t believe in biting the hand that feeds me) I do believe it reinforces my last blog article by stating that [...]
Before delving too deeply into the the subject of why companies should utilize third party recruiters, I want to confess that I am a third party recruiter (headhunter). I may be a bit biased, but I want to point out that as a hiring manager for 16 years, I have [...]
As a third party recruiter, I find myself very confused by the actions of many companies that hire third party recruiters on a contingency basis. Many companies call and ask third party recruiters to perform searches while running advertisements in newspapers, on job boards, and internal postings. We are not talking about [...]