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Look, your recruiting strategy is effectively 98 percent the same as every other company. You start with an ATS, you write and publish job openings on job boards and tell… Read more

The ideal candidate — sorry, let me rephrase that, the perfect candidate —  is like a unicorn. They are extremely elusive, if not completely imaginary. You have heard about them… Read more

It’s the Holy Grail of hiring: Finding the magic formula that will help you land the very best talent. Everybody has a different take on how to do it, of course,… Read more

Want to know what went down this year at SourceCon? It was 10 years ago that there was finally a conference focused on the art of sourcing. Some things have… Read more

I think we all know the recruitment process — i.e. the hiring process, the process of recruitment, whatever you want to call it — is a mess. It tends to… Read more

Before we get to the science part, here’s a  joke I heard the other day that made me cringe: Question: What’s the difference between a used car salesman and a… Read more

The 2017 hurricane season doesn’t end until November 30, and yet, without even accounting for Hurricane Maria, we are already facing an economic impact estimated at $290 billion dollars from… Read more

Successful employee recruitment is one of the driving factors behind any business, and while it’s gotten easier than ever thanks to sites like LinkedIn, there is still a place for… Read more

Parental Advisory Announcement: This article on how people approach quitting a job will offend you if you are a stuffed shirt or a moralistic ass that cannot take a joke… Read more

I’m one of the members — one out of 1,000,479, to be exact — of LinkedIn’s Premium Career Group. I recently saw a question/comment with the headline Thank you for… Read more

When you’re 18, it’s fair to assume that you know absolutely nothing about anything. What’s inconvenient is that most real knowledge really only comes in hindsight, which is about as useful as… Read more

A few months back, I wrote an article about how broken the hiring process is. This article will be a bit similar, but it’s about the recruiting process. What I’m… Read more

Over the past 30 years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if)… Read more

You read the title correctly and yes, it says NASCAR. What the heck does NASCAR have to do with job previews and interview prep?  Well, this week on RecruitingLive we’re… Read more

It’s not a surprise that job candidates embellish, fib, or resort to outright lies on resumes. What IS a bit shocking is how frequently they do it. According to the… Read more