Hiring

In my last Recruiting Daily post, “Why Bad Hires Happen To Good Recruiters,” I tried to explain why even the best talent acquisition pros in the business make misinformed, misdirected… Read more

Have you ever watched the show Catfish? In short, for those of you who don’t watch too much bad reality television like I do on Sunday mornings, Catfish is a… Read more

With hundreds of employers voluntarily subjecting their hiring process to the intense scrutiny involved in being adjudicated by nearly 95,000 applicant responses, the 2014 Candidate Experience Awards did more than… Read more

You’ve heard it before, but even though it’s become so overused it’s almost a cliche, the fact is that hiring is broken – and the evidence is everywhere. From resumes… 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

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

When I first became a recruiter, I approached this profession with a sense of excitement; it was a breath of fresh air after years spent slaving away in the financial… Read more

Most recruiting tools and technologies on the market are designed with enterprise employers in mind, focusing an inordinate amount of their bandwidth and budget on landing big deals with big… Read more

It’s no secret that the world of work has changed – but the fact of the matter is, recruitment, largely, remains stuck in stasis, with many employers failing to adopt… Read more

At its core, recruiting is more or less an exercise in making a good first impression; from the 6-8 seconds the average recruiter (if such a thing exists) spends reviewing… Read more

It’s only been about 100 days or so, give or take, that I made my inadvertent foray into the world of recruitment. Not that there’s really any sort of defined… 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