Recruiting

RecruitingDaily today has announced that Bill Boorman has joined the company as Managing Director, Technology and Innovation. In this newly created role, Boorman will focus on leading the global expansion… Read more

Much has changed since I was fresh out of college, looking for my first design job. Back then, getting a job was as easy as graduating from college, which wasn’t… Read more

Every year in the US alone employers spend $72 billion — that’s billion, with a B — on recruiting services, staff and technology. For some perspective: $70 billion will buy every franchise in the… Read more

From setting aside a day for talking like a pirate to celebrating the Golden Ratio every 3.14, it seems like pretty much the entire calendar has somehow been co-opted by… Read more

Oh, Ellen Pao. How badly I want to support you. You’ve probably heard about Ms. Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins. She’s now interim CEO for Reddit, and has ruled that… Read more

I know this comment is probably going to date me just a little bit, but hell, I’m not ashamed to admit it: Billy Joel is like, one of my absolutely… Read more

Recruiters always talk about finding “top talent,” but the truth is, most of the time, it’s damn near impossible just to find even minimally qualified ones, no matter how mediocre… Read more

Living in the age of the algorithm, we’ve come to expect that anything that can be quantified will be quantified. The seemingly amorphous things that can be converted into hard… Read more

If you’re like me, you’re probably sick of hearing so much lately about a supposed talent shortage. Much of that hype has focused on the fact that with unemployment down… Read more

When was the last time you used your phone to search the web? Do you perhaps have a few search windows open right now? With the omnipresence of mobile devices,… Read more

If there’s one thing recruiters and talent practitioners place a premium on, it’s the tools of the trade. And not a day goes by, it seems, without another “killer app” for… Read more

I’ve always been acutely aware of the central role alcohol seems to play whenever HR people congregate, and found it oddly paradoxical – and hypocritical – that the same group that… Read more

If there’s one characteristic, a single quality that distinguishes between a great recruiter and simply a good one, it’s attention to details. The best recruiters out there are complete control… Read more

Cats, as TS Eliot once pointed out, are solitary creatures. Much like Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, they can go their own way – and if the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical… Read more

I recently read Matt Charney’s blog post about how the corporate recruiting market is using big data for in-house talent acquisition (great read, and I swear he didn’t even pay me to… Read more