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Choose door #3
There's 2 traditional solutions and they're both garbage Want to see how much of a failure traditional recruitment “solutions” are? Just look at your typical small-becoming-a-mid-sized business. The ones that crushed it with referral hiring. Then hit the point where...
What A Modern Recruiting Partner Looks Like
What does good look like? Would you know it if you saw it? If you’ve tuned into our rants before, you certainly know what bad looks like. Heck, if you’ve ever used a firm to hire or look for a job, you’ve undoubtedly had a bad experience at some point yourself. But if...
Is ‘headhunting’ a bad word?
Good old fashioned sematic discussion https://vimeo.com/812413044 Is ‘headhunting’ a bad word? It’s the only accurate word, in my opinion. “Talent sourcing” doesn’t quite capture it. But I’ve had people use it then immediately comment “sorry, didn’t mean to offend...
What does ‘good’ look like in recruiting?
An un-rant It’s easy to complain about hiring or recruiting “being broken.” But what does good really look like? More specifically, in my realm of external recruiting, what should you expect in the ‘modern’ age? The core hang up with recruiting firms: it’s an industry...
What’s Working: Evolving As A Leader And Cultivating Vulnerability
In this episode, we're seeing double: Nicole is joined by her aunt, Nicole Magats, who is a Managing Director at Microsoft. They talk about working through perfectionism, seeking out feedback to improve, and learning to be vulnerable at work.
That time Monster was going to take our jobs
We having nothing to fear but the T-1000 https://vimeo.com/810146403 Once upon a time, Monster was going to put recruiting firms out of business. Yes, people believed that. In my early days, I had several people wonder why I got into recruiting because “the writing...
The Hirewell Hot Corner: March Madness / Recruiting for Top 5 and Cinderella Schools and Companies
In this week's episode, Dan and Louie welcome the Head of Talent Acquisition at HiveWatch, Cameron Khani to the show. The crew discusses the upcoming madness that is The Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball Tournaments and how every year top teams end up losing to what...
It’s over. The bots have won.
The LinkedIn/generative AI integration has begun It’s over. The bots have won. LinkedIn is integrating ChatGPT, or at least some version of generative AI. 👉Gizmodo article here. I have a love/hate relationship with technology. I love technology. I hate when it’s...
No One Understands Recruiting But Recruiters, Volume 3
And just like that, a trilogy happened. We’re right up there with The Lord of the Rings (the first ones), Star Wars (the first ones) and Creed (the movies, not the band.) Except we’re covering all the common misunderstandings normies have about the recruiting...
Contingent recruiting & gambling idioms
It struck me a couple paragraphs in tbh We only take on committed work. It ensures we have the time needed to deliver on projects. Efficient allocation of resources, as the kids call it. (The kids going to school for economics, anyway.) You know, what literally every...
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