Recruiting

As I sit here, dedicating a few of my first full 24 hours as a 40 year old to this post, I realize that I’d spent the last four days… Read more

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” ― Charles Bukowski Like so many other recruiters, I started out my… Read more

5 Steps to Selecting the Right Job Board  Too many unqualified job applicants. Poor candidate pipeline. High cost-per-hire. Lack of employer brand awareness.  All of these are issue that recruiters… Read more

Have you ever watched the show Catfish? In short, for those of you who don’t watch too much bad reality television like I do on Sunday mornings, Catfish is a… Read more

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

Two years ago, I applied for a job at a very well-known retail company. I was applying for some web or marketing job, and I had to run the hour-long… Read more

Much has changed since I was fresh out of college, looking for my first design job. Back then, getting a job was as easy as graduating from college, which wasn’t… Read more

Every year in the US alone employers spend $72 billion — that’s billion, with a B — on recruiting services, staff and technology. For some perspective: $70 billion will buy every franchise in the… Read more

Oh, Ellen Pao. How badly I want to support you. You’ve probably heard about Ms. Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins. She’s now interim CEO for Reddit, and has ruled that… Read more

Recruiters always talk about finding “top talent,” but the truth is, most of the time, it’s damn near impossible just to find even minimally qualified ones, no matter how mediocre… Read more

Living in the age of the algorithm, we’ve come to expect that anything that can be quantified will be quantified. The seemingly amorphous things that can be converted into hard… Read more

If you’re like me, you’re probably sick of hearing so much lately about a supposed talent shortage. Much of that hype has focused on the fact that with unemployment down… Read more

When was the last time you used your phone to search the web? Do you perhaps have a few search windows open right now? With the omnipresence of mobile devices,… 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

Cats, as TS Eliot once pointed out, are solitary creatures. Much like Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, they can go their own way – and if the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical… Read more