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Happy Job, Happy Life!

I am not one to share a lot about my personal life online, but I recently found the topic of reflecting, researching, and planning to be very relevant. You see, my lovely fiancé and I are currently in the stages of wedding planning! And given what I do for a living, I could not help and see parallels between planning a job change and planning a nuptial celebration. Both are HUGE life steps, and both require making important decisions … If you are considering making a job change (and/or planning a wedding-- I don’t suggest you do both at the same time!!), check out the following high-level steps to take:

Trust the Person, Not the Recruiter!

Staying on the topic of my previous post: I’m still naïve, and I’m still a millennial – but I’ve picked up a few things over the last few months. One of them is that the world revolves around TRUST … We trust our doctors with our lives, our accountants with our money, and you all (well, most of you) trust us recruiters to put you into the right career. So I’m going to challenge all you candidates and companies out there to this simple question:“Doesn’t it make sense to treat me, the recruiter, the same as you do your doctor or accountant?”

INBOX, SENT, DELETED: The Art of Selling via Email

Every day a gazillion emails are sent and received. Most senders are people trying to advance an agenda and essentially trying to “sell”. I don’t mean just prospecting, but any kind of effort using digital communication to further a cause. There are some messages that don’t get read past the first three words, and others that truly advance a process. Here at Hobson, we have spent a great deal of time studying email, how it has evolved, and how it has remained the same. We pride ourselves on training our team on the best ways to USE and NOT USE email when selling.

Hey, VPs of Sales – Time for a Beer!

Over the course of a week, I independently surveyed a small group of Vice Presidents that manage Sales teams in NY, MA, CT and OR. I was interested in what differentiators they look for when evaluating talent. Their answers quickly squashed my pipe dream of bringing Billy Beane’sSabermetrics® to Recruiting!

But We’ve Always Done It This Way!

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,’We’ve always done it this way’.”
~Grace Hopper

How does your company’s hiring process measure up in today’s employer market? If you are not innovating and moving forward, you risk getting left behind and losing top talent, (a.k.a., money!)

Do You Have “It”?

When you meet someone for the first time, within 30 seconds you decide whether you like them or not. But what exactly are the determining factors of someone being worthy of your “like”? What gives them the “It Factor”? I get a version of this question all the time- whether I am helping young girls develop their interview skills within the pageant world, or prepping candidates for a job interviews.

Mystical Pizza

Life is what you make it. But in order to make it into what you want, you need to understand what is important to you. For me, as I embarked on my journey from my hometown in New Jersey to a new life as a recruiter in CT, I knew what I wanted in a move. Career aside, I wanted to experience city life. I wanted to live somewhere where I could wake up and take a 5 minute walk to get a fresh brewed cup of coffee or go grab a greasy slice of pizza at night (which happens to be amazing in New Haven!).

Bias is “BS”

We all have it… Most humans are unaware of their biases; only a few recognize theirs. I recently started thinking about the concept and decided to do a bit of research. I discovered that there are 20 different cognitive biases which affect our decisions every day. No kidding!…

A Lesson from Batkid

What started out as a routine airplane trip a few months ago, turned into a surprisingly defining moment in my life that will stay with me forever…

Excellence

Being a Partner here at Hobson is probably not what you think it is…

Sure, our experience and years of hard work have given us clients who call on us again and again; it has given us beautiful, shiny awards that sit on our desks; it has given us the esteem and respect of colleagues and industry peers.