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3 Reasons Your Candidate’s Experience Sucks 19 Apr 2011 | 06:13 am
I’m a huge believer that a Recruiting department can be as effective at branding a company as any marketing department. Think of how many people your recruiting teams come in contact with every day o...
Lessons on Social Media from Charlie Sheen 8 Mar 2011 | 05:15 am
I’ve recently turned my TV off. The cause of my discontent? No football and Charlie Sheen. It’s one thing to have 500 channels of *&%$ on the TV to choose from, it’s quite another to be assaulted b...
New Favorite word: Badvocate 23 Feb 2011 | 04:42 am
I believe the jury is still out on the “is social media a good thing or a bad thing for corporate recruiting” question. Everywhere I turn, I see recruiting departments dipping toes, jumping in or eve...
Black Hole 3.0 8 Dec 2010 | 02:57 am
Are we evolving, devolving or simply going in circles? The Black Hole of Recruiting is not new, it’s been around for a long time. Black Hole 1.0: The old joke in applying for a job used to be about...
Talent Community or Talent Network? 3 Dec 2010 | 06:27 am
It’s been a while since I posted and in that time I’ve been busy talking to companies about building groups of people they can communicate with about jobs. For those of us old timers, this was called...
Job Search 2010 (or “why are you treating me this way?”) 20 Aug 2010 | 05:22 am
I’ve recently begun volunteering with a group of professionals who are under or unemployed and looking for work. Wow, what an insight to “job search 2010”. Let me be clear, these are educated, exper...
Psst, there’s a party at my ATS tonight…. 15 Apr 2010 | 02:09 am
It may label me as a “geezer” but I went to High School before the Internet was invented. OK, once you stop laughing I’ll make my point. In “my day” – OK, now I’m officially a “geezer” – when my fol...
Your 2010 Talent Acquisition Dictionary 6 Feb 2010 | 02:05 am
This year, as you listen to pundits, experts and talking heads tell you about all the changes that need to be made in recruiting to bring respect and admiration for our profession (overhaul your proce...
Silver Bullets 2 Feb 2010 | 06:57 am
Most of you are familiar with “Silver Bullets” – whether you are a fan of The Lone Ranger (who used them) or of folklore where silver bullets were the only way to kill a werewolf, witch or other monst...
Unfriend 18 Nov 2009 | 05:04 am
Today the word “unfriend” was announced as the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year (WOTY) for 2009. How fitting. For those of you living in a cave for the greater part of this decade, “unfriend” is...
