Looking Back, Looking Forward

Recruiting, Work, and Learning Changes This DecadeThis article is a bit different. It takes a very high-level look at how this decade compares to the same decade roughly 100 years ago. It looks at the changes and differences in work, hiring, recruiting, and learning....

Does Culture Fit Matter?

Have you ever hired that dream candidate who met every criterion of the position, was courted by the hiring manager, negotiated that huge sign-on bonus, and then crashed and burned within a few months?There are hundreds of stories like this. Candidates with a great...

Seven Recruiting Predictions for 2023

Last week’s poll results are at the end of this article#1. Hiring will remain robust Talent remains constrained. Even with significant layoffs, firms still seek people with needed skills.  Many laid-off workers are being picked up by smaller firms that could not...

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...

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...