{"id":1990,"date":"2009-03-31T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/participating-in-the-recession\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:47:42","slug":"participating-in-the-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/participating-in-the-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Participating In The Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a funny line last Friday at the Minnesota Recruiters conference.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t catch the name of the gentleman, but he was a search-firm recruiter discussing the recession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have chosen to not participate in this recession. &lt;applause&gt;<br \/>\nUnfortunately, our customers have chosen to participate in it. &lt;laughter&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to send a blog shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnheadhunter.com\/mh\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul DeBettignies<\/a> for putting on another excellent conference.\u00a0 I have attended 6 of the 7 conferences over the past couple of years and I am always impressed at what I learn by attending.\u00a0 If you are in the Twin Cities, may I suggest joining the community at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotarecruiters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MinnesotaRecruiters.com<\/a> and attending the next conference in June?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a funny line last Friday at the Minnesota Recruiters conference.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t catch the name of the gentleman, but he was a search-firm recruiter discussing the recession: We have chosen to not participate in this recession. &lt;applause&gt; Unfortunately, our customers have chosen to participate in it. &lt;laughter&gt; I want to send a blog shout out to Paul DeBettignies for putting on another excellent conference.\u00a0 I have attended 6 of the 7 conferences over the past couple of years and I am always impressed at what I learn by attending.\u00a0 If you are in the Twin Cities, may I suggest joining the community at MinnesotaRecruiters.com and attending the next&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/participating-in-the-recession\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,771],"tags":[1296,1297,1299,1300,1298],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-resources","tag-minnesota-recruiters","tag-recruiters-conference","tag-recruiting-conference","tag-recruiting-tip","tag-recruiting-tool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-w6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1545,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/3-sales-hiring-inhibitors\/","url_meta":{"origin":1990,"position":0},"title":"3 Sales Hiring Inhibitors","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Even bad salespeople can appear to be strong in a face-to-face interview situation.\u00a0 This reason is why sales recruiting is truly different than any other form of recruiting.\u00a0 Reviewing resumes and assuming abilities is is a fool's errand.\u00a0 Yet, there are certain aspects of general recruiting that can that hinder\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring Salespeople&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring Salespeople","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/hiring-salespeople\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1784,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/job-churn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1990,"position":1},"title":"Job Churn","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Career News newsletter has a short article about \"job churn\" that provides some good news for our present economic situation. 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