Tips

I do a few things, when editing, that I find can turn pretty much any piece of generic copywriting – which is what corporate blogs essentially are – into halfway decent… Read more

How do you handle a faker on LinkedIn? Our tips for inappropriate profiles and spam on LinkedIn

Every so often recruitment conferences (of which there are many,) need defibrillators strapped to them and set to 50,000 volts! They need a serious jolt – you know they do! Too… Read more

The next big transformation in human capital management is underway, led by changes in talent acquisition. While candidate expectations are rising regarding the frequency, pace and transparency of communication in… Read more

Many people believe HR is: Old. Slow. Dowdy. Bloated. Bureaucratic. Run by middle-aged women who like cats. Some of that is true — especially the part about cats — but… Read more

Personal Branding has been the buzzword for the past couple of years.  Many have bought into it, but most have not.  There have been countless articles, posts, and books written… Read more

Most of us have heard time and time again that “people don’t leave companies, they leave managers”. I can’t recall ever seeing any compelling evidence for this. In our 2013 new… Read more

Video has become one of the best ways to communicate a company’s culture, especially in a talent recruiting context.  Doing it well can yield great results.  Doing it poorly?  Well,… Read more

Employer branding may not be new for your company. Maybe your organization has been actively branding its employment experience for several years. But an employer brand isn’t static; it’s an ongoing… Read more

Tips to measure brand awareness in your recruiting organization.

With limited networks, company recruiters once had to leave it up to professional search firms to source and recruit the best high-level executives from around the world. But in the… Read more

Okay, you’ve created your LinkedIn profile, updated all of your past experience and education, so you’re all set to go, right? Wrong. If you don’t actually DO something with your… Read more

5 tips to become a recruiting thought leader, note sarcasm.

Recruiting has no barriers for entry, unlike almost any other profession, which at least requires a related degree.  Even in the absence of recruitment as an actual academic discipline, success… Read more

I often hear people likening recruiters to salespeople. As they see it, there are a lot of similarities between the two: the structure of their performance metrics is similar, basic… Read more