Recruiting Daily

JULY 20, 2016

That I’ve built a long track record of successful results, not to mention a ton of subject matter expertise and hands on experience, should be enough to at least ensure that I’m not summarily dismissed and disrespected just because I spent my career focused on the business of hiring.

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Social Talent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired : President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief productive officer. Patel (who has also worked at Lyft, Oracle, CNET and Kaggle, and who joined Hired 2 years ago), told me this isn’t as big a deal as you might think.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 26, 2016

I’m at that strange part of my career where I’m old enough to know better, which is why I find rookie recruiters so damned hilarious – because they, on the other hand, are just trying to figure it all out. Maybe it’s because they often leave the outside world at the door, too. In theory, at least.

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Great Hires

OCTOBER 12, 2015

There are 2800 companies that are tagged as Recruiting Startups on AngelList , of which 199 were added in August and September 2015. I decided to take a look at each of these recently added companies to see what trends can be gleaned from them. 3. Big data is a big deal for sourcing candidates.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

This is why I’m consigned to getting solicited for my opinion by manifold parties, all wanting me to impart some sort of sage advice or pat answer when I’m pretty sure no such thing exists, at least from my experience in this business. Candidates Lie. It’s a part of life.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 24, 2015

If you’re one of those recruiters who’s at all in tune with the conversation happening in closed Facebook groups, niche industry forums or consume content and commentary in the weird little world that is the recruiting related blogosphere, you’ve probably noticed a new trend surfacing on social.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Being a recruiter isn’t always easy. We talk a ton about “candidate experience,” but the truth is having a good experience works both ways, really, and most of the time, it’s the candidate treating the recruiter like s**t, not the other way around. That’s right.

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JobAdder

JANUARY 23, 2022

In 2022, if you want to attract and engage job seekers you need to offer a compelling and cohesive candidate experience that makes the most of the tech at your disposal. To help you and your team work towards this objective, we’ve pulled together 20 recruitment strategies for 2022. What is a recruitment strategy?

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JobAdder

JANUARY 23, 2022

In 2022, if you want to attract and engage job seekers you need to offer a compelling and cohesive candidate experience that makes the most of the tech at your disposal. To help you and your team work towards this objective, we’ve pulled together 20 recruitment strategies for 2022. What is a recruitment strategy?

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Ongig

APRIL 17, 2020

Awesome HR Blogs (Untrackable) — There’s a second list at the end of this article with blogs that ahrefs didn’t track in a fair, apples-to-apples way. Recruiting Blog. Recruiting Trends and Tips. Candidate Experience. Top 3 HR/Recruitment Blog Posts. Top 3 HR/Recruitment Blog Posts.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

Another post bashing recruiters. Because you just can’t get enough of people who don’t do your job talking about how damn bad you are at yours. But the thing is, I’m a recruiter, too – and I’m angry. The best recruiters are too busy recruiting to worry about this sort of personal branding BS.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 9, 2015

I’m a hell of a recruiter – and have a career’s worth of results to back me up. That’s why I like sharing them with you – I’ve dealt with enough crazy over the course of my career (and made enough mistakes, Lord knows) to at least provide a laugh, and hopefully, a learning opportunity.

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CareerBuilder

JANUARY 27, 2016

At first glance, this SHRM-sponsored event might not seem like a conference for recruiters. Recruiters are at the intersection of work, power, politics and money. HCI will help you go beyond the buzzwords and learn from leading practitioners at this truly impressive event. Learn more about the event.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

Recruiters are sinking their own ship, and meaningful advances seem effectively blockaded by general animosity and disdain for those of us who find ourselves at work in the business of finding work. Building A National Recruiting Association. Something new. Something better. Part of the Solution. after their names.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

And if you’ve been reading this blog at all, you already know many of mine – I hope you have as much fun hearing them as I do telling them. And every one of us has at least one or two real doozies, as my grandmother used to call them. “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.” .

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 28, 2015

These practitioners practice nothing but profiteering, at the expense of all of us in this profession who are actually, you know, professionals. Recruiters have a hard time trusting candidates because they think that they’ll do or say anything to get an offer (even when their background and references check out).

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

These so-called “recruiters” will, for the most part, wash out from the industry in a year or two, leaving nothing more than a black mark on the professional reputation for those of us who are in this because this is more than a job for us: it’s our lives’ work, our passion and our purpose.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

JULY 10, 2017

Because many firms need to change their staid image and to get prospects to view the firm as a fast-moving firm driven by technology, you should consider utilizing TV ads because they resulted in an eight times increase in applications at GE. Virtual reality recruiting is about to explode.

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JobAdder

JUNE 2, 2019

And we know what they complain about, and appreciate, when it comes to recruiters! Which means I have a keen awareness of your missed opportunities, such as the two examples below: The perfectly matched candidate who never makes it past the ATS into the “yes” pile. Look at your candidate experience honestly.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

Given the fact that I was no longer a #Talent42 newbie, the butterflies building in my stomach this time were not from being nervous at what to expect from this event, but rather, from excitement knowing exactly what was in store. Talent42, Part Deux: Sleepless in Seattle. Talent42: Listening Into the Puget Sound.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

This was the good life, no candidates or clients or coworkers to deal with. A guy could get used to this, I thought, sticking a twisty straw into a pineapple, the waves lapping at my feet. One thing was for sure: I did not miss recruiting. I really wish I worked at one of those companies that had unlimited PTO.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And let me tell you, you don’t need to be a job seeker to realize that most job descriptions fail at the one job – the ONE JOB – they have. How Crappy Job Descriptions Kill Candidate Experience. Which is, you guessed it, to describe a job. Lost In Translation: The True Cost of Crappy Job Postings.

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Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

At this point in my career, I’ve pretty much seen it all , or so I had thought, until a couple of weeks ago. Now, before I go too far, I’d like to reiterate my belief that recruiters, mostly, are good people, and that despite all of our transgressions, most of us have some sort of heart hidden in there. Gone Phishing.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 3, 2015

The discussion starts with defining what recruiting really entails. Now, most people would argue that recruiting is, at the least, a critical business ‘ discipline ’ (if not a legitimate ‘ profession ’, but more on that later). Transforming Recruiting From Occupation to Profession.

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Recruiting Blogs

JUNE 5, 2023

When thinking about recruiting and improving our recruitment processes, we as hiring managers and recruiters tend to assume that there are plenty of people looking for jobs. This is a great assumption and may be true at times, however, today the big issue in the US is that we have more jobs than people looking for work.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 31, 2016

We can sit around and talk until we’re blue in the face (and do) about how important candidate experience is, how ethical we are in our recruiting, how the employer brands we represent are genuinely great corporate citizens and even better companies to work for. Whatever helps you sleep at night, I suppose.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 5, 2015

So pretty much anything dense with a lot of war, incest and subtextual societal commentary – this is the stuff I was raised reading, and it’s kind of hard to revert to Down the Rabbit Hole by former Playboy Playmate Holly Madison, which at the time of this writing is one of the Top 5 best selling books in the world.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If your company has a database, whether in an ATS or another centralized repository where you’ve been storing resumes, you’re likely sitting on one of the biggest assets – and best data source – any talent acquisition function has at its disposal. Don’t believe me? But I digress. First off, it was slow.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 26, 2015

That’s the term Republican candidates like to throw out there to dismiss rivals’ Conservative credentials: “Republican in Name Only,” suggesting that like Optimus Prime, these purported Tea Party partisans are more than meets the eye. Or candidates, for that matter. That’s what we do.

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