The Recruiting Animal

In the immortal words of Elton John, Amy Ala is back. Only now she calls herself The Honey Badger of Recruiting. But, she assures us, you can still trust her, because she's a professional.

@AlaRecruiter -- LINKEDIN -- About.me -- BLOG

"I’ve been kicking ass and taking names for so long I could do it in my sleep."

@NLivingston -- LINKEDIN -- Honeit.com -- NickLivingston.com

The Honeit Real-Time Interview Platform enables recruiters to record and share highlights from live phone (or video) screens.

" I’ll never forget the ‘Aha!’ moment after transitioning from staffing agencies to an in-house recruiting role at MTV where I learned the difference between external and in-house recruiting.

" For years it was my job to get candidates to accept the offer on the table from our clients. If my candidate didn’t accept the offer, we didn’t get paid.

" However, moving in-house, you quickly find out that making the wrong hire can do much more damage than an empty desk.

" The time and cost of everyone involved to on-board, train, and get a new hire up and running is astonishing and the worse thing you can do is convince someone to take a job that isn’t the right fit for the employee or for the company.

" Identifying potential red flags among a candidate’s ordinary yellow flags, and preventing a bad hire can be one of the most productive things a Recruiter can do. "

@Thayer -- LINKEDIN - Company - Personal Blog - About.me - Photo Book   

My guest today is a recruiting consultant in England. She seems to have a bit of a hate-on for contingent recruiters or, as she calls them, commission-based recruiters.

@DHChait -- @Greenhouse -- About.me -- Company

We're not really into talking about Recruiting Technology on The Recruiting Animal Show but I heard a guy from Greenhouse on @DriveThruHR and he seemed to know something about recruiting as opposed to software so I invited him to come on this show.  He said he'd get back to me and the next thing I know his company was shoving this other guy in front of me. I could have rebelled but I figured, "Hey, I'll trust them. They wouldn't send me a bore, would they?". Well, yeah, they probably would but I've got a feeling he isn't so let's see what he can do. My research shows that he's already been interviewed by everybody but me -- and the Animal Crew

This was a great show. And it almost didn't happen. Jeff, the guest, had an emergency he had to attend to and cancelled a couple of hours before the show. He was, however, able to get it done ahead of time and return to the show at the last minute. That's what I'm talking about in the intro.

@JChaponick -- @RecruitersMAC -- MACRecruiters.com -- LINKEDIN

Our first meeting with Jeff: bit.ly/Chaponick1

Rebecca Sargeant's Interview with Jeff: bit.ly/ChaponickRebecca

@Pronexia -- @LINKEDIN -- Company

I co-founded Pronexia with the aim of changing the face of the industry. Our clients expect a lot from us because we refuse to settle for mediocrity in everything that we do and I look forward to the day when all companies start demanding a lot more, thus forcing the rest of our “competitors” to clean up their act. Mediocrity is a crime – please, don’t be an accomplice.

Jeremy Ames, an HR Technology Consultant is bringing Ben Martinez, VP HR of Hirevue to argue that in the future, it will be possible to recruit without phone calls.

Then, we will interview, junior recruiter, Angela Bortolussi.

@JeremyAllynAmes -- @BenMartinezJ -- @ABortolusssi

LINKEDIN - Angela -- Ben Martinez -- Jeremy Ames

@DavidLavoie813 -- @RsrceStaffing - LINKEDIN -- Company

If you are sick of weeding through mountains of useless resumes, give us a call - we are ready to help.

@JMC0070 -- LINKEDIN -- MAC Recruiters

John started recruiting right out of college beginning in '93.  From '98 – 2010, he was with MRI’s largest franchise, Kaye/Bassman International in Dallas. He became a Partner in 2000, an owner in 2004, consistently producing revenues over $1 Million annually. 

A mid-life crisis led him to leave KBIC to work on personal real estate investments. Then he came back to recruiting in 2011. 

 

John was Jeff Chaponick's neighbour. In January 2012 they began to work together at MAC growing their dream of what a search firm should be.

@JChaponick -- @RecruitersMAC -- LINKEDIN

Jeff Chaponick is from New Jersey.  He was in the garbage business and sold his business to Waste Management and retired to Florida at 33.

Six months later he met the owner of a new Management Recruiters International (MRI) franchise who got him into recruiting.

Jeff became a top 10 recruiter for MRI out of 5000 globally.

He was then recruited to the Lucas Group, another large recruiting company, to show the other producers how to bill over one million dollars a year.

In 2002 he started his own firm, MAC Executive Recruiters, .

Jeff has worked dozens of verticals and in 2015, MAC is on track to bill enough to climb into the top 10% of recruiting firms.