Dear Hiring Manager: You probably only hire a handful of people each year, and the recruiter assigned to your team has always done a reasonable job at … Read more
Do You Pass the Test?
It’s a funny thing, but everyone and their brother seems to think that developing a test is easy. Just put a few people in a room, brainstorm … Read more
Hire To Hurt: A High-Impact Recruiting Strategy
The world of business is highly competitive. Firms frequently introduce new products or run attack ads with the specific intention to hurt their direct … Read more
Using the One-Question Behavioral Interview
A while back, I introduced the best one-question behavioral interview of all time (although I’m often accused of using hyperbole, this wasn’t … Read more
A Perfect Week, The Perfect Day: Time Management for Recruiters
One of the best things about being a recruiter is that you can pretty much predict the events and activities that will occur during the day. It’s … Read more
Fixing the American Economy: A Recruiter’s Revolutionary Proposal
Something is terribly wrong. I can’t put my finger on its exact nature, but I know that America’s capacity for creating jobs and generating … Read more
Dreaming? A Success Story About What Could Be, Part 3
In Part 3 of this series, we again continue with the fictional success story of a recruiting director named Soren, who made some important changes to … Read more
Recruiting Redefined: The New Recruitment Models
Top-performing, passive job seekers have always been the holy grail of recruiting. But recruiting teams are not always structured to actively recruit top … Read more
Korporate Kulture Klan
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Thus stated, the road to litigation is often paved with the remnants of “good … Read more
Beyond the Status Quo: 3 Innovative Sourcing Tools
When it comes to using technology to re-invent the hiring process, we have the job boards to thank for getting the ball rolling. It was job boards that … Read more