With the nation’s labor shortage showing no signs of abating, talent acquisition teams are under enormous pressure to keep qualified candidates from … Read more
Understanding Recruiting Expectations vs. Reality
Expected business concerns predicted for 2021 were dramatically different from the challenges leaders actually faced last year. That’s the most notable … Read more
Employer Branding Can’t Fix a Poor Candidate Experience
It seemed like there was a reorg and a rebrand every six months. This was my experience back in the late 1990s when I managed marketing product and … Read more
The Return of Candidate Resentment
The Great Resignation — or Reshuffle or Rebooting or whatever you want to call it — isn’t the only talent trend that will be impacting employers in 2022. … Read more
¾ of Employers Fail to Seek Candidate Feedback
I don’t know if your candidates’ experience is great or terrible. And you might not know either. Research shows that only 26% of companies are … Read more
Recruiters Who Give Recruiting a Bad Name
It’s important to be open and upfront. Personally I take a lot of pride in candidate experience. I consider it one of my calling cards and it is of utmost … Read more
Best of ERE: Top 5 Candidate Experience Stories of 2021
I have a prediction for 2022. Candidates will still hate recruiters. OK, “hate” is a strong word. I get it. So here’s my prediction: … Read more
Recruiting Tech Should Stop Imitating Amazon and Yelp
I heard it early on in my career: Recruiting is sales. In some ways, that’s right. Part of your job might be contacting a lot of people. You could be told … Read more
Feelings Cannot Be Automated in Recruiting
Back in 2010, just about every headline had something to do with replacing the recruiter with a machine. Everyone wanted recruiting to be automated, with … Read more
The Simplest Steps That Lead to the Biggest Impact on Candidate Experience
In November, there were 10.9 million open jobs in the United States, a number that has more than doubled since the depth of the pandemic. With the Great … Read more