How Did My Predictions for 2022 Hold Up?

I Score the Trends I Predicted Please take a look at the poll at the end of this columnAt the beginning of each new year, I look at my predictions for the previous year and see how well I did in looking into the future. It was a demanding year for recruiters. It was...

The Deconstruction of Recruiting

The Hard Choice Between being a Specialist or a GeneralistWhen I began my life in recruiting there were no such people as sourcers, or assessment experts, or social media managers.  We did it all ourselves – what is now being called full-cycle recruiting.  As...

Not All Jobs Are Equally Valuable

Why We Need to Focus Recruiting DifferentlyIn every organization, a handful of positions ultimately drive profits and success. These positions can be technical, sales, or even service-focused. They might be engineers who develop new products, top-performing...

How to Anticipate Future Talent Needs

Applying Scenario Planning to Talent PlanningPredicting the talent an organization will need, even in the short term, has become futile. The pandemic, global warming, the growing risk to computer systems from hackers, and the growth of artificial intelligence have...

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...