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Why Candidate Experience Is More Than Another BS Buzzword
Posted on July 24, 2014 2 Comments
There are a ton of meaningless buzzwords that get tossed out in the weird little world that is talent acquisition content marketing. “Talent communities,” for example, or “big data” or “diversity” are all pretty meaningless concepts that for some reason, people choose to make mountains of cash out of what are proverbial miniscule molehills at […]
How To Stop Sucking At Interviews
Posted on July 18, 2014 2 Comments
Interviewing well for a job doesn’t take real magic. But as every recruiter knows, what it really takes is a method. Knowing that method can make or break your chances of landing your next gig, because too many job seekers forget that if they’re interviewing, they aren’t the only one that employer has lined up […]
Pour One Out For These Dead Recruiting Trends, Homies.
Posted on July 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
Recruiting and HR pundits sure seem to like writing obituaries. Hell, there’s an entire cannon of posts, white papers and corporate copy on the death of any number of human capital-related themes. Reading through this generic genre, everything from job boards to resumes (false) to LinkedIn (true) are either dead or on life support. Most […]
I’m Not In HR. Trust Me.
Posted on July 1, 2014 3 Comments
I haven’t written much recently, because the fact of the matter is I suck at writing on the road. When you train as a writer formally (which is to say, you pay to learn stuff you don’t need to know) and have silence and solipsism built into your process, it’s hard to find a corner […]
On Starting A Career
Posted on June 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
LinkedIn seems to be pimping this #IfIWere22 thing kind of hard, which is cute, considering that basically puts this retrospective series already out of the most desired online demographic. But for those Golden Girls aficionados, 60 Minutes enthusiasts and Murder She Wrote fans who think that LinkedIn is, in fact, a social network, 22 sounds like […]