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Overqualified is garbage

“Talent Acquisition” is an absurd term

Do You Pull The Offer If They Don't Accept Immediately?

Big Tech's Layoff Meltdown, Explained

Severance in offer letters?

You don't need a rockstar

8 things to do in the December slowdown

This email could have been a conversation

Get more candidates & improve interview processes with this one easy trick...

2nd place isn't the 1st loser

When did we stop being able to take time off to interview?

Your window for tech hiring is now.

Apparently job ads determine interest rates

Finally, an answer for this hiring market

TikTok broke our application process

Welcome to the Neither Market

The best way to burn out a recruiter is...

"Dear Recruiters" takes are garbage

I regret to inform you that hiring paralysis is back.

Why Ghosting Is The Dumbest Topic In All Of Recruiting

Salary data sucks and that's ok.

Job hopping is literally capitalism

Where do all the 2nd place candidates go?

No one knows anything

Onsite Hiring Must Address 'The Why'

Use the office as a tool. Not an objective.

3 trends in marketing recruiting

2 questions I always get that I should never get

We don't need more stuff

4 things to do if you want to hire onsite

4 things I learned about hiring new skill sets for the 1st time

Keep complaining on LinkedIn everyone

3 Levers For Hard To Fill Jobs

Working too much is the problem

Please Let Bait-And-Switch Hiring Be Short Lived

I hate double work.

Are more laws really the answer?

A love letter to Gen Z

Maybe it's time to rethink the short stint bias

Admitting your job sucks on live TV

Interviewers shouldn't hide their stripes either

Why do some positions stay open for 6+ months?

Reality is an absurd fiction

The Say The Right Thing Dance

Knowledge is great, if you keep it.

Where's the tech talent?

Salaries: Recruiters Down, Engineers Up

The 2 most effective forms of hiring content

Why Is Sourcing Such A Pain In The A$$, Part 3

Why Is Sourcing Such A Pain In The A$$, Part 2

Why Is Sourcing Such A Pain In The A$$, Part 1

Your 5 Star Glassdoor Reviews Don't Pay The Bills

I love turning down business

Stop treating recruiters as disposable items

BREAKING: Non-Office Dorks Defeat Office Dorks

Inflation + market fear meets pay equity

How fear gets in the way of hiring

A new service to automate the boring stuff

4 Easy Tips to De-Stress Your Team

You're seriously laying off internal recruiters, AGAIN?

Build community & attract talent in 1 step

2 years experience + all onsite = Lol.

Unfortunate impact of Layoff Posting Fear Porn

5 real topics the recruiting industry needs to address

We're in the Exec Recruiting Game now

How the 2008 recession changed Hirewell forever

The Shroedingers's Cat market continues.

Key Point in Un-Scamming Unlimited PTO

Making Unlimited PTO Less Scammy

The next Amazon stock is a person...

Pivoting into tech isn't as hard as it used to be

Safe Space are not about accommodating sensitivities

LinkedIn layoff posting is fear porn

Recruiters: definitely not thieves

Teachers have more range than you.

Don't leave the industry. Just your firm.

Excel doesn't deserve this slander

Rainbow capitalism & for-profit corporate virtue signaling

Everyone wants a job upgrade.

A story about safe spaces...

The hiring “slow down” isn't a slow down.

I’m so over The Great Resignation.

3 recruiting challenges we're seeing right now

Tech leaders > C-Suite

11 Signs You’re Working At A Sh*tty Recruiting Firm

Why Contingent Search Sucks, Part 3847

Lame recruiting topics that need to die

Why are 1st recruiting jobs so awful?

We don't need more. We need more relevant.

Please stop talking about the open to work banner

Skilled trades & the hiring practices of office dorks

Make money or get off social

Commission Transparency & Easier Sales Hiring

A 6,566% larger talent pool

What’s with the time zone obsession?

For skill development, depth is for work time. Breadth is for free time.

Everyone hates busywork

Quit companies run by dinosaurs

How does a 93% response rate sound?

Recruiter Hiring Is Down

Job search advice on LinkedIn is insane...

Do you favor inbound or outbound candidates?

The Open To Work Banner and rats

There’s 2 reasons why recruitment tech sucks

The contract market sure has dried up...

Wanna increase sales by 24%?

Your leaders can't think of everything

Just say no to hurry-up-and-wait hiring

Ever been screwed on a commission check?

Salary inflation may have peaked

Job boards are garbage

A right way & a wrong way for hiring content

The 3 Most Critical Forms of Content for Hiring

Recruiting As A (Self) Service

2 Terrible Ways to Waste Time & Make No Hires

“Hiring Content” is the worst hiring content.

Why is it so hard to find a recruiter right now?

4 weird hiring biases I’d never thought I’d see:

Employer Prestige is Dead

One last onboarding rant...

Your team has unlimited job options

6 Ways To Fix Your Busted Interview Assessments

Easy way to spot someone who doesn't know how to hire

What people don't realize about LinkedIn content

Happy Employees Are Your Best Recruiters

Ask job seekers how many people they want to meet

If your retention sucks, fix your onboarding

What do the numbers say about remote vs onsite?

Invisible leadership is a huge hiring miss.

Uninterrupted Time vs Socialization is the real discussion

3 coding test issues to know when you’re hiring

Not the 'company values are BS' rant you were expecting

Most HR Folks Don't Like Recruiting Anyway

The "No A-holes" Hiring Policy

The worst delays are the ones you don't communicate

Coding tests as a first step are a dumb idea

HR and Recruiting are doing 2 different things

Fast interviews & under-thinking

If you sound like you're selling a commodity, you are.

What your absurdly wide salary range says about you

At this rate 1 of 3 things will happen in recruitment

Try Not To Suck, Vol 1: Gather Data To Suck Less

Training doesn't have to be hard af

Fast interviews are great until people don't know what they bought

The one where Matt brags about our 6% turnover

There's more devs than recruiters on LinkedIn

Job seekers reached a natural herd immunity for bullsh*t.

Make 'Chief Hiring Officer' A Thing

How To Become A Destination Firm

#1 free hiring tool no one is using: Google Surveys

Self-service is the future of recruiting.

Make reference checks a development tool

Are the suits on board with evolving hiring?

A fast interview process won't work for every candidate

What’s a red flag about a company that you might not immediately recognize as a red flag?

The dirty little secret contingent recruiters don't want you to know

5 awful reasons to use multiple firms

What’s trending in marketing hiring, right now?

WTF is OnDemand Recruiting?

No one in their right mind would do this for free

This market f*cking rules

The pointlessness & insanity of reference checks

Hiring? Publish a FAQ for job seekers