Recruiting

Well, my friends — I suppose it was inevitable. After all, for years we’ve been hearing recruiters use stupid superlatives and specious self-descriptors like “rock star,” “ninja” or (gag) “guru.”… Read more

I’m pretty sure I could convincingly claim I attend more HR and recruiting related conferences than anyone on the planet, with the possible exception of Bill Boorman, who has covered… Read more

When I stand back and take a look at job interviews, the whole concept seems, I don’t know, a little weird to me. Sure, they’re as much a standard part of… Read more

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, and I’m right there with you – I normally skip right past those “lessons we can learn” kind of posts that seem like thinly… Read more

In my last Recruiting Daily article, Unscientific Assessment: Phrenology for Recruiters, I explored some of the stupid, silly and specious culture of talent acquisition in which scientifically validated, insightful assessment tools… Read more

If you really want to tell how good at sourcing someone really is, the first task to assign them should be to find a recent, relevant and comprehensive guide to… Read more

How To Use The New LinkedIn Custom Search Engine [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4yZU0uAloA&feature=youtu.be” width=”500″ height=”300″] We’ve had more than 2,000 downloads since we began launching our new search engine just 48 hours ago! Now… Read more

How To Become A Data Driven Recruiter By now, you probably already know that big data is a big deal. Figuring out how to develop the skills required to get… Read more

Going Beyond LinkedIn: How Smart Recruiters Find Today’s Candidates What’s the best way to reach job hunters in these and other industries traditionally under-served by LinkedIn’s business professional network? Furthermore,… Read more

With so much money pouring into HR and recruiting software at the moment, there’s never been a better time to monetize your confirmation bias, take up that cliched chorus of “recruiting… Read more

If you clicked through to read this post, you must have had a little niggling doubt in your mind that the answer to the title of this blog, in the… Read more

Back in January 2013, Facebook launched one of the most awesome sourcing/recruiting tools of our time, better known as Graph Search. This was pretty much just basically a search engine… Read more

Somewhere between Labor Day and Halloween, the official “holiday” season kicks off, an annual annoyance that essentially means that we dedicate approximately a full quarter of each year to those “magical… Read more

No matter how awesome my day happens to be, as soon as I open my personal e-mail, it’s pretty much guaranteed that it’s all downhill from there. Seriously, nothing pisses… Read more

Recruiting is evolving. Fast. Faster than any time in my 15+ years in corporate recruiting. There are many contributing factors: social media, the maturation of employer branding, the prevalence of… Read more