There are many different new tools that allow an employer to try to measure someone’s personality using a job candidate’s social media … Read more
Settling for Your 2nd-Choice Candidate — The Most Expensive Mistake In Recruiting
This “think piece” is designed to call attention to the tremendous costs resulting from losing your first-choice candidate. “Settling for” a second-choice … Read more
Finding the Perfect Candidate Is More Than the Sum of a Scorecard
I’m not your typical writer for this website, in that I’m an employee, not a recruiter. Sometimes, however, it can be good to consider your practices from … Read more
Exclusion by Design in Recruitment Advertising
Earlier this year Facebook stopped allowing American advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of a certain race, gender, or age … Read more
Facebook Jobs Moves to Beef Up Content, Combat Spam
When Facebook started offering job listings to its billions of users in 2017, the list of partners who would be providing job content was pretty sparse, to … Read more
Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esports Team
Recruiters look for job experience and then sort by skill level. But an alternative is to look for “skills experience,” which better reveals hidden … Read more
Gig Platforms: Inspiration Rather Than Competition for the Recruitment Industry
While gig platforms have grown exponentially in the past five years, have attracted lots of media attention, and received heavy venture-capitalist … Read more
Improve Candidate Experience and Engagement by Asking Better Questions
We all love to hear ourselves talk, and we appreciate when others listen to us. In interviews, we can use this to our advantage by asking better questions. … Read more