Candidate Screening

In a landmark decision on Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that an employer is justified in firing an employee for prescribed, medical marijuana use. The employee, Brandon Coats is… Read more

As the ousted former CEO of Yahoo!, the disgraced Dean at MIT , the publically shamed past President of IBM or the would-be head football coach at Notre Dame can tell you, lying on your resume never really pays… Read more

Once upon a time (1991, to be exact, the same year Bryan Adams assured us Everything I Do, I Do It For You, Anthony Hopkins ordered up some fava beans… 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

Nothing sucks worse than making a bad hire. When that happens, recruiters have no one to blame but themselves for failing to meet the one objective that’s the most critical… 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.

Recruiters might run point on sourcing, screening and slating candidates, but it’s no secret who really wears the proverbial pants in the process. Hiring managers have almost always had the final say in… Read more

If you happened to tune into the State of the Union this week (or caught up with any of the recaps), it’s pretty easy to see that there’s a ton… Read more

In my last Recruiting Daily article, Unscientific Assessment: Phrenology for Recruiters, I explored some of the stupid, silly and specious culture of talent acquisition in which scientifically validated, insightful assessment tools… Read more

Coming out at work has always been something of a sensitive subject. But as you probably know, last week this often overlooked issue moved into the headlines and, at last, into… Read more

No matter where in the world of work you work, structuring a global recruiting and selection process is anything but easy. In fact, putting the required policies and processes in… Read more

Unless you live under a rock (or at least somewhere far from Silicon Valley or social media), you’ve probably been unlikely to escape all the coverage recently devoted to the… Read more

It seems that, if the chatter from the HR Technology Conference and LinkedIn Talent Connect are any indication, that everyone in talent today is talking about Candidate Experience – and seemingly… Read more

When you’re a company with the size and scale of LinkedIn, you’ve basically got a big target on your back – and a long list of people out to get… Read more

I’ve been working on some posts recently about recruiters and superstitions, since there seems to be a recurring supernatural theme oddly prevalent in most recruiters’ mostly mundane routines – for… Read more