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As the dust settles from Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn, the rumors have just begun to swirl. The first wave of reactions were all about the product and people were posting almost daily. Questions… Read more

The story you tell is more important than ever. It’s the voice of your company and in a world where almost every candidate is doing their research before even considering… Read more

LinkedIn quietly acquired PointDrive this week. On the surface, the move looks like a grenade launch at Salesforce. This is not a shock, of course, when we all learned that a big… Read more

For all the talk of “reinvention” in recruiting, for all the products promising to “disrupt” hiring, and for all the banal banter about fixing what’s “broken” in talent acquisition today, the… Read more

I went to college with marketing in mind. I applied to go to college as a business major. I would become a marketer and write jingles about chips and childhood…. Read more

When are you bringing Cheezhead back? I get this question regularly. For industry vets who are old enough to remember Cheezhead, you probably get it. For those who aren’t, Cheezhead was a… Read more

Have you ever tried to fix a car yourself? It seems pretty easy when you’re watching the YouTube video or reading the tutorial. It’s a step-by-step list – anyone can… Read more

Algorithms make a lot of decisions for us, whether we know it or not. They decide what ads we see, what Youtube video plays next and a lot of the… Read more

Voice search has become a nearly ubiquitous part of our existence, moving from the margins to the mainstream so quickly it’s hard to believe that just two years ago, only 41%… Read more

  They call it “social media” but I’m unclear when it transitioned from social to just that annoying thing we call media. Social implies that we talk, we converse and… Read more

I’ll admit that I joined Twitter somewhat reluctantly; unlike, say, Facebook, which is instantly intuitive and almost universally acceptable, Twitter seemed, in the halcyon days of social media, something akin… Read more

When I say car salesmen, what do you think of? I imagine some of the first words would be slimy or sneaky. Needless to say, it’s not usually the best… Read more

What happens in your ATS to candidates that you don’t hire? If you have been recruiting as long as I have they could fall into the infamous Recruiting black hole… Read more

The whole concept behind the show “The Voice” is pretty simple. Take a bunch of artists and have them sign for four judges with their backs are turned. The tension builds… Read more

Look, sometimes we recruiters need to make a little money on the side. Just like social media marketers do consulting for Facebook, we hire on the side. We make extra… Read more