According to a recent USA Today article, the U.S. birthrate is in sharp decline and is at it’s lowest levels in the past 25 years. Here’s probably a few … Read more
What Drives Me Nuts About Staffing Agencies (and How They Can Work as a Better Partner)
(Editor’s note: With so many new ERE members coming on all the time, we thought that each week we’d republish one popular classic post. Here’s one, below.) … Read more
The Perfect Game Developer Recruiting Video? Now Featuring Profanity, Dissing Competitors
If you’ve ever met a game developer, you know that they can be interesting characters. While sourcing them can be a pain, it can help to have a big, … Read more
Candidates On Vacation? Connect With Them Using These 4 Methods
Traditionally, summer hasn’t been considered the best time to source and recruit new job candidates: as people take time off to travel and vacation, … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Insights Into Hiring First-Time Employees
Earlier this year, the Houston Chronicle ran an interview with a teen-ager on the subject of her first “real job.” Here are the highlights (a link to the … Read more
Take This Smog and Shove It (Or Ignore It and Sell the Weather)
Where’s it easier to get candidates to move to, and where’s it harder? That’s a question the search firm Heidrick & Struggles asked 50 of its U.S. … Read more
Facebook Is Seriously Revamping Internal Search… “Soon”
For those of you hoping that Facebook might go on to compete head-to-head against Google’s bread and butter search, you’ll have to wait a … Read more
8 Skills Recruiters Should Have
When I attend career fairs, hiring conferences, recruiting events, or through conversations with prospective candidates, I keep learning that the wrong … Read more
Amazon Takes Over Homepage to Announce New Employee Program As It Gears Up To Hire Thousands
As Amazon prepares to open two, massive warehouse facilities in the next six months or so, the company took the unprecedented step of announcing a new … Read more
Three Reasons Good Recruiters are Good at Recruiting
I was reminded this past week that recruiting is very hard. No, it’s not hard to post a job on your careers page and wait for a resume that you won’t … Read more