I'm a recruiter.

ALWAYS make certain that you talk to a potential reference before using them as a reference. It's polite and it's common sense.

Was doing a reference check on a candidate. The reference's response when I first told him who I was calling about? "I would never hire this guy for any job including the…

Another food tip that might work for you. I'm the only one who really eats bacon in my house.

I have to go a little out of my way to get some REALLY GOOD bacon so I'll typically buy 2-3 pounds. Then when I get home I wrap the bacon in serving sizes. Want bacon, just pull out a serving, thaw it and cook it.

Where that happens for me. Again. I work for companies that sell ingredients to the likes of Kraft, Pepsi, etc.

I get a lot of people who sell finished products to grocery stores, or ex-pharmaceutical people The pharma people will sometimes work on the R&D side, if the requirement is for pure chemical research. Other…

Certified flavorist in the Chicago area. QA slot in Minneapolis. Purchasing slot in LA area. Director of R&D, prefer PhD. All require experience in the food industry.

Don't mean this in a derogatory way. If a recruiter is going through hundreds of resumes in a day, it seems to me that they aren't using their databases, or selection criteria on job boards, of LinkedIn properly. On both, you can get fairly specific on the criteria.

Okay. I'm a recruiter. Food ingredient industry.

Let's say that I'm looking for a certified flavorist. First of all since most of you wouldn't know, there's a huge difference between a flavorist and a certified flavorist. So when I do a LinkedIn search the first thing that I'm going to look for is certified. So that…

I'm a recruiter who had a career in sales, including being a hiring manager.

This is probably the #1 error that I see people make. You were responsible for chairing . . . Well so were 1,000s of other people. What made you BETTER than the 1,000s of other people who did the same job? Employers are looking for those…

Okay, a caveat. I've been a recruiter for 8 years. I also spent nearly 30 years selling products in my industry of expertise. I only work on jobs in that industry.

Glassdoor - For me, I will refer candidates to Glassdoor, but I've found that it has become like YELP, when it comes to bogus reviews. You'll especially…

http://www.sldirectory.com/mystery.html - Looking for a Mystery
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So guess what type of books I read the most?

Didn't know him before your question. The bio that I found on him says that his background (degree) is in electrical engineering and computer science. In 2012 he founded a communications company. In 2013 he started Soylent.

From what I can see, he's no more qualified to be talking about foods that contain 100% of need…

"Natural" and "Organic" are two odd balls. Part of it is because they're still evolving. In some cases, it's also because science is always ahead of the laws.

I was Dir. of Sales & Marketing for the first fish oil to get FDA approval for use in food.

We had Kosher approval and obviously natural. We then tried to get…

Since my other post was rather long, I didn't want to have two different points in the same post.

DSHEA - This is the law that covers supplements, etc.

There is a HUGE difference that most people don't know when it comes to labeling.

If the item is a food, the regulations are pretty strict when it comes to labeling.…

Okay, I'm going to take your sister site to task for doing the exact same thing that you say is wrong.

Melissa wrote an article, 5/1/14, on non-dairy creamers.

Since I work in the food ingredient industry, I was interested in the article. First thing I did was to investigate Melissa's credentials. What I found out was…

So nearly all of these offers have prepaid envelopes enclosed. I've found the easiest way is to write on their offer, "Remove me from your list!" and send it back to them via the prepaid envelope. Since they have to pay extra, and more, to get the prepaid envelope back it usually only takes twice before you get…

My favorite of all times.

The company I worked for was going through a huge change and one that wasn't for the better. I was well aware of the fact that all of the sales people who worked for me were looking for jobs.

One morning I opened by emails and found the one salesperson's resume. Her company laptop had gotten a…

Google americas test kitchen how to cut noodles. They have instructions on how to cut pasta (noodles) by hand.

I've only been a recruiter for about 8 years. Prior to that, I was in sales for 25+. I used to get lots of calls from recruiters. My suggestion. Recruiters are like employers. There are good ones and bad ones. The best you can do is to talk around and check on their reputations. Some are simply paper pushers only…

Buy, but don't keep going back and taking equity out of your house. That's what caused a LOT of people to go belly up during the economic downturn.

We own our house free and clear. Sure we've got maintenance, taxes, etc., but if you were renting, those costs would be built into the cost of your rent or your landlord…

I'm a recruiter.

A couple of remarks.

If you are working through a recruiter (you don't have to), the recruiter should KNOW what the salary range they are working with from the employer. If they don't, they're not doing their job. There are some exceptions, such as when the employer doesn't know what the market is for…

Not trying to give you a hard time.

If you look at the pictures, the "planks" have edges on all four sides. She had to have put the paper on something to get those four edges. Even if she had cut the paper into "planks", if she put them on a concrete floor, there's no reason that she'd get that edge.

Look at the…