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recruitDC Announces New Board Members!

July 27, 2015 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

As the recruitDC organization continues to grow, we have recruited additional board members to help bring programs and events to the community. Please join us in welcoming them!

Board members Pete Radloff and Mike Bruni will continue to serve on the board. Kathleen Smith will continue to serve on the board as President.

Our new board members include:

Matt Duren, Lead Technical Recruiter, Tenable Network Security. Matt has been a frequent presenter at recruitDC and most recently responsible for hosting a Maryland Happy Hour. Matt will be leading our Marketing Outreach efforts along with engaging more of the Maryland recruiting community.

Moe Hutt, Principal Consultant, Meritage Talent Solutions. Moe has been actively involved in content development for the last two conferences. She will continue in this role leading the program development for all events and conferences.

Kerry Noone, Employment Brand Manager, Amtrak. Kerry has been a frequent recruitDC presenter and involved in recruiting keynote presenters for the conferences. Kerry will serve as Treasurer along with being involved with key programs.

Jay Perreault, Director, Human Resources and Recruiting, UPEDS. Jay has been a presenter and long time volunteer with recruitDC. He has coordinated the volunteer and event logistics for the last several  recruitDC conferences. Jay will continue to support all recruitDC programs and events leading the volunteer and logistics efforts.

We all would especially like to thank Ben Gotkin for his years of service as President leading the organization for the last 5 years through remarkable growth and success. Ben will continue as Past President and provide his expertise to the national recruiting community to build programs that serve a larger national audience. 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Jay Perreault, Kathleen Smith, Kerry Noone, Matt Duren, Mike Bruni, Moe Hutt, Pete Radloff, recruitDC

Resume Reviews: Quantity vs. Quality

August 13, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Pete Radloff
“We are overstretched and understaffed as a recruiting team.”

Does this sound familiar? Likely. It’s a common feeling across many teams. Many times this has a direct impact on the “resume black hole” that candidates and “thought leaders” so often reference. But here’s a question to ponder: why are we so inundated if we only spend an average of 6 seconds on each resume? 

Here’s the alleged “magic math”:

There are 1800 seconds in 30 minutes. At six seconds per resume, that allows for 300 resumes. Now of course, we need to include some time for loading and closing files. We’ll call it 5 minutes, which is 300 seconds.  We’re now down to 1500, giving you the chance to review 250 resumes. Time saved! Whew, easy!

Nonsense. Much like the business model of the Ladders, it’s a nice theory, but in reality the application is severely flawed. So maybe it’s time to approach how to manage the flow with a different mindset. Maybe we’re focused on numbers too much. Maybe it’s not about “Can I get through a specific amount of resumes”? Maybe it’s about conducting resume reviews as quality reviews versus quantity reviews.

I know we’re all busy, but the reality of it is that we need to challenge ourselves to find 30 minutes a day to review the resumes we’ve got waiting in our ATS. We’ve already seen and tested the claims that you can manage all of your social media in 10 minutes a day, so what about resumes, in say… 30 minutes? Wait, 30 minutes a day for reviewing resumes? Yes, seriously.  You see, in reality, there are certainly resumes we’ll barely spend 4 seconds on…..let alone 6 (for me, it’s resumes that are bolded every 3rd word), but inevitably we’ll have resumes that intrigue us enough to even (gasp!) read the cover letter. Averages like the ones offered in these “magic bullet” theories are nice, but they don’t tell the whole story. Maybe we don’t get through 250 each day. Maybe it’s only 50-60. But that’s progress toward shrinking the number of folks feeling like they just tossed their resume into a black hole. And it’s dedicated time set aside to seeking winners in the pile, not slashing through stacks. Plus, what a nice, quiet way to spend that first cup of coffee.

But we must each challenge ourselves (and conventional wisdom) to carve out some period of time each day to review some of resumes we’ve got in front of us. We may not get to them all. But when they pile up unattended, quantity is about all you are left with.

We owe it to ourselves, and to our candidates. Even if we do give some people only six seconds.

Pete Radloff is a member of the recruitDC Board of Directors, and a recruitment consultant with comScore and exaqueo. You can connect with Pete on LinkedIn and on Twitter

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Candidate Experience, Hiring, Pete Radloff, recruiting, resumes, sourcing

10 Tips For A True Personal Brand

March 21, 2014 by recruitdc Leave a Comment

By Susan LaMotte and Pete Radloff
The internet. For all its beauty and brawn, it’s like candy to a kid.  There’s always room for more. Unless you’re managing a personal brand, meaning, you’re calling yourself an expert and purport to be the “industry’s leading…” or the “foremost expert on….” The field in which we work, human resources, has it’s share of experts—from recruiting to Gen Y to organizational design.  But for every expert, there’s an online personal brand and many of them are painfully obvious.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Personal Branding, Pete Radloff, recruiting, Social Media, Susan LaMotte

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