Recruiting Industry

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

It seemed like a strange place to meet up with a Marine Corps Officer to talk about his pending retirement from the military, but I figured that an Irish Pub… Read more

If you’re like most employers, there’s a good chance that you’re already investing in employer branding by now. In fact, a recent Harvard Business Review study showed that fully 74%… Read more

There’s always at least one recruiter in every room who still reminisces fondly about the days of when candidates used to mail in resumes to ads they found in print… 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

During the deepest depths of the recession, nightly news footage was full of seemingly stock footage of resume clutching job seekers standing in line at career fairs. The formula for these… Read more

For many of us who work in the content marketing space, one of the biggest trending topics is the question of whether or not there might not just be too much… 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

One of the things about sourcing is that if you’re smart, all the hard work that goes into slating candidates and successfully closing a req doesn’t have to disappear just… Read more

Recently, I was finally able to take a real vacation that did not include conferences, meetings, or speaking arrangements.  My destination: Jamaica. My goal: to swim the warm waters and… Read more

Like many marketers, I’ve always been a huge fan of content; after all, it not only gives me something productive to do on the train, but it keeps me informed,… Read more

While the Federal Reserve recently decided to raise interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis, they cited job growth as a key driver for their decision. As the New… 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