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The Real Skills Gap: Competent Recruiters

There’s a lot of people out there talking about the skills gap out in my chosen line of work.  Apparently, somewhere along the way, women decided that the necessities of stuff like going through a horrific physical transformation in order to ensure the survival of our species, around the same time that high schoolers figured […]

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How To Become A Recruiting Thought Leader

One question that I get asked way more often than I’d like is, “how do I become a thought leader?”  Well, here’s a tip: if you need advice on that particular topic, you’re probably out of your element here, Donnie.  But the whole concept of thought leadership is, well, a little nauseating to me.  What […]

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15 Offensive Posts I Wanted To Write But Couldn’t Get Away WIth

As much as I write (which, really, isn’t much considering this is what I do), I spend twice as much time starting stuff that never sees the light of day. My process is title first, then actual content.That almost never works. Making completing an actual post instead of scrapping it a few hundred words in […]

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That’s Not Talent.

I got into recruiting by accident, replying to a job posting for a talent scout while looking for a steadier job than my part time gig working the talent desk at Comedy Central, which entailed mostly phones and photocopies.  I sometimes got to go get Starbucks for the Reno 911! producers or find a sassy black […]

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Let’s Talk About Tech

There’s this funny phenomenon when you work for a technology company, in any capacity, you suddenly become people’s default help desk. Even though doing something like marketing enterprise software in no way qualifies you do diagnose, say, why someone’s computer keeps freezing up. I might be a geek, but Geek Squad I ain’t.  

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