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LinkedIn, for its 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report, surveyed 8,815 talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers about their recruitment activities, their recommendations and the prominent, effective trends they were seeing…. Read more

Let’s start with a pull quote, from here: But a couple of things have happened. One, there has been a lot more turnover and fluidity in the workforce, so you… Read more

So, What is Lookism? Lookism – the practice of judging someone by their physical attractiveness – can and does result in discrimination against job candidates who are overweight, disabled, or… Read more

Culture fit is not about everyone thinking the same – it is about utilising the unique strengths of a group of a people, to achieve mutual goals in the most… Read more

I’m pretty interested in onboarding best practices. Might seem weird to you, because I’ve never worked in HR — and isn’t onboarding specifically the domain of HR? That’s how it’s… Read more

  Recruiting & Movers #TrueStory It is Moving day. There are so few phrases that can strike fear into the heart of a human as this phrase and eventual day,… Read more

OK, some personal factoids up front just for a little bit of context: I’m currently 37, best I can tell via doing the math. I was married/with someone for about… Read more

You think THAT’S How Harassment Works?  A few weeks ago my pal Derek Zeller wrote a post called “The Sexual Harassment That Never Happened.” I got just a bit worked… Read more

Human Resources has been chasing ‘the seat at the table’ for probably three generations now, but many organizations still treat it as a compliance function and many outright ignore it. From a… Read more

Here is the thing really; we do not have AI, IMO, not yet. We have ML (machine learning) which means code does things for us — code that we write…. Read more

According to the annual survey of the Forum for Inhouse Recruitment Professionals in the UK, creation of talent pipelines has been an important priority for inhouse recruitment leaders for the… Read more

  Tariffs and Talent Acquisition The year started off great for hiring. Between the administration’s deregulation binge and tax reform, profitability estimates climbed for companies in power and energy, manufacturing,… Read more

Quick hit here, but check out these stats from Bullhorn’s “The State of Recruitment Marketing in 2018:” Eighty-seven percent of global staffing and recruiting firms do not have a chief… Read more

Nearly every vendor in the HR Tech & Recruitment space claims to be using artificial intelligence. If you product doesn’t have AI, it is a clever idea to dilute the… Read more

I feel like we’ve been discussing HR “not getting a seat at the table” and/or flaws with recruiting for literal years. For example, consider this. It’s from an article that… Read more