Another #SHRM15 Post No One Really Needs.
Posted on June 26, 2015 13 Comments
I was recently called out on one of those “top secret” Facebook groups everybody’s in, the kind populated with the same kind of people who think that promoting “Exclusive VIP Access” to anyone who clicks a link, about why, exactly, SHRM keeps asking me back year after year. Her insinuation was that all I do is troll on SHRM hard, which, these days, is kind of true. This saddens me, but also means I feel obliged to write, in advance, my complicated and complex history with this organization.
Job Boards Aren’t Dead, Just Different.
Posted on June 8, 2015 13 Comments
Innovation and competition have always gone hand in hand, and the recruiting technology industry has historically been no exception to this rule.
One has to look no further than only a few years back to see evidence of a trend that, like most history, seems to be repeating itself, as “job boards” rebrand, retool and reinvent their positioning – forgetting that other maxim that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
Which might explain why we still suck at candidate experience.
10 Candidate Experience Statistics Every Recruiter Should Know
Posted on June 4, 2015 13 Comments
With hundreds of employers voluntarily subjecting their hiring process to the intense scrutiny involved in being adjudicated by nearly 95,000 applicant responses, the 2014 Candidate Experience Awards did more than just open the recruiting books up at some of the world’s biggest brands.
It also generated a ton of useful information for a cross-section of candidates – and the recruiters responsible for hiring them – at companies running the full gamut of industries, verticals, markets and talent needs, the sheer sample size serving as something of a microcosm for the job search of today.
Talk about big data.
Original Content.
Posted on May 15, 2015 10 Comments
I haven’t posted content here the last couple weeks, so while I was thinking about reposting one I actually liked from the corporate blog this week, I would crank out original content, instead. See, kids, original content is basically cocaine for digital marketers, and rather than ruin my search results by reposting stuff I own the intellectual property for, I thought I’d blow a few lines and crank out some one of a kind copy.
Talent Hacks.
Posted on April 29, 2015 1 Comment
As someone who gets to cover the glamorous and exciting world of HR and recruiting for a living, it might surprise you to learn that while I’m a professional writer, I can’t say B2B blogger made the list of things I wanted to be when I grew up.
Back in the day, blogs didn’t exist, but I’ve always been a connoisseur of disposable, commoditized content – and to some degree, the creator of it, having switched to this line of BS from writing formulaic screenplays, 120 interchangeable pages of Syd Field infused courier font and pithy plot devices.
I will say without a doubt, that as boring and repetitive as writing about recruiting can be sometimes, it sure beats the shit out of doing a 120 page screenplay on spec any day of the week.
Snark Attack 