Keirsten Greggs

Keirsten Greggs is a talent acquisition consultant and career coach. In 2017 she founded TRAP Recruiter, LLC, to bring trust, relationship-building, accountability, and a proactive approach back into the recruiting lifecycle. She engages with a broader audience via her blog, as a guest speaker, as a guest on various podcasts, facilitating workshops and training, and as creator of the #RecruiterProblems meme series.

The Problem With Encouraging People to Quit

Keirsten GreggsJuly 8, 2021July 6, 2021

Over the past month or so, my social media timelines (well the HR and recruiting ones, at least) have been dominated by discourse surrounding the return to … Read more

Recruiter Realness: Looking Back on 20 Years of Recruiting

Keirsten GreggsApril 13, 2021April 20, 2021

In 2001, Electronic Recruiting Exchange (now ERE) held its first event. A lot has changed since the days of “e-cruiting.” And a lot remains the same, for … Read more

Attracting Black Candidates With Black Recruiters

Keirsten GreggsMarch 23, 2021March 21, 2021

Should the race or background of a recruiter be a factor in sending that recruiter to help attract people of that same race or background? In answering … Read more

What Does It Mean to Always Be Recruiting?

Keirsten GreggsFebruary 18, 2021February 14, 2021

In a recent Recruiter Realness post, I shared some of my favorite insights from other recruiting pros. One of those highlights came from Josh Rock, an … Read more

Recruiter Realness: Running on E

Keirsten GreggsFebruary 3, 2021January 29, 2021

Much of the way that I approached and shaped my corporate career was based on how my female elders — in particular my mother, aunts, and family friends … Read more

Recruiter Realness: Top TA Pros Share Their Own Recruiter Realness

Keirsten GreggsJanuary 20, 2021January 18, 2021

This column has typically been about sharing my own experiences. To kick off this year, however, I want to highlight the recruiter realness that other … Read more

Recruiter Realness: This Is Not a Predictions Post

Keirsten GreggsDecember 15, 2020January 3, 2021

We talent acquisition and HR practitioners are conditioned to expect an end of the year or holiday-themed article. One that is usually some mix of … Read more

Recruiter Realness: “Recruiters Don’t Understand Our Day-to-Day Struggles”

Keirsten GreggsNovember 18, 2020January 3, 2021

As recruiters, we talk a lot about metrics. And that’s exactly what I was going to write about for this article…until I realized, maybe it’s not me … Read more

Recruiter Realness: A Debate About Culture and Recruiting Happened at ERE Digital 2.0. Here’s What You Missed.

Keirsten GreggsOctober 29, 2020January 3, 2021

ERE Digital 2.0 wrapped last week. It was just the thing I needed to lift me out of what felt like a perpetual state of melancholy, indifference, and … Read more

ERE Digital Insights: Can Recruiting Fix Your Company’s Culture?

Keirsten GreggsOctober 7, 2020October 6, 2020

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series highlighting speakers at the upcoming ERE Digital 2.0 event. Click here to view other articles in the … Read more

Recruiter Realness: Surprise (Not Really)! There Are Racist Recruiters.

Keirsten GreggsSeptember 30, 2020January 3, 2021

In the 20 years that I’ve been recruiting, very little has changed. I thought a global pandemic and widespread racial unrest would somehow be the much … Read more

Recruiter Realness: The Racist, Sexist, Classist Views of Black People’s Hair

Keirsten GreggsAugust 26, 2020January 3, 2021

Black women with natural hairstyles are less likely to get job interviews. Under normal circumstances, upon seeing such a social media headline, I’d give a … Read more

Recruiter Realness: TA Deserves Greater Respect From HR

Keirsten GreggsAugust 11, 2020January 3, 2021

On July 24, I was invited to join BBC World Service Radio to discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to the alleged disparaging remarks made by a … Read more

Recruiter Realness: Hire the “Bad Ass C”

Keirsten GreggsJuly 28, 2020January 3, 2021

[Cue Sophia Petrillo voice.] Picture it. High School. 1993. My cousin exuberantly celebrated the C she earned on her report card like it was the highest … Read more

Recruiter Realness: The Thing About Recruiters…

Keirsten GreggsJuly 7, 2020January 3, 2021

Editor’s note: You are reading the first article by ERE’s new columnist, Keirsten Greggs, who’ll be giving it to you straight on a regular basis when … Read more

What Happens When Recruiters Stop Being Polite…and Start Getting Real?

Vadim Liberman and Keirsten GreggsJuly 6, 2020July 5, 2020

Everybody lies. That includes talent acquisition professionals. The thing about lies, though, is that when they are repeated often enough, they start to … Read more