Welcome to Sung's RecruiterEarth Page

This past week has been a spectacle watching my wife do most of the planning for our daughter's birthday party. She's turning four and where else would a four year old want to go but that mecca of arcade games, skee ball, and pizza. Yes, you've guess it: Chuck E. Cheese'. As any dutiful husband would, I helped drive her all over town to get the necessary cooking utensils, ingredients an… Continue

It's not really a secret that I believe that "corporate HR" and "Recruiting" should be two separate departments, neither one reporting into one another but rather facilitating each others' needs as distinctively individual units. It's not been the first time I've said it or blogged about it since it's always been my professional stance. Simply put, the "traditional HR" person just doesn't get it. Are there exceptions to this postulate of mine? Sure there are. But as a genera

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Keeping Your Perspective: What's Really Important in This Recession

Hi everyone!

It's Sung here and I just wanted a chance to wax philosophical for a moment. You see, today my wife JiWon (aka: Kitty) and I are celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary together. Many of you don't know our "story" so I'll share the main parts of it (and spare you all the details). We met in 2004 in New York City while she was visiting her brother and his wife on a trip to the U.S. from her native South Korea. I wa… Continue

What You Can Do to Prepare for the Recovery

We have been hearing about signs of possible recovery from this overbearing recession lately. I want to bring to your attention that most economists and financial analysts still do not believe we have hit bottom yet although most would agree that we are near it at this point. As Healthcare Recruiters, we have had the luxury of it being a seller's market with an abundance of qualified candidates and few open jobs out there to compete for.

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I don't know when all of these so-called "expert recruiters" started coming out of the woodwork but it really amuses me that they spend so much of their precious time promoting themselves and strutting their stuff. If you're reading this and taking offense, it's probably you I'm talking about. If not, then don't worry about it.

If you come up to me and tell this New York recruiter that you've got X-number of years experience and that you've hired and/or placed a 1000 people in a year or that yo… Continue