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
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
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?
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
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
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
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”
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.
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
Recruiter Realness: Surprise (Not Really)! There Are Racist Recruiters.
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
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
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”
[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…
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?
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