Question: when you are interviewing a candidate for a job, when you are interviewing for a job, when you are (were) on a date… do you find reasons to include or exclude them from the process?

NOTE: I am thinking out loud through a keyboard to get this idea out of my head… not a well thought out blog post so hang with me on this.

Try this another way… in any part of your life, when you are meeting someone new do you look for reasons to continue to speak with them and want to meet again or are you finding all the reasons not to?

Ponder that…

For me, I am always trying to find shared interests, commonalities and reasons to like someone.

That is my default.

I want to grow with people, share new ideas, be challenged. I want to be around people not like those who already are.

The upcoming calendar for my live Be Your Own Headhunter sessions (and yes, there’s always an on demand session available):

• Job Search For All

• On Demand - listen anytime

• September 19 at 11 am CDT

• September 23 at 8 pm CDT

• Tech Edition

• On Demand - listen anytime

• September 19 at 9 am CDT

• September 22 at 8 pm CDT

• Planning A Future Job Search

• On Demand - listen anytime

• September 19 at 1 pm CDT

• September 24 at 8 pm CDT

• Office Hours

• September 26 at 9 am CDT

What is Be Your Own Headhunter?

Take a moment and look at the social media accounts for your company, senior leadership team, hiring managers and… your own.

What story are you telling?

If When that candidate you have been recruiting does research on you all… what will they learn from the past months? Will they see Zoom photos of the team during a call? Will they see an image celebrating recent news? Will they see that you are hiring and have hired?

If the highly sought after person who you don’t know (don’t know is looking) is researching companies to pursue before the end of the year will they see content that appeals to them, gets them excited about you?

Or will they see… nothing?

I appreciate that a screen full of Zoom screen shots is not the most appealing… but you’re still telling your story. You’re showing people what it is like to work there now. You’re showing people what you are working on. You’re active and engaged. You’re showing pride in the team.

Or… you can continue to be silent.

And what message is that sending?

Click => Pandemic Recruiting: What You and Your Team Should be Doing Right Now to hear the webinar I recorded that talks about this, COVID-19 content for the career page, Check Your Career Page Analytics and other topics.

And… chat with me.

If you have a recruiting question, idea to run by someone or like me just want to nerd out about recruiting, schedule a 30 minute call with me. I want to have more conversations.

Click Paul DeBettignies calendar

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts, Work With Me if you are growing your team and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

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The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Fall 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

Check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Talent & Culture Coordinator - Full Time Job - When I Work

• Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition - Full Time Job - Ovative Group

• Manager, Experienced Recruiting - Full Time Job - Deloitte

• Campus Recruiting Specialist - Full Time Job - Deloitte

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - BerganKDV

• Executive Recruiting Engagement Specialist - Full Time Job - U.S. Bank

• Talent Acquisition Specialist Associate (Coordinator) - Full Time Job - HennepinHealthcare

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - Episerver

• Recruiting Coordinator - Full Time Job - Schwan’s

• Recruiter/HR Generalist - Full Time Job - Brown & Brown Insurance

• Associate Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - Medtronic

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

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Here it is… my first episode of What You Should Know.

First some background…

I have long missed my conversations before, during and after with Casey Allen and Kathy Grayson when we did the MSP On Deck Podcast.

Like when I started this blog in 2005, I have things to get out of my brain.

With the “shutdown” one of the most frequently asked questions of me is, what’s going on in/with (fill in the blank).

This July 7th text from Kurt Schmidt (@krts), President of Foundry and Creator of The Schmidt List:

Idea: “This week in TC Tech Hiring” a weekly show where you give the low down on who’s hiring and laying people off. I’d listen to it.

And then a marathon of a catch up all with Kurt last week that included a commitment by me to do something like this and a promise from Kurt that if I didn’t there might be bodily harm done to me.

Look at me… did it in less than five days.

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Fall 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

Check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• External Talent Lead - Full Time Job - 3M

• Talent Acquisition Recruiting Lead - Full Time Job - 3M

• Talent Acquisition Sourcing Lead - Full Time Job - 3M

• Talent Acquisition Sourcer - Full Time Job - 3M

• Candidate Experience Specialist - Full Time Job - Siemens

• Talent Acquisition Assistant - Full Time Job - St Croix Hospice

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - Cambria

• HR Talent Acquisition Intern - Part Time Internship - Quality Bicycle Products

• Human Resources Staffing Assistant - Full Time Job - Barr Engineering

• Executive Recruiting Engagement Specialist - Full Time Job - U.S. Bank

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

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With the recession, pandemic, partial shutdown… whatever you want to call this, are you seeing the number of unique visitors and pageviews on your career page go up, down or do you know?

And how about the ratio of those numbers to applicants, resumes received and inquiries about your jobs?

Qualified applicants increasing or decreasing?

Are the sources of your traffic the same?

If your company is like most, these numbers, ratios and sources have changed a bit.

Some are seeing an increase in total and a reduction in qualified applicants. That makes sense.

A surprisingly higher number though are seeing a reduction in everything. That’s curious and needs to be looked at further.

Some are seeing their traffic from Indeed, LinkedIn, Social Media and Google change.

How about the specific jobs… changes there?

Question… these past weeks and months (and next weeks and months) what is the one thing that is on most everyone’s mind every day in some way?

Something related to COVID-19.

What is the one thing missing from 90%+ of all career pages and job descriptions that most people are thinking about besides salary?

COVID-19 content.

Another question…

If you were going to do a job search (voluntary or involuntary) wouldn’t you want to know what a potential employers current working situation is?

Likely.

So… why is it missing from your career page and job descriptions???

You should have to be addressing this when you're recruiting.

This is one of the many topics I covered in my mid-August webinar, Pandemic Recruiting: What You and Your Team Should be Doing Right Now

Here is what I would be doing if I were you…

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Fall 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

Check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Recruitment Coordinator/Sourcer - Full Time Job - Doctor on Demand

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - People Incorporated

• Principal MBA Campus Recruiter - Full Time Job - Medtronic

• Talent Acquisition Generalist - Full Time Job - Cambria

• HR Recruiter - Full Time Job - StuartCo

• HR Recruiter - Full Time Job - Fraser

• Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist I - Full Time Job - Ecolab

• Associate Analyst, Talent - Full Time Job - Element Fleet Management

• Talent Coordinator - Full Time Job - Enhanced Recovery Company

• Driver Recruiter - Full Time Job - Dart Transit

• Campus Recruiting Coordinator - Full Time Job - CliftonLarsonAllen

• Recruiter I - Full Time Job - UNFI

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Jostens

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Cargill

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

Stay in touch with me by clicking:

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Fall 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

Check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Arctic Wolf Networks

• Recruiter - Full Time Contract - Stauer

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Upton Hill

• HBCU Program & Strategy Recruiting Lead - Full Time Job - Deloitte

• Principal Recruiter - Full Time Job - C.H. Robinson

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Contract - Virgin Pulse

• Talent Acquisition Manager - Full Time Job - College Possible

• Talent Acquisition Consultant - Full Time Job - Mystic Lake

• Talent Acquisition Manager - Full Time Job - Sezzle

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Full Time Contract - Sleep Number

• Talent Acquisition Consultant, Market Segments - Full Time Job - Securian Financial

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Full Time Job - ECMC Group

• Staffing Specialist - Full Time Job - Amazon

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

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POST WEBINAR UPDATE:

• I did a new recording of the session to take care of the video that was a bit off.

Scene: Friday afternoon Zoom with a corporate recruiter friend of mine who is doing some recruiting now and likely quite a bit before the end of year in marketing, sales, IT and HR.

“OK smarty pants, what would you do if you were me?”

And for the next 40 minutes I went off on some of the things I would be doing if I were my corporate recruiter friend.

At the end of my “soapbox” they say:

“Dang (different word was used), that’s some good stuff. You should do a webinar on this”.

I’ve already been doing this with companies for a couple of months… that’s why I had a “smarty pants” reply ready to go.

They were right… it is time to do the webinar.

“They seemed unfocused”

“There was distraction in the background”

“I can’t tell if they want to work here or are desperate for a job”

“That felt like a therapy session, not a job interview”

These are some notes I have seen over the past months regarding candidates and their interviews. I have no doubt these are accurate assessments.

My question to Recruiters and Hiring Managers is this… how are you doing?

How are you doing with Covid 19, social unrest, an election, distance learning, caring for a parent and all the uncertainty that is in the world, workplace and your backyard?

Now imagine you have been laid off or furloughed and are doing a job search. In a recession that is unlike any we have seen.

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Fall 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

Check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator – Contract - Full Time Contract - Renewal by Andersen Corp

• Talent & Leadership Development Manager - Full Time Job - Marvin

• Campus Relations Lead - Full Time Job - Daikin Applied

• D&I Talent Culture & University Relations Lead - Full Time Job - Thrivent

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Full Time Job - North Memorial Health

• Senior Campus Recruiter – Finance - Full Time Job - Medtronic

• Senior Campus Recruiter - Information Technology - Full Time Job - Medtronic

• Production Recruitment Manager - Full Time Job - General Mills

• Senior Recruiter - Full Time Job - berganKDV

• Sr. Recruiter/Sourcer - Full Time Job - H.B. Fuller

• Recruitment Manager - Full Time Job - Charter Solutions

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

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“Hey Paul, you skipped the summer hiring post for recruiter jobs. Are you doing one for fall?”

I’ve received a few messages like this the past weeks and the answer is… I’ve been stalling until I knew more.

When I wrote the last update, Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Spring 2020, at the end of February I had a strong feeling things were going to get “bad”. I was thinking on a scale of 1 to 10 it was going to be a “8” or “9”. I was thinking masks were going to be a thing for some and that those who could easily work from home would slowly shift to doing that. I thought a minor recession was coming.

I had no idea it was going to be a “19” or whatever this has been.

I didn’t see a shut down, shelter in place… the world coming to a near stop.

So… where are we now?

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Spring 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

CHECK OUT => our regions fastest growing talent group (click) Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Diversity Recruitment Manager - Full Time Job - General Mills

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Full Time Job - FedEx Ground

• Talent Management Partner - Full Time Job - Marvin

• Digital Recruitment Manager - Full Time Job - Great Clips

• Talent Acquisition Coordinator - Full Time Contract - Mystic Lake

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - ShopHQ

• Firmwide Talent Acquisition Leader - Full Time Job - Baker Tilly

• Recruiter, Operations & Manufacturing - Full Time Contract - Shutterfly

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - Episerve

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - NetSPI

PREVIOUSLY POSTED ROLES:

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Arctic Wolf Networks

• Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Specialist - Full Time Job - National Recoveries

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Harvard Companies

• Talent Acquisition Manager - Full Time Job - American Public Media Group

• HR Coordinator/Recruiter - Full Time Job - Wold Architects and Engineers

• Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract) - Full Time Contract - Renewal by Andersen Corp

• Manager of Talent Acquisition Support - Full Time Job - Allina Health

• Associate Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract) - Full Time Contract - Sleep Number

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Legacy Concepts (Dunkin’)

• Sr Talent Sourcer - Full Time Job - Allianz

• Talent Acquisition Business Partner – Campus - Full Time Job – Code42

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Benedictine Health System

• People Operations Manager - Full Time Job - Bite Squad

• Senior Talent Manager Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Full Time Job - Rally Health

• Diversity and Inclusion Manager - Full Time Job - TCF Bank

• Director - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Full Time Job - Be The Match

• Talent Management Partner - Full Time Job - American National Bank

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - IDI Distributors

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

Stay in touch with me by clicking:

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Spring 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

CHECK OUT => our regions fastest growing talent group (click) Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Arctic Wolf Networks

• Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Specialist - Full Time Job - National Recoveries

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Harvard Companies

• Talent Acquisition Manager - Full Time Job - American Public Media Group

• HR Coordinator/Recruiter - Full Time Job - Wold Architects and Engineers

• Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract) - Full Time Contract - Renewal by Andersen Corp

• Manager of Talent Acquisition Support - Full Time Job - Allina Health

• Associate Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract) - Full Time Contract - Sleep Number

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Legacy Concepts (Dunkin’)

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

Stay in touch with me by clicking:

One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is, “Hey Paul, who’s hiring?” and I frequently know of some cool things that are not always found via Indeed, LinkedIn or Google for Jobs.

With COVID 19 and the “shutdown” the question has become more frequent and intense.

During the “Great Recession” of 10+ years ago on Wednesday’s (and then more days with more demand) I tweeted out jobs, companies hiring and those looking for work.

I should have kept doing some version of this.

I did a test on this back in April but it was too soon. Most job seekers and employers were not ready.

They seem to be now.

So…

One of the most frequently asked questions I receive is, “Hey Paul, who’s hiring?” and I frequently know of some cool things that are not always found via Indeed, LinkedIn or Google for Jobs.

With COVID 19 and the “shutdown” the question has become more frequent and intense.

During the “Great Recession” of 10+ years ago on Wednesday’s (and then more days with more demand) I tweeted out jobs, companies hiring and those looking for work.

I should have kept doing some version of this.

I did a test on this back in April but it was too soon. Most job seekers and employers were not ready.

They seem to be now.

So…

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Spring 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

NEWS… check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Sr Talent Sourcer - Full Time Job - Allianz

• University Recruiting Intern - Part Time Internship - Cargill

• Social Media Recruiter - Full Time Job - Cassia

• Talent Acquisition Business Partner – Campus - Full Time Job – Code42

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

Stay in touch with me by clicking:

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers.

Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Spring 2020 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring.

NEWS… check out our regions new talent group => Minnesota Talent Leaders and sign up to receive events, news and community updates.

Here are the new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs:

• Manager of Recruiting and HR - Full Time Job - Leann Chin

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Benedictine Health System

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - ABM Industries

• People Operations Manager - Full Time Job - Bite Squad

• Recruiter - Full Time Job - Opportunity Services

• Talent Acquisition Specialist - Full Time Job - Minneapolis Public Schools

• Contract Recruiter - Contract Job - E.A. Sween

• Senior Talent Manager Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Full Time Job - Rally Health

How to post a job (it’s free)?

Send the content (preferably in Word) along with a link or email for folks to apply to paul@mnheadhunter.com

And check out Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp for recruiting and hiring manager conferences and conversations about recruiting in and to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota and the Midwest:

If you are using a RSS Feed click Minnesota Recruiter Jobs.

Click Minnesota Headhunter for current blog posts and Minneapolis Tech Jobs for Minnesota IT searches I am working on.

Stay in touch with me by clicking: