If you want to know what real people think about work If you want to know what issues ‘normal’ people face at work: log off LinkedIn. And Twitter. And TikTok. Ditch the social echo chamber. I’m still in close contact with a few dozen friends from college. Daily chats....
Flashback to my early days Early in my career, I submitted a candidate to a long time client who made it to the final interview. As a conversation starter, the exec off-handedly asked “so how’d you come across us?” to which the candidate replied “oh, I saw the job ad...
Or are expectations just out of whack? The great Mitch Sullivan dropped this comment last week: (I was originally going to nerd out and write about the cost of external vs internal hiring as it relates to efficient market theory, but I’ll spare you for now. For...
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...
Good old fashioned sematic discussion 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 you.” I’ll clarify: everything...
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...
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