Cultural Fit – Just an Excuse Not to Hire Someone?

A Potentially Biased Approach to HiringIs culture fit as important as we seem to think? A casual Google search brings up hundreds of articles espousing the benefits of culture fit and the need for candidates to fit that culture. People we hire that fit the culture are...

Do You Measure What Matters?

Analytics and Its Growing Value to TAData is the currency of this era and when it is collected and analyzed wisely it dispels assumptions and improves efficiency. For recruiters, data analysis can provde insights on who is the best fit for a positon and quality of...

Thoughts on This Thanksgiving Week

As we sit down this week to Thanksgiving dinner (here in the United States), let us be thankful for the new era that is dawning.The nature of business and work is rapidly evolving. Organizational structures are becoming less hierarchal, more nimble, and flexible....

Are You Up To The Challenges?

Today’s Many recruiting issuesBill Wall faced two choices: go back to the in-person office and a job he didn’t find challenging, although he was well-qualified to do it or continue to build up his fledgling Internet design company. The pandemic chose him. It...

Full-Stack Recruiter or Specialist?

And the Often Forgotten CandidateWhen I began my life in recruiting, there were no such people as sourcers, assessment experts, or social media managers.  We did it all – we were what is called full-cycle, or in more modern terminology, full-stack recruiters. ...

Traditional Recruiting Skills are Dead

What Are the Five Essential New Ones?There has never been a more challenging time to be a corporate recruiter. Exponential changes are occurring in candidate and worker attitudes, technology, and artificial intelligence advancements.  Yet, we are using processes,...

Three Ways to Win the Workers Back

Traditional Employment is in TroubleThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 4.3 million Americans, or 2.9% of the entire workforce, quit their jobs in August. From the U.K. to France and other EU countries, to China and elsewhere, this trend continues...

Upskilling and Reskilling Remote Workers

Virtual Learning, Simulation, and Virtual RealityHR and business executives place building skills and competencies as a priority.Given the likelihood that we will have a large portion of the workforce working remotely, how will organizations skill, reskill, or upskill...

The Great Shift

The Move to Real Work/Life BalanceJack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, once created a stir at a human resource conference by stating: “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”He...

Talent Shortages & Credential Inflation

Why We Should Not Focus on ‘A’ PlayersOne of the reasons for the talent shortage is the set of beliefs around what makes an exceptional employee or a so-called “A” player. For years high tech firms have only sought graduates of elite schools with high...