The relationship between recruiters and developers is a rocky one. In 2013 Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Stack Overflow, famously exploded Twitter asking a … Read more
Embracing AI Techniques in Recruiting Could Help Women
There has been a lot of ink spilled on hiring processes that use AI for end-to-end recruiting that fall short by magnifying the biases inherent in the data … Read more
This Organization’s Recruiting Practices Are Worth a Look
We are so entangled in our Boolean strings, LinkedIn posts, tweets, and scrapping tools that we have unintentionally failed to notice a special breed of … Read more
Exclusion by Design in Recruitment Advertising
Earlier this year Facebook stopped allowing American advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of a certain race, gender, or age … Read more
Gig Platforms: Inspiration Rather Than Competition for the Recruitment Industry
While gig platforms have grown exponentially in the past five years, have attracted lots of media attention, and received heavy venture-capitalist … Read more
We’re Disrupting Executive Search in the Healthcare Industry and Bringing It In house
Over the past four years, my organization has designed and implemented a high-performing executive recruiting function that has exceeded national … Read more
Moore’s Law, Alternate Degree Programs, and a More Diverse Workforce
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their … 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 Brexit Debacle: What it Means for Talent
Brexit is coming. On March 29, 2019, two years after the referendum to leave the European Union, the UK is scheduled to formally leave. The date may yet be … Read more
How We Are Experimenting With Talent
Drug development entails risk. Clinical trials are elaborate and expensive experiments, and unfortunately sometimes promising hypotheses prove false. This … Read more
A Look at Job-candidate Expectations Shows Europe Is No Monolith
Thanks to a growing talent shortage in their local labor markets, international recruitment is becoming an interesting option for many companies in Europe. … Read more
Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn
If you work in recruiting and you are not personally worried about an upcoming downturn, realize that many others are thinking about it. For example, … 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
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
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
‘Corporate Skill Pivots’ May Signal the End of the Permanent Employees
Forget the job threats created by the march of the robots, because the new skill sets required by radical new technologies are much more likely to cause … Read more
Fixing the Talent Shortage: Drop the College Degree Requirement
After serving their country and gaining valuable experience in the process, many of our nation’s veterans still struggle to find jobs when they return … Read more
The First Step to Creating an Equitable Company Culture Is Asking the Right Questions
I recently asked my Facebook friends, many of whom are in staffing, if they noticed that leaders in recruiting are disproportionately male. I explained … Read more
Survey Finds You Gotta Know How to Recruit Vets If You Want to Hire the Very Best Ones
With Veterans Day coming on November 11, it’s an occasion to again raise a very good question — “Why aren’t we doing more to hire … Read more
What We Should Take Away From Amazon’s Embedding Bias in Its Algorithm and Stopping the Project
A while ago I wrote an article warning recruiters about embedding their bias in their selection algorithms. The problem, as I described, is we all have a … Read more