OpEd Category
How To Become A Recruiting Thought Leader
Posted on April 4, 2014 4 Comments
One question that I get asked way more often than I’d like is, “how do I become a thought leader?” Well, here’s a tip: if you need advice on that particular topic, you’re probably out of your element here, Donnie. But the whole concept of thought leadership is, well, a little nauseating to me. What […]
In The Key of C: Top 5 Characteristics of Great Recruiters
Posted on April 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
Update/Sidenote: I wrote this post because I intentionally wanted to put together the most banal, cliched post possible to demonstrate/validate the inverse correlation between traffic/shares and quality of the actual content. I am delighted that I was wrong. This piece of garbage, from this site to RecruitingBlogs to LinkedIn Publisher, has gotten no love at all, […]
That’s Not Talent.
Posted on March 27, 2014 3 Comments
I got into recruiting by accident, replying to a job posting for a talent scout while looking for a steadier job than my part time gig working the talent desk at Comedy Central, which entailed mostly phones and photocopies. I sometimes got to go get Starbucks for the Reno 911! producers or find a sassy black […]
Under the Bridge and Trolling
Posted on March 4, 2014 6 Comments
I’ll confess: I’m a troll. And not because I’m so damn short. It’s because, to cite my favored definition, a troll – in online parlance, at least – is someone who enjoys experimenting with the emotions and passions about things that seem, to any reasonable person, silly, superficial and specious. Take sourcing, for example.
Why Blogging Best Practices Are BS
Posted on March 4, 2014 Leave a Comment
Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, clinically proven, that, while rare, presents itself in very specific situations: almost unilaterally, it affects Japanese tourists visiting Paris, hence its name (although, occasional cases have been documented in Florence). In many cases, these tourists report to having either full blown panic attacks or outbursts of pure mania, visual […]
Snark Attack 