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I recently had the chance to sit down with the head of talent acquisition, tasked with overseeing hiring at a hot 200 person (and growing) startup and filling around 40… Read more

I’ve spent quite a bit of time on planes lately, jetting between Denver, San Francisco, Boston and Orlando in the past few weeks alone. For whatever reason – maybe it’s because… Read more

“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate; the final words of the inscription on the Gate of Hell.” Abandon every hope, you who enter.” – Dante Alighieri I know it probably sounds… Read more

I’m just going to jump right into this one; no one wants content or complexity in their content, therefore, leads are just kind of a waste of space. Everyone wants… Read more

In the increasingly interconnected world of work, teams, employers and candidates continue to adopt the technologies, processes and procedures designed to transcend geographic borders or national boundaries, allowing organizations to overcome the… Read more

“Welcome to my battle/For business recreation/I sweat and laugh and scream here For the working population.”  A Really Long Editor’s Note: When we were all discovering social media a lifetime (but… Read more

I’m not sure why I’m still writing about the importance of hiring veterans. It’s one of those topics that’s more conventional common sense than cutting best practice, but even after… Read more

I’ve spent the equivalent of the last four full presidential terms stuck in the tech recruiting trenches. For the manifold changes manifesting themselves in the talent acquisition and technology sectors… Read more

You don’t have to have read one article or post – and there are too many to read, anyway – about the disconnect between recruiting and HR to notice that, yeah,… Read more

I’m lucky (or unlucky) enough to have gone to enough recruiting related events and conferences over the past few years to realize that while mobile has progressed to the point… Read more

Here’s the thing about being a recruiter. If you want to sell a job, you’ve got to sell a story. Hell, it’s a working life that often feels like something… Read more

Looking back at it now, when I was 23 years old I was what my friends affectionately referred to as a “late bloomer.” Which is to say, I had already fallen… Read more

I still vividly remember the day when the New York State Legislature finally passed the Marriage Equality Act, which effectively overturned the draconian Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); it was… Read more

When we played Star Wars back when I was a kid, I always pretended to be Han Solo. I mean, Han was the ultimate badass, after all – a hero,… Read more

We all have pet peeves. You know, those little things that people do that piss you off big time. Like that annoying loud talker in the next cube over, motivational… Read more