The drumbeat has been loud and long, and it always comes down to the same issue: we have a huge shortage of engineering and other skilled talent here in … Read more
The Candidate Experience: It Can Make or Break Your Employer Brand
A positive candidate experience can do wonders for an employer brand. On the other hand, a negative experience can really do some damage. In a … Read more
Fed Economists: 2 More Years Before U.S. Labor Market Returns to Normal
Unless new economic shocks upset the rate of improvement, it will take at least two more years before the U.S. labor market returns to its historic norms. … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: What If We Had to Tell Applicants the Whole Truth?
This post was inspired by a call I just took from a local charity, the Texas Highway Patrol Association, looking to raise money for officers injured or … Read more
3 Methods to Find Top Millennial Hires
Millennials seem to be making a lot of headlines recently. News sources talk of the generation that can’t comprehend a world before the internet. This Time … Read more
Generation U: Too Many Underemployed College Grads
Recent college grads today face some of the worst job prospects since the great depression. A survey by the Associated Press found that over 50 percent … Read more
New Survey Highlights the Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2013
One of the paradoxes of the current economic recovery is this: despite a national employment rate at 7.6 percent and nearly 12 million Americans out of … Read more
A Key to Recruiting Success: Bridging the Gap Between Recruiting & Hiring
There is a growing disconnect in the world of talent acquisition these days. Though many business leaders track quantifiable metrics to measure efficiency … Read more
If You Want to Move Fast, Don’t Define It Like a Hiring Manager Does
I’ve been in recruiting now for 20 years. Can you believe it! That I started recruiting at 10-years-old. The other day I was thinking about how the word … Read more
How Applicant Tracking Software Kills Individualism
Everyone is the same and only our generic skill sets and years parked at office desks can separate us. That’s what most applicant tracking software would … Read more