It’s a brand new year, great things are on the horizon … and for me, I have had it up to my eyeballs with a particular topic. I am so fed up with this topic that I want to climb to the highest peak and scream, bang my head against a wall, and even toss... [full article »]

This week, I had the pleasure of receiving some feedback from two candidates who recently completed the hiring process, each with a different end result with our organization. As talent acquisition professionals, the majority of us strive to ensure that proper recruiting processes and procedures are in place, and at the same time we wonder... [full article »]

… the last two candidates you have sent me are terrible! The agreement you sent me prior to engaging in this search requires me to pay you 25% of the individual’s first-year salary if I hire one of your presented candidates. In my case, that would be in the neighborhood of $17,000, which is a good... [full article »]

When I attend career fairs, hiring conferences, recruiting events, or through conversations with prospective candidates, I keep learning that the wrong people are attending these events and working as recruiters. As I walked the room at a recent career fair, prior to the event starting, I sought to introduce myself to some of the other... [full article »]

May 15th marked the 1-month anniversary for my friend Herb who was the focal point of my previous article regarding onboarding. Herb has settled into the role and he is starting to feel a little bit better about his decision than he did at first. However, the fact remains that he views his current role... [full article »]

It blows my mind how the subject and function of competitive intelligence falls by the wayside in most HR/recruiting departments. Just what exactly is competitive intelligence and what is it used for? Let’s start first by defining it: Definition: the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect... [full article »]

My good friend, let’s call him “Herb,” started a brand new job yesterday. Herb was very excited because it’s an opportunity with a particular financial institution that he had been coveting for some time. Rewinding two weeks … the submission and recruitment process went fantastic as Herb actually located the position online, submitted his resume,... [full article »]

Caller: “Hi, can I please speak to John?” Secretary: “Sir, John is not available right now. He is in a meeting. Can I take a message?” Caller: “Do you know when he will be in?” Secretary: “He is in meetings all day.” … click. Bummer. I missed John again. That is one hard guy to... [full article »]

Another exciting Super Bowl has come and gone. Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, the new Champions of the National Football League. Not appearing in the Super Bowl this year was, the infamous or famous, depending on how you view them, New York Jets, who unfortunately came up one game short for the second year... [full article »]

As I opened up my Twitter log this morning to check out the latest tweets, I was blitzed with an overwhelming amount of social media messaging. It seems like everyone nowadays is a social media expert. Do this. Do that. Don’t do this. Don’t do that. Say this. Say that. Etc … Do these people... [full article »]

Several Mondays ago, I watched a National Geographic documentary called Restrepo. Restrepo is a feature-length documentary from National Geographic that chronicles the one-year deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in one of the most dangerous and remote locations on earth, the Korengal Valley. Named “Restrepo” after PFC Juan Restrepo, who died on a hillside... [full article »]