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It's a privilege to say that you have found your calling. My calling is in Human Resources. Specifically, my calling is recruiting. Apparently I enjoy selling and recruiting is about selling the candidate to the manager and selling the organization to the candidate. My professional history has included 27 years in healthcare of which 23 are in HR/Recruitment. I currently serve as a Recruitment Consultant for Jobscience, Inc. a Recruitment Solutions provider out of San Francisco, CA.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Cost Savings Structures in Healthcare Recruitment

Cost Savings Structures in Healthcare Recruitment
Today more than ever cost effective measures in Healthcare Recruitment are necessary to ensure profitability, enhance streamlined sourcing efforts, and to reduce if not eliminate agency spend. With the end of the current recession finally in sight, these cost savings structures will flow over to our profession for years to come. This allows us the fortunate opportunity to show to our companies that talent acquisition is not only an arm of human resources, but can show a direct impact on our balance sheets, therefore immediately impacting our bottom line and financial stability. A Recruiter must act as not only an agent of the company, but have an ownership mentality and entrepreneurial spirit.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box

Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box

You will never become a world-class recruiter if you restrict your learning to benchmarking against other similar corporate recruiting functions. Great recruiters can and do learn many things by studying completely different business functions like sales, marketing, branding, supply chain management, quality control, and customer relationship management. In addition, great recruiters proactively try to learn from non-business industries as well, including universities (top student and sports recruiting), political campaigns, and even cloudsourcing initiatives.