HR professionals have designed, built, torn down, and rebuilt many things to enhance talent acquisition: processes, procedures, metrics, sourcing channels, … Read more
Hiring a Jedi: What’s With the Spread of So Many Strange Job Titles?
Job titles are getting stranger by the hour It might be fun as heck to tell your friends that you’re a professional rock star, but attracting others with … Read more
A Rapping Recruiter Rounds Out Our Roundup
Finally, Friday! If your week was as long as ours, you’ll appreciate that today’s roundup isn’t going to take too much of anything … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Do Your Interview Questions Look For Positive Outcomes?
The way you word your questions determines the kinds of answers you get. The answers you get determine whether the decisions you make are based on good … Read more
How to Get a Job: A Classic Cover Letter You’ll Never Forget
Editor’s note: Sometimes, readers ask about past TLNT articles that they have heard about but may have missed. That’s why every Friday we’re … Read more
Bacon Carts And Public Displays Of Creative Recruiting
There are a lot of things people will do to recruit tech hires. And apparently, it is all about the bacon. By bacon, I mean the smoked pork product of … Read more
Key Interview Elements: Getting at a Candidate’s Capability, Passion & Fit
When hiring, we can easily assess whether a candidate for a role has the necessary capabilities, or skills, to perform that role by evaluating their work … Read more
Blip or Omen? Divining the Significance of the March Jobs Numbers
While all eyes last week were focused on the disappointing March job numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report contained a curious blip … Read more
Harnessing the Power of Social Media – Without the Headache
The Kony 2012 film has more than 87 million hits on YouTube. Invisible Children, Inc. has more than 3.2 million members on Facebook. Kony 2012 – … Read more
5+1 Best Practices of Top-performing Recruiters
In more 10 years in the staffing industry in various operational, managerial, and corporate roles and in different countries, I have interviewed, coached, … Read more