"The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature" opens in theaters today, featuring a purple squirrel named Surly and a band of park-dwelling animals in a battle against a mayor bent on ripping up the park to make ...

The hard reality of a slow-growing national economy and persistently high unemployment rates has helped spawn a mythical creature, the purple squirrel. Even though no one has ever seen a purple ...

A purple squirrel is rarely found in nature – that’s why recruiters use the term for candidates that have combinations of skill sets that are also rarely found. A purple squirrel is a C#, SQL, and ASP ...

Originally, the “purple squirrel” was used in human resource recruitment to describe “the one” true person for the job. Now, there’s a general understanding that double-edged sword because the purple ...

Thus, even one recruiter’s Purple Squirrel can be “just another disqualified candidate” to the client company.’ The rest of the write-up nicely fills in the picture of the job market these days, and ...

Have you ever seen a purple squirrel? Probably not. But rest assured it’s better to be than see one. “Purple squirrel” is a term headhunters use to describe that perfectly qualified, slam-dunk job ...

Even employers who constantly peruse available talent sometimes have trouble finding the perfect candidate when a job becomes available. Here’s the good news: your ideal match is out there. You may ...

Recruiters are often asked by clients to find them a "purple squirrel," slang for a perfect candidate with several qualifications not often found together in one person. Once a client asked me to ...