Author: Tricia Tamkin

Starting Your Recruiting Day with a Positive FocusAs a recruiter, waking up with a sense of trepidation is all too common. It's easy to let the daunting aspects of the…

We love a nine-word email. Usually, they are used for re-engagement, and they don’t have to be exactly nine words. Here are a few examples:     Are you still…

Imagine this scenario. You place a rockstar candidate at a leading electric vehicle company, only to have them call you a week later, bewildered, because their entire 500-person division just…

Stanford put out a 500+ page report called the AI Index Report 2024. But 500 pages is a tremendous amount of information, and I don’t have time to read it…

The move towards skills-based hiring brings both challenges and opportunities for recruiters. In the article, they talk about both, but what they describe for us as challenges are actually also…

Disagreements and differing opinions are going to happen, professionally and personally. When conflict arises, our frame matters as much as our content. I find it helpful to differentiate consciously between…

This is an issue we’ve been dealing with for several weeks, and it’s likely going to get worse. The introduction of DKIM/DMARC updates has set the stage, and by April…

As we move into the summer vacation season, let’s not lose sight of the importance of branding in our Out of Office messages. Don’t use the standard, I’ll be away…

As recruiters, we often find ourselves in difficult conversations. Be that with our clients, candidates, vendors, employees, and even our family members. There are several things to keep in mind…

We’re big fans of empathetic listening for many reasons. First and foremost, it’s a gift you give someone. People rarely listen fully when another is speaking. We tend to spend…

Many of us are solo practitioners, but some members of CoES have an office and team, and a need to define their corporate strategy. Do you need a corporate strategy…

No More Non-Competes! Wow. We knew it was coming, and now it’s arrived. So, what does it mean for all of us? First, is this a good thing? Yes. For…