I just want to expose this guy Nick Corcodilos for what he really is – as someone who derives great pleasure in caressing, flattering, stroking, even cajoling, unsuspecting jobseekers into going along with his ideas. All in the name of love. That’s correct: Nick Corcodilos is a love-shower. Not a fighter, but a lover of people. A major league hitter, pitcher, and runner, in the game of love. A FOOL (Facilitator Only Of Love) who helps others learn to find a job, by discovering things for themselves. You see, Nick is not really a head-hunter. He has no interest in any personal glory when it comes to finding a candidate a job. On the contrary, Nick must impart the truth; for truly, all answers are within (the love). And what does Nick get for all this “no-fee-for-service” love training? Is it simply to derive some temporary fame from the passing of knowledge? Obviously not. This Nick Corcodilos is no mere man. Nick knows “what goes around, comes around”, and that the doctrine of fate called Karma, as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence, or reward in the next life, binds us all to each other. Nick knows it’s what keeps employee and employer apart. Ghandi said, “an eye for an eye, just makes the whole world blind”. Well then, if love is blind, then Nick Corcodilos is the eye-opener. Bravo Nick. Because of your excellent and selfless work in the area of human capital, many will work again. Thanks for the inspiration.

R Carr
Toronto

“If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?” – Robert Townsend

You raise a subtle issue and you put a good name on it: hiring paralysis. That’s the cost incurred from buying into a hiring process that’s ineffective AND unnecessary. I always go back to a George Carlin line: “Suppose you could have EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD!… Where would you PUT it?” I use this to illustrate the fallacy that there is value in having EVERY RESUME ON THE PLANET… because they’re all available online now.

Your point is sharper, “I don’t NEED every qualified applicant because it COSTS TOO MUCH to consider them all when I need only ONE.”

The few times I have been involved in hiring, I would hire the first applicant that was the right fit for the position.

Why waste time and energy (and risk paralysis) trying to decide on multiple, equally qualified applicants?