The Coming Tough Times & Recruiting Inefficiencies

Survival StrategiesThe Information has been reporting the increasing number of layoffs in the tech industry. Start-ups and early-stage firms seem to be the first to cut staff, primarily to conserve cash as easy-to-got funding dries up.While the number of open jobs...

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A private space for us to converse and connectToday I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: the Future of Talent Weekly Newsletter subscriber chat.This is a conversation space in the Substack app that I set up exclusively for my subscribers —...

Improving Candidate Engagement

Simplify & Streamline the Candidate/Machine InterfaceRecruiting, like so many other services, is undergoing massive disruption. The expectations of hiring managers, job seekers, candidates, and employees have shifted from passive to active and from acceptance to...

A New Look At Which Job Skills Are Critical

The Rise of Innovation, Diversity, and TeamworkThe pandemic, artificial intelligence, and remote access have changed work and, along with it, the focus of recruiting.Over the past twenty years, The focus of much recruiting has been on hiring highly skilled and...

Women are Stressed and Angry

Strategies for Change Women report high levels of stress and burnout as they juggle work, family, and household responsibilities.  Even though we supposedly live in a more egalitarian society, the home, cooking, and childcare responsibilities still fall primarily on...

Love the Rebels – Hiring for Innovation

Emerging Trends in Hiring Job RequirementsIn 2019, Ukraine elected a very unconventional president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky was a comedian and an actor with no political experience. One newspaper wrote,“Ukrainians are waking up this morning and discovering that...

Creating the Recruiting “Experience”

Lessons From the World of RetailingIt is increasingly difficult to recruit solely on the basis of salary or benefits or even on the merits of a particular job.  With everyone offering almost the same packages, tweaked and customized as they are, how can an...

Measuring Success Objectively

Quantifying ValueRecruiters have not paid very much attention to the quantitative side of the quality of hire. We frequently talk about hiring manager satisfaction and other subjective measures of quality. Still, I don’t know of any recruiting function that has even...

Talent Intelligence Matters

How Much You Know About Who – That’s What really CountsIt’s not who you know or what you know that makes you an effective recruiter. Those are pluses and increase the odds that you will succeed, but what really counts is what you know about others. The more...