Maybe it always is? Compensation is a trainwreck right now. Let’s review the last few years: 👉Post-financial crisis until 2020. A decade of good times where people got accustomed to salaries inching higher every year. Companies just baked it into the cost of doing...
Meet the new year. Same as the old year. No matter who I talk to. What industry they work in. Everyone hates meetings. There’s a reason why “this meeting could have been an email” became such a popular meme. (I miss the days when it was played out. Man, I laughed...
Say what? Finding candidates is the easiest part of hiring. You’re either dumbfounded by me making that statement or you’re nodding your head saying “thanks Captain Obvious.” The biggest challenge to companies with not-yet-fully-baked hiring processes is the idea that...
Friendly reminder that tech doesn’t actually do your job for you. My worry over the too-much-too-fast proliferation of RecruitTech: both internal teams and agencies will choose bots over brains. The candidate experience will suffer (more than it already has)....
No link, just the high points. Snippet from an actual job ad: “Yes, you will be quizzed on this.” 3 times! I’ll lead with the takeaway: changing your messaging to overcorrect for 1 bad hire/experience makes you sound like an idiot. I mean, that’s...
Meet the new plan, same as the old plan. Prediction for 2025: Businesses will repeat past mistakes by hiring internal recruiters for short-term needs, only to lay them off at the first hint of a downturn uncertainty. Yup, starting my Tuesday in full cynicism mode....
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