Four Lessons We Should Have Learned This Year

Adversity is a great teacher, and the past two years have been some of the most adverse and professionally difficult that we will ever experience.This year, especially, has been a year of paradoxes and contradictions: There are thousands of job openings but few...

The Purpose of Recruiting

Avoid Getting Laid off – Become a Talent Analyst & Solution Provider Why do organizations have a recruiting function? In small businesses, the owners usually take responsibility for recruiting. They advertise in local papers, place signs in their window, and...

The Causes & Cures of Talent Shortages

Most of the shortages we created and can reduceTech companies have laid off thousands of people recently. The irony is these same firms spent the past several years struggling to find enough talent. With inflated expectations of growth, they vastly overhired. The...

The Coming Tough Times & Recruiting Inefficiencies

Survival StrategiesThe Information has been reporting the increasing number of layoffs in the tech industry. Start-ups and early-stage firms seem to be the first to cut staff, primarily to conserve cash as easy-to-got funding dries up.While the number of open jobs...

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A private space for us to converse and connectToday I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: the Future of Talent Weekly Newsletter subscriber chat.This is a conversation space in the Substack app that I set up exclusively for my subscribers —...