http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse A Third Party Recruiter's Effort to Reach Across The Abyss to Hiring Companies by Jim Heilman of Discovery Personnel, Inc. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:29:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When being hired by companies to fill jobs, I ask the hiring manager the following three questions: • Why should someone work for you? • What sets you apart from our competition? • What do you provide our workforce that is unique? Often these ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=14 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=13 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=12 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=11 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=3 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=10 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) ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=8 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). ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=9 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=7 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 ... http://www.discoverypersonnel.com/muse/?p=4