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Goal: Get names of brand managers Tools: Directory listing brands of each target company Technology: Phone
Method:
- research from the top level down
- set a target of 10 names per call.
- if you can, find out who they report to and who reports to them.
- don’t be afraid to ask questions about structure
- think of your questions as guiding "the interviewee"
so the information needed is obtained.
- keep asking till they won’t give you any more.
How To Present Results
- show the org charts you create to the client
- get feedback: she might know some of the people and tell you
who to target or avoid
- when you present candidates provide a written summary of how they compare to eachother
- give the client an org chart of her own company to show
how the candidates fit in
- this prop helps you explain the logic of your short listed selections
Example 2: Goal: recruit a VP Merchandising Results of Sourcing: identified 100 names to call Short List: 5 candidates were presented. Cost: 20 hours sourcing, 35 hours recruiting
Value Adds 1. built a database of candidates used on future searches. 2. gave client "in-depth knowledge of the competitive
landscape" (talent pool?)
which could be used for future searches.
Surrounded by his mother and six of his brothers and sisters, he complained about the wrenching pain.
Theresa Bascombe said she heard five loud bangs from outside their home, which is located directly in front of a courtyard playground.
Seconds later, her children started screaming that Terrance had been shot.
The mother of nine children, all of whom live with her, said she was shocked when she saw her son.
"Michelle could also frustrate her supervisors. White says he gave her the most interesting work he could find because she seemed perennially dissatisfied.
She was, White recalls, "quite possibly the most ambitious associate that I've ever seen." She wanted significant responsibility right away and was not afraid to object if she wasn't getting what she felt she deserved, he says.
At big firms, much of the work that falls to young associates involves detail and tedium. Too monotonous for Michelle, who complained that the work he gave her was unsatisfactory.
"she at one point went over my head and complained [to human resources] that I wasn't giving her enough interesting stuff, and the person came down to my office and said, 'Basically she's complaining that she's being treated like she's a second-year associate,' and we agreed that she was a second-year associate.
I had eight or nine other associates, and I couldn't start treating one of them a lot better."
The Funny Banker read my posting on Gen Y Barbie. This is his reply.
Hasn't this little credit crunch bitch-slapped most of these Gen Y-ner's back to reality a little bit.
I notice that Teresa hasn't exactly held down a job in the real world yet. What were the jobless numbers in the US for November, 500,000?
While technically not the worst on record if you put things in proportion (actually about the 41st worse), but the absolute magnitude is large....and will be getting larger.
This little downturn may be the cold bucket of water that wakes these wet behind the ears neophytes up and helps them put the concepts of:
- We crave personal development (until layoffs start)
- We pursue unconventional paths (while I have zero life responsibility)
- We’re not afraid to ask (who are you asking and when are you asking them - try asking for a raise about now)
- We embrace transparency (until you have competing interests that may force you to do something you might not be so proud of) and
- We just want to do what we love (Blinding flash of the obvious: are you the only person who wants to do what she loves? Me and everyone else prefers drudgery?)
What, does this chick think that her father always had a comb over and her mother always wore "mom jeans"?
At one point, everyone has dreams and aspiration, but guess what Teresa, you (and your siblings) came along and your parents had to get all responsible and stuff.
I know, its totally uncool, but true, kids are the reason parents get all uptight, boring and conventional - I can say that as a risk-taking 30-something with a young child.
The self-righteousness of a new cohort entering the workforce is nothing new, its just that at some point your schtick starts wearing thin - and that point was about a year ago. The holier than thou attitude is boring already.
Like this is so right on. People in my generation were very much a part of traditional authoritarian culture.
We were so brainwashed to hold our elders in a kind of awe that we had no sense of deserving any kind of decent treatment and were ready to take whatever the bosses chose to dish out.
Then I come to America and see that everything is different. People were free here. They didn’t take that kind of crap. Wait a second, I’m confused. That was 1968! Help me. Was that Gen Y in 1968?
Barbie is modest enough to back off of some of her claims, here, in response to the comments made on her initial posting. But she still claims to be able to compare Gen Y to the generations immediately preceding her own.
So lemme axe you dis: where do these guys get their ideas of the past? They weren't there so do they get it from their parents, teachers, books, magazines? Because it's pretty obvious that there's a lot they don't know.
Kala Aranrajh, a single mother of two children in Scarborough, knows too well.
"I don't want them to see me worry, that I can't sleep because I am so worried," she said in Tamil.
She survives on the monthly child tax benefit and welfare she receives, which barely cover her rent.
Her language barrier and inability to afford child care limit her access to the resources in the community.
People see this and wonder, "Why no mention of the dad? Where are the grandparents? How long has she been here? Why isn't she learning to speak English?"
I've noticed a few times that The Toronto Star features people who seem to be in trouble because they are doing something that is obviously wrong. But, instead of pointing to the obvious, they imply that they are merely victims of circumstance.
This provokes protests in the comments and, perhaps, this is what The Star wants: to publicly expose folly to criticism without having to seem unsympathetic by doing it themselves.
Consider Joseph Biden, a man who is hard not to root for despite having a poorly regulated ego, even by political standards.
Six weeks into his Senate career, he was left a widower with two sons, and nearly threw in the towel at the outset of the fight.
He became literally the laughingstock of America over his plagiarism and extravagant fibbing in the '88 primaries.
Months later, he suffered a brain aneurysm and grew so ill that he received the last rites of the Church.
As a candidate for executive power, he must have been counted out more often than a pro wrestler.
It already feels like a million years since Biden finished with 1% in the Iowa caucuses after incinerating his bridges to Obama, of whom he quipped that, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." (Shudder.)
That Biden is now preparing to move into that cozy little vice-presidential house on the Naval Observatory grounds is something of a miracle.
The Recruiting Animal was interviewed by the great Bill Vick on April 8, 2009.
Welcome to my battle For business recreation. I sweat and laugh and scream here For the working population.
Based in Toronto, the Recruiting Animal worked as a busboy and taxi driver before drifting into recruiting and a brilliant career as a pioneer of recruiter blogging.
In January 2004, he co-founded the Canadian Headhunter blog. In April 2005, he became a partner in Recruiting.com (once the central blog of the recruiting community online).
In April 2006, he founded the Recruiting Animal blog, then, in March 2007, he started The Recruiting Animal Show, the only online call-in show about recruiting in world history.
The Recruiting Animal has been quoted twice! in Toronto's Globe & Mail and is the co-author of two books in progress:
Don't Call Us We'll Call You: A Job-Hunting Guide For the Mediocre -- and
Downsized and Out-Placed on the Streets of Toronto: a Survival Guide for the Victims of Creative Destruction.
Although unrecognized in his native land, the Recruiting Animal has established himself as one of the world's leading experts on resumes, job-hunting, social media and Generation Y. He is incredibly well-connected in the free world and beyond.
The World Speaks
John Sumser, Where It's Going II, (March 12, 2007)
Early adopters, hard at work with their new toys, rarely see the long term value in the tools. There's a kind of narcissistic power that comes from riding the latest technology for your allotted fifteen minutes of fame. Sadly, most of the early users are more like Icarus and burn out long before the real adventure begins.
(If you haven't had a chance, take a look at the Recruiting Animal tirade on this subject (here's the related radio show). Animal's view is nearly as narrow as the folks he's busy critiquing. He claims on his blog, with some small justification and some greater irony, that blogging has made an insignificant dent in the Recruiting Industry.
While it's a message that will certainly resonate with the buggy whip crowd, the very same thing could have been said about personal computing during it's nascent period (the 1980s). Make no mistake, integrated interactive personal communications are an essential component of the 21st Century Recruiting toolkit.)
On the last day of my "Writing for Public Relations" class at UNLV, I mentioned to my public relations students that I would be a future guest on an online talk radio show. They seemed very excited by the prospect and several of them asked for a time and date. "But wait," I said, "I haven't even told you whose online radio show... it's ... are you ready ... it's The Recruiting Animal Shooowww!"
Their enthusiastic expressions quickly turned to looks of sheer terror and inexplicable horror. Surely, their instructor had not lost all his marbles and taken to open discussions with someone who bills himself as "neither man nor wolf." "Don't do it!" they warned.
I think that so many recruiters blog because they know that it helps them get jobs. Granted, some of the more inflammatory blogs actually might hurt peoples' chances of finding work at certain companies - not to pick on anyone, but The Recruiting Animal comes to mind, although it could be argued that even the Animal gets some gigs or splits out of his efforts. Or maybe he's just completely insane... who knows?
While I eat my lunch at my desk, I often listen to Podcasts on recruiting. Unfortunately, not many Recruiting Podcasts are worth listening to because they are boring. I don’t know if it’s the voice inflection, tone or pitch, but I have hard time staying interested in the topics.
However, there is a Podcast that I will recommend and that is Recruiting Animal's Podcast. He is not boring. He does a good job of trying to be entertaining while talking about the recruiting industry. The only complaint I have about Recruiting Animal’s Podcast is that he shouts too much.
Amitai Givertz, Ami G's Blogging Secrets (June 12, 2007)
If you tuned in to listen to Michael in his customary fashion promote his own shallow agenda at the expense of his so-called friends, enjoy the show! I won't listen to it or tune in again. I don't have the time to waste.
Jim Stroud, The Howard Stern of Recruiting (March 12, 2007)
I don't know if they are going to have naked strippers in there or anything like that but as far as not knowing what's going to be said next and how and why and all those other kind of things... let me just stop and play you a clip from the first episode and you'll see. Audio: Interview on The Recruiters Lounge
Dave, I listened to most of the blog / radio show link you sent me yesterday and I have to say, the reactions and statements on European recruitment (in particular from the host) made my blood boil and made me very sad to be an American.
The overwhelming generalisations of the recruitment landscape here were appalling.... It's things like these that continue to precipitate why Europeans get frustrated with the American egos.
Penelope Trunk, Learn To Take Criticism Well, (December 24, 2007)
I listen to the Recruiting Animal. He rips on me all the time in his blog. And he rips on people I publish. But The Recruiting Animal is smart (and funny) and I have always known that he understands me even as he makes fun of me.
Kevin Wheeler, What Makes a Blog Work?, (January 24, 2008)
RecruitingBlogs.com recently published the results of its annual readers' ratings of recruitment blogs, sponsored by ZoomInfo. Here are the winners of that contest in 10 categories, and I urge you to take a look at each one of them. They all follow the rules for an effective blog that I outline below.
1. Overall Recruiting: Six Degrees From Dave. 2. Recruiting Blogosphere: Recruiting Animal. 3. Third-Party Recruiting: Hiring Revolution. 4. Best Recruiting Technology: I, Donato. 5. Job Hunting: Wired & Hired. 6. Corporate Recruiting: WirelessJobs.com. 7. Sourcing/Research: CyberSleuthing. 8. Group: Xtra Cheezhead. 9. Recruiting Industry: Six Degrees From Dave. 10. HR: Gautam Ghosh.
Kris Rzepkowski, Recruiting Animal talks Second Life with Louis Vong (July 24, 2007)
Sometimes media hits the target market so squarely that you just can't help but listen. Recruiting Animal interviewed Louis Vong on the ins-and-outs of TMP's SecondLife Strategy.
Animal's Howard Stern meets Jim Rome style coupled with discussion by former mates at TMP about a new technology that I find fascinating made for the perfect way to blow an hour.
Want to hear what recruiters think about job seekers? The Recruiting Animal went off for about 5 minutes - no holds barred. Just be forewarned, he is irreverent. But if you want to know what recruiters think about YOU, and what YOU DO, you really need to take a few minutes to listen to him rant.
Listen here, for the first 6 or 7 minutes, as he delivers a message to all you job hunters out there, to give you a little hope! Are you dumb or stupid? Go listen to find out. I love the Animal. And the fact that he's laying it all out like this is great, because some people really need to hear it
The Animal, as he is known to his friends, certainly isn't shy about sharing his opinions and was clearly pretty negative about recruiting blogs. A handful of callers, including yours truly, agreed with some of his opinions but tried without much success to straighten out some of his other opinions.... Listen to the show. It is entertaining if nothing else.
Example 3: Educating job seekers blog. CanadianHeadhunter for example...which is actually 2 guys...Anthony is the quiet one and Michael is the other one ; ). These kinds of bloggers put out info that helps people not only to search for positions but also to plan their careers. Good stuff. With this kind of blog, I think people will keep coming back if they find your advice credible.
I listened to your show last night - boy my husband couldn't stand it. Your intro made me laugh so hard I nearly fell off the chair! My daughter kept asking me if the puppet was really talking.
I would NEVER say any of what you said to a job seeker myself, but I chuckled at your comments! Great interview, Great show! Thanks for the fun!
Robert Merrill, Recruiting Animal Eats Me Alive (March 7, 2008)
A little while ago, I was interviewed on the Recruiting Animal Show, a talk show for the recruiting world. I had a great time doing the show, but you might think the Animal got the best of me… did he?
This is not a button down show that would appear on the Wall Street Journal. This is more my speed with some character, a free flow of ideas, and I think I said, “suck” and “damn” a couple of times. In other words I had some fun.
For a special holiday message from Harry, the Recruiting Animal, Maureen Sharib (the Queen Bee of Telephone Sourcing), and the WorkFarce ... CLICK HERE.
These are some of my favorite people, yet I have never met them in person. What is this world coming to? I LOVE YOU. h a i r
Rule # 1- QUIT ASKING YES OR NO QUESTIONS! You'll get better answers. And for the love of god Animal, let them finish, or at least get a few more words out before you start in with the Seinfeldesque erruptions! Seriously, I love the show. I think it's got potential, but it's more funny, when it's not trying to be.
Listened to your generations recording yesterday and was cracking up. I actually read Gordinier's book and heard him speak at Powell's (local Portland bookstore). Your def on to something! The book was a fun read and I did find the obsessiveness with "proving the contribution" amusing.
As I was working on Success for Hire, I had the good fortune to meet an excellent blogger and radio show host, the Recruiting Animal. Animal’s got one of the most hilariously combative shows you’ll ever listen to, and I had a great time as a guest earlier this month.
I can only imagine the face behind the name Recruiting Animal, if he prefers using a weird little puppet as his countenance. The mental image that I conger up when I think of the Animal is of Morton Downey Jr. ...
Morton had a style of speaking that was a cross between yelling and screaming. Until I started listening to the Recruiting Animal Radio Show, I had never heard anyone else capable of such ear piercing annoyance.
Building upon the momentum first created by recruiting blogger pioneers like Jason Davis and Anthony and Michael, the Canadian Headhunters, and other popular Microsoft interviewing sites like Chris Sells' Interviewing at Microsoft, we were on our way.
