Recruiting Explained

  For anyone who is a recent college graduate, the job market is one of the main things to be concerned a bout. It’s always tough to find a job, but when you are brand new to the job market as all recent college graduates are, then it’s incredibly stressful. After covid, massive lay offs, and the entire shift in the industry--it's important to understand how the job landscape has changed.  The truth is that finding a job as a recent college graduate is incredibly tough. You are competing with a huge amount of other recent college graduates. And it’s not just this current years crop of new graduates that you are competing with. You also have to compete with last years new college graduates. One recent issue that recent college graduates have to contend with is the closure and shut down of in-person offices. Many companies have reduced their in person staff and because of this, there are fewer job openings available for the recent college graduates who are looking for w...

If you've been online recently--be it LinkedIn or Reddit--then you know how many people are talking about so called Ghost Jobs. There is so much suspicion out there in the job market--especially with the rise of AI and with automated job posting sites. So, how can you tell if a job is fake, aka a "Ghost Job"? Well, it's more complicated than simply checking the info against a company website. If it was that simple, there wouldn't be much online about Ghost Jobs; people would simply figure it out quickly for themselves. But it's not that simple. Companies post fake jobs for all sorts of reasons. What we'll do here is review some of the main ways you can tell if a job is a "ghost job". Some of them are not that simple, some of them require a bit of a more creative approach. Who Is Posting The Job: Tip #1 The first thing you want to do is check who is posting the job. Where a job is posted can be the number one indicator of whet...

  Nurse recruiters are an integral part of the nursing process. Without nurse recruiters, hospitals and clinics would be hard pressed to find nursing staff. It’s just the predicament that medical facilities are in nowadays. There are many reasons why nurse recruiters are needed, but suffice to say it’s a fact and it’s here to stay. With so many nurses being hired in recent years, there are also quite a few nurse recruiters being hired. And since nurses work weekends, sometimes as a per diem side hustle, sometimes as their scheduled shift, it becomes necessary to discuss the work schedule of nurse recruiters. This question and the following brief article is designed for all current nurse recruiters who are curious about what their schedule should be. And it’s also designed for potential nurse recruiters who have yet to start the job. These future nurse recruiters might be curious as to how much work they will be expected to do. So, with those questions understoo...

Nursing and recruiting go hand in hand in many large cities. It’s no secret that hospitals, clinics, mental health facilities, homeless shelters, and schools need nurses to be on staff. It’s also no secrete within the recruiting world that nurses are in such high demand that recruiters are needed to find and hire them. It’s not uncommon for a company to have multiple nurse recruiters working to find a single nurse. The reason nurses are in such high demand and why they are so difficult to find is the topic for another time, but suffice to say the field is growing and recruiters are necessary for finding and bringing nurses into work. Does that mean that nurses make good recruiters? Is there something special about nurses and how they work that would make them good recruiter? Well, it depends. It’s not that common for nurses to work as recruiters, but what about those that do? Do they have a special insight that makes them really good at their job? You’d think so. So, let’s see if that’...

  Very few things in your professional life are as nerve wracking as a job interview. No matter how many times you’ve gone on them, they are always causes for stress. There are quite a lot of things you can do to prep for an interview. I’ve discussed them elsewhere, so I won’t go into detail here. A brief primer is to always: Read up on the company Dress Well Make sure you look presentable But what we will discuss in this article is the importance of being on time. In particular, showing up early for that job interview. Because, showing up early for a job interview can actually be a huge bonus point in the interviewer’s eye. Not always, of course. Sometimes it won’t help and you’ll just be sitting around. But sometimes arriving early can be the little bit that helps you win over your interviewer and get the job. Let’s move forward now and look at some specific questions regarding interviews and arriving early. In Person Interview vs Online Intervi...

There’s a prevailing bit of wisdom that floats around colleges and guidance centers, and it goes a bit like this: You miss all the shots you don’t take! Apply for your dream job, over reach! Shoot for the moon. Listen, if you follow that advice, without qualifications, you’re never going to get anywhere. Besides being a cliché ridden mess, it’s just not sufficient advice for anyone who is looking to realistically get a job. The truth of the business world is that employers don’t care about your dreams, your goals, or any of the stuff you care about. They care about how much they can make from your efforts. That means, in a more rude way, they care about how competent and productive you are and how cheap you are. The secret that most people don’t know is that college guidance officers, career counselors, and many of the people who work in the job coaching world is that they have never worked in a corporate hiring environment. This is especially true of people who work in schools. They a...