Recruiting 101

I have been very fortunate in my career.

I have worked with, along side, and for, some of the most innovative individuals in the recruiting and staffing industry. Many of these guys are still around, some are retired, other's are off on another adventure, but one things is for sure, they are the people who have moved our industry from the 'Kelly Girls' into what the IT staffing and consulting world has become.

I was trained by a twenty year veteran of the industry, Steve Odell. Steve founded Odell & Associates over forty years ago. Steve knew the business, Steve loved the business and the business loved him right back. The methods he taught me, are the same methods I teach recruiters today...nothing has changed much, except how we source talent. In those days, we used big industry books listing employees by position, combing through those books looking for candidates was a huge pain...today, with the Internet, Monster, Careerbuilder, DICE, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo etc,...the industry has changed, for the better obviously.

I have been so fortunate to work with people like Hank Stringer, one of the pioneers of the HR technology space...I have worked with John Riley, the founder of Transworld staffing, later acquired by Corestaff. John also founded one of the most innovative companies in our industry, ZeroChaos. Now run by CEO Harold Mills, ZeroChaos has grown from a start up to almost a Billion dollar firm in less than ten years....Martin Glick, CEO of The Albany Group, based in London, and the largest international workforce management firm in the world...Craig Silverman of Hireability, a pioneer in many aspects of our business today....these guys, and more, have built what we call the recruiting industry today.

Recruiting hasn't changed much in twenty years. The principals are the same, the Rule of 3's, passive candidates, sourcing, etc...is much the same when you learn the basics. I still use the same methodology today as it was taught to me almost twenty years ago.

I saw that one of the HR technology firms was purchased recently for $128Million.

That's just crazy! Crazy that I didn't work there... MORE LATER, Of course.