Sourcing

The labor market is as tight as ever since the Great Recession began back in 2007. Unemployment is at a record low 4.1 percent; Highly skilled workers are in short… Read more

During my Talent Acquisition career, I have seen how recruitment has undergone transformative change over the years, from a time when recruiting was driven by print advertisements in the late… Read more

After long consideration, you have decided to engage in a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) partnership. There were probably a few events or challenges that pushed your company to decide an RPO… Read more

Every recruiter would like to say they are sourcing for a Best Place to Work organization. It’s a great opening line to most candidates, and a good conversation starter. You know… Read more

How are you finding top talent? We got all this tech now, but sadly some out there are still doing the ol’ “post and pray” method and not leveraging the… Read more

The golden age of digital connectivity should have made candidate sourcing much easier — but now the candidates you need are all over the place, from LinkedIn to Snap to… Read more

Facebook is one of the most powerful digital platforms in the world. With a user population bigger than China, you might say it is a pretty important part of the… Read more

I remember a session at a SHRM national conference more years ago then I’d like to remember – so long ago, in fact, I actually went to a session on… Read more

In Part 1 of How to Reach Passive Candidates Using Facebook Ads: It’s About the Context!, I spoke about considering the context of your ad content. You need to remember… Read more

This shouldn’t come as a big surprise: Passive candidates are not on job boards because they are not out looking for jobs. If you really want to reach them you… Read more

We may have a little bit of an over-discussion on all the generational differences currently co-existing in the workplace (Silents, Boomers, X, Millennials, and now Gen Z), but even with… Read more

We teamed up with our friends at Hired to review the 2018 State of Salaries report.  Be sure to head over to Hired to get a copy of the report and for… Read more

Every hiring manager and HR professional has seen this, and they know it to be true. It’s this: Some job candidates do things that simply destroy all chance of you… Read more

The “F” word is a very powerful word but let me just make sure we are talking about the same F word (Insert cheeky smile here). The “F” word I… Read more

Don’t expect a slowdown in the pace of your frenzied, high-volume recruiting position. Get used to it. It’s just the nature of the beast. Trying to fill 100 open positions… Read more