Where is Our Profession Going?

by | Aug 30, 2023 | Uncategorized

Langdon was tired – really tired of his profession. He had been a recruiter for more than a decade. He had enjoyed it for the first few years. He felt he was helping his organization find the best people and helping people find jobs where they could excel. But lately,...

Why Do We Resist Automation?

by | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized

Is automation the inevitable future of recruitment? Will artificial intelligence replace the recruiter?These questions are asked frequently, and the opinions on both sides bounce around the Internet almost daily without resolution. Recruiters are more resistant to...

Eliminate Wasteful Recruiting

by | Aug 16, 2023 | Uncategorized

Simplify and Speed Up Your ProcessRecruiting is a wasteful process – filled with inefficiencies and administrivia. Using lean manufacturing concepts, waste is defined as any non-value-added process. Value-add means improving or moving a process to the next step with...

Maybe We Should Look at Employees Differently

by | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

NOTE: This is a guest post by Bas van de Haterd. I will be back next week.Employees are partners Last week this newsletter wrote about employees being viewed as assets but we don’t treat them like assets anyway. Because if we viewed an employee as an asset it would be...

I am NOT an Asset

by | Aug 2, 2023 | Uncategorized

Employees and Candidates as InvestorsCompanies often say that people are their most important asset. I have always found this term disingenuous, and when I hear it, I feel disrespected.Am I making too much out of a word? I don’t believe so. Words are powerful and...