OpEd Category
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 […]
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 […]