In all of the HR/recruiting departments in which I have worked over the past 26 years, their idea of diversity was typically one Black person, usually me. … Read more
Staffing Pros Are Optimistic. Should They Be?
You probably don’t need to see more data, more stats to understand that the last several months have been a difficult period for the staffing industry, but … Read more
Do You Know That You Are Part of the Golden Age of Recruiting?
This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the tremendous progress that the recruiting profession has made Few in recruiting … Read more
Happy Global Talent-acquisition Day, Recruiters!
Happy Global TA Day, recruiters! (Celebrated each year, the first Wednesday in September.) Recruitment marketers like me celebrate your skills today! Let … 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
Use Emotional Intelligence in Your Recruiting
Emotional intelligence became popular in 1995 by Daniel Goleman, but has always been the core of psychology and sociology in helping understand human … Read more
10 Tips for Starting Your Own Technology Staffing Company
I’ve worked as a recruiter for J. Jill, SAP, and then started the boutique recruiting firm Boston Tech Talent, and offer you up these suggestions if … Read more
Turn the Tables and Interview Your Recruiting Firms
Three weeks ago, I was invited to pitch to a group of investors on behalf of a potential client: a Series B Silicon Valley startup. Our job, as the … Read more
3 Steps to Recruiting an Ideal Employee From a Client
All of us are currently on the lookout for ideal candidates. It’s an omnipresent issue when you consider that “82 percent of workers are seeking new job … Read more
Woah! Scout Just Raised How Much?
It’s not everyday a solutions provider in our space gets $100 million bucks in funding. But it just happened. Earlier this week, John Chuang, the CEO … Read more
The Power of Visibility as a Recruiter
Why is it so hard to find us, and consequently, get a hold of us as recruiters? Let us be better. Let us be easy to reach. Let us harness the power of … Read more
Automation, Text Messaging, and Lagging Confidence Showcase Hottest Recruiting Trends for 2018
Hot off the acquisition of TextRecruit by iCIMS, a new recruiting trends report from Bullhorn supports the strength of text messaging to communicate with … Read more
Recruitsy Aims to Become ‘Glassdoor’ for Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
We rate everything these days. Restaurants, employers, doctors, dog walkers — pretty much everyone and everything is under the microscope. … Read more
Why Online Reputation Management for Recruiters Is Important
Recruiters are some of the most externally facing people at the company. With that, their online reputation can make or break their ability to do their job … Read more
Landing My First CIO Placement
Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they’ll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they’ll bring you down. – Jason … Read more
Google Cloud Jobs API Is Now Cloud Job Discovery, Embraces ATSs, Staffing Agencies
Google for Jobs and Google Hire get all the attention, but the company’s job search API, which helps make search results on corporate career sites … Read more
Recruiters Are in No Way Immune to Depression
Depression, anxiety and other mental health issues affect many in the recruiting industry. It would be easy to overlook this because of how well recruiters … Read more
3 Staffing Executives Reveal Why Firms Should Embrace Automation
Automation is one of the most hotly debated topics in recruiting, but no matter what firms believe, automation is igniting change. According to our poll of … Read more
When a Recruiter Should Break Up with a Candidate
It’s not me, it’s you. No really, it’s you! Your candidate just rejected the offer. Or disappeared without a trace during the interview process. How could … Read more
If the Big Guy Gets a Break, Why Can’t ‘We the People?’
Dear U.S. Corporations: If the President of the United States gets a break on meeting the criteria and requirements of the job description — can we … Read more