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Candidate Experience by Design.
Posted on March 2, 2016 8 Comments
We must accept that today’s job search and recruiting process happens exclusively online, for every position, for every candidate, for every sector (save the oddest of outliers). Paper applications are pretty much dead. Period. In fact, in the few searches where a pipeline candidate or referral is already identified prior to opening the requisition for […]
Seen Work: A Dispassion Play.
Posted on January 8, 2016 2 Comments
This is a one act play about recruiting that was published on a Wordpress blog. As Off Broadway as it gets…
Stop Selling Candidate Experience.
Posted on September 30, 2015 4 Comments
Fun fact: I own the trademark on the “slogan” (their term) candidate experience in the United States. I’m pretty sure that it’s unenforceable, but I’ve got the paperwork to prove that I at least paid the filing fee and was issued an e-mail confirming my registration was a success. Why did I pay $159 for […]
Insane in the Membrane.
Posted on September 23, 2015 2 Comments
“Rip that mainframe, I’ll explain/why people like me is going insane.” – Cypress Hill Another day, another recruiting tool, and it’s always the same shit. This is the silver bullet that’s going to solve everything. The problem with a quick fix, of course, is that these solutions almost never work over the long term, trading superficial style […]
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 […]
Snark Attack 