Sitemap - 2021 - Talent Rants and Sarcasm
Everyone is still on LinkedIn they just hate your writing
Beware of dumbass advice and the influencers who give it.
What's your recruiting tech stack look like?
Recruiters have a front row seat to Unintentional Hypocrisy
5 Ways To Ensure New Hires Don't Bail
Not having your best recruiting year ever?
Writing (what I think is a) proper Job Ad
Contingent is still the dumbest business model ever
How’s the recruiting gold rush going to end?
Tech Won't Fix Lazy Recruiting
Recruiting firms are basically Bitcoin
Very short stays are way the F up
LIVE Today at 2pm CT- “Is Employer Branding Just A Bunch of BS?”
F it. We're a software firm now.
Last Quarter's Salary Data Is Irrelevant
How much money will it take you to stay?
4 Signs You're Making Dumb Hiring Mistakes
The slow decline of LinkedIn Recruiter
Nothing says I Love You like a little training
Our brains aren't wired for management
Why can't recruitment tech give us our time back?
Are we back to vacation-shaming or nah?
What should ‘fit” look like in hiring?
How to hire a ton of recruiters in a tough market
3 reasons why backdoor references are garbage
3 reasons why contingent will go away
Things That Are Garbage™️: Using interviews as free research.
When you want a diverse team but you still got a bunch of white dudes under 30
Not every hire's background should be the same
Who am I to say you won't be successful?
This is why your crappy recruiting pitch doesn't work
Biggest challenge in sales hiring? Ego
Does HR tech suck or is it user error?
Contract-to-Hire is Dead (again)
Guardrails won't stop "The Rogue Employee"
Ctrl+C Ctrl+V doesn’t work for hiring.
Just how crazy is the recruitment market?
Do No Salary History Laws Work?
Nothing like a tone deaf email in the middle of a salary negotiation
A less ranty, more empathetic 10 Minute Talent Rant (boooooo)
0% of devs and recruiters are taking all-onsite jobs
Why is hiring content so self-centered?
Rubber Stamp Interviews Are a Waste of Time
Employee Generated Content is extremely effective for hiring. But difficult.
Why Sales Gets All the Toys and Recruiting Doesn't.
The Final Final Final Interview
Have you heard of Repressive Interviews?
About Those "Comparison Candidates"
Employer Branding = coloured crayons for HR to play with
Does Your Recruiter Even Recruit?
If you don’t trust the vetting, you’re working with the wrong recruiter.
The Financial Industry Should Worry About Their Non-Financial Talent
Time-To-Fill detects trainwrecks.
Employer Hubris & a Christmas Vacation Clip
Why junior sales hiring is damn tricky right now
Employer Brand Should Be a Blooper Reel
Let me dunk on the business media for a second
Your CTO is Your Best Recruiter.
The One Where Offices Re-Opened and the Delta Variant Hit
Remote Work: It's the Talent Pool, Stupid
9 Tips for a PTO Policy Your Employees Will Love
Recruiters: Do You Have Internal Credibility?
Hiring Made Easier With One Click
How are we gonna train all the new grads from home?
Some podcasts and some trolling
6 Thing Tech Folks Want to Know Before They Apply
If a remote job is posted in the woods does anyone apply?
Recruiters are job seekers too (Recruiter Survey)
Attracting candidates is so simple a marketer could do it
What does neurodivergent bias look like?
#tbt to when only tech peeps could work remote
Want to attract more tech talent?
Root cause time. Why is recruiting so painful?
Are premium branding upgrades ever worth it?
Biggest Opportunity to Attract New Hires
The "Be At Your Desk" Power Trip
James Reads Bad Glassdoor Reviews: Calling Out the Fakes Edition
What's your company's vaccination policy?
How big is the Hidden Job Market really?
The 'old normal' was chock-full of bias
"We're growing" is a lame af job pitch
Meaningful content helps you hire
Recruiting Myth Busters: Counteroffers, Part 2
The Return of "James Reads Bad Glassdoor Reviews"
What do marketers want to know when interviewing?
WTF is a backdoor reference check?
Recruiting Myth Busters: Counteroffers
How well do you know your organization?
Using multiple firms damages your brand
How to know when you hiring is a mess
Add 'public health expert' to your résumé
"We're growing" yeah join the club
Why do recruiters half-ass their job postings?
What do salespeople want to know when interviewing?
What do Clubhouse and contingent search have in common?
First impressions + follow up = $
Buying your way to the 'best places to work list'
Why contingent sucks: real world scenarios
Live tomorrow: Job Descriptions Are Not Job Ads
Societal issues are workplace issues.
Why do people leave your company?
The cop who hated speeding tickets
You can always blame your parents
I have hot takes on the future of recruiting
If people leave managers, not companies then...
What if marketers and recruiters talked?
How Detailed Should Recruiter Messaging Be?
The COVID Effect on Hiring That No One Is Talking About
A core disconnect in recruiting
Content good. Personal brand bad.
It's hard to get a job when you don't talk to anyone
"Overrated" vs "Garbage" - What's the Difference? (w/examples)
Everyone misses the point of LinkedIn
We're like Netflix for recruiting nerds
BREAKING: the job market is really good now
Daily reminder that recruiting will be disrupted
Why outbound in recruiting is still king
Even the good ones are losing people
Contingent search is the dumbest business model in the history of business models.
Is Employer Brand Still Relevant?
Employer Brand ain't that hard
Why branding falls flat (and how to fix it)
What's Up With Referrals Acting So Entitled?
Continuing my war on crappy content
Ever wonder why companies expect a million different things?
Why companies ask for 5 years of experience for entry level roles
All you gotta do is tell the truth
You suck at doing stuff you don't like
The world's most absurd business model
Start your job ads with the negatives
Finally, LinkedIn Bots have a name
Before I start, I’ll fight anyone who calls me a Luddite…
Split-desk recruiting is bad...
My zoning out in the distance videos, explained
Spamming your jobs is not a "Talent Community"
Some (attempted) newsletter meta humor
I wish I had a community to help with my content creation...
“Why aren’t job seekers applying on our web site?”
Why Is Paternity Leave So Short (Or Non-Existent)?
It's your own damn fault you're sifting through resumes
Redoing that lame hot take that totally missed
Algo hacking has a limit on ridiculousness
3 Employer Brand Skills Every Recruiter Needs
Two ways of totally botching employee referrals
No one cares about your job title.
I have no idea what most content creators actually do
How LinkedIn could improve content quality with one easy trick...
RIP Office Space (not the movie, that's still great)
Conversational content in video format will help you hire.
Sick of applying to hundreds of jobs that go nowhere?
The future of (smart) talent acquisition
The 3 Levels of Social Media Fraud
Clubhouse is annoying, the Connect & Pitch sucks, and let's talk Ageism
And your #2 content priority for 2021 is....
Did this week feel busy to you? That's because it was. Hiring is way up.
The next level of employee engagement
How to keep your employees from thinking you’re a joke
A troll post and the return of the Employer Content Show
Create your best content and stop fixating on personal brand.