It was a clear and sunny March day when I sat in my office chatting with my partner Tiffany Johnson. Although business has been relatively slower in this depressing economy, we've also seen pockets of hiring and some promising prospects. The topic of our conversation however, wasn't purely business development and sales. It was about all this hub-bub on social media. What is the efficacy of Facebook, LinkedIn, and all of the other social/professional networking sites and what is the actual purpose? The side question that was asked was "Given the nature of what we do as ...
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Servane Cross, Inc.-- The New Kid on the Block
By now, many of you know that I have made the transition from corporate recruiting (internal recruiting) to starting my own recruiting firm along with two partners. I'm the Managing Partner & CEO of Servane Cross, Inc. What is Servane Cross? We are a highly unique professional services firm that handles Executive Search for Healthcare Management and Healthcare Recruiting (Nursing/Allied Health). In addition, we also have a division that handles Leadership Coaching.
The partners of the firm have over 40 years of experience in Recruiting, Business, and HR. Every member of our recruiting team has Corporate HR experience in ... -
Making the Transition: Going from "Corporate" to "Agency" Recruiting
Hello everyone and please pardon the fact that it's been over six months since my last blog. I plan on being a much more regular contributor moving forward....I promise. Well, the past six months or so haven't been without its changes...and I mean drastic changes. After leaving Mercy Medical Center Redding in August I took plenty of time to be with my family (we have a new baby daughter which makes two daughters I have now). Norah Servane Kim joins her big sister Christall Jina Kim as Dad is now thinking of how he's planning ... -
Applicant Tracking Systems: What You Need to Know
During my days as a Project Manager for The Bank of New York (now acquired by Mellon Bank), my primary role was to implement a new system that would ultimately save the company tens of millions of dollars in spending on temps and consultants. (The term was more eloquently put as "Contract Labor"). Be that as it may, this system was a Vendor Management System and I personally evaluated over a dozen vendors and so I think I know a thing or two about evaluating software that makes life easier from a recruitment standpoint. Applicant Tracking Systems (henceforth known as ... -
Sourcing: Make the Technology Work for You
As my first blog was really more of an introduction of myself, I decided to use this blog posting to go over a topic that all of us are (or should be) interested in: sourcing. That one word can either make a recruiter salivate or cringe. Why is that? Well, for one thing sourcing has traditionally been hard to do. It meant casting the net out using sources like job board resume searching, networking, and even cold calling. Not to mention actually posting ads in newspapers or other print media only to have to go through stacks and stacks of ... -
Welcome to The Life & Times of a Healthcare Recruiter
As the first blog posting for ERE, I want to keep this fairly light in reading and content. I blog on several other sites but this is my only "professional" blog. To give you a bit of an introduction into why I chose to blog for ERE, for one thing I believe in what ERE is doing. Sharing in an open forum of Recruitment Professionals those issues that plague all of us is a very healthy way to let off steam, present new ideas and gather insight into how others think, feel, process and implement. Secondly, I am hoping that ...
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