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This past spring in Philadelphia, I had the honor to serve as the emcee for the 2014 iTalent HR Technology Competition, thrown in conjunction with the Human Resources Outsourcing Association’s… Read more

According to a survey done by Software Advice to understand Glassdoor’s impact, almost half of 4,633 respondents use Glassdoor at some point in their job search; so you’ll want to… Read more

Talent acquisition professionals regularly say, “I don’t want more applications, I want better applications.” When they look for marketing solutions, they don’t want yet another solution that simply generates more… Read more

Corporate recruiters get solicitations all the time from external recruiters/agencies to help them with their open positions, with some building on existing business, and some trying to drum up new… Read more

When you’re a King, you don’t need long introductions or lengthy leads, because, well, people already know you rule. So straight to the good stuff – 23 tips guaranteed to… Read more

Recruiting and HR pundits sure seem to like writing obituaries.  Hell, there’s an entire cannon of posts, white papers and corporate copy on the death of any number of human… Read more

Companies aren’t allowed to discriminate in recruitment services based on religious beliefs, and this is why recruiters and hiring managers typically refrain from asking or telling about religion throughout the process. But… Read more

I do a few things, when editing, that I find can turn pretty much any piece of generic copywriting – which is what corporate blogs essentially are – into halfway decent… Read more

Last week, I attended my very first SHRM Annual Conference in Orlando – along with fellow Brandon Hall Group analysts Trish McFarlane and Ben Eubanks. For those of you who have yet to attend, suffice… Read more

Zappos recent news that they would eliminate job postings entirely signals the final nail has been driven into the coffin of job boards for recruitment.

Conference agendas often skew tidily to the side of the conference organizer’s own agenda, and their speaker selection tends to reflect either the necessary evil that is pay-for-play (like the… Read more

Launched in 2013, SHRM Foundation’s strategic-thought-leadership initiative with The Economist Intelligence Unit endeavors to identify and analyze trends that may affect the workplace over the next 5-10 years.

While employee appraisal methods (also known as performance reviews) have had their fair share of critics, a lot of companies praise them as an efficient way to identify employee strengths… Read more

It’s no secret that most recruiters have a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn. But whether they’re frustrated with price point, data privacy or overall efficacy, they now can add another reason to… Read more

As contract staffing continues to break records every month, most recently hitting a high of 2,859,2000 jobs in May, it’s clear that its growth is not a knee-jerk reaction to… Read more