I recently interviewed Monster CEO Scott Gutz and chief product officer Chris Cho for my podcast. We discussed a variety of topics, but here the five … Read more
5 Predictions for 2019
I hit about .300 on my 2018 predictions. I fall back to baseball, because saying 3 out of 10 in anything else looks like an epic fail. A few of them, like … Read more
3 People Who Landed On My Naughty List in 2018
The recruiting industry, by and large, is full of exceptional people who ultimately help provide a very noble service, bringing employers and people … Read more
5 Empathetic Ways to Calm Job Seekers’ Fears
The record-low unemployment rate hasn’t made job seekers feel more in control of their careers. Instead, it has brought deeply-rooted fears to the surface, … Read more
When Your Company Reputation is Called into Question, Turn to Employer Brand
As we near the end of 2018, negative press toward big brands like Facebook has been on the rise. Right, wrong or indifferent, this situation could happen … Read more
The 2 Most Important Employer-branding Metrics
If you’re starting from scratch on your employer-branding metrics, there are two major buckets you should be thinking about in order to have a strong … Read more
Better Business Bureau: Fake Holiday Job Scams Are in Full Swing, Up Over 100 Percent Since 2017
Remember the StartJobs story? A four-month investigation by AIM Group uncovered one of the more memorable job scams in recent memory. Unsuspecting job … Read more
5 Things We Can Learn from the Social-media Strategies of These Food Giants
The fast-food giants have excellent social-media game, and we could learn from in recruitment. Keep reading to find out how you could take some tips from … Read more
Rethinking Who We Hire and How AI Can Help
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural-language processing have changed work and, along with it, the focus of recruiting. Over the past 20 … Read more
Cybersecurity Essentials for Recruiters
According to a recent report by Juniper, cybercriminals will steal around 33 billion records from companies in 2023. For the recruitment industry, this … Read more
Executive Shake-Up Going Down at Crowded.com
Changes are coming to the executive suite at New York-based startup, Crowded. Co-founded by Howie Schwartz and Joe Rubin in 2015, the software … Read more
What You’ll Recruit for in 2022
The World Economic Forum has just released its annual Future of Jobs Report. Among the findings: New, emerging jobs will increase their share of all jobs … Read more
Tech Recruiting Event Talent42 Joins ERE Media Family
ERE Media has acquired Talent42, the first and only conference that brings together tech recruiters, engineers, and hiring managers. Talent42 is a national … Read more
HR Tech Vendors Enjoy Spotlight in Comparably’s Latest ‘Best Places to Work’ Lists
Why should Glassdoor have all the fun? Santa Monica, California-based Comparably, a relatively new player in the anonymous employee review space, has … Read more
Wild, Crazy, and Bold Recruiting Allows You to Avoid The Competition
If you work in the conservative world of corporate or agency recruiting, it never hurts to occasionally take a quick look at the wild side of recruiting. … Read more
3 Ways to Improve Your Holiday Retail Hiring
The retail industry is a textbook study of how recruiting impacts a business’s bottom line because retailers earn up to 30 percent of their annual revenue … Read more
Seeking to Improve Diversity and Inclusion? Consider These Recommendations
Talent-acquisition professionals in any specialty ranging from university relations to sourcers to Candidate-experience directors are working hard to find … Read more
Marketing Guru Seth Godin Is Launching a Job Board, Kinda
Most marketers, and many recruiters for that matter, know the name Seth Godin. The guy is a pied piper of permission marketing, preaching opt-in marketing … Read more
Here’s When It’s Okay to Be Slow to Hire
Being slow to hire often means a job goes unfilled for awhile. But it doesn’t have to. There’s a way to be slow to hire that’s fast and effective. It … Read more
The Odds Microsoft Buys Upwork Just Went, Um, Up
Microsoft doesn’t want to lose its hold on enterprise computing. It ousted IBM from that mountaintop many moons ago, and it’ll be damned if … Read more