In today’s business world, an employer looking to hire must start thinking like the coach of a sports team — a coach like Mike Babcock, famous for coaching the Detroit Red Wings, two Canadian Gold Medal Winning Olympic Hockey teams, and the Toronto Maple Leafs, selects players not only for their existing skills and knowledge of the game, but also for their…

Millennials are on track to surpass baby boomers as the largest group. When this happens, millennials will be the dominant force in the workplace and in various other spheres of life. But even now, millennials are changing the workplace for the better. The great thing about this is that most of the changes will make life easier for employers.

More Democracy

Businesses are adopting a more democratic approach.…

Recruiting without LinkedIn just isn’t possible.

We don’t need a website. Our company is on LinkedIn.

I don’t need an applicant tracking system. I source my candidates on LinkedIn.

You are a smart, savvy and successful recruiter. And you’ve tethered your livelihood to a platform over which you have little (if…

What’s the secret to a great job description? Simplicity is key, as is clarity. Showing your company’s human side helps too.

The economy is rising again, and some companies are starting to hire for more roles . Finding good talent is one of the most common challenges companies face. When looking for the right person, a good job description is the first step you should take.

The bad news for job seekers is that the majority of job descriptions are long, rigid and…

Is your company looking to add employees this year and do you have questions about the many different options within the search firm market?

CHROs and human resource professionals taxed with consistently maintaining, optimizing and expanding their talent supply chain may find themselves having to consider whether outsourcing recruitment to an…

Why You Are Not Getting Interviews (Even with All That Manger Experience)

As a principal in a national healthcare recruiting firm, I have read thousands of resumes. Some are good, some are excellent and some are just plain bad. The quality of the information you provide to prospective employers or a recruiter has a huge impact…

One of the most astonishing responses we encounter when informing prospective clients of the importance of having and maintaining a high-functioning, well-designed website is, “I have plenty of clients. I don’t need new ones.” I believe you’d be hard pressed to examine a successful business that stopped seeking to grow its base. Another diversion to the idea…

Efficient candidate sourcing is a major issue that all recruitment agencies, job boards and employers face. Everyone wants to improve their ROIs, but with such high costs and such dominant players taking over the industry, it is one of the biggest struggles in recruitment today.

Job boards are heavily relied upon. Much to recruiters’ and employers’…

Sourcecon Spring 2017!! The Aftermath

Sourcecon spring 2017 has come and gone and starting next week I will be posting my breakdown. For this post we will cover a few of the special events. 

The pre-Sourcecon training event done by the great Mark Tortorici. This was a half day of tips, tricks, tools…

There's so much information out there about Applicant Tracking Systems, isn't there?

So many tools, so many integrations, so many ways an ATS can serve you.

So we're stripping it back down to basics with this post: Just 5 great features of an ATS that might be of interest to you.

1. Application…

Be deliberate about making it so

Unless you’ve been in a cave lately you have noticed the media making noise about diversity in the workplace. Some high profile companies have landed in hot water over a reported lack of diversity and even harassment. I truly don’t believe that most startup companies intend to lack diversity…

The past month’s news brought yet another cautionary tale about what happens when companies deprioritize diversity. While we all claim that diversity matters, we put it on the backburner while we focus on revenue growth and product innovation. However, a new report from…

As I discussed a few weeks ago, diversification within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) sector is a major issue. Although the majority of the workforce is comprised of women, very few women have tech jobs. And a similar issue is posed with minorities. Diversification within the tech industry is a slow-going revolution. Which strikes me as…

I wrote this in response to a clever post (although my jaded viewpoint usually sees these kinds of rants as picayune and entirely ignorant of the "Black Art" of recruiting and its enormous complexities: https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6246177412950949889)…

Millennials are lazy, expect everything to be handed to them and they’re impatient about it. Well that’s what we’ve all read over the last few years. This isn’t another blog picking apart these points, mainly because I don’t agree with it, but also because I’ve begun to experience what some are calling the…

According to Business.com, 75% of consumers determine an organization’s credibility simply on their website design. Before you have a chance to wow visitors with your accolades and accomplishments, you have likely already lost them if your digital façade is outdated and uninviting. But simply creating an attractive front page doesn’t mask other problems that…

One of the hottest issues of tech recruiting is keeping pace with all of the technology updates, IT industry buzzwords and the terminology. 

Every week Software Engineers receive hundreds of letters and calls from different recruiters all over the world. And traditionally, the…

Authenticity is a word that is probably said too often in the marketing world. Endless rhetoric on why being authentic, genuine and real (especially when it comes to those pesky millennials) is the only way to…