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Many recruiters don’t read. Most of them don’t write. Fear not. The Career XRoads 2015 Mystery Job Seeker Survey doesn’t indict our educational systems; rather, it highlights basic failings endemic… Read more

Every summer seems to fly by far too fast, but the waning days of this summer are a bit sentimental for me. See, I’m getting ready to send my son… Read more

I spend a lot of my recreational time in pubs and bars. This will probably come as no great surprise. Everyone has to have a hobby, they say. I suppose… 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

If you think about it, we live in a world that’s increasingly become driven by referrals; hell, in our society, it’s become almost ingrained for us to defer to our extended… 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

“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

In the increasingly interconnected world of work, teams, employers and candidates continue to adopt the technologies, processes and procedures designed to transcend geographic borders or national boundaries, allowing organizations to overcome the… Read more

I’m not sure why I’m still writing about the importance of hiring veterans. It’s one of those topics that’s more conventional common sense than cutting best practice, but even after… Read more

I’ve spent the equivalent of the last four full presidential terms stuck in the tech recruiting trenches. For the manifold changes manifesting themselves in the talent acquisition and technology sectors… Read more

Here’s the thing about being a recruiter. If you want to sell a job, you’ve got to sell a story. Hell, it’s a working life that often feels like something… Read more

Recording coming soon! Are you considering upgrading your job descriptions? Assume for a moment, that most descriptions are poorly structured.  They are completely generic, overly complex and excruciatingly worded documents.  Hiring… Read more

We all have pet peeves. You know, those little things that people do that piss you off big time. Like that annoying loud talker in the next cube over, motivational… Read more

Healthcare, as an industry, is sort of the antithesis of recruiting – as a profession, healthcare practitioners are treated with innate respect and inherent trust, and their expertise or judgement… Read more

There is no single piece of technology that’s more universally despised throughout recruiting’s rank and file than applicant tracking systems. That these cumbersome, rigid legacy systems, written on a code… Read more