By Eric B. Meyer I heard this story once about a law-school graduate who was looking for his first job out of school. He applied to several local … Read more
8 Great Talent Management Takeaways From the Super Bowl
A couple years back I was asked to outline “the future of talent management” in a talk at Google headquarters. Then as now, I predicted that the future of … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: What the Job Boards Don’t Want You to Know
Whale Path recently completed a study of how employers find new hires and reported that a majority of Americans making less than the median U.S. annual … Read more
Want to Hire Female Technology Professionals? So Does Everybody Else
Are there women in tech? Yes, but the truth is, not many. Certainly nowhere near their proportion to women in the workforce. Women are barely a quarter of … Read more
What It Takes to Get Hired at One of the Best Places to Work
I discussed before how companies on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list are experiencing huge amounts of growth in headcount. That post focused … Read more
Where to Find Contracting Job Orders
One of the first questions recruiters have when they consider adding contract staffing to their business model is, “Which companies should I target?” The … Read more
Big Data is Hot, But Sometimes, Small Data Is the Better Way to Go
The recruiting and HR world has been awash for the last year with talk about Big Data. It seems everywhere you turn you read another article describing how … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Ask Applicants For Their Last Performance Review
Since it often proves impossible to get meaningful references on job applicants, a copy of the last performance review can be an invaluable source of … Read more
3 Things That Should Define The Future Of Recruiting
The future of recruiting depends on the future of technology. As we’ve seen, man hangs on for dear life as technology progresses. The person (or company) … Read more
7 Steps To Saying Yes When They Ask “But Can You Deliver?”
In the press to take advantage of the slowly improving economy, a growing number of recruiting and staffing firms find themselves over-selling and … Read more