I will never forget the few moments I spent with Bryan Starbuck (founder of TalentSpring, now Talent Technology) in San Diego in 2010 when he shared one of … Read more
New Tools, SHRM’s Social Media Survey, and More In Today’s Roundup
News about internships, employee referrals, resumes searches, social media recruiting, and a video-oriented job board — it’s all in our … Read more
Acres of Recruiting Diamonds
Several years ago I read a book called Acres of Diamonds, a short book by Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister. The book, which is essentially was a speech … Read more
Love Writing Boolean Instead of Recruiting? Then Don’t Read This Post
Who doesn’t love writing Boolean search strings? There’s nothing like crafting a Boolean equation to find a software engineer with every single … Read more
Mid-Size Companies Choosing Tech Over Talent
“Technology — rather than hiring — is on the minds of most executives of mid-market companies.” So says Mid-Market Perspectives: … Read more
10 Common Mistakes of Sourcing
During her presentation on sourcing strategies that produce results this Monday at the Recruiting Innovation Summit, which took place at Facebook in Palo … Read more
The Medium is Not the Message: Busting the Conventional Wisdom in Social Media
Social media gets a lot of press. There seem to be millions of articles offering advice on how to succeed with social media, in business, in fundraising, … Read more
A Conspiracy That Is Grammatically Influenced
Inside this modest, even nondescript brick building is the Conspiracy. I capitalize it because I’m playing along with the preposterous notion that it … Read more
Strategic Market Research: What You Don’t Know Can Kill Your Recruiting (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this series I called out the need for the recruiting profession to embrace and make the business case for using market research to inform and … Read more
Re-branding BP
Our brand has taken an absolute battering over the last 18 months. –Jon Tait, of BP That’s for sure. (You’ve seen the coffee … Read more