Recruiting Industry

We’re gearing up for next week’s 2nd annual Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit and are so excited to spend the day learning from employer branding experts from companies including Zillow, Glassdoor,… Read more

Another day, another recruiting tool, and it’s always the same shit. This is the silver bullet that’s going to solve everything.  The problem with a quick fix, of course, is that… Read more

  We hear it all the time: when the labor market tightens, wages rise. The thinking goes that more competition for good workers leads businesses to boost their pay to… Read more

Not having the ability to market and pay salaries like Google and Facebook doesn’t mean you are relegated to second-tier talent.   If you tell your own compelling story with… Read more

Those who can, talk. Those who can’t, listen. And those who don’t give a shit don’t turn up. Like so many developed nations, the United Kingdom faces a teacher shortage… Read more

While you might not ever have heard the term “Jobsworth” before, if you’ve ever worked in the business of talent, you’ve almost certainly run into at least a few of… Read more

Earlier this year, I applied for a gig with one of those companies who has become the toast of the HR town, an industry darling that’s successfully positioned itself in… 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

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

OK. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “of course. Here we go with another political post. Damn you, Zeller.” But even though my niche network of cleared tech talent in the… Read more

In her recent Vanity Fair feature on love in the age of Facebook, “Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse,” (which, in fact sounds like a decent description of… Read more

WARNING: This post contains straight talk, simple facts and a ton of stuff that most people might consider “politically incorrect.” If you can’t handle the truth, please stop reading immediately. Looking to… 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

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