Recruiter

INTRODUCTION

A Brief Profile

• I am a full-service, self-employed, generalist recruiter.
• I work independently and as part of larger recruiting teams
• I do candidate sourcing, recruiting, interviewing and reference checking.

Current Positions

PLANT MANAGERS
I am currently looking for 2 plant managers in the US mid-west. The parent company is a multi-billion dollar US company with plants located around the world.

SALES

Sales Rep - Online Candidate Testing (Toronto)

Sales Rep - Audio Visual Equipment & Services (Toronto)

Sales Rep - Trade Association (Toronto)

Articles

Linkedin - A Simple Introduction <- This is a must-read for most people
Linkedin Headlines

Review: Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters
Review: Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0

Search Engines Screw Up Your Name

Sending Recruiters UnSolicited Resumes

Recruiters Don't Understand Your Job

Blogging For Job Hunters

Age Discrimination

Do Interviewers Disagree?

Negotiation: Elegant Currency

Hesitation and Offers

Electronic Business Cards (vCards)

How To Attach an Electronic Business Card (vCard) to Your Email

How To Sort Your Email

Greeting & Thank You Card Service

Multi-Tasking

Do You Need a Resume?

Selling Your Personality

Consistent Image

Search Engines Screw Up Your Name

When an employer finds your resume interesting she's probably going to check you out online before calling you in for a meeting. The questions then is: will she find you?

When searching for individuals, search engines have 3 problems:
- Name Expansion
- Mistaken Identity
- Spelling errors

A search engine uses an expansion dictionary to find variations of each word in your search and return a name that it thinks you meant.

Carl Mark is a founding partner at Jones Soda. When you search him on Google, the first return is Karl Marx. That means Carl is in a blind spot.

Everyone knows that Karl Marx is not Carl Mark but when the difference is less obvious the confusion can have serious results. She might think someone else is you.

A contributing factor can be a name that is easy to mis-spell. It might weird (for Anglophones) or simply confusing (Johnston vs Johnson).

NOTE: This article is an abbreviated version of this original by James Alexander, the Founder-CEO of Vizibility.

Vizibility lets you do the search correctly and put a link to it in your resume.

Guerrilla Marketing For Job Hunters 2.0

David Perry is a super-recruiter. I met him a few years ago and was quite impressed.

At the time, David asked me to write a review for the first edition of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters. I didn't want to but eventually I read it - twice - and gave it a rave review.

Then I started recommending it to job hunters. Most people didn't read it, I'm sure. They wanted me to find them a job. But one guy, Barry, got back to me and said, "I'm reading that book and what he says here about resumes is pretty ridiculous."

"Well," I said, "just ignore that part."

Guerrilla Marketing For Job Hunters

This is a great book

I'm a quibbler and proud of it so I could find plenty to argue about in Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters but, really, that would be missing the point. The overwhelming fact is that there is so much good information here, up-to-date and well-organized, that you don't have to accept every detail to learn a lot.

Plant Manager, USA

Global Director of Manufacturing Technology

Sales Representative

Audio-Visual Equipment & Services

LinkedIn - A Simple Introduction

What is LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a huge database of professional profiles. Recruiters use it a lot so it makes sense to have your profile there.

LinkedIn Taglines

Under your name, on your LinkedIn profile, there's a small space to provide a brief statement about yourself.

I call it your tagline. Neal Schaffer calls it your Professional Headline. That's good too.

He says it's the most important part of your profile and I agree.

Let's say you're a recruiter. You run a search on Linkedin for electric motor designers in Cleveland. You get 50 results.

That's a lot of profiles to review and you don't want to read the details of every one. You want to open the page, look at the tagline and have it tell you if it's a good idea to read on.

If it says: Electric Motor Designer, you know you're on the right track.