Trends

Take social media statistics with a grain of salt. An enormous grain of salt. How many times have you seen someone use the following to support some claim they are making:… Read more

If you are going to be successful in the sourcing and recruiting space, you need to know what your employees, stakeholders and customers think of you. Marketers have done this… Read more

“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who… Read more

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” Charles Dickens, Master… Read more

There’s nothing new about M&A in the HR Technology Industry; after all, big fish swallows little fish is how most top tier talent vendors have ended up so bloated they… Read more

The term “social technology” for some reason seems to scare off many employers, who often hesitate to embrace social business adoption simply due to the stigma that the time and… Read more

Looking forward into the immediate future of the coming year, a lot of companies are doing a lot of planning, particularly when it comes to their people. This makes sense…. Read more

While this Friday’s monthly jobs report (something of a bellwether for labor economists and recruiting geeks everywhere) should paint a rosy picture of an economy at full employment, the global markets’… Read more

If you’re paying any attention to the deluge of recruiting related content and conferences out there (and if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you are), then these past… Read more

It’s always blown my mind that for some reason, you need a license to drive a car, but when it comes to having kids? You don’t need a license.  There’s… Read more

It seemed like a strange place to meet up with a Marine Corps Officer to talk about his pending retirement from the military, but I figured that an Irish Pub… Read more

Everyday schmoes who, for one reason or another, show up at their recruiting and sourcing jobs day-in and day-out and do their jobs well, don’t usually get their moment in… Read more

As a little country girl from Waco, Texas, I may be a bit biased, but some of the best things in life come from Texas. We do things big in… Read more

There’s always at least one recruiter in every room who still reminisces fondly about the days of when candidates used to mail in resumes to ads they found in print… Read more

Recently, Katrina Kibben, Derek Zeller and I did a blab.im to talk about all the reasons why people hate recruiters and share our advice to help recruiters be better. If you… Read more