St. Louis IT Recruiters Idea Exchange

I started this blog as an open forum for recruiters to exchange their ideas and  feelings to better our profession.  Please feel free to respond to any of my ranting or open up new topics for discussion.  At all times these thoughts must be presented in a professional manner that encourages participation and are a credit to our industry.

I also encourage candidates for employment to ask questions or state problems they have had with recruiters in the past.  Your input is vital to our success.  After all, you need to be just as happy about your new (or future) employment for your continued usage of our services. 

I ask you to identify yourself but I will withhold identification posted if requested.

I reserve the right to not post or edit content to adhere to the above standards of conduct. 

• Can you call you client with nothing to say?
• Watchdog for Blogger's Rights
• Are you a Decisive Decision Maker?
• Death of internet = Death of Recruiting
• Need more recruiting tools?
• Recruiting fee refunds? No Way...maybe
• Chameleon Integrated Services, LLC Gains National Recognition
• Follow Through - Do What You Say
• LinkedIn Invitations
• ASP or Enterprise models for ATS
• Recruiter Golden Rules
• New Look = Healthy Change
• Client Surveys Good Report Cards of Your Services
• Wanted: Program Recruiter
• When to turn down a requirement?
• Supplier - Client Metrics
• Pool Recruiting - Key to Great Programs
• Visit your client's site
• Geology jobs
• Do you "Control" your clients/candidates?
• Staffing - Projects - Programs / Do you know the difference?
• Recruiter's Job Market Signal Economy Change?
• Peoplelsoft/Cognos IT Director - St. Louis
• "Fax in your resume" - Are you kidding me???
• Recruiting Managers - Know your customers?
• Just working HOT orders weakens you long term
• Recruiting Trend - PEO Professional Employment Organizations
• Washington DC Roundtable
• Know Your Numbers?
• Merry Christmas and Have a Happy New Year!
• Are you a single dimensional recruiter?
• Hwy. 40 Closing - Effect on Recruiting?
• Would you go to work for you?
• December 7, 1941 – What happened 66 years ago today?
• Recruiting Strategy - Of Course We Have One!
• Recruiter's Pipelines - What's Big Enough?
• Recruiter - Everybody's Backup
• Hampton, (Tidewater), Virginia Recruiter needed
• Sitting in Washington DC Recruiting
• So what do you do during the holiday slow down?
• Web Architect and IT Managers referrals
• Monster vs. Google
• Recruiter Metrics Key to Success is in Working Backwards
• Cost per Hire - Question
• ATS - Applicant Tracking Systems Evaluations
• A whole lot of love for recruiting
• Another Sharp RPO Solution - The RightThing, Inc.
• Dawn Boyer - Great Example of Recruiter Career Match
• Tuning up Sales
• How Interesting is your Recruiting Job?
• First Sales Meeting with a New Client
• Most Recruiting Jobs will be Telecomuters
• Recruiting Outside the Box
• Great Sales/Recruiter = Great Sales/Recruiter Manager?
• Exclusivity Letters really work?
• ASP Shines During Massive Expansion
• Linkedin Listening
• Chameleon Integrated Services wins 2 major projects
• Jobs Report? Just ask a Recruiter
• St. Louis too tough for new office?
• Performance Improvement Plans - What's the message?
• Starbucks Placement
• The "Perfect" hiring process
• Project Sales Teams
• Bid or No Bid - That is the question
• Negotiating Rates
• Are you AWAYS asking for referrals?
• Selling Projects and Selling Staffing Miles Apart
• Is it time to let that under performing sales/recruiter go?
• What if you client/candidate really doesn't need your services now?
• Get Organized to Source at Your Best
• Am I Selling or Managing the Account?
• Independent Recruiters Here to Stay
• Recruiter Roundtable #2 complete!
• Thoughts for Minneapolis
• What can IT Services management learn from Bill Walsh?
• Sales Scripts Gone Wild
• ALERT ! Something doesn't smell right here
• RPO Vendors Approach
• RPO - Recruiter Process Outsourcing: Good for Hiring Corporations?
• Round Table full
• St. Louis Recruiter Roundtables
• Anonymous Blogging - What's the big deal?
• Recruiters hate Confidential Resumes
• More high tech spending in St. Louis
• Linkedin Changes not as effective for recruiters?
• Can you place Candidates you don't like?
• Web 2.0 for Recruiters
• Splits - Good for Business?
• Has Recruiting Changed?
• Debrief After that Busted Deal
• Polish Up That Resume
• LinkedIn complaints continue
• Linkedin changing to just another email system?
• Communication and Listening Skills = Money
• Motivation - Manager's Responsibilities
• Motivation - Company Compensation Plans
• Recruiter Motivation - Who's Responsibility?
• Video Resumes - Next Step in a more moble workforce
• Great Round Table Lunch
• Next Big Staffing and Hiring Push
• Candidates paying fees???????????? NO-WAY!
• Look into the Crystal Ball
• Top Producers Steve Ecker Evaluates Recruiter Jobs in St. Louis
• Process + Metrics = $$$$
• Changes coming?
• "No, my problems are unique!"
• Off to Spring Training
• Managing Clients - Improvement Needed Here
• ATS (Applicant Tracking System) Support
• Interviewing Skills
• Choosing a ATS (Applicant Tracking System)
• The Basics Never Fail
• Interviewing Recruiters
• New St. Louis Job Site
• Blind Trust or Just My Utopia
• Will You Make it as a St. Louis Recruiter in the next 3 Years?
• Great St. Louis Business Focused Blog Meetings
• Why Did You Change Jobs?
• Tackling a New Challenge
• STLRECRUITING WINS BLOGGING AWARD
• "Blocking Strategies" - or - Can the Dutch boy stop the dam from breaking
• How Good Sales/Recruiters find jobs
• My Recruiter and Me.
• How many recruiters should I work with to find the best job?
• This advise would make recruiters a happier bunch!
• Offshore Recruiting - Help or Hurt Local Recruiters?
• 2006 NACCB Conference in Orlando
• Why IT Recruiting as a profession?
• Does it waste a sales person's time to talk to candidates?
• I equate poorly written job specs to poorly written program specs