FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Intellerati Launches: Recruitment Research Firm With Investigative Advantage Westport, CT, USA — December 11, 2011: The Good Search, LLC has spun out an exciting new recruitment research division and has named it Intellerati. Intellerati offers recruitment research and intelligence services to corporate executive search, talent acquisition, and recruiting teams. Intellerati offers research
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Candidate Spotting by Krista Bradford Oct 19, 2007 There is no shortage of job applicants these days. Rather, what we have a shortage of is qualified applicants. And whenever there’s a severe shortage, posting a job often makes it worse, not better. After all, when you post you waste precious time sifting through candidates who leave you wondering why they’ve bothered
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Investigative Recruiting: Using a Skip-Tracing Database by Krista Bradford Apr 26, 2002 Whenever you are working on a candidate search, a number of potential candidates inevitably come up “missing in action.” The switchboard informs you the executive is no longer with the company, for example. And often, that is where the search for those executives will end. Who has
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Tracking the Elusive Candidate with the Federal Election Commission by Krista Bradford Jun 7, 2002 Whenever I am working on a search, I try to identify candidates by using unusual sources of information. I’ve come to appreciate sources I used to access as a journalist that are not typically accessed by recruiters. It gives my recruiting an edge in
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Career Spotting by Krista Bradford Nov 2, 2007 As experts in careers, those of us involved in human capital are well aware that most people usually change careers several times over their lifetimes. That’s a given. This applies to candidates as well as the people who recruit them because we, too, are counted among those with multiple careers. But
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10 Ways to Supercharge Your Search for Candidates by Krista Bradford Dec 4, 2007 The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines research as a “careful or diligent search,” a “studious inquiry or examination,” and “the collecting of information about a particular subject.” Why is it, then, that most executive search and recruiting professionals so often think of research as mere “name generation?”
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Bubble Hopping: Leveraging Economic Intelligence in Your Search Practice by Krista Bradford Apr 2, 2008 The longer I recruit for a living, the more I see recruiting inextricably linked to the economy. Our finger is on the pulse and, at any given time, if we’re honest, we can give you a pretty accurate read on whether the patient
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Occupy Wall Street from Within: Dodd-Frank’s Diversity Mandate by Krista Bradford Nov 25, 2011, 5:21 am ET As Occupy Wall Street protesters criticize high unemployment and economic inequality, a little-known diversity mandate embedded in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173 / Public Law 111-203) is forcing a different kind of occupation within those very financial institutions. In 2012,
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The Trouble with LinkedIn: Grey Goo by Krista Bradford Dec 7, 2011, 5:40 am ET As much as we in recruiting enjoy the many benefits of LinkedIn, there is trouble in paradise. I’ve been a member of LinkedIn since the early days, to which my user ID (59572) will attest. Because LinkedIn numbers its members sequentially, if you do the math,
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In social networking circles, a low LinkedIn member ID number gives you street cred. Because LinkedIn numbers its users sequentially. the lower the member ID, the longer you’ve called LinkedIn your business networking home.
