Let’s play a guessing game. Guess the average CEO pay in 2018 across America’s largest corporations. I’ll give you a hint. It’s increased 940 percent in … Read more
Recruiting in Europe? How Talent Acquisition Differs Overseas
When we talk about regional differences in employment regulations, the uniqueness of the American at-will employment contract often comes up. In most other … Read more
Google for Jobs’ Impact on Job Boards
Is Google for Jobs the end of the job board? Although it’s not launched in most European countries yet, the major European job boards seem to think … Read more
Does Sociology Hold the Secret To Diversity Hiring?
How can sociology — the study of social interactions, relationships, and patterns –be the key to helping you create a more diverse … Read more
Philips Is Trying to Implement a True ‘Gig Economy’ Talent-acquisition Model
Philips North America is trying to go where few organizations have gone. Its talent-acquisition and talent-management leaders are working with business … Read more
Recruiting for Apollo
Getting to the moon, 50 years ago as of July 20, required an army of scientists, engineers, and technicians, recruited to work on developing technology and … Read more
This Huge Organization Is Using an Intriguing New Tool to Forecast Its Difficulty in Recruiting
An organization that brings on more than 70,000 hires annually has contracted with a small group of number-crunchers to build it a fascinating … Read more
What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything (Part 2 of 2)
You can’t read a business publication these days without hearing about the gig economy and how it can help companies. However, despite the hype, the … Read more
How Tech Leaders Can Fill the C-Suite Pipeline and Keep It Full
Earlier this year, two top executives left Facebook following disagreements with Mark Zuckerberg. These departures are high-profile examples of what’s at … Read more
Tactics to Achieving Your Diversity and Inclusion Goals
A very popular rallying cry for diversity and inclusion initiatives that leads the many blog posts on the topic comes from McKinsey, which found that … Read more
What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything (Part 1 of 2)
The gig economy has become a hot workforce topic. However, despite the hype, the concept has numerous hidden management problems. Recently, executives have … Read more
Have You ‘Ubered’ Talent Yet? If Not …What’s Holding You Back?
If you remember the days when we used to have to stand on city streets in downpours, hoping to spot a taxi with a light on that might deign to stop if we … Read more
How to Develop a ‘Glocal’ Employee Value Proposition
In 2010 I got a call from an internal headhunter about a potential job at Roche. “Head of Employer Branding.” “What???” I had been in recruitment for … Read more
30 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Tech Specialist
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln So, you’ve got a tree … I mean … Read more
Fixing the Relationship Between Tech Recruiters and Developers
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