News & Events

February 2012

On February 27, 2012, Paul Siker will be delivering a presentation entitled, “You Are What They Think You Are:  Optimizing The Candidate Experience in 7 Easy Steps,” to members of the National Association of Health Care Recruitment in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  The program will focus on the role that recruiters play as “front-line corporate evangelists,”  and will highlight the reality that recruiters, and the hiring authorities they support, have a profound ability to favorably (or unfavorably) shape or influence how a candidate views or regards an employer.  As Paul notes, “A recruiter’s engagement and communication skills, institutional and domain knowledge, and ability to effectively qualify, advise and advance the candidacy of talented applicants are all essential in competitive market sectors and position categories.”  “You Are What They Think You Are:  Optimizing The Candidate Experience in 7 Easy Steps,” presents straightforward concepts that recruiters and recruiting functions can deploy immediately to make positive and lasting impressions on prospective and active candidates.

 

May 2011

Paul Siker co-presented a program entitled, “Changing Career Ladders into Career Roadmaps: Dynamic Approaches to Employee Development,” for the Montgomery County, (Maryland), and Dulles (Northern Virginia) Chapters of the Society of Human Resource Management.   These sessions, co-presented by Alice Waagen of Workforce Learning, addressed lessons learned by Paul & Alice as a result of working jointly on a significant, year long, career roadmap and succession initiative for a prominent, US-based, healthcare IT organization.  The program highlighted key career roadmap design issues, challenges, and other considerations. The presentation also addressed several of the novel approaches that Paul & Alice employed to achieve the highly successful, and flexible career roadmap design that was adopted by the client organization.

 

March 2011

Advanced Recruiting Trends has long believed that nothing is more important than having satisfied customers, and apparently, we've been able to leave clients feeling pretty happy about our training programs.  Advanced Recruiting Trends is gratified to report that its “High Impact Recruiting”© Training Program has received an aggregate participant satisfaction rating of a 98.5% on a 100 point scale.  Click here for more information.

 

September 2010

On October 13, 2010, Paul Siker will be a featured speaker at the American Staffing Association's annual Staffing World conference being held in Las Vegas, NV.  Paul will be delivering a workshop entitled, "Distinguishing Yourself In A Client-Driven Marketplace."  The program will focus on steps recruiters can take to better engage clients and hiring authorities.  For additional information, click here.

 

April 2010

Paul Siker spoke at the Staffing Alliance Of Maryland Employers (Project SAME) on Thursday, May 13, 2010.  The presentation he delivered was entitled, "Protecting Your Employment Brand From Social Media Backlash."  For details, click here.

November 2009

Check out Paul Siker's latest article entitled, "Boolean Schmoolean" to learn about how AutoSearch, a meta-search sourcing aggregation tool, makes creating and executing Boolean searches for candidate prospects more effective than ever.  Click here for the article, or click here to view a video on this terrific tool.

October 2009

If you are looking for an intriguing way to communicate with candidates, prospects, or hiring authorities, take a look at Paul Siker's article entitled, "Using Video Emails to Create A Competitive Advantage."  This article highlights the utilization and benefits associated with Web 2.0 video email technology.  To download the article, click here.

August 2009

Advanced Recruiting Trends announced that it would co-sponsor a lunch at the ERE Fall Expo being held at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida.  The ERE Fall Expo will take place September 9 - 11, and promises to be an outstanding learning and networking event for individual recruiters and recruiting leaders.  For more information go to:  www.ere.net

March 2009

Check out Paul Siker's article entitled, “Cold Calls Revisited - Making Every Call A Great Call.”  This two-page article provides a timely overview of steps that anyone in recruitment can take to make more engaging, more compelling, and fundamentally more effective introductory calls to prospects.  To download the article, click here.

February 2009
On February 17, 2009, Paul Siker delivered a dinner presentation at the Ravinia Club in Atlanta, GA to members of the Georgia Association of Personnel Services (GAPS).  The program, “Getting Above the Noise,” addressed fresh approaches and techniques that can help recruiters to distinguish themselves and engage clients more effectively.  For additional information, click here.

October 2008
On October 23, 2008, Paul Siker, in conjunction with Jigsaw, conducted an extremely well-received webinar on cold calling best practices.  This presentation, attended by over 500 people, highlighted the following: Utilizing A Consultative Approach Within Advanced Introductory Calls; Architecting An Effective Cold Call Framework; Cold Call Psychology & Overcoming Call Reluctance; and, Leveraging the "Unfocused" Advanced Introductory (Cold Call) Approach.  More...

September 2008

The September 2008 issue of the American Staffing Association's Sections Spotlight newsletter featured a short article written by Paul Siker.  The article addressed practical tips that can favorably impact recruiting calls to passive candidate prospects.  Siker specifically touched on the the need for recruiters to be mindful of how they are being perceived by the recipients of these calls.

August 2008:
On Friday, August 15th, Advanced Recruiting Trends announced the official release of Version 2.0 of its online recruitment training offering, the "High Impact Recruiting e-Learning"© (HIRe) Training Program. The "HIRe Training Program"© is a high-end, flexible recruitment training offering that provides top-flight and highly relevant online instruction to today's professional recruiter. Utilizing streaming Audio & Video and synchronized presentation slides, program content is transmitted over the Internet and is presented on a user’s computer via Windows Media Player©. More...

June 2008:
On Thursday, June 19th, Paul Siker spoke at the National Association of Real Estate Companies 30th Annual Conference held at Anheuser Busch’s Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, VA.  Siker delivered a presentation entitled, “Recruiting Revisited – Best Practices For Getting The Best People,” to an audience primarily comprised of senior accounting & finance executives.  NAREC’s members are representatives of publicly and privately owned real estate companies, significant subsidiaries of publicly owned companies and public accounting firms.  This presentation addressed demographic dynamics that will impact talent acquisition for the foreseeable future, and also highlighted communications and interviewing approaches that hiring authorities can readily implement to distinguish their opportunities, while enhancing the likelihood of securing key talent in highly competitive skill categories.

May 2008:

On Monday, May 12th, Paul Siker presented "Cold Call Best Practices - Making Every Call A Great Call" in Philadelphia, at the Greater Valley Forge Human Resources Association, an award winning chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management.  The intent of the program was to demystify the cold calling process and demonstrate consultative selling and recruitment best practices that are inherent to engaging and building long-term, actionable relationships with passive candidate prospects. 

April 2008:

Paul Sikerpresentedat the Georgia Association of Personnel Services(GAPS) Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 17th& 18th.  Siker delivered two presentations, including, "When Bad Things Happen To GoodDeals." This program conveys an array of methods that all recruiters canimplement to tighten up key components ofthe candidate process to mitigate counter-offers, offerturn-downs, and other nasty surprises that can (and do) accelerate therate at which recruiters age.  For additional details about the GAPS AnnualConference, click here.

February 2008:

Paul Siker presented the full-day "High Impact Recruiting"© Public Seminar program in partnership with the Capital Area Staffing Association (CASA).  Approximately 30 recruiters participated in this program which took place on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at the St. Gregory Hotel in Washington, D.C.  The program ran from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, and was followed by a "Happy Hour" (After all, what's a recruiter training program without a "Happy Hour?")  Like other "High Impact Recruiting" seminars, this one received top marks, as attendees gave the program an overall rating of 95 (on a 100 point scale). For more information about CASA, click here.

January 2008:

New Training Offerings Announced for 2008.  Starting in January 2008, Advanced Recruiting Trends will augment it's current training portfolio by launching several new instructor-led webinar training programs. These programs include:  The "High Impact Recruiting Webinar" Training Program, a web-based derivative of our live Public Seminar program; Advanced Introductory (Cold) Calls, and, Crafting Compelling Job Postings.  For details, click here.

October 2007:

Paul Siker conducted a workshop at ASA's 2007 Staffing World Conference & Expo, which was held inSan Antonio, TX (October 9 - 12).  For more information on ASA's  Staffing World Conference & Expo, click here.

August 2007: 

Paul Siker presented at the ASA Recruiting Symposium held in San Francisco, CA on August 10 - 11.  Paul's presentation was entitled, "Engaging Passive Candidates - Techniques You Can Use Right Now."  For more information on ASA's Recruiting Symposium series, click here.

June 2007: 
Article: "Relationship Recruiting - Engaging Passive Candidates to Win The War For Talent"
By Paul Siker (Appeared in Staffing Success Magazine - June 2007)  Read...

June 2007:

Advanced Recruiting Trends exhibited at the 57th Annual SHRM Conference in Viva Las Vegas, NV, and promoted Paul Siker's book, "Proactive Recruiting In A War For Talent Economy."

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