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(Professional) Email Etiquette – It Exists

| November 14, 2016 12:36 am

With all the tools we have these days to access each other, sometimes we may get confused with what’s appropriate with different methods of communication *cough*cough* social media. We also may muddle up the “lines” of familiarity... Read More

Can You Recruit in a Low Churn Economy?

| November 9, 2016 2:08 pm

Independent of who you voted for yesterday, the next President will face some interesting economic challenges. Some of these challenges, like “jobs and wages” and “low economic mobility,” have been in the news and debated about to... Read More

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask the Hard Questions

| November 4, 2016 4:43 pm

Want to advance in your career as a recruiter? Want to waste less time? Hire more candidates? The answer is astoundingly simple. Don’t be afraid to ask the hard questions. Recruiting is business in the purest form. You have two or... Read More

Engaging Candidates is Like Cooking Bacon

| September 14, 2016 4:53 pm

Engaging Candidates is like cooking Bacon. Sitting in a coffee shop with a limited menu and a large appetite, what do I order? As I read through my options I notice a side of local bacon listed. As I sit patiently, I smell the grill,... Read More

Stop Checking Email While You’re on the Phone

| July 27, 2016 5:21 pm

How would you like it if you met someone for the first time and while you were speaking, they were scrolling through their email, looking at new emails and sending a few responses? Doesn’t sound very appealing, does it? How would that... Read More

5 Ways Get More out of LinkedIn

| June 23, 2016 4:55 pm

Were it not for LinkedIn, NSS RPO, the firm I founded in 2009, would not be where it is. We wouldn’t have made the Inc. 5000 two years running. It’s as simple as that. LinkedIn is the only professional networking site that is worth... Read More

A Millennials Intro to Recruiting

| June 2, 2016 5:20 pm

The start to my career in recruiting has been anything but a slow crawl. My search began in early March, and luckily through networking I was able to secure an interview and later on a Full Time internal recruiting position here at NSS... Read More

Your Commute Doesn’t Have to Be a Black Hole

| May 19, 2016 5:11 pm

Like the majority of people in the DC metro area I have a commute to work. Let me restate that, I have a terrible, soul grinding, physically disabling commute to work. Yes, that feels more accurate. What almost makes it arguably worse is... Read More