HR

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

Early into my tenure in what I finally considered a “real” job, I decided for personal kicks and grins to take one of those manifold career assessments out there –… Read more

Turns out there’s good news, there’s bad news, and there’s LinkedIn Customer Service. At least, this was the discovery I made after an excruciating 25 minute long phone call with a… Read more

If you work in recruiting, there’s probably a good chance that while you’ve felt the effects of public relations (which is almost always collateral damage), you don’t have any real… Read more

For well over a century now, industrial and organizational psychologists have turned their collective focus towards a singular goal: trying to explain why employees behave the way that they do…. Read more

With election year in full swing, you’ve probably already noticed that your social streams and news feeds have become like some weird version of Fox and Friends. It seems like… Read more

Looking forward into the immediate future of the coming year, a lot of companies are doing a lot of planning, particularly when it comes to their people. This makes sense…. Read more

As a white male, there are few conversation topics more taboo than talking about (much less writing about) the issue of race. It’s one of those things, like politics, sex… Read more

Unlike many HR centered constructs, there is actually a clearly established business case for creating a strong organizational culture, and that hiring for culture fit has a direct impact on… Read more

Sourcers and recruiters have long chased after proverbial “purple squirrels,” those elusive, highly skilled candidates that represent the type of “top talent” that actually lives up to that moniker. Their… Read more

  If you’ve seen one of the Horrible Bosses movies by now (and chances are good, if you get Showtime, since they’ve pretty much got it on an alternate loop… Read more

You’ve probably spent the last month or so being bombarded by holiday inspired music and content marketing – two of the most cliche, trite and grating genres ever invented. That’s… Read more

The only people fighting harder to earn credibility than recruiters are the rest of HR.  Pretty much everyone, everywhere, it seems, has some sort of severe dislike for HR as… Read more

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”   – Fidel Castro. It’s taken me a while, this post. The reasons, you see, are contrary to… Read more

Editor’s Note: Thank you to our sponsor HiringSolved for making this trip possible.    “One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small. And the ones that Mother gives you, don’t… Read more