The Recruiter Recharge Podcast V1: How To Hire A Great Recruiter

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Check it out.  It’s the first 1st episode of the Recruiter Recharge, a new podcast series sponsored by the leading provider of applicant tracking software, Newton and the uber-pro team at Fistful of Talent. 

On today’s show Joel Passen, Newton’s Co-Founder and Head of Sales/Marketing (Kris Dunn refers to him affectionately as a muckety-muck), and Jason Pankow, Staffing Program Manager at Microsoft and FOT blogger, on How To Hire A Great Recruiter. 

Listen in and join host, Kris Dunn, chat about the best way to hire a great recruiter with Joel and Jason.  Hit the podcast and move forward to hear specific topics at the following timestamps.  Here are some highlights. 

5:00 – Jason Pankow tells a great story about a job fair where a Mom lectured her son about staying in school…
7:00 – Joel Passen breaks down why hiring recruiters who act like Macgyver is so important…
12:20 – Joel, Jason and KD talk about the difficulty of recruiting in the Bay Area…
16:20 – Joel throws out his top 3 traits that great recruiters share…
25:00 – The gang talks about hunter vs. farmer and why you need to consider that when hiring recruiters…
31:20 – JP, JP and KD talk about where to find the type of recruiters you want and how to write JDs to attract the right recruiters…
38:50 – Joel gives us his top 2 questions to cut through all the BS when hiring recruiters…

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