Ted Bauer
Originally from New York City, Ted Bauer currently lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He's a writer and editor for RecruitingDaily who focuses on leadership, management, HR, recruiting, marketing, and the future of work. His popular blog, The Context of Things, has a simple premise -- how to improve work. Ted has a Bachelors in Psychology from Georgetown and a Masters in Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. In addition to various blogging and ghost-writing gigs, he's also worked for brands such as McKesson, PBS, ESPN, and more. You can follow Ted on Twitter @tedbauer2003, connect with him on LinkedIn, or reach him on email at [email protected]
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Content authored by Ted Bauer
How your management core is hurting your hiring process
If you read this headline and work as a recruiter/sourcer, probably the first thing you’re going to think is “They give unclear job descriptions and expect us to work magic!”… Read more
We live in a platform economy now, and that changes everything
When you think about “old-school elements of business that went away, subsequently scaring executives,” you’re really talking about platform thinking. Business used to be about resources you controlled and market power/position. That’s… Read more
Could “eBay meets recruiting” fix healthcare recruiting?
Meet Relode. One of our bosses over at RD, Noel, was a long-time healthcare recruiter — and he can speak to you for days about the issues within that sector… Read more
How do you actually build a leadership pipeline?
A leadership pipeline is pretty important for any organization for a number of different reasons. Probably foremost among them? Even though it’s quite likely your senior leaders are terrified of… Read more
Second verse, same as the first… where do millennials want to work?
Can definitely argue that we probably discuss the differences between generations too much, and it’s also not exactly rocket science that Boomers and millennials would want different things out of… Read more
Sales managers have family-friendly jobs? Apparently.
Just after Father’s Day, we found this data set interesting from Indeed. They mined hundreds of millions of job postings to pinpoint those that have keywords signifying family-friendly or flexible work… Read more
The current state of the summer job
Remember the good ol’ summer gig? How does that ecosystem work these days? Thankfully, we’ve got some data. Research conducted in May 2018 by job search engine, Adzuna analyzed almost… Read more
Are recruiters too obsessed with finding flaws in candidates?
JobVite just released some kind of “social recruiting survey” deal, which is in turn summarized over here on TalentCulture. I kinda get nervous whenever some “This is the current state of… Read more
How much is “social recruiting” really happening?
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
Hiring manager/recruiter relationship: Save it with one small email adjustment?
Email is a complete cluster-fuck to almost everyone. We all complain about it, but secretly love how much we get, because it makes us feel (a) busy/high and (b) relevant. Both matter… Read more
How long until AI can process candidate emotion?
There’s been a literal ton of discussion in recruiting and talent acquisition circles in the past 18 months about AI. Most of these discussions take one of several forms: How… Read more
The white network problem of tech hiring
This issue we’re about to discuss came up at a few HRTX events this winter and spring, always on the diversity and inclusion education track that we offer. Here’s the… Read more
Succession planning can’t be about process, because it’s about psychology
I’ve never written about succession planning before, so today seemed to be as good a time as any to get that going. If you’ve never heard the term before, “succession… Read more
Unleash 2018: Understand the massive disconnect of the hiring process
Start with this tweet from Unleash 2018: https://twitter.com/david_green_uk/status/996876282234204160 I had a bunch of experience with the hiring process of all-sized companies between about October 2013 and July 2014. I blogged… Read more
Unleash 2018: Innovation comes from the bottom, guys (or should)
The above quote is from Greg Linden of Amazon — if you don’t know him, he’s one of the early Amazon engineers responsible for the recommendation engine — and was… Read more
