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Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, and I’m right there with you – I normally skip right past those “lessons we can learn” kind of posts that seem like thinly… Read more

While it might not be the sexiest of sectors, the market for recruiting and HR technology remains red hot, with well funded and pedigreed startups proliferating in an increasingly competitive… Read more

If you’ve seen one of those ridiculous LifeLock commercials on TV, read the advice columns in Parade Magazine or are an aficionado of crappy Melissa McCarthy comedies, you’re already familiar… Read more

Somewhere between Labor Day and Halloween, the official “holiday” season kicks off, an annual annoyance that essentially means that we dedicate approximately a full quarter of each year to those “magical… Read more

I’m lucky enough to get to work with some of the most brilliant people in our little weird incestuous industry that is HR and recruiting, one of whom would argue… Read more

Recruiting and HR is basically a perpetual balancing act. We’re asked to juggle being equal parts psychologist, peacekeeper, business partner, and now, we’re supposed to be marketers, too. Crazy, I know. That’s… Read more

No matter how awesome my day happens to be, as soon as I open my personal e-mail, it’s pretty much guaranteed that it’s all downhill from there. Seriously, nothing pisses… Read more

Recruiting is evolving. Fast. Faster than any time in my 15+ years in corporate recruiting. There are many contributing factors: social media, the maturation of employer branding, the prevalence of… Read more

I can’t remember the last time I used Tumblr – besides maybe a one off campaign where some CEO insisted that we use the platform (which hasn’t happened very often). Just… Read more

Hootsuite, a high growth, high tech employer based in Vancouver has emerged as one of the most widely used social business platforms on the market. Its enterprise social monitoring and… Read more

We were asked to predict the future of recruiting. We declined. It is too easy. Everything is possible when you are never held accountable. Instead, we took a brief step… Read more

The concept of candidate experience has become so ubiquitous to the recruiting conversation it’s become something of a cliché, a commoditized, catch all catch-phrase that’s grist for the content marketing… Read more

Let me be really clear here to start this post off: I’m not hating on staffing agencies. In fact, far from it. I actually grew up on the agency side;… Read more

If business is booming, or even if things are just going good, than you should be recruiting. It’s not just something we should be doing for open positions; there should always… Read more

One of the hottest of hot button issues in human capital these days seems to be the categorization of the recruiting function and whether or not it belongs in HR… Read more