I have an idea for a seminar to benefit your company, your clients or portfolio companies. It would be based upon my 12 Commandments Of Recruiting. Please go to http://www.strategicsearch.com/technical-recruiting-tips/ to view.

My more than 20 years experience and extensive research shows that most entrepreneurs lack adequate staffing acumen. As a result, they often make costly hiring blunders which can often jeopardize the health of their companies. My twelve tips can be very helpful. Furthermore, I have successfully taught them in similar seminars to my high-tech clients. If this sounds interesting, let’s meet and talk further about designing a custom seminar to benefit your company, clients or portfolio clients.

My SEO (Search Engine Optimization) event last Saturday was a great success! You may recall that I am an executive recruiter and jobs expert who is on the cutting edge of applying SEO to job-hunting.

Please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/62192465@N08/sets/72157626449504491/show/to view the photos from the event sponsored by Borders.

Though SEO has mainly been applied  for helping companies with their online rankings, it has the dual benefit of assisting job seekers during their job search!

My SEO (Search Engine Optimization) event went well last Saturday. You may recall that I am an executive recruiter and staffing consultant who is on the cutting edge of applying SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to uncover difficult-to-find candidates including forming the largest group of SEO experts in the Chicago area with 526 members (and growing)!

Please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/62192465@N08/sets/72157626449504491/ to view the photos from the event sponsored by Borders.

Many of the SEO tools we discussed can be applied to both: a) increasing your sales and b) recruiting hard-to-find talent.

Please let me know when I can be of help with any of your staffing or SEO projects.

Even though the Chicago Bulls are still leading 3-1 in their series with the Indiana Pacers, I am still very worried. I had hoped they would “go all the way” and win the title. However reality is now sinking in. The playoffs are like a war, which is very messy, things often “get bogged down in the mud” and are not pretty. Schemes that often work during the regular season are often overcome by rough and intense play. That’s why all-stars are needed who can get their own shot! Unfortunately, the Bulls only have one such player in Rose.

Boozer and Deng are nice players, but are inconsistent scorers. Historically, teams need at least two consistent scorers to win the title. Here’s my analysis of the playoff teams and how many consistent scorers each has. In the East:

1. Bulls= 1= Rose.
2. Miami= 3= James, Wade and Bosh.
3. Boston= 4= Garnett, Pierce, Allen and Rondo.
4. Orlando= 1= Howard.
5. Atlanta= 3= Joe Johnson, Smith and Crawford.
6. New York= 2= Stoudemire and Anthony.
7. Philadelphia= 0 (Caveat: a lot of nice players, but no one they can count on for consistent scoring).
8. Indiana= 1= Granger.

In the West:

1. San Antonio= 2= Duncan and Ginobili
2. LA= 2= Bryant and Gasol.
3. Dallas= 3= Nowitzki, Kidd and Terry.
4. OKC= 2= Durrant and Westbrook.
5. Denver= 0 (Caveat: a lot of nice players, but no one they can count on consistently to score).
6. Portland= 1= Wallace (Caveat: Roy used to be, but he’s still not 100% and cannot be counted upon all the time).
7. New Orleans= 1= Paul (Would have been 2 if West was healthy).
8. Memphis= 1= Randolph (Would have been 2 if Gay was healthy).

As a result, what the Chicago Bulls need in the off season is to recruit a top-notch “2″ (i.e. scoring guard) who is at least 6’6″ or taller who can both play tough defense and score consistently. There is hope because they hold two first round draft picks and there are many college forwards available in this draft (if there is not a lock out) who can be groomed into a scoring guard. Case in point Danny Granger was a forward at New Mexico who the Indiana Pacers took with the 17th pick in the 2005 NBA draft.

Today’s unemployment rate of 8.8% and gains of 216,000 non-farm jobs in March, which covered many sectors including manufacturing (+17,000 jobs), health care (+37,000 jobs), the service sector (+78,000 jobs), leisure and hospitality (+37,000) and mining (+14,000), were welcomed news!  Unfortunately, it will still take over 5 years or until later this decade to make up for the 7.9 million jobs killed off by the recession! Fortunately, hope resides in the form of both jobs and strategies to land jobs from SEO (Search Engine Optimization)!

I so strongly believe in SEO as a vehicle to provide job seekers a differential advantage in job-hunting that, over the last six months, I have built up one of the largest SEO groups in the Chicago area with over 500 members. This is because search engines are the new Yellow Pages and SEO techniques can be selectively adopted by job seekers to: a) rank higher with search engines and b) stand out among employers. For example, developing a blog or contributing to social media sites on specific expertise will be noticed by Google, Yahoo and Bing and in turn discovered by employers searching for your type of talent. I invite you all as my special guests to our next meeting on Saturday, April 23rd where we will be discussing six free new SEO tools that job seekers can easily adapt to job-hunting. Please go to http://www.meetup.com/chicago-seo/ for more details.