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Compliance in the Stoned Age Never expected to lead an article ostensibly about HR compliance by discussing marijuana, but 2017 was a weird year for many of us. There’s an… Read more

Twenty years ago, I worked in the staffing industry. Thirteen years ago, I worked in recruitment. Seven years ago, my career took a turn into Talent Acquisition, also known as… Read more

According to a recent SHRM/Mercer survey, only 20 percent of recruiters said they were confident in their employers’ ability to assess job applicants. This lack of confidence in traditional screening methods… Read more

It’s hard for hiring professionals to be frank and honest with candidates. I recently got a note from someone on LinkedIn about my RecruitingDaily post on companies that bring in… Read more

Sometimes, you come across a survey that gives some insight into human behavior that is surprising, confounding, or simply head-scratching. So it is with the latest CareerBuilder survey. It found,… Read more

Click. Delete. Click. Delete. If you have an email account, you know this routine all too well. Radicati Group did a study in February 2017 and found that by one… Read more

If you want to succeed at sourcing, you need one important tool — your brain. Luckily, your brain cannot be stopped by any LinkedIn Terms of Service. However, saving time in… Read more

The idea of social recruiting — the concept whereby hiring managers, HR types, and others look at your social media profiles as a way to (a) find you; or. (b)… Read more

Last summer, RecruitingDaily contributor Alan Henshaw asked a great question: Why don’t organizations develop more  creative ways for rewarding employees who make candidate referrals? It’s a great question, because in… Read more

We all know that diversity in the workplace is extremely important. People with different cultural backgrounds, age groups, gender, opinions, and experience make the team stronger and more efficient. We… Read more

Believe it or not, LinkedIn is still one of the best professional networking sites that you can find on the Internet. Yes it has some flaws, but it’s the place… Read more

Sometimes, I find some really interesting stuff on LinkedIn’s Premium Career Group, and sometimes, it may even be the punchline to a recruiting joke. Here’s a recent (and amusing) example… Read more

Once upon a time, there was a recruiter and a hiring manager. The recruiter and the hiring manager relationship was great. In fact, they were best friends. One day, the… Read more

Recently I’ve heard more and more of my fellow Talent Acquisition experts refer to something called “Talent on Demand.” At first, it sounded like another buzzword to me, or some… Read more

I’ve written before about HR metrics and People Analytics (that’s a form of HR analytics), but for now I want to spend one second — well, one paragraph — on… Read more