Entries Categorized as 'Sourcing'

A Gen Y’s Perspective on “Helicopter Parents”: What Employers Should Know

Date June 6, 2007

This term, “helicopter parent”, was completely new to me until one of my colleagues wrote a Blog about its professional impact. When I read her Blog and then did some research of my own I realized that I had probably never heard of the term because my parents and even my friend’s parents are exactly […]

Recruiting in the 90’s part II… The Comp Plan that worked

Date June 5, 2007

Part II in my series of fond memories and feeling old at the same time about recruiting.
Back in the early 90’s I was a corporate recruiter. I was working for a management consulting firm recruiting for our Technology consulting practice. I was hiring Visual C++, Java developers, and PeopleSoft and Oracle […]

MySpace and Facebook = The New Background Check?

Date May 22, 2007

As I was browsing through some of the latest news on CNN.com a story caught my attention about a student being stripped of her degree only a few days before graduation all because of a picture and a caption she posted on her MySpace page.  
I am beginning to here stories like this one more […]