It’s obvious that recruiting in 2012 has changed significantly from what it was just a year ago and it’s light years away from what it was 10 years ago. Every day brings more tools, more competition, and more challenges. [full article »]
Ryan Phillips
Ryan Phillips is a technical writer & sourcing researcher at AIRS. She lives in Helena, Montana. Joining AIRS in 2010, she transitioned to the role from the internal recruiting team at The RightThing. Phillips began her recruiting career working for a technical recruitment staffing firm in the Silicon Valley, where she recruited for IT, Engineering, Marketing, and Accounting. She later moved into the RPO field, where she did mainly niche engineering recruitment for Microsoft. She works on curriculum development for all AIRS courses, including the industry-leading AIRS Certification classes. She also continues to consult with RPO clients on their social media branding strategies, as well as support the internal RightThing sourcing team to develop client specific sourcing strategies.
Articles by Ryan Phillips...
Invest in Your Candidates
by Ryan Phillips Jan 5, 2012, 5:33 am ET
Recruiters often think that their sole clients are their hiring managers. Oftentimes, those same recruiters end up having their “star” candidates decline an offer. As hiring professionals, we need to be investing in both of our clients — hiring managers and candidates. We are technically in a sales role; we need to sell opportunities to... [full article »]
Interviewing Hiring Managers Right the First Time
by Ryan Phillips Dec 6, 2011, 5:01 am ET
As recruiting and staffing professionals, we all need to be detailed and diligent when interviewing our hiring managers to ensure we are prepared for both effective advertising and sourcing strategies. But what things do we really need to ask a hiring manager? It all depends on what we currently know and don’t know about the... [full article »]
5 Components of Pipelining
by Ryan Phillips Sep 7, 2011, 5:04 am ET
If you are consistently recruiting from the same competitors or for similar positions, pipelining provides you the opportunity to have a candidate list ready to discuss with a hiring manager after your first intake call. Building a pipeline of candidates by recruiting for openings you are likely to have in the future allows you to... [full article »]
