HR

Editor’s Note: Thank you to our sponsor HiringSolved for making this trip possible.    I’m taking off at o’dark thirty Saturday morning on a charter flight to Havana with a ragtag assortment… Read more

With the price of admission prohibitively expensive for many startups and SMBs, companies that do shell out the Benjamins on activating the annual HR Technology Conference boondoggle ostensibly do so… Read more

Have you ever seen one of those inspirational football movies? I’m confident you’ve seen at least one. Think movies like Remember the Titans, We Are Marshall or more recently Draft Day,… Read more

If you’re like most recruiters, you already know that top talent can’t be bought; the best candidates aren’t just chasing a paycheck when they’re considering career destinations. Job seekers today have… Read more

As the dust settles post Ashley Madison hack, it has left quite a few people with a public relations problem. Having worked on PR teams before, I can imagine there were a lot of… Read more

Don’t Start None, Won’t Be None: Build a Better Relationship with Your Hiring Managers. Even the most famous of adversaries -Rocky vs Apollo Creed. Donkey Kong vs. Mario.  Dr. Dre… Read more

I grew up back in the day where the same maxims for career success still applied, and even contrarians (and smart asses) like myself knew that there were a few lines at… Read more

I’m not sure why in the hell recruiters seem to love manufactured motivational materials, but from self-help books to Successories posters, the talent industry has long loved the programmed passion… Read more

The fundamental difference between marketing and recruiting really comes down to a simple difference: in marketing, there’s no pressure (or expectation) to “get it right” right out of the gate…. Read more

“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”  – JM Barrie. Every so often – like when I’m presenting for an auditorium… Read more

You know those old “recruiting is dating” and “interviewing is like dating” aphorisms? I hate those damn cliches, too. In the HR and recruiting worlds we’ve beaten those metaphors to a… Read more

The goal of recruiting and HR content, or any content, is not to be good – it’s to be read. That’s the same with any corporate content, really. That in… Read more

In my most recent Recruiting Daily post, Border Wars: Tech Recruiting and Immigration Reform, I took a look at the persistent H1B visa cap problem plaguing employers, particularly within the… Read more

I recently had the chance to sit down with the head of talent acquisition, tasked with overseeing hiring at a hot 200 person (and growing) startup and filling around 40… Read more

“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate; the final words of the inscription on the Gate of Hell.” Abandon every hope, you who enter.” – Dante Alighieri I know it probably sounds… Read more