Headhunter FAQ’s & Musings

A Third Party Recruiter’s Effort to Reach Across The Abyss to Hiring Companies by Jim Heilman of Discovery Personnel, Inc.

Archive for July, 2005

Support For Using The Services of Headhunters?

Posted: Monday, July 25th, 2005 @ 3:30 pm in Recruiting Services | Comments Off

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 [...]

Saving Time and Money By Using a Third Party Recruiter’s Services

Posted: Sunday, July 24th, 2005 @ 4:53 pm in Recruiting Services | Comments Off

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 [...]

Recruiters and Client Companies, Why can’t we be friends?

Posted: Monday, July 11th, 2005 @ 12:39 pm in Recruiting Services | Comments Off

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 [...]