Economy

Pandemics, Recruiting and Rise of the Machines As the jobless numbers swell, COVID-19 has certainly made life more daunting for recruiters. Especially those who operate by building relationships the old-fashioned… Read more

  Talk The Talk, Walk The Walk   If you’ve won “Employer of Choice” award(s) and used said award(s) in your PR, marketing, recruiting, sales, and/or employer branding efforts, NOW is… Read more

  Sourcing in a Fearful Market   I want to share with you what it was like as a talent acquisition professional in 2008, during the last recessionary period. I… Read more

TA Professionals: If you’ve lost your job, use SocialTalent’s platform free for 90 days Originally posted on LinkedIn: To all talent acquisition professionals who may have lost their job due… Read more

  How COVID-19 is Changing the Work and Hiring Landscape   Let’s level-set to begin Whenever there is a major, major news story, a lot — and we mean a… Read more

  Yes, you read that right. It’s been over 10 years since the Great Recession of 2008 and most U.S. economists are now predicting a recession by the end of… Read more

Did you miss me? Well I missed you, but even if you didn’t miss me, there may have been a few other major developments that you may have missed, better… Read more

The good news is that you probably won’t have to hear the phrase, “the Uber for recruiting” anytime in the foreseeable future. The truth, however, is that the phenomenon of… Read more

With a new presidential administration poised to take office, the outlook for many areas of public policy remains unusually uncertain. Not least of these, of course, is the federal rule… Read more

The headlines and soundbites about corporate relocation have become something of a leitmotif of our new post-truth world, particularly when it comes to moving jobs overseas – a hot button issue, to be… Read more

Millennial themed content is kind of like the minstrel show of the new Millennium. It’s blatantly offensive to a protected class through sweeping stereotypes for the purposes of entertaining the… Read more

A long time ago in a job market far, far away, there was a booming economy when any of our candidates that had a pulse had a job. It was… Read more

If there’s one thing recruiters may never tire of, it’s trash talking other recruitment companies. If you’ve spent any time at all in this industry, you’ve surely heard the self-congratulatory… Read more

Layoffs are troubling in any company. Much like a boulder thrown into water, it causes ripples in every faction of the business. A layoff, inevitably, triggers many of our deepest, scariest, psychological… Read more

Middle class consumers are the most important part of the marketplace; their collective purchasing power represents the foundation upon which the entire economy is predicated.  The American Dream is inherently… Read more