This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thoughts around the future of recruiting Forget what you’ve read about the future of recruiting, because … Read more
Build a Successful Campus Recruiting Team
With employers facing the tightest labor market in decades, more and more companies are turning to college campuses to source talent for internships and … Read more
Sifting Through the Cost per Applicant Data
Cost per applicant benchmarks are a great way to understand how your paid media is performing when you are putting dollars behind job postings. The folks … Read more
A Good Way to Waste Money, Time, and Attention: The 7 Most Common Reasons Employer Brand Initiatives Fail
The numbers are impressive. When you have a strong employer brand, you can see up to a 50 percent drop in cost to hire and up to an 80 percent increase in … Read more
Break the Language Barrier Between Recruiters and Veterans
Just a few years ago, only 20 percent of companies surveyed had developed a formal program for recruiting veterans. And in spite of an ever-tightening … Read more
Do You Know That You Are Part of the Golden Age of Recruiting?
This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the tremendous progress that the recruiting profession has made Few in recruiting … Read more
Hiring Formerly Incarcerated: Shelley Winner Continues the Fight
Shelley Winner pleaded for a job at a big technology company, despite having a criminal record that got her red-flagged. It worked. Since then, she has … Read more
The ‘Tech Company’ You May Not Be Hiring From But Should
With technology often the equal of the private sector, the military can be an overlooked source of employees. You’ve read about the Army (lessons … Read more
New York’s Engineering Pay Is Hitting Silicon Valley Levels
Hiring software engineers has become increasingly difficult this year, particularly in New York. If you’re like many of the startups we’ve … Read more
What’s in Your Funnel? Increasing Diversity Representation at the Executive Level
An effective diversity recruiting strategy isn’t only about which job boards you subscribe to or the candidate discovery/rediscovery tools you use. It’s … Read more
Memorable Moments From LinkedIn’s Talent Connect: the Pledge to Help Others, and the Program for Prisoners
Last week 4,684 or so talent acquisition and HR practitioners from around the world gathered in Dallas, Texas, to attend LinkedIn’s 10th annual Talent … Read more
Before Your Throw Away That Long, Boring Pre-employment Test …
While the topic of candidate engagement and experience with assessment has been written about many times before, the stakes are higher than ever. The prime … Read more
We’ve Got a Definition of Talent: Competence × Commitment × Contribution
Every day, market-oriented ecosystems operate at the edge of the known world. They strive to push into the unfamiliar. Their mission is to create new … Read more
Let’s Turn Around the Perception of the Talent Field
I decided to write this after reading seeing a post on a website called Blind. A few weeks ago someone asked for some advice on how to show appreciation … Read more
Onboarding in 2019: The Key to Success is Being ‘Highly Complex Yet Pleasantly Simple’
How long is onboarding? How do you measure if it’s working? What are some of the biggest problems out there with onboarding? We posed these and other … Read more
Data Privacy: The Real Issue in the LinkedIn v. hiQ Ruling
The ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp affirmed that the automated scraping of publicly accessible … Read more
Powerful Deal Closers — When You Positively Must Land a Candidate
There are few things more frustrating to a hiring manager or recruiter than having an in-demand top candidate who you have fought hard to sell reject your … Read more
Measure Your Fall Recruiting’s ROI The Right Way
It’s not only back to school for the fall semester for students, but for companies, too. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, … Read more
A Look at Life After ‘Google Hire’
Google Hire recently became the newest Google tool to be retired, with Google deciding to slowly phase out its recruiting platform by September of 2020. As … Read more
You’re Trusting Your Gut Too Much in the Hiring Process
As people leaders, we take pride in our ability to decide quickly and change our minds slowly. We trust our intuition and reasoning skills — and with … Read more