Archive for September, 2010



Recruiters are scumbags

I ran across an article from Jeremey Sisemore of SearchPath International, an SAP Talent Acquisition firm in Houston, on the top 10 reasons why recruiters are such scumbags. Unfortunately, we get a bad rap for being a lot like used car salesmen. My friend, Bonnie Cotier, puts it best in her poem to a recruiter [...]

I feel the need for speed

I am finding a lot of client companies losing out on their first or even second choice of candidates by not moving quickly once they find a potential employee that they like. It was not too long ago that there was a large stable of motivated and available candidates willing to take just about anything [...]

From MSN Careers, here is an interesting article 7 Questions That Make Interviewers Cringe. Although I would think that most of these questions would be academic as far as not asking in the initial stages of interviewing or even mentioning at all, I am always surprised as to what comes out of the mouths of [...]

My New Gig in the Oil and Gas Industry

Due to personal issues and a change in employment, I have neglected posting. But I am pleased to announce that I am happily employed with the Bradsby Group in downtown Denver. I left recruiting in the chain restaurant industry and now I am recruiting engineers, geologists and Petro physicists in the Oil and Gas industry. [...]