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Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.
Posted on August 27, 2025 4 Comments
If you’re in recruiting you’ve probably been told that your job ads need to be “programmatic,” that “employer branding” is your silver bullet, and that dumping more budget into LinkedIn or Indeed will solve your pipeline problems.
Here’s the thing: it won’t. That’s because recruitment advertising is still so two-thousand-and-late.
Workday Buys Paradox: An Inevitable Acquisition That’s Long Overdue
Posted on August 22, 2025 2 Comments
Let’s not pretend the acquisition of Paradox by Workday was just another “vision-aligned” synergy play. This wasn’t Workday adding bells and whistles. This was Workday plugging glaring holes in its talent stack, the kind you can’t close with roadmap updates or incremental UI tweaks. Let’s connect the dogs.
Feeling Lucky: Google Gets Into Sourcing.
Posted on March 28, 2018 4 Comments
One of the foundational premises of talent sourcing lies in the fact that traditional search engines are notoriously bad at searching for individual people and profiles, particularly as they relate to jobs. If you’re looking for something, search engines are great. If you’re looking for someone, obviously, there are a few inherent limitations to even the most […]
Um Yea: Not Another 2018 HR Tech Trends Post.
Posted on January 16, 2018 12 Comments
Here’s a good way to kick off a new year: for the first time in like, a decade, I’m actually not dreading writing one of those annual preview posts. See, if you’re in the recruitment content marketing business (a pretty shit nice, TBH), every year, you’ve got to put out a mandatory forecast into the […]
No Mercy, No Fear: How To Hack The Job Interview.
Posted on September 7, 2016 Leave a Comment
For all the talk of “reinvention” in recruiting, for all the products promising to “disrupt” hiring, and for all the banal banter about fixing what’s “broken” in talent acquisition today, the one part of the process that has more or less escaped any modicum of automation, transformation or innovation is perhaps the most important: the job […]
Snark Attack 