This is wrong: you can easily track the progress of a $29 Amazon package of socks, but not your job application that you put numerous hours into. It … Read more
Game-based Assessments for Hiring — What You Need to Know
Are game-based assessments the future of employment testing? In the podcast below, I talk about that question with Ben Hawkes. He’s an I/O … Read more
My Dog-DNA-kit Order Makes Me Think More Companies Should Advertise Jobs to Customers
Whether or not you believe passive candidates are the best candidates, I think we can all agree that getting your job postings in front of more people is a … Read more
Maybe Your Recruiters Can Be Remote
Remote or onsite recruiter: Which is best for your organization? To answer this question, we really need to know what you are trying to achieve by hiring … Read more
What to Do About Job Seekers Who Aren’t Reading Job Descriptions
Reading this article word for word will take about three to four minutes out of your day. That’s not a ton of time in the grand scheme of things … Read more
Redesigning Recruiting: Here’s the Way Forward
Recruiting, like so many other services, is undergoing massive disruption. Everything is changing. The expectations of hiring managers, job seekers, … Read more
The Funding Comes, and It’s Off to the (Recruiting) Races
“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” —James Cash Penney Brendan Rogers is co-founder of the … Read more
How to Keep Pre-hire Assessments From Wrecking the Candidate Experience
“Can assessments and a positive candidate experience peacefully coexist?” Gerry Crispin, co-founder of CareerXroads and the TalentBoard, has an answer: … Read more
HiringSolved, ZipRecruiter Land On Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative’ Lists
Two industry players were winners in Fast Company, a popular business publication. Phoenix-area sourcing solution HiringSolved has landed on Fast Company’s … Read more
Your Guide to Conducting High-quality Interviews
Talent acquisition exists for one reason only: to add value to the organization through supporting revenue generation or reducing costs. How you do that … Read more
Hiring Ralph Northam: How Much of a Candidate’s Past Is Relevant?
The story of Ralph Northam — the Governor of Virginia — is familiar to most. News of a picture in his yearbook from 1984 resulted in calls for … Read more
The Ultimate Guide for Finding Innovators — Use It to Jumpstart Corporate Growth
Even though increasing corporate innovation is almost always a top-five CEO goal, surprisingly few in recruiting realize that the highest business-impact … Read more
Total Wine & More Wants Job Candidates to Know It’s Not Your Typical Liquor Store
Total Wine’s reach now spans 193 stores in 23 states, as well as online sales in 14 states. The chain’s stores can be as large as 50,000 square … Read more
Overcoming Resistance to Faster Hiring
People often resist change, especially when you try to change a longstanding way of doing something. This is certainly true in recruiting and hiring. … Read more
Jobvite Swings for Fences, Acquires Talemetry, RolePoint, and Canvas
Blame it on Google. Or maybe Microsoft. For almost two decades, the applicant tracking business sort of shuffled along like a tortoise in the mud. … Read more
A Candidate Like No Other
In most workplaces. It’s still one size fits all in policies, processes, and tools. We no longer live in a data-poor world, but we continue to use … Read more
The Top 5 No-cost Candidate-selling Approaches
In last week’s companion article “The Top 5 No Cost Sourcing Approaches — And Each Is Guaranteed To Work,” I covered the five best no-cost approaches … Read more
Podcast for Talent Leaders: Sue Ceglinski, Director of Talent Acquisition for U.S. Pharmacopeia
Imagine this: you are at a local restaurant having lunch. You strike up a conversation with your very capable server and are so impressed with her attitude … Read more
Monster Lays Off Approximately 5 Percent of Global Workforce
According to news out of Monster today, over 100 employees will be updating their resumes in hopes of finding a new job. The company has confirmed a … Read more
Who Makes a Great Recruiter
As the skills shortage persists, so does the demand for recruiters. The increased demand has put a further strain on an already over-tapped pool of … Read more