Maybe you’ve discovered a placement from a mass resume emailing. Or maybe you were tracking one, and thought the client was working from the resume … Read more
Six Odd Things People Put on Their Résumé
After a decade or so in the recruiting and career services business, you may think you’ve seen it all. Then you get another résumé so bad that you wonder … Read more
The Top 25 Recruiting Trends, Problems, and Opportunities for 2014, Part 1 of 2
Even if you work in a corporate recruiting function with low resources or minimal expectations for change, every recruiter still has a professional … Read more
5 Secrets to Effective Recruiting
Recruiting great employees is very difficult and, often is more complex than people perceive it to be. After running a headhunting firm for the past 10 … Read more
6 Reasons Why Overachievers Frequently Under-deliver
As a fresh crop of recent college graduates hits the job market, big hiring enterprises are out to harvest the cream of the crop. Summa cum laud graduates … Read more
A Simple Guide to Interviewing for Attitude
Mark Murphy wrote a terrific book on interviewing for attitude, which I highly recommend (also see this interview). His company, Leadership IQ, conducted … Read more
The Future of Resumes: Would You Believe We’ll Use a Digital Backpack?
What do Mozilla, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Obama Administration all have in common? If you said, “This sounds like the set up for an unfunny … Read more
Sacred Cows and Silly Practices Die Slowly in Recruiting
Recruiting is full of practices that seem to last forever. Unfortunately, many practices endure for years despite the fact that they add no value to the … Read more
The Future of Work
Imagine a world without resumes. For some recruiters, it sounds like a dream; for others, a nightmare that would make it impossible to find people … Read more
A Resume Is So Yesterday. Your Candidates Need Portfolios
I have some ideas as to how I am going to approach this and would like for you to take a look and give me your thoughts. My response was as usual, “Talk to … Read more