Candidate Experience

There are already thousands of talent acquisition technology startups focusing on reinventing, revolutionizing or reimagining recruiting, with hundreds of new platforms and providers appearing every year. Getting a full view of the market landscape… Read more

Here’s the thing; as sexy as we make social out to be, and as much emphasis as we put on concepts like talent communities and targeted content, the fact of… Read more

We always hear candidates talk about the recruiting “black hole.” In fact, it’s such a cliche that, frankly, those of us on the other side of the desk can’t help… Read more

It’s inevitable, when you’re a recruiter in general, but one who happens to write about recruiting in particular, that you’re going to get hammered with a ton of asks for advice… Read more

It’s no secret that applying for jobs sucks. The fact is, most candidates have pretty much consigned themselves to these processes that too often entail more work than the actual… Read more

“In ’99, the homeys goin’ drop to the number 1, wid ya gun, so run, run, run run.” – Bone Thugs & Harmony, East 1999 It’s hard to believe, but… Read more

I write a lot about candidate experience, because employers can’t get enough of this stuff. On the other hand, I really wish we could stop just saying shit that’s common… Read more

We’ve fundamentally changed the way we do pretty much everything in recruiting, but somehow, interviews are just as shitty and ineffective as ever.

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: oh, good. Another post bashing recruiters. Because you just can’t get enough of people who don’t do your job talking about how damn bad… Read more

If you think that Klout, Kred or any of the other measurements of “influence” are going to be the determining factor in your 2015 recruiting success, you’re full of crap. Or… Read more

When I stand back and take a look at job interviews, the whole concept seems, I don’t know, a little weird to me. Sure, they’re as much a standard part of… Read more

Have you ever actually applied for a job that’s posted on your careers site? Yeah, I’m guessing from that blank look that the answer is probably never – or at… Read more

If you clicked through to read this post, you must have had a little niggling doubt in your mind that the answer to the title of this blog, in the… 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

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