Recruiting

The growing trend of text recruiting took another big step this week. TextRecruit, which describes itself as “a candidate engagement platform that uses text message, live chat, and artificial intelligence… Read more

The age of the gold watch is dead. The relationship between employers and employees has dramatically changed. It used to be that we went to work for a company, stayed… Read more

Over the years of reading countless LinkedIn posts, which normally make no sense, there are always a few that group together and stand out. The group usually starts with a… Read more

Recruitment isn’t the same creature it used to be. Before dotcom grew up, recruiters operated on a different set of rules, with closed doors and gate-keeping that frustrated the most… Read more

It’s that time of year again when we dust off our crystal ball and try to gaze into the future of recruiting. So after making my standard resolution to lose… Read more

Here’s a New Year’s wish for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals everywhere: Do whatever you can to stay away from bad advice that doesn’t help you be better in 2018…. Read more

Recruiters and TA professionals know this for a fact: There’s no magical formula to hiring. If there was, hiring would be easy, but instead we spend a lot of time… Read more

As a hiring professional, you have a lot of responsibilities, and fostering a better candidate experience is one of them. Your job is to find the best fitting, most suitable… Read more

    Here’s something to think about when you’re recruiting and hiring: Is it possible that the very best person to hire is the one who knows what not to do? I’ve… Read more

Have you been recruiting for more than 30 seconds? If you have, then you probably know the truth of recruiting. It’s this: Every req (also called “rec,” or the job… Read more

Here’s a question that TA professionals should be asking: What is it that top level talent is saying about your company when they get into a conversation about opportunities with… Read more

Expanding your network on LinkedIn is easy; you just hit the blue “Connect” button and wait to see if the people are going to accept or not. If they accept… Read more

#MeToo. Not a day seems to pass without new sexual misconduct allegations coming to light. Even as I write this, my Twitter feed is filled with posts that yet another… Read more

It seems to be that time of year for everyone to be releasing surveys, and here are two with some interesting wrinkles that crossed my desk this week. One, from… Read more

We’ve all heard words like “mission,” “vision,” “purpose,” and “sense of purpose” bandied about at all-hands meetings. Sometimes they’re defined. Often times they’re not. It can feel like a lot… Read more