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Fall 2015 Panel Preview: How to go from Pesky Recruiter to Trusted Resource

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By Danielle Boykin

What do you know now, that you wish you had known when you first started out in your career?  Couldn’t we all benefit from the insight of someone more senior than us when we were just starting out???  That’s why I’m so excited to lead a panel discussion at recruitDC’s upcoming Fall event to focus on How to go from Pesky Recruiter to Trusted Resource! 

Please join me, along with Henry Addo from pureIntegration, and Chrissie Hendrickson from Special Counsel, as we share our stories and experiences, what we’ve learned and what we’re still trying to figure out, what we’ve done wrong and our biggest lessons learned! 

Collectively our panel has more than 35 years of hands-on recruiting experience across the IT, finance and accounting, sales, and legal industries.  This will be a great opportunity to ask questions and have an open dialogue with some of DC’s recruiting superheroes!  So whether you are just starting out in recruiting, or are more senior and simply looking for a fresh perspective on the day to day, please come check us out on November 19th at recruitDC! 

For Tickets, please visit recruitDC’s Eventbrite page. 

For more information about our panelists, check out their bios below…

Danielle Boykin is currently a Recruiting Manager with Robert Half, focusing on providing Finance, Accounting, and Operational talent for permanent roles with clients across the DC metro region.  With 15+ years of recruiting and sales experience, Danielle has done everything from corporate recruiting to staffing, from temporary to direct hire, and focusing on roles in the administrative, healthcare, sales & recruiting, and finance & accounting fields.  Danielle has built a considerable network of professionals that she relies heavily on for her recruiting needs, and she’s become known in some circles as “the one to know” when you decide to conduct a job search!  She’s excited to have the opportunity to partner with recruitDC to talk about her journey from being a pesky recruiter, to a trusted partner! Connect with her on LinkedIn

Chrissie Hendrickson has been in the recruiting game in DC for the last nine years.  Initially her focus was sourcing and placing high-level executive support staff for rainmakers in DC while she worked at TRAK Services.  She built a network such that, by a few years in to her tenure there, 85% of the candidates she placed were a result of direct referrals. Two years ago, Chrissie took on a role with TRAK’s parent company, Special Counsel, where she now travels around the country advising and training internal colleagues on direct-hire placement, now in the legal field. Chrissie has learned – both the hard way and the easy way – how to avoid being perceived as some pesky, sales-y, in-it-for-herself recruiter, and instead enjoys the perception (most of the time) as a trusted advisor to both her candidates and her clients. Connect with her on LinkedIn

Henry Addo’s career spans over 15 years of consulting, staffing and talent management.  He has specialized primarily in hiring solutions-driven professionals with backgrounds in technology, digital, marketing, business process, and creative.  Henry is well known for his 6 years of recruiting with Profiles, and most recently joined pureIntegration, a business integration company focused on providing customers with bold solutions to their critical business problems.  Henry’s reputation for providing a first class candidate experience is well known in the DC area, and that’s why he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share more about how he does just that at recruitDC’s Fall event! Connect with him on LinkedIn

Getting Back To Recruiting Basics

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By Mike Chuidian

Couldn’t I argue that most of us hate being uncomfortable?! Couldn’t I also argue that some of us don’t like change? But couldn’t I also argue that change and being uncomfortable are the two things that hold us back from realizing our full potential as human beings?

Several months ago, I was forced to get out of my comfort zone and make a change. The couple years before that, I was engulfed with Social Media and utilizing it in my everyday recruitment routine. I was that guy….You know…. the one who thought he was too good to pick up the phone and call people because I thought I was above making 250 pipelining calls a week.  I really thought that Social Media was my saving grace in the recruitment process. I had what The Boolean Blackbelt, Glen Cathey would call “OESS- Obsessive Exotic Sourcing Syndrome”.  I was that guy.

Last December, I did the unthinkable and landed back in agency. What was I thinking?! Ugh! But you know what? I knew I was getting out of my comfort zone and making a change I knew I had to make….for the better. So here I am…..in a metrics driven environment forced to pick up the phone *insert music of terror*. Was I scared to pick up the phone at first?  YES. But why?!? I’ve been doing this for 8 years and I know recruitment very well. Because I leaned heavily on messaging, tweeting, In-mailing, emailing, etc. The phone was like kryptonite to me while I was “Social Recruiting”, whatever that means nowadays. I’ll save that for another post.

PhoneWolfI was forced to go back to basics and learn how to get my swagger back on the phones.  It was like picking up a surfboard or bodyboard you haven’t ridden in years and picking up where you left off. It took me a little while to get it back, but I got it back.  Smooth as ever and building an awesome pipeline of candidates in an area that for me was/is foreign to recruit in….Central PA. But YES, I’ve fallen back in love with the phones, but I still LOVE Social Media and using it as a tool to supplement my sourcing and recruiting efforts.

I was pretty good with the “Social Recruiting” thing.  But you know what?!  I’m even BETTER picking up the phone in combination with using Social Media to recruit and source.  So getting back to basics of picking up the phone has served me a big piece of humble pie…straight to the face. But I’m savoring that taste to take me to new heights in an industry that I love immensely.

I’ll leave you with a quote, an inspiring one to say the least……

“Look down at that little black box right in front of you. You see it? It’s a wonderful little invention called the telephone. Here, I’ll spell it for you: T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E. Now, guess what, everybody? This telephone won’t dial itself! Yeah, that’s right. Until you take some f*cking action, it’s nothing more than a worthless hunk of plastic.”…..“So don’t you ever f*cking forget that that phone sitting on your desk is a deadly weapon. And in the hands of a motivated Strattonite it’s a license to print money. And it’s the great equalizer!”” ~ The Wolf of Wall Street

Mike Chuidian is a Sr. IT Recruiter with Modis, and has worked with growing companies such as SAI and Comcast. He’s also an epic connoisseur of sneakers.  Keep in touch with Mike on LinkedIn or Twitter

Note: This post was originally featured on The Rad Recruiter, and was republished with the author’s consent.

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