I’m sourcing for a non-sales position and am trying to email a candidate the job ad. He has a common provider with a strong spam blocking program. This program asks you to go to a website and enter the letters displayed in the box. After that, your email address is approved and your email will go through. The website cannot display the letter image – it simply shows the red x meaning it can’t get the image from it’s own website. I have no way to get the email through to the candidate. Now I have a voicemail in to him and have to wait until it is resolved. Utterly… Read More
Continue ReadingSales Traits Series – Practical Thinking
Sales requires the ability to balance time and quality in a practical manner. Sales also requires a person who knows how to get things done. This week we focus on a specific trait that measures this ability in a real-world manner. Practical Thinking The ability to make practical, common sense decisions; to see and understand what is happening in a common sense way. This trait realistically identifies problems and solutions in practical terms rather than in theoretical or conceptual terms. A salesperson with strength in this trait will be able to properly balance getting things done in a timely manner with getting things done in a quality manner. A weakness… Read More
Continue ReadingHow Many Jobs Is Too Many?
This week I have been reading a lot of different posts and articles that try to answer the question how many jobs is too much on an applicant’s resume? I run into this topic all the time with our clients. Some clients will even try to disqualify a candidate if they feel they have held too many jobs based on their resume. Let me be clear, I am not saying that you should ignore their work history, but don’t use it as the sole means for disqualifying. That statement usually leads me to answering this question from our clients — How many jobs is too many? I never really had… Read More
Continue ReadingMonster And The NYT
NY Times to Sell Ads With Monster from abcnews.com is worth noting if you source and hire in the northeast. The deal will put the Monster brand on 19 of the publisher’s newspaper Web sites, including The New York Times and The Boston Globe. The co-branded sites will appear in March. The declining circulation of the “paper of record” makes this announcement seem like a yawner. But hey, if it improves responses in those areas, I’m all for it.
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