A recruiting or sourcing career can be remarkably rewarding. Helping connect people to jobs is one of the most satisfying professional pursuits imaginable, … Read more
Are You Unconsciously Competent as a Sourcer?
How do you tell your ____________ what you do for a living? Whether it’s recruiting or sourcing, or (gasp) headunting, it’s always an … Read more
Why Recruiting And Vampire Slaying Are Just About the Same Thing
In folklore, a silver bullet is the only weapon that can take down The Big Bad: a werewolf, a witch, or another creepy creature that’s looming over you. In … Read more
Stop Throwing Recruiting Under the Bus!
There are thousands of startups in Silicon Valley who all aspire to be the next Google. Unlike Google, they don’t pro-actively invest in the resources to … Read more
The ATS World: Coming Up Short
In the early 2000s, I had just started working in recruiting and didn’t know anything about the industry or its tools. My first week on the job, the … Read more
Social Recruiting: Too Important for Interns
At ah HR event earlier this month, I advised organizations on adding more social media to their 2014 talent acquisition efforts. Since then, I’ve … Read more
Social Recruiting and Sourcing: What’s The Difference? by @JimStroud
Do you believe in serendipity? I do, kind of, especially today. I was sitting in a lotus position after defending a visiting diplomat from an incursion of … Read more
Jobs Are Available for Those Who Want to Work Hard
As I watched the news the past couple of days, the newest hot debate is over extending unemployment benefits. The previous extension has expired, and the … Read more
When We Connect the ‘Global Integration’ Dots, Recruiters Risk Being Defined Here by Their Practices There
The hiring process has no minimum acceptable (or unacceptable) standard of practice. Anything goes and many recruiters prefer it that way. Perhaps … Read more
Employer Branding: Don’t Get Taken in By the Waffle
Every few years our business lexicon gets invaded by a new cliche. Management speak like “big data” and “social hiring” … vague terms that no one can … Read more