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Recruiting Is About More Than Putting Warm Bodies in Desk Chairs

When it comes to recruiting, there's an easy way and a hard way to get the job done.The easy way focuses on volume: Place a lot of candidates into jobs for which they are vaguely qualified, kick your feet up, and wait for the money to roll in.The hard way – and the right way – takes more work: Truly get to know clients and roles, spend time matching the right candidates to the right opportunities, and support candidates and clients in the long term.

Commanding Growth: Creating New Market Categories in Shrinking Markets

How can your organization grow in a market that is itself not growing – or in a market that is in fact shrinking?That was the challenge my marketing, sales, and research and development (RD) teams faced with our emergency medical services (EMS) equipment business at the turn of the millennium.Our parent company, Stryker, launched the RUGGED ambulance cot in 1994.

Office Life Captured in 10 Haiku

Despite being a traditionally nature-oriented form of poetry developed in pre-modern Japan, the haiku may be the perfect verse form for life in the modern workplace.

It's Not You, It's Me: Why You're Not Getting Hired or Promoted

Whether it's not hearing back about the job for which you applied, being politely turned down after an interview, or being passed over for promotion, rejection hurts.It would be understandable to get angry, depressed, and/or apathetic about it.

Will a Robot Take My Job?

Thanks to rapid technological advances, the way we do business is changing at a record pace.

Benefits on the Fringe: Bend Over Backward to Provide Primary Care

Welcome to Benefits on the Fringe, the monthly Recruiter.com column where Jason McDowell covers the most unique benefits today's employers are using to woo talent, as well as advances and innovations in the employee benefits realm.Have you ever had a job where you couldn't get a sick day or time off to see the doctor unless you were on your deathbed?