When job boards first launched, they were supposed to be like stock exchanges — a clearinghouse matching jobs with candidates. This was the future: … Read more
Recruiters: Your Days Are Numbered
Recruiting can be boiled down to three critical ingredients that make up the mix: sourcing, screening, and verifying. A traditionally manual function of … Read more
‘Apply with LinkedIn’ Is a Double-Edged Sword
Thanks to the Apply with LinkedIn button, 175 million LinkedIn members are just a click away from applying to any job on the network. But is this good for … Read more
8 Questions to Measure Your Behavioral Interviewing Competence
If you think Behavioral Event Interviews consist only of questions, think again. Highly structured interviews have a long history of accurately predicting … Read more
10 Companies With Fantastic Career Sites and What You Can Learn From Them
Following up our recent article about the 12 things you could do to improve your careers pages, we’ve listed 10 companies with great looking careers sites … Read more
What Thanksgiving Teaches Us About the Importance of Culture Fit
I have spoken numerous times about both the benefits and the potential detriments of using cultural fit in the hiring process. On one side many hiring … Read more
C’mon Man! Facebook Stumbles out of the Gate With Social Jobs Application
Forbes said that recruiting will never be the same. I said in July that a Facebook-driven job board has potential. And after several false starts this … Read more
Tell Your Recruits They Can Work Anytime, Anywhere
In my last role, I worked out of my home in Los Angeles leading a team at the company’s headquarters in London. We had 9,000 kilometers and eight … Read more
Hey Facebook: Get a Real Job
Big news came from Facebook: the largest social network in the world enters the 400 billion-worth market of job search and recruitment! I’m not sure … Read more
Stop Killing My Passive Candidate!
My philosophy is that the best candidate is the one who is not, and does not need to look for a position. I am finding that in the past 12 months, there … Read more