Hello everyone.  Its good to have a few minutes to read and share with you.  I have so much respect for hard working recruiters.  Our job is a tough one, but its an awesome job to do well.

Recruiting today requires a mix of phone-based dialogue with clients and candidates, plus an intelligent use of available digital media.

Nothing will take the place of warm human relationships and integrity.  That will always be the mainstay of our human-being-based business. 

Using technology can accelerate your processes, especially in compressing time.  You can use websites, linkedin, jigsaw and other mass marketing tools to reach a lot of people in a hurry, but you still have to process the new data and make choices about who to talk to. 

I limit myself to owning a very good website, a blog, twitter and linkedin.  I will eventually incorporate jigsaw (next quarter) but still, managing the new information is a big task.

Also, I am experimenting with SMS as a tool for marketing, but one must be very careful with that method because we all hate to get spam on our phones.  Even telemarketers will avoid cell phones ecause they don't like cell phone spam (text or voice) either.

And niche marketing.  I believe one really must dominate a market to be successful, and that means picking a small, dynamic and rich pool of jobs and jumping in.

Good night.  Good luck.

Jerry Davis
Houston TX