Standardized interviews, questionnaires, complex scoring systems, background checks, drug tests and personality assessments — Corporate America has … Read more
EEOC Loses a Battle In Its War on Background Checks
By Eric B. Meyer Late last year, in this post, I highlighted the six issues that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission prioritized in its … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: What I Would Ask If I Could Only Ask 1 Interview Question
If I could ask only one question in an interview, it would be … Here is the one question I would ask in an interview as well as some, but not all, of … Read more
Hiring Managers Give 10 Epic Job Pitches, and 10 Huge Failures
By Eric B. Meyer When applying for a new job, you need more than just a resume to stand out from the crowd. But, go too far, and you crash, burn, and … 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
The New Hiring Mantra: Finding Candidates With Great Cultural “Fit”
On average, people spend nine (9) hours of their day at work. Projecting this over an entire lifetime, we face a very big, somewhat scary number. When you … Read more
The Quick Guide to Being a Great Hiring Manager
Let’s face it — most of the hiring at the average company isn’t lead by HR. Sure, HR has an important hand in the pot, but ultimately it’s the hiring … Read more
Best Companies to Work For Are Mostly Pretty Bad With Job Candidates
If God hadn’t promised Noah to never again flood the Earth again, most of America’s best companies to work for would be moving to higher ground about now. … Read more
Shrinking College Enrollment Makes HR’s Job That Much Harder
Colleges and universities will have fewer students this fall as enrollments are falling across the board. The reasons? It’s a number of factors – a decline … Read more
Bullhorn Finds Agency Sales Teams Are Biggest Users of Mobile
Search and staffing firms have been slow to adopt mobile recruiting practices that many of their corporate counterparts have been using in ever-expanding … Read more