The Recruiter's Review
This podcast contains valuable and strategic content for any professional who is entertaining a career move or has been forced to the job market, as well as the employers trying to hire them. If you seek the advice of an experienced headhunter, this podcast is for you. Pat Mingarelle began his recruiting career in 1989 and is now President of National Register USA, a North American Sales, Marketing, and Executive Search firm. Topic dedicated episodes designed for easy and fast listening, yet packed with valuable advice to include employer and candidate guests sharing their experiences and expertise. The Recruiter's Review is real advice, real talk. Everything you always wanted to ask a seasoned and experienced recruiter.
Episodes
21 episodes
The Final Interview, Your Final Performance
This is a special candidate side episode before I release The Recruiter’s Review: Employer’s Edition (coming this fall). As I move into the Employer’s Edition, I will still provide more of these strategic candidate topi...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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17:15
Special Live Interview: For Both Sides of the Desk!
In this final episode of Season Two, Emily Mulicka and Monia Smith of NCR VOYIX are my special guests. Special on two fronts! The first is that both are seasoned and top performing Talent Acquisition Professionals and have worked at all l...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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27:13
Counter Offers - Counter Productive, Counter Career?
Counter offers are often knee jerk reactions to an unexpected resignation. But whose best interests are really being served?I am in my 35th year of recruiting and have tracked many counter offer situations; recruits I fou...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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16:05
The Resignation!
A bonus episode on the candidate side of the desk!You have just cleared the hurdles and obstacles of the interview process, and havesecured the offer that you were hoping for. Just as you breathe a sigh of relief becausethe intervie...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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17:11
Apples to Oranges - Evaluating Money and Opportunities
Sometimes you find opportunity, sometimes opportunity finds you. This holds true when it comes to job opportunities, too. Sometimes you find the job you are looking for, other times it finds you by way of a headhunter or an industry conne...
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17:21
I Accept...The Ethics of Accepting A Job Offer
What does it mean to say, “I do”, or “I will”, or “I did?” It means just that. When you say, “yes”“ to what culminates a process and now begins the next phase of planning and execution, the other party takes that in good...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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16:11
Situational, Behavioral and Performance Based Interviews
Early in Season One, I had an episode titled “The Pendulum Swings” where I discussed the return of the pre COVID and pre hiring boom job market dynamics. Industry has re-embraced higher standards and practices when it comes to hirin...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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16:02
Why Are You Looking? Why Did You Leave?
Recently, I had three different individuals who were dropped in the first interview because they did not answer that question very well. All three were highly interested in the jobs they were interviewing for, but the inability to answer ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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20:22
Part Two of Job Loss - Be Prepared and What To Do If It Happens
A continuation of my last episode on job loss – how to be prepared for it and what to do when it happens. I promised guests on my show who would lend relevant experiences to all of you who are listening. My guest in this episode is not on...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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24:21
Job Loss - Be Prepared and What To Do If It Happens
In the good times and the “not so good” times of the economy, job loss happens. I have worked through several hiring booms and several hiring busts over my career. I was a hiring manager myself in the mid 80’s in Pittsburgh, PA while the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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21:51
Multiple Offers
As the employment market rebounds, I am seeing multiple job offers in the hands of most recruits my firm is working with. In this episode, I will discuss how to handle and keep multiple offers in play, how to evaluate them, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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20:32
Employers Speak - And Advise!
Episode Ten is the Season One finale. Joining me in this episode are three hiring executive guests. Todd Beemer sales leader in the banking/credit union technology field, Brook Mansfield, a global marketing leader in the financial data an...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:08
Assessments and Surveys
A dual trend I am seeing is a return and increase in the administering of assessments and surveys to interview processes, and resistance on the part of some candidates to complete them, for reasons ranging from test anxiety to feelings of them ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:09
Non-Compete, Non Solicitation and Nondisclosure Agreements
Chances are, you have already signed one and chances are even better that you will be asked to sign one, or all three. And that is whether you change jobs or remain with the job you have now.These agreements have become more common place...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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24:42
Special Episode - Posted Reviews on the Company
This episode is to stop you from making any rash decisions to cancel an interview or not attend a next interview because you read or heard bad things on a Glassdoor review, or heard some negative information about the company.Don’t canc...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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14:09
First Interview Strategies and Strategic Follow Up
The first interview and what you do – or don’t do – before, during and after, plays a big role in the employer’s decision to advance you, or not. Building upon my last episode, I will be discussing the first interview strategies, co...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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24:07
Resumes and Correspondence, What You REALLY Need to Know (and hear)!
In this episode, I discuss the true importance of your resume and why it will be the strong kick off to your interview process, or the end of it - EVEN IF YOU GET AN OFFER! Also discussed are the key correspondences to be sen...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:30
Job Offers - Expectations, Negotiations, Acceptance and Resigning
In Episode Four, I will discuss winning the job offer, how to set salary increase expectations, how to negotiate your offer, when to accept it and how to keep several job offers alive before rendering your decision. Included i...
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30:23
Special Edition: The Pendulum Swings
In this special edition, I am side stepping from my schedule to get some very important information about a rapid shift in the job market dynamics. While I have seen this before, it has a different feel to me this time. I am talkin...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:37
To Stay or To Go - The Big Decision and Pre Move Exercise
The next phase of your career journey begins with your decision to stay or to go. And it is a huge decision! If you are now entering or into the job market, stop where you are and please take heed of this episode. ESECIALLY IF YOU ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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21:10