HR

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

From setting aside a day for talking like a pirate to celebrating the Golden Ratio every 3.14, it seems like pretty much the entire calendar has somehow been co-opted by… 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

There are a bunch of sweeping stereotypes ascribed to Gen Y workers, and most of these generalities are generally completely false, which shouldn’t be a surprise. Workplace generational theory is… Read more

The workforce has had the advantage of being an employee’s market for a few years now, which often leaves employers scrambling to uncover what key factors will lead to retention…. Read more

As someone who’s more or less grown up with the commoditization and corporate adoption of social media, and as someone who gets paid to do this stuff, I’ve seen a… Read more

For going on two decades now, I’ve been a proud, card carrying member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). On top of diligently paying my dues every year,… Read more

Ask pretty much any CEO these days, and they’ll tell you that the old cliche that “employees are every company’s biggest asset” rings true – in fact, manifold surveys support… 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

Roles are reversing in the employment space. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, eight million Americans are looking for jobs, but newly released results from the Glassdoor Recruiting Outlook Survey reveal talent… Read more

There’s always been plenty of talking, tweeting, blogging, venting, ranting and raving about the sad state of recruiting – but lately, it seems like the topic of what’s wrong with… Read more

I don’t know much about love. Really, who does? It’s a bit of trial and error and a lot of compromise, from what I do know. I’m thinking of those… Read more

My last post, You’re Not Really A Recruiter, seems to have hit something of a nerve – apparently, a lot of people out there feel the same way I do about… 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.

While most of you still digging your way out from Winter Storm Juno (where do they get these names?) this week are probably going to hate me for saying this,… Read more