Employers
Why Am I Losing My Best Job Candidates?
By Steve Margalit Why am I losing my best job candidates?!? I can just hear the frustration. This question often reverberates at all levels within a company, from leadership to middle management all the way to the staff at large. With unemployment rates near all-time lows, it has never been more important for companies to…
Read MoreYour Dream Job Candidates Are Falling Through The Cracks
By Steve Margalit One of the collateral challenges of our strong economy is the shortage of high quality, active job seeking candidates. As Executive Recruiters, we have an enormous opportunity to partner with both our client companies, and the network of high caliber candidates we have developed over the years yielding a win-win-win situation. The…
Read MoreDoes The Perfect Candidate Exist?
By Steve Margalit Has the internet led you to believe that there is an unlimited pool of talent in your given field? Is it fooling you into believing you can find the perfect candidate? If you answered yes, you are not alone. As a result of this false perception, the average time to hire has…
Read MoreCompassion: The Secret Ingredient to Business Success
On May 13th, 2018, Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, spoke to the graduation class of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In his speech, he highlighted that the secret to his success, and the model that propelled him to where he stands now, is compassion. Weiner broke it down this way: “I vowed…
Read MoreMcKinsey and LinkedIn Stress Talent Attraction As Key Differentiator
By Jeff Herzog, FPC President When two of the biggest names in business line up to tell us that Talent Attraction is arguably your single biggest success factor for the coming years, it’s time to pay attention. That’s exactly what’s happened in the last months, as both McKinsey and LinkedIn have stressed that Talent Attraction…
Read MoreDoes Artificial Intelligence Spell The End of Recruitment As We Know It?
By Jeff Herzog, FPC President Mankind has been held in the grip of fear for many centuries. Or perhaps more than fear, it’s a creeping anxiety that the latest advances in technology will inevitably lead to unemployment. It’s a deep seated anxiety that we’ll see work being undertaken by machines, computers or robots that had…
Read MoreAmerica Now Has More Jobs Than Unemployed Workers
In case you missed it, something pretty sensational happened during Spring 2018. The Labor Department announced that, for the first time since such records began being collected, the number of job openings exceeded the number of job seekers. Put another way, if every single unemployed person were to take a job we’d still have jobs…
Read MoreBuild Grow your Personal Brand
How to Build and Grow your Personal Brand There have been lots of significant changes in the professional jobs market over the last few years. One of the most visible changes has been the rise in personal branding and the image that you’re able to portray about yourself in the market through astute use of…
Read MoreYour Job Search is a Bare Knuckle Fight
Welcome to the FPC Recruiters’ Guide to winning your Bare Knuckle Job Search. What do we mean by ‘bare knuckle job search’? Take a minute and picture an old-time, “bare knuckle” fight and describe what comes to mind. To us, among other things, it means a tough, hard-nosed, bloody battle that has virtually no rules. I…
Read MoreGet Motivated
I don’t know about you, but quite frankly I’m sick of hearing about the tough economy. So today, we’re going to focus on 5 ways to turn negative thoughts into positive action. You have a lot of potential – start recognizing it! You may not be built like a bodybuilder or be mistaken for a supermodel. But…
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