I originally wrote about this topic on May 17, 2016, in a blog post called "How to Get Talent Pool Insights from LinkedIn". In the past seven years, I have continued to use these talent pool insights, but I have…

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Recently, I conducted a poll on LinkedIn to gather feedback on how soon candidates would prefer to receive a…

The job title of a job posting is crucial to its success in attracting potential candidates. Just like how copywriters put a lot of thought into crafting headlines for advertisements, recruiters should also put in the effort to…

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This scenario has played out many times over the decades and more so recently. You email a candidate or call an applicant and one of the first questions the person asks is, "how much does this role pay?" Recruiters and hiring managers for decades have considered this…

Issue #1 - published on December 27, 2022

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Lately, I have had much free time as I am a corporate recruiter between jobs in December. So I have been focusing on my development and taking many LinkedIn Learning courses. This week I took the course called "…

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I am starting a corporate recruiting focused mastermind group:

Purpose: sourcing and recruiting more “A-players” to our companies while striving to become world-class recruiters.

During the bi-weekly meetings, you get to tap into the collective minds of the group to solve your biggest sourcing and recruiting challenges.

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At the end of last year, ERE published an article called “9 Talent-acquisition Trends to Watch for in 2017.”  I was excited to see one of the bullet points was as follows:

A/B testing will become a critical factor in the battle for talent. Do fewer candidates drop off during the application process if you reduce your number of screening questions? Is a candidate…

That’s right another joins in…the New York City Council has enacted legislation (effective in 180 days) prohibiting employers from inquiring about a job applicant’s “salary history.”   They are not the only ones.  There are several cities and states thinking about passing similar laws – some already have.  For example, Philadelphia passed…

From what I can see, it seems most companies still ask for cover letters.  Isn’t this just one more hurdle and inconvenience to make applicants go through that really doesn’t add value?

Based on my experience, cover letters are not needed anymore.  I know I am not alone in this (from speaking with peers), but I have not read a cover letter in years.  By and large, we don’t care what is on the cover letter.  Everything we need to see should be on the resume.…

I have been a recruiter for a long time and spoken with a lot of my peers about this. In the end, I think Human Resources/Talent Acquisition has messed up the possibility of being partners to many hiring managers. We keep saying hiring managers are our primary customers. There is a difference between customers and partners.

We also all have heard the phrase, “the customer is always right.” Some of us send out hiring manager satisfaction surveys and others have them integrated into the…

Per the Global Recruiting Trends 2017 by LinkedIn, in the top 3 of recruiting metrics we see “length of stay” and “hiring manager satisfaction.” Both of these point towards quality of hire. Another main recruiting metric is “time to fill,” but this metric…

The first thing potential job seekers see is the job title. It is the job titles that come up when searches are done on company job boards and more importantly on career sites (like Monster, Careerbuilder, etc.). So to stand out and get the best from those pools of talent, it is vitally important to have great job titles. Copywriters know that the most important part of an…