The Recruiting Animal Show

The Recruiting Animal Show

The number one call-in show in recruiting radio.

       Wed July 30: Jerry Albright
       Recording Interviews
       LISTEN HERE

     HIGHLIGHTS - LinkedIn Group - Archive
     Reviews - Show Format - Listening Tips -
     iTunes - IM

---

Show Time:   Wednesdays at Noon Eastern Time

---

Call To Talk:  646-652-2754. You will be able to hear the show but will not be able to speak until the host lets you in. Make sure that you are on a good phone and speak directly into the receiver.

To Call Online   A "Click to Talk" button appears here when the show is live. With Internet Explorer only. You also need a microphone to speak into your computer.

---

To Listen Only: A "Click To Listen" button appears here at show time. To listen after the live show click here or see the Archive.

Listen To Past Shows: Click here or Click here. Also see Sound Bites in the top left corner of this page.

Jim Stroud interviewed me on The Recruiters Lounge after my first show. Abbreviated version.

LIST OF EPISODES

08.08.27: Susan Strayer, The Art of Conversation
08.08.20: Alexandra Levit, Success For Hire
08.08.13: Ryan Waldron, ex-marine on the military person in a civilan job
08.08.06: Jennifer Murphy, The CincyRecruiter

08.07.30: Jerry Albright, Recording your calls
08.07.23: Richard Becker, Marketing for Recruiters
08.07.09: Craig Silverman, My Recent Job Search
08.07.02: Maren Hogan, Twitter Queen
08.06.25: Lisa Rokusek, "Not your average recruiter"
08.06.18: Art Pitcher, Sales-Oriented Recruiting
08.06.11: Clifford Mintz, Recruiting Scientists
08.05.28: Harry Joiner, Sharing contacts on LinkedIn
08.05.21: Rayanne Trumbo, Recruiting for Start Ups
08.05.14: Jim Durbin, How to recruit on Social Media
08.05.07: Kingsbury & Durbin, Political candidates
08.04.30: Susan Strayer, Personal Branding
08.04.23: Animal Panel Unexpected
08.04.10: Josh Letourneau, Strategic Sourcing Consultant
08.04.09: Animal Panel
08.04.04: Papa John Sumser, Recruiting Roadshow.com
08.04.02: Shannon Underhill, Corporate Recruiter
08.03.26: Kevin Kermes, Software Sales Recruiter
08.03.05: Trisha Mannick, Corporate Recruiter
08.02.27: Robert Merrill, IT Recruiter, UtahTechJobs.com
08.02.20: TalkSourcing, Phone-screens
08.02.20: Animal Panel
08.02.13: Michael Homula, Recruiting Trainer
08.02.06: Angi Bellingar & Brad Hogenmiller, Contract IT Recruiters
08.01.30: Lee Salz, Hiring sales people
08.01.23: Mark Newman, Video Interviews
08.01.16: Minnesota Headhunter, IT Recruiter & Nice Guy
08.01.09: Recruitingblogs Contest Winners
07.12.19 TalkSourcing, featuring Harry Joiner on domain names
07.12.19: Animal Panel, Year end review
07.12.15: TalkSourcing
07.12.15: Dave Mendoza, Recruiting In Europe
07.11.28: Shally Elvis Steckerl, LinkedIn, The Deep Web
07.11.21: Jason Alba, LinkedIn For Job-hunters
07.11.21: TalkSourcing 04 (2nd half)
07.11.14: Animal Panel 02
07.11.07: Dave Lefkow, ex-Jobster VP Sales, now BaconSalt Exec
07.10.31: Geoff Webb, A Corporate Sourcer's Job Hunt (1st half)
07.10.31: Telephone Sourcing Show 03 (2nd half)
07.10.24: Craig Silverman, Hireability's Big Adventure
07.10.17: Scott Williamson, New Career Blogger
07.10.10: Animal Panel 01
07.10.03: Telephone Sourcing Show 02
07.09.26: Nik Palmer, Systems Engineer, AIRS
07.09.19: Donato Diorio, Broadlook Sourcing Software
07.09.12: Telephone Sourcing Show 01
07.09.05: JD Jason Davis, RecruitingBlogs Social Network
07.08.29: Dan Sweet, Search Engine Optimization For Resumes
07.08.22: Suzy Tonini, Internet Sourcer
07.08.15: Internet Sourcing Panel, Langhans, Notaro, Hale
07.08.08: Jason Alba, Blogging Secrets
07.08.01: TalentZoo, Rick Myers, Amy Hoover
07.07.25: Carl Chapman, Restaurant Recruiter
07.07.18: Louis Vong, Second Life
07.07.11: Noah Roth, Consultant Recruiter
07.06.27: Jim Durbin, Jobster threatens RecruitingBlogs.com
07.06.20: Jeff Altman, Funny Sourcer
07.06.13: Amitai Givertz, Blogging Secrets
07.06.06: Harry Joiner, Craig Silverman, Pam Claughton, Heather Hartmann
07.05.30: David Kippen, Recruitment Marketing
07.05.23: Ragan Jones and Howard Adamsky, Counter-Offers
07.05.16: Richard Becker, Make your blog a media business
07.05.02: JD Jason Davis, Farewell Jay-Dee
07.04.26: Workfarce Blogger Under Attack
07.04.18: Tony Haley, Is Recruiting All Sales?
07.04.11: Richard Becker, Is All Publicity Good?
07.04.04: Recruitosphere In Review
07.03.28: Konstantin Guericke, Jaxtr Click-to-Call Buttons
07.03.21: Papa John Sumser, Will Automation Kill Recruiting?
07.03.14: Should Recruiting Blogs Be Bland Free for all discussion.

Jerry Albright, Recording Your Calls

08.07.30: LISTEN HERE

GUEST: Jerry Albright, Verbal Summary.com

TOPIC: Recording Interviews for Presentations to Clients

Jerry has a new invention that allows you to record your interviews directly to your hard drive then upload them to a website where your clients can actually hear your candidates answer questions (and vice versa)

On the Couch: Jason Davis, Maureen Sharib, William Uranga

CLIPS FROM THE SHOW
Introduction, In Defence of Salesmen Part II
RecruitFest, Jason Davis
Jerry on Verbal Summary

COMMENTARY
Twitter
thelance: The sun rises in the east and @animal is still shouting his shows.

williamu: Uh oh.. I have a choice of how to spend my next hour. @animal or Linkedin. Running a poll...

CincyRecruiter: @williamu Listen via blog-talk so he doesn't call u out for your area code!

williamu: @CincyRecruiter Well, I showed & then everything went to Hades in a handbasket. I had no idea I was that "disturbing", much less to @Animal

CincyRecruiter: @williamu Listening to the show... See, I told you to listen on Blog Talk vs. calling in. No lurking on the phone allowed. U got called out!

Recruitingblogs.com
Slouch: He hung up on me.
Jerry Albright: Slouch - you calling back in?
Slouch: yes.
Katie Tierney: I'm famous. Animal mentioned me on his show. Of course, he mispronounced my last name.

Richard Becker, Marketing For Recruiters

08.07.23: LISTEN HERE.

GUEST: Richard Becker (Mr Moustache)
Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn

TOPIC: Marketing for Recruiters

Introduction: In Defence of Salesmen
Branding by Company Name

Moustache provides a review.

thelance: @Animal Do you yell your entire show?

thelance: @Animal It just comes across really loud,
my co-workers we're asking who was yelling.

yinchang: @animal Almost PEED in my pants laughing

williamu: added the Animal Show to next week's calendar
& have bought ear plugs

Craig Silverman, My Recent Job Search

08.07.09: LISTEN HERE

GUEST: CRAIG SILVERMAN
COO Unlimited Medsearch. LinkedIn

TOPIC: MY RECENT JOB SEARCH

1pm: The Telephone Sourcing Show

On the couch: RayRay Trumbo, Maureen Sharib, Dave Manaster, Jay DCTechRecruiter

Maren Hogan, Twitter Queen

08.07.01: LISTEN HERE

GUEST: MAREN HOGAN
LinkedIn. Blog. Twitter.

TOPIC: Marketing and Sourcing through Networking

lisarokusek @heathergardner: animal is a TOUGH Interviewer, but it was fun.

marenhogan @heathergardner @lisarokusek
                             @cincyrecruiter: YIKES. Please pray for me

CLIPS: Introduction, Gen Y Quiz, Snippets from the Show (12 min)

Maren video taped her own debriefing

---

HR Wench: @Animal I love the show - just not the yelling (Twitter, July 02, 2008)

Jessica Lee: decided to listen to recruiting animal show to hear @marenhogan - but not sure if i can listen to the animal for very long. is it just me? (Twitter, July 02, 2008)

Recruiting Animal: @jessica_lee Listen, Honey. Just like fine wine, the Recruiting Animal is not for everybody.

jessica_lee: @Animal - go figure. i don't like wine! eh. i go straight for the hard stuff. ha!

Recruiting Animal: @jessica_lee Yeah, I don't like wine either. And I am the hard stuff. But you don't like me.

Lisa Rokusek, Not your average recruiter

08.06.25: LISTEN HERE

GUEST: LISA ROKUSEK, 3rd Party Recruiter, St Louis
Linkedin. Blog. Twitter

Also Present: Art Pitcher, Rayanne Trumbo, Maureen Sharib, JD Jason Davis, Dave Manaster

TALKSOURCING: At the 60 minute point, Maureen Sharib and The Recruiting Animal speak to Paul Debettingies, The Minnesota Headhunter about sourcing via online and local networks, "Relational Sourcing".

Art Pitcher, Sales Oriented Recruiting

08.06.18: LISTEN HERE

TOPIC: Old Style Recruiting
GUEST: Art Pitcher

Introduction: Gen X
Relationships-Marketing-Referrals,
Art & Harry Joiner


Everybody Has an Opinion
Gen X On The Rampage. Listen to the animal growl. This might be the best, snarliest piece ever from the Recruiting Animal.
-- John Sumser.com, (June 19, 2008)

listening to the Recruiting Animal Show. Not sure about this episode, but I'll hang on... rant should end soon & he'll talk recruiting again
-- Heather Gardner, Twitter (June 18, 2008)

Clifford Mintz, Recruiting Scientists

08.06.11: LISTEN HERE

Cliff is a PhD who recruited PhDs for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Introduction: Women Recruiting Bloggers

Cliff on Gen Y (This provoked a discussion on JibberJobber.com)

Clifford Mintz on LinkedIn

TalkSourcing: Around the 70 minute mark, Cliff and Maureen Sharib discuss sourcing scientists

marenhogan: @Animal listening to your show now. . .

Animal: @marenhogan Oh yeah? I talked about you today.

marenhogan: @Animal so I'm hearing

SourcerKelly: @marenhogan OMG! I am LOL at this show - I didn't know it was about YOU!!!!

marenhogan: @SourcerKelly What? You don't think I look like Julia?? :)

---

Marketing Headhunter, Not Sharing Contacts on LinkedIn

08.05.28: LISTEN HERE

GUEST: Harry Joiner, The Marketing Headhunter

TOPIC: Harry refused to pass a note from another recruiter to one of his candidates on LinkedIn.

Introduction, Harry Joiner's Special URLs
Sharing contacts on LinkedIn, Harry Joiner
How to be a great recruiter on LinkedIn contact sharing
Snippets from the show (20 minutes)

Rayanne Trumbo, Recruiting for Start Ups

08.05.21: LISTEN HERE

Rayanne on Linkedin.
Introduction.

Jim Durbin, Recruiting in Social Media

08.05.14: LISTEN HERE

Political Candidates

08.05.07: LISTEN HERE

Guests: Colin Kingsbury and Jim Durbin

Colin and Jim compare the behaviour of candidates in a political campaign to candidates for a regular job.

Susan Strayer, Personal Branding

08.04.30: Listen here

SusanStrayer.com, Is Personal Branding For Real?
Today I joined the Recruiting Animal as his radio show guest for a high-energy debate about personal branding. ... It is strange to me that so many people react to personal branding as a farce or a non-event. With: Rayanne Trumbo, Dave Manaster, Workfarce

Animal Panel Unexpected

08.04.23: Listen here

Yet again, the guest I had scheduled didn't show.
So we had an impromptu Animal Panel.

Participants: Claudia Faust, Anthony J Meaney, Maureen Sharib, Workfarce, Dave Manaster, Shannon Underhill, Carl Chapman, Minnesota Headhunter.

Topics: hairy candidates, the recruiting process, specialization vs generalization, Maureen's article on relationship building from ERE and a lot of things I can't remember.

Josh Letourneau, Strategic Sourcing Strategist

08.04.10: Listen here.

This interview was so powerful that it inspired Claudia Faust to start a discussion group on Recruitingblogs.com based on just one part of the entire show. It's called Hair of the Dog.

You can find an abbreviated version of the conversation in the mp3 player at the top of this page. Josh Letourneau on LinkedIn

Animal Panel & TalkSourcing

08.04.10: Listen here

Participants: Maureen Sharib, Ami Givertz, Carl Chapman, Boston Billy, Dave Manaster, Harry Joiner, Shannon Myers

TalkSourcing: Maureen Sharib, Pam Simon

Papa John Sumser, Recruiting Roadshow

08.04.05: Listen here

Jay-Dee Jason Davis asked me to do some brief profile interviews for Recruitingblogs.com. He picks the guests and chose a great man, Papa John Sumser to be number one.

Dave Pollock Shannon Underhill

08.04.02: Listen here.

Dave Pollock, Sr Recruiter,
Asyst Consulting

His Brand: I am not a salesman!
I am an effective and understanding relayer of information


The non-salesman didn't show and was replaced, impromptu,
by Shannon Underhill, Corporate Recruiter

Kevin Kermes, Software Sales Rep Recruiter

08.03.26: Listen here.

Kevin Kermes is a partner at Hammer Consulting. He specializes retained searches for software sales reps.

1pm: TalkSourcing with Maureen Sharib and Pam Simon. Call in with your Telephone Sourcing Questions for free advice.

Trisha Mannick, Corporate Recruiter

08.03.05: Listen here

Ever since Trisha heard about the show she has been eager to be one of the starring attractions. And now her dream has become a reality. Here's Trisha Mannick on LINKEDIN

TalkSourcing at 1pm: Dustin from Vancouver calls in to ask Maureen Sharib and Pam Simon a question about Telephone Sourcing (for free).

Reviews:
This show garnered two immediate feedback comments:
1. "You finally got a real corporate recruiter on the show."
2. "I caught the show late but your guest was a sweetie."

Robert Merrill, UtahTechJobs.com

08.02.27: Listen here

Robert Merrill is an IT Recruiter in Utah.
His pal, Jason Alba, reviewed the show.

Bobby's blog describes the online tools we discuss on the show.

CLIPS
Introduction, Job Hunters
Robert Merrill on Gen Y
Coughing Caller
Robert Merrill's Hot Tip For Recruiters

Jason Alba @recruitinganimal and @robertmerrill have excellent (and tense) dialogue about GenY whiners: http://is.gd/e0R

Anita Bruzzese @jasonalba: Thanks for the heads up about that GenY conversation...that was pretty interesting, as well as your recent post

I thought the interview with Robert Merrill was one of your better ones.
-- Heather Gardner, Email (June 23, 2008)

TalkSourcing - Phone Screens

08.02.20: Listen here

Maureen Sharib and Pam Simon start off with an overview of the telephone names sourcing business then move into a description of quick initial screens of candidates by phone.

The Animal Panel

08.02.20: Listen here

Today's panel was unplanned so the contributors were at a bit of a disadvantage. Nevertheless, on hand were: Maureen Sharib, David Manaster, Sammy Medalie, Harry Joiner, Dave Mendoza, Jeremy Langhans

Michael Homula, Recruiting Trainer

08.02.13: Listen Here

Michael Homula, a recruiting manager and trainer has experience in the corporate and third party recruiting environments. His work has been celebrated by John Sullivan.

Listen to the intro to the show.

Contract Recruiters / TalkSourcing

08.02.06: Listen here

David Bull Doza Mendoza shocked the Recruitosphere this week by bringing 600 contacts from his personal network to Recruitingblogs.com.

They invited their friends so that within one week, JD's social network for recruiters had doubled in size from 1000 to 2000 members.

Angi Bellingar and Brad Hogenmiller were two of those new members. Both are contract IT recruiters and they were lots of fun. (Angi and Brad on LinkedIn).

Listen to the intro to the show. And some chit chat about Dave Mendoza's networking. (See Moises Lopez on that topic as well).

Lee Salz, Hiring Sales Reps

08.01.30: Listen here

Lee Salz is a sales hiring expert. His site is SalesDodo.com

Mark Newman, Video Interviews

Plus TalkSourcing

08.01.23: Listen Here

Mark Newman is the CEO of Hirevue.com, a company that produces video interviews for geographically challenged candidates.

At the 60 minute mark, Maureen Sharib, the sexy supervixen of Telephone Sourcing and her pal, Pam SImon, take over with their telephone sourcing show.

The Minnesota Headhunter

08.01.16: Listen here.

Recruitingblogs Contest Winners

08.01.09: Listen here

In this year-opening show, we speak to some of the winners of the best blogs contest on Recruitingblogs.com.

Guests include: Recruiting Teddy Bear (Dennis Smith), Tough Girl, Amy Hoover, Shally Elvis Steckerl, David Bull Doza Mendoza, Donato DiOrio (CEO Broadlook Technology, Jay-Dee Jason Davis (Recruitingblogs.com)

Animal Panel & TalkSourcing

07.12.19: Listen here

In this year end show, The Animal Panel reviews 2007. Then, Harry Joiner joins Maureen Sharib and Pam Simon on the telephone sourcing show and delivers an impromptu lesson domain names.