Is Culture Fit an Excuse to Be Biased?

Our current focus on bias, both overt and covert, brings up the question of culture fit. Is it as important as we seem to think? Numerous articles and videos tout that those who fit a corporate culture are more productive and stay longer. What research supports this,...

7 Ways We Created the Talent Shortage

Just about every consulting firm, CEO, hiring manager, and recruiter believes there is a significant shortage of qualified people, especially for positions requiring artificial intelligence experts, machine learning gurus, data scientists, and some engineering...

Candidates & Employees as Investors – Not Assets

It Changes EverythingCompanies often say that people are their most important asset. I have always found this term disingenuous and when I hear it I feel that we are all being disrespected. Am I making too much out of a word? I don’t believe so. Words are powerful and...

Data Literacy- The New Power Skill

Data & A.I. Dispel MythsIt is no secret that talent acquisition has been way behind in gathering and using data. While many recruiters sit on top of huge amounts of candidate data and could access additional data from the corporate HRIS, they rarely do or even...

4 Recruiting Memes, Themes, and Trends

These Have Changed Our WorldThe memes, themes, and trends below are not new or shocking. They are the culmination of years of experiments, failed attempts, new technologies, and evolving markets. All of these were going on even before the pandemic, but none of them...

Five Predictions for 2021

Thoughts on What’s ComingWelcome to 2021. Hopefully far better than 2020. This past year has accelerated trends already underway and altered how we think about remote work, socializing, learning, and much more. Numerous trends will permanently alter the...

2021: A New Beginning for Recruiting

Anticipation, Innovation, CollaborationWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar WildeWe have come to the end of a horrific year. Never in our lifetimes has the entire planet and almost every country been affected by anything similar...

The Talent Advisor

An Evolving RoleGiven the rise of artificial intelligence, automated tools, and the growth of RPO, much of what recruiters do will soon be automated or outsourced. I see the automation and outsourcing of talent acquisition as a tremendously positive trend. It puts...

Cross-Functional Recruiting Teams

The Power of Networks and Collaboration“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people” -Steve JobsRecruiting is no longer a one-person activity. There are too many candidates and requirements, too much geography, and too much...

The Future of Corporate Education

An Interview with Kevin Wheeler In 2005 I wrote a book called “The Corporate University Workbook” In it, I outlined several charters for a corporate university and suggested a structure and operating model. The world has significantly changed since 2005 and much of...