How to Interview a Rock Star Recruiter

  Here at ContractRecruiter.com, we have over the years developed and refined a successful and repeatable process for screening and interviewing corporate-side, contract recruiters that has served us well.  I thought I’d share it with my readers so that you too can think about adopting it for your own organization. I use the term “contract…

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Well, it’s been a while since my last blog post. I have been exceptionally busy  making a number of incremental but impactful changes to our recruiting tools, team, and best practices – especially in regard to passive candidate sourcing.  But the biggest change over past few months has been our new company name.  Since 2009,…

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When is it time to consider recruitment process outsourcing? How about this – your company is taking off, with large new customers and profitable new products. Your employees are happy and productive. You have a great strategic plan that everyone is invested in and it’s on track. Soon, you’ll need to start hiring more employees.…

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A growing business needs a top caliber workforce to compete in the marketplace, continue growing, and produce revenue. Hiring the right people at the right time means using a cost-effective and efficient recruiting method to locate and hire high quality professionals who can take your business to the next level. Instead of attempting to tackle…

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Team building can be improved with better RPO solutions. It’s been known for many decades that the foundation of any good business begins with the quality and workmanship of its people. Yet, far too many companies do not have the resources and time to spend carefully selecting each critical member of the team. Essentially, businesses…

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What is RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)? Basically, it’s hiring a partial or full team of sourcers, recruiters and all of their resources to act as your own Talent Acquisition team. It could be one supplemental recruiter or a whole team. You get to design it the way you would design your own dream team if…

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Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), can provide many benefits as well as limited risks to your business. And, as you will see, Recruitment Process Outsourcing comes in different “sizes” to meet the needs of companies both small and large. The two most common flavors are Enterprise RPO and On-Demand RPO. Let’s take a look at these…

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As a successful owner of an RPO or Recruitment Processed Outsourcing firm, I often get asked just what outsourced recruiting really means. Wikipedia defines outsourced recruiting as a provider who acts as a company’s internal recruiting function for all or a portion of its jobs. While I agree with Wikipedia’s definition, I believe that an…

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Despite the challenges of the Great Recession, your business is now growing, and that means you need good people to get the job done. To do this well means using a cost-effective and efficient recruiting method to locate and hire high quality professionals who can take your business to the next level. Instead of attempting…

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Let’s be frank for a moment. As hiring professionals, we all know that it can be confusing trying to decide what recruiting method will provide the greatest return on investment. Recruiting outsourcing is a decision that cannot be taken lightly. It must fit in well with your business objectives if it is to succeed. While…

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Is recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) right for your business? There are many reasons why an organization may turn to an outsourced recruiting team to support staffing needs, either on a temporary or long-term basis. Choosing an outsourced recruiting process for your business oftentimes comes about in response to shortages in your staffing population combined with…

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