Do you know the three types of recruiters and the skill set that is specific for each?

Believe it or not, companies hiring corporate recruiters don't even differentiate between the types. Also, within corporate recruiting, there are sub-types based on on the size of the organization, and once again, companies don't delineate the difference on the practiced skills based on company needs.

Each type of recruiter requires a completely different set of skills. And, in this episode of the Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, since is seems no one else is talking about this angle of recruiting - or possibly, no one understands it - I will.

Today we're getting morbid. We're talking about failures in recruiting and we're going to walk through one of the most important steps of the recruiting process: The Post-Mortem.

Over 20 years in the trenches of recruiting, I've interviewed somewhere between 11,000 and 15,000 people. So believe me when I tell you, failures happen, and in order to learn from them, we need to understand what went wrong, and takes steps to ensure those mistakes are not repeated.

On today's episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, we're doing a dive deep into the world of process improvement, and how to look at it from a recruiting angle.

I’ve seen some messed up resumes in my time. I’ve coached potential employees on what to do to clean up their resumes, I spent a little extra time on the phone getting to understand skill sets, and I’ve discovered there are wonderful people out there that bring revenue and positive impact to the company they work for.

I am a big believer that awful resumes often times belong to incredible employees. On this episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I’ll talk about how to look through messy resumes and discover “WOW” employees.

Given that these are the days of remote work, COVID-19 and Zoom call overload, talking about a phone screen probably seems a bit old fashioned, but for me, old habits die hard. I personally enjoy listening to a person without being distracted by their fashion choices or facial expressions.

On this episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I'm going to break down what I have found to be the ideal phone screen, and why it works. I started recruiting over 20 years ago, back when it was ALL done on the phone. Today, I'll be sharing with you what I have learned about getting a candidate to open up right away.

On this largely philosophical episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I am talking about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.

In 20 years of working in the trenches of recruiting, I have been exposed to everyone on the leadership teams at the different companies I have worked for, and, in that time, I have made some interesting observations about competence vs. confidence. If you don’t know what I am talking about now, you’ll get it by the end of the episode.

More and more these days I am seeing business leaders do something that I am sick of. It's what I call "fly by leadership." How many times have you heard a leader or manager say to an employee, "don't bring me a problem without a solution!"

This is an ostrich approach, it's an avoidance innovation, a failure to train employees, and a lack of total ability to push yourself further as a mentor and leader.

I've been in the trenches of recruiting for over 20 years and I've seen and heard every leadership cliché play out in the workplace.  In this episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I'm going to share my thoughts on training.

Obviously, recruiting is like fishing.

But, as any experienced fisher will tell you, fishing is more than having attractive bait. Sure, you can get lucky sometimes with just a worm, a stick, some string, and a bent safety pin, but with great tools at your disposal, why wouldn’t you use them? 

On today's episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, we are talking about the tools you need to recruit effectively.

Typically, I am not a fan of an uber-scripted employment interview. A visual interview is one of the few interview-forms that I am a fan of. What is it? It’s a way to spark conversation with a candidate that works with their hands. Today we’ll explore the why and how to use a visual interview, and what to expect from the outcome.

Warning: If there is any podcast that is likely to step on toes, this is it. But rest assured, when I talk about a terrible interview question, I’ll give you something to turn it on its ear, and make a great interview question out of it. On today's episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, we’re going to talk about some common interview questions, and why they don’t work.

On today's episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, we explore the causes of frustration at each step of the game, and what processes you can put in place to identify, understand, and deal with the frustration of the candidate and new employee. This episode focuses on high level information and, in the coming weeks, we'll be taking deeper dives into specific aspects of this information.