Buzzwords in Recruiting: A Survival Guide for 2026

Posted on November 11, 2025     1 Comment

Every year, a new batch of noxious “talent transformation” phrases (like “talent transformation”) shows up to make hiring sound like quantum mechanics when it’s really just matching résumés to job descriptions written by people who’ve never done the work they’re hiring for.

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Join the Spooktacular Halloween Bash at Work!

Posted on October 31, 2025     1 Comment

I’ve been in HR for 17 years, and I can tell you, no other holiday brings people together quite like Halloween.

There’s something about seeing your manager dressed as a giant banana that melts hierarchies. It’s the kind of authentic, organic bonding moment that no leadership development program could replicate.

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Head of the Class: The Diversity Double Standard.

Posted on June 14, 2016     1 Comment

“Me move to Stockton, him fed him monster, I can’t live here no more. Sip holy water, turned working people into the working poor. Well I keep on knocking; I keep on knocking but I can’t get in.” – Fantastic Negrito, The Working Poor Every so often I have to make the trip to the […]

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High Times.

Posted on April 20, 2015     5 Comments

I go to a bunch of HR conferences, and all of them, unilaterally, have one common item on their respective agendas: drinking. Whether that’s in the guise of a “networking event,” a “cocktail reception” or the many ancillary vendor-sponsored parties which inevitably occur with every show, the social component of every conference (and the most valuable […]

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