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Spin Cycle: How Recessions Reshape Talent Acquisition Strategies

If the last recession taught us anything, it’s that recruiting is the first to get cut and the last to get forgiven. But it also taught us that recruiting is not only resilient, it’s also down times that determine who wins (and loses) top talent when the next upswing occurs.

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Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.

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.

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The Future of Work is A Lifestyle Choice.

At WeByte, we’re not building a company. We’re forging a movement. An ecosystem. A living, breathing quantum mesh of purpose alignment that occasionally ships product. Some founders still insist people are the most important part of any startup. I disagree. People are the startup. And like any other startup asset, they should be properly leveraged, […]

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Rage Against the Machine: A Recruiting Rant.

I’m currently reading a dense David McCullough book (an oldie but a goodie), The Path Between The Seas, which won a Pulitzer back in the 70s and is a compelling read for anyone with a sadomasochistic interest in the intersection of American imperialism and global capitalism, intermixed with minute details on things like maritime engineering, […]

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Our Employer Brand Is Crisis.

I can’t really say I miss my days in PR with any sort of nostalgia, nor do I think of it fondly – in fact, in retrospect, it kind of sucked. So, why do I bring all of this up? Well, recently, one of my friends forwarded me an article in the Boston Globe with the […]

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