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What is the right response to a bad recruiting inquiry?

Killer Consultant

But there are many shades of “well” You want to keep the valuable contacts active and get rid of the rest in a cordial fashion. When I was headhunted for my current job, my first contact with the recruiter actually was of the last category. 3 – Job is good per se but not for me (e.g.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. What’s the trick?

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Introduction to Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

Almost all consulting firms include the case interview as part of their recruitment process. The purpose of the case interview is for the interviewer to gain a sense of how you can interpret new data and information in a focused fashion, perform basic calculations, and solve complex problems in a structured manner.

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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

We can learn how nonprofits harness the power of volunteers most effectively and use that information to motivate people at work in a similar fashion to achieve great things from even small contributions. Effective Recruitment My wife coordinated the volunteer recruitment for the marching band.

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Making the Talent Leap of Faith

Strategy+Business

Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read " The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath."'

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Making the Talent Leap of Faith

Strategy+Business

Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read " The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath."'

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Raising Money the Old Fashioned Way

The Nonprofit Consultant

They call this one-on-one, in-person fundraising a return to raising money "the old-fashioned way." We were all recruited to be "activists" to gather signatures on petitions and get folks to join the organization. Old-fashioned" maybe, but you stick with what works.

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