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Successful employee recruitment is one of the driving factors behind any business, and while it’s gotten easier than ever thanks to sites like LinkedIn, there is still a place for… Read more

Parental Advisory Announcement: This article on how people approach quitting a job will offend you if you are a stuffed shirt or a moralistic ass that cannot take a joke… Read more

I’m one of the members — one out of 1,000,479, to be exact — of LinkedIn’s Premium Career Group. I recently saw a question/comment with the headline Thank you for… Read more

When you’re 18, it’s fair to assume that you know absolutely nothing about anything. What’s inconvenient is that most real knowledge really only comes in hindsight, which is about as useful as… Read more

A few months back, I wrote an article about how broken the hiring process is. This article will be a bit similar, but it’s about the recruiting process. What I’m… Read more

Over the past 30 years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if)… Read more

It’s not a surprise that job candidates embellish, fib, or resort to outright lies on resumes. What IS a bit shocking is how frequently they do it. According to the… Read more

According to a LinkedIn survey, only 15 percent of candidates are not even open to considering a new job. That means an overwhelming 85 percent ARE open to a new… Read more

Recent turmoil around immigration policy has created added pressure for talent acquisition professionals to understand the myriad requirements that affect whether job candidates can live and work in the United… Read more

Job ads can sometimes be a little confusing or oddly-worded. To test out this theory, we removed geographic filters and did a search for sales jobs on various sites. The… Read more

When a reporter from a national publication recently cited Glassdoor as a source for his story, it reminded me that the now more than 45 million visitors who flock to… Read more

The “recruiting is marketing and candidates are customers” mindset is driving interest in a traditionally overlooked aspect of the job search: candidate engagement. There isn’t really an official definition for… Read more

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them – Bruce Lee Wow, it’s Colin Kaepernick at McDonald’s. This is CRAZY! I’m going to say it: I… Read more

I cringe at the notion that diversity is an economic driver, or that in order to grow a successful company you must hire diverse candidates. Hiring a diverse candidate is… Read more

I think there are a lot of things that are straight up broken with most companies. Probably No. 1 on any list should be the lip service/BS that we let… Read more