Don’t we all… One of the old tricks that recruiting firms used to be able to pull was playing up the size of their database. Because once upon a time, that mattered. Now, literally everyone has access to the same data. Anyone with a LinkedIn Recruiter...
Awful time to be in your 20s. Work wise anyway. The unemployment rate is under 4%. Unless you’re in your 20s. Then it’s 12%. You read that correctly. This article on CNN (citing BLS statistics) popped up in my feed. There’s a few factors here: 👉No one wants to...
Stop with this already If you believe that “Quiet Quitting” exists, then you can’t also believe that employed candidates are automatically better. (That could be the entire post, but I’ll continue.) One of the biggest biases we see in recruiting – and this has been...
Probably the only edition I’ll do but it sounds more official that way. As much as I love numbers, I hate numbers. When you trick yourself into paying attention to the wrong stuff – because some metrics sound plausible – you end up making dumb decisions....
Also, they’re not job descriptions When potential clients ask, “How do you find your candidates” they’re really asking, “Are you just posting jobs? If so, we don’t need you because we already do that.” Full disclosure: the majority of our placements (90%+) are...
If you can’t, I have news… Your recruiting partner should be able to outperform your internal team. That might sound controversial to some, but it’s not. It’s common sense. Why would you hire a company to do something that you could do better, faster, and...
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