Field Trip to Denny's!

Their old pancakes were fine, but America deserved better. So, the Denny's team reworked their recipe. Added good stuff like fresh buttermilk, real eggs, flour and a hint of vanilla. The result? Their 50% fluffier pancakes just might be better than home.

So, the Perceptive Recruiting Team decided to take a field trip to see if they succeeded in reaching their goal.  It's all true.  In a word, they are delicious.  We enjoyed 3 styles, and all were polished off in minutes.

Well done Denny's!

UWIT hosts Women's Leadership Series, Part 2

Upstate Women in Technology (UWIT), led by president Jill Rose hosted Pamela Westbrooks at their monthly luncheon last week.  Pamela is Vice President of Administration at Upward Sports in Spartanburg.  She has 20 years experience in corporate leadership in not-for-profit and for profit organizations. She is responsible for strategic planning for Accounting/Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Corporate Project Management.

Pamela led an interactive presentation on how humility and boldness go hand-in-hand, AND how to win in your organization and how to respond when your organization isn’t winning. Big lessons learned!

Pamela B. Westbrooks has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and is also a Certified Public Accountant. She joined the Upward Sports team in 2002 after having a career in manufacturing. On a day-today basis, she collaborates with multiple divisions on strategy development and implementation. She's a problem solver, collaborator, supporter, and communicator. Pamela is married to John and has one son, Mason, who is almost 5!

Pamela Westbrooks with board members Laura Bell (left) and Jill Rose

UWIT meets the fourth Thursday each month at City Range.  Goto www.UWITSC.com for more information.

Are You Emotionally Intelligent?

Jill Rose's Upstate Women in Technology (UWIT) group met last week to discuss emotional IQ.  

Daniel Radovic, SHRM-SCP, CPC - Executive and Leadership Coach at Nexus Consulting Group, Inc.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) vs Emotional Quotient (EQ) - What is more important to your success? We all recognize the value of a high IQ; it is often what will get you hired. Yet IQ alone is not a good predictor of a person’s career success. EQ, on the other hand IS a powerful predictor of success, especially when coupled with identifiable technical ability.

What is EQ?  How is it measured?  What can one do if they have “Low EQ”?
If you are not familiar with EQ, you will take away some new insight how EQ can play an important role in your personal success.  If you are familiar with EQ, we hope you will find new ideas to implement into your own personal development plan.

More information about UWIT is available at www.UWITSC.com. 

Dan Radovic with UWIT President Jill Rose

Funny, but Effective!

I can't help but giggle at this.  However, it is effective emphasizing the importance of finding the right fit for candidate AND client!

How does a recruiting firm deliver value? (Part 4 of a series)

There are 3 principles the PR team adheres to in order to be an effective recruiting partner to our clients:

     1.  Sweat the small stuff​

     2.  Sweat the small stuff​

     3.  Sweat the small stuff​

One of the many ways we sweat the small stuff is by thoroughly vetting candidates against stated requirements before presenting them to our client hiring managers.  It probably goes without saying, but imagine how much time (=$$$) we save our clients by doing this!

I conducted an unscientific survey with several clients recently.  The survey compared the number of hires over a 6 month period to the number of candidates my team submitted for consideration over the same period for the same list of job openings.  Yep, you guessed it - PR had (by far!) the highest ratio of hires to submitted candidates.

We'll keep sweating the small stuff so you don't have to!

What's the Latest in Banking Technologies?

​​The Upstate Women in Technology​​ (UWIT) group is hosting ​Kara Bradley next week to hear about the latest innovations in banking technology.  Technological innovations in banking are fundamentally changing the way that clients can interact with financial institutions, merchants, and even other individuals, while also increasing data security to minimize risk of fraud.

Want to learn more about this event?  Goto www.UWITSC.com 

How does a recruiting firm deliver value? (Part 3 of a series)

​We are a small team of seasoned recruitment and technology professionals.  We joined hands to provide more value than we could as individuals. Today we provide Recruitment and Staffing services to a variety of small to mid-sized firms in industries ranging from specialty packaging to financial services to cloud services.

As I've said (ad nauseum!) in my previous posts, not all recruiting firms are cut from the same cloth!  Our team uses some very unconventional methods of recruiting (apart from the conventional ones) and this gives us access to a talent pool that other recruiters usually don't tap into.  Our success is validated by the fact that a majority of candidates we speak with have never been contacted by competing recruiting agencies working on the same job.

One of the things that makes us different is that we are a dedicated passive search team and this helps ensure that 35% of the candidates we submit are candidates without resumes on Job Boards.  In addition, our extremely successful advertising techniques increase our reach to passive/active candidates (who do not have resumes on job boards) by upwards of 30%.  It also helps that our recruiters work on fewer positions empowering them to go wide and deep for every search. 

In short, we strive for "Outrageous Success" every day!