OpEd Category
Pour One Out For These Dead Recruiting Trends, Homies.
Posted on July 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
Recruiting and HR pundits sure seem to like writing obituaries. Hell, there’s an entire cannon of posts, white papers and corporate copy on the death of any number of human capital-related themes. Reading through this generic genre, everything from job boards to resumes (false) to LinkedIn (true) are either dead or on life support. Most […]
I’m Not In HR. Trust Me.
Posted on July 1, 2014 3 Comments
I haven’t written much recently, because the fact of the matter is I suck at writing on the road. When you train as a writer formally (which is to say, you pay to learn stuff you don’t need to know) and have silence and solipsism built into your process, it’s hard to find a corner […]
On Starting A Career
Posted on June 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
LinkedIn seems to be pimping this #IfIWere22 thing kind of hard, which is cute, considering that basically puts this retrospective series already out of the most desired online demographic. But for those Golden Girls aficionados, 60 Minutes enthusiasts and Murder She Wrote fans who think that LinkedIn is, in fact, a social network, 22 sounds like […]
The Real Skills Gap: Competent Recruiters
Posted on April 24, 2014 3 Comments
There’s a lot of people out there talking about the skills gap out in my chosen line of work. Apparently, somewhere along the way, women decided that the necessities of stuff like going through a horrific physical transformation in order to ensure the survival of our species, around the same time that high schoolers figured […]
Don’t Be That Guy: Terrible Twitter Profiles
Posted on April 22, 2014 2 Comments
I’m pretty active Twitter user who manages more corporate accounts than I’d care to (and even one for an NPO, just because). And because I’m old school like dat, I monitor mentions and interactions on TweetDeck, which has been ubiquitous on my desktop since 2009, not to mention largely unchanged from its original instance in terms […]
Snark Attack 