How to Improve Your Applicant Drop-Off Rate
Applicant drop off rate is an underused HR metric, but recruiting teams must be able to measure it and...
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How Recruiters Can Use AI Interview Guides to Prevent Hiring Manager Mistakes
Learn how recruiters can use AI to generate structured interview guides that prevent common interview mistakes and help hiring...
From Search to Start: A Guide to Your Next Great Hire
Hiring and onboarding are high-stakes activities at small businesses. The right person can drive success, while a bad fit...
The Leadership Brand: The Missing Lever for Investor Confidence & Valuation
If you’re a CEO building a company for scale, investment, or sale, you already know what buyers and investors...
Why “Another ATS” Isn’t Enough Anymore—and What Comes Next!
I get pitched new recruiting technology all the time. New ATSs, new “AI-powered” platforms, new promises to fix what’s...
AI is everywhere in hiring—but is it actually making talent acquisition better? Or just faster?
In this episode of the Jim Stroud Podcast, host Jim Stroud sits down with Michelle Cass, global talent acquisition...
Skills Matter – But How They’re Used Matters More
The shift to skills-based hiring is undeniably positive. But let’s be clear: it’s just one step in a multi-step...
5 Recruiting Trends in 2026: What the Data Means for Recruitment Marketing
The recruiting market feels different than it did a couple of years ago, and the data behind today’s recruiting...
Why Scrolling Feels So Hard to Stop (And What Actually Helped Me)
I kept failing at my stop-scrolling goals until I tried something unexpectedly human: doing what I loved before productivity...
Every Resume Has a Nervous System: Why Hiring Breaks People Before It Hires Them
Recruiting looks clean on a dashboard. A funnel. A workflow. A timestamp. But every resume you skim is attached...
Why Your ATS Is Now the Most Important Hiring Decision You’ll Make
Your ATS drives hiring visibility and performance. Learn how the right system improves job distribution, candidate flow, and recruiting...
Why Bosses Panic & How To Fix It With The Bounce Back Factor
When bosses panic, they often default to toxic behaviors like yelling or shutting down because they lack the training...
The Best “Moneyball for HR!” Hiring Question of All Time
“Moneyball for HR!” is about using data to make better hiring decisions. This one question stops turnover in its...
The Most Important Hiring Question of All Time
This simple idea will begin a hiring revolution at your company and it needs to be on the first...
What if your top performer doesn’t breathe?
This episode brought to you by: Job Search 3.0 and The Recruiting Life newsletter. Links below. … You walk...
How Westland Insurance Is Driving Business Results with People Strategy
Culture is no longer “how it feels to work here.” It is how organizations compete. Insurance is one of...
Live Each Day Like It’s Your… First?
Living each day as if it were your last sounds like a wise ideal, but it may be one...
When “Free” Job Traffic Disappears: Why Organic Applicants Are No Longer Guaranteed
Organic job traffic isn’t guaranteed. Learn why relying on “free” applicants is risky and how diversified, paid sourcing creates...
Hiring is Broken and Can’t Be Fixed with Bandaids
Consider this. We’ve built elaborate systems – competency matrices, skills assessments, personality profiles, behavioral interviews with STAR frameworks –...
Unlocking Leadership Motivation: Beyond Positive Encouragement
I’ve been thinking recently about the concept of leadership motivation. Particularly around what we mean when we ask a...