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Recruiting & What Never Changes: Hiring Managers

I inadvertently took a trip down memory lane when telling a colleague how I got into recruiting and what...

Let me first start by saying I love being an HR professional. I love the insight that the profession...

Do you really believe that today’s U.S. unemployment rate is at the lowest level since 1969? Well I don’t,...

I was speaking to a group of HR pros and leaders recently and this 50-ish-year-old guy says this to...

Brown-noser. Suck-up. Kiss-A**. These are the terms you’ll hear. Pay them no mind, white-collar worker. You’re here to win....

From the technology we use, to how we approach candidate engagement, so much around the recruiting and hiring process...

I have known that distinct smell of marijuana ever since I was in middle school. The year was 1975,...

Ready for some mansplaining? Good, because I’m a guy, and damn, it seems like companies are having a hard...

Recently, I’ve been given the opportunity to train a couple of co-workers on sourcing. Somehow someone heard that I...

That’s a loaded/trick question. You probably reacted to that by thinking, “We have nothing if we don’t have trust.”...

I live in Austin, home to many awesome live entertainment venues. In the past month I’ve been able to...

Complaining will do nothing but make your “time to fill” metric exceed the 58-63 day period that is currently...

Not a day goes by without someone asking me how they can quit their job and become a consultant,...

Employee engagement continues to be a challenge for organizations of all shapes and sizes. The road map to tackling...

I’m a huge proponent of developing your employees. I was raised by a Baby Boomer who would tell me,...

I’m going to say something a little unpopular, especially among the big agencies who want to charge you 6...

Gather ’round the campfire, kids, because I’m here with a story from a galaxy far away, a time when...

I started today’s post with the idea to riff on JTBD (that’s “jobs to be done” for those in...

Hey manager Mommie Dearest–could your mentoring do more harm than good? I am a fan of mentorships. I like...

Last year, I wrote about how recruiting had finally reached the tipping point: forcing recruiters to treat candidates more...