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Anyone who says that having a college degree doesn’t matter likely doesn’t have one. According to the Economic Policy Institute, last year the unemployment rate among recent college graduates hovered… Read more

“I fucking hate apps.” To say I was taken aback when Enboarder CEO Brent Pearson, a former Monster executive, said this during a product demo of his solution – touted in a… Read more

I’ve written this post a thousand times. I originally wrote a little something back in March of 2014 but somehow never published. In looking back on how I felt about vacations… Read more

A long time ago in a job market far, far away, there was a booming economy when any of our candidates that had a pulse had a job. It was… Read more

Marketing automation is getting easier and easier (and scarier and scarier). Finding needles in a haystack used to come down to which sourcer knew more than the others. Now, finding… Read more

When people talk about great meals, they traditionally call it a “dining experience” because it is just that – a real experience.  From the lights to the sound and, of course, the… Read more

In March 2000, Monster topped $86 a share. It was worth nearly $8.5 billion. It was still valued at more than $7.5 billion in 2006. Yesterday, recruitment firm Randstad Holdings purchased Monster for $429 million… Read more

Your company just announced a merger. Panic and a lot of emotions ensue. While the executives are (hopefully) cheering a cash cow, there’s an emotional effect that ripples through a company’s culture…. Read more

Every day, I’m lucky enough to get to talk to the people on the cutting edge of the recruiting technology industry. Most of these are entrepreneurs who share a passion… Read more

After we teach our kids how to survive with things like getting food into their mouths instead of all over their faces, using their words to communicate instead of pointing… Read more

It’s both scary and fascinating what the world of robotics is getting into these days. There are drones, robots who can deploy and yes – even a killer robot. And… Read more

Creating email lists when sourcing sucks. It is like flossing your teeth or working out. It sucks but you have to do it. And if you want to compete, you… Read more

For all the talk of “reinvention” in recruiting, for all the products promising to “disrupt” hiring, and for all the banal banter about fixing what’s “broken” in talent acquisition today, the… Read more

When are you bringing Cheezhead back? I get this question regularly. For industry vets who are old enough to remember Cheezhead, you probably get it. For those who aren’t, Cheezhead was a… Read more

Algorithms make a lot of decisions for us, whether we know it or not. They decide what ads we see, what Youtube video plays next and a lot of the… Read more