News & Events

News & Events

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 30^th 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 Siker presented at 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 Good Deals." This program conveys an array of methods that all recruiters can implement to tighten up key components of the candidate process to mitigate counter-offers, offer turn-downs, and other nasty surprises that can (and do) accelerate the rate at which recruiters age. For additional details about the GAPS Annual Conference, 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 in San 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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