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How hard did VC funding fall off in 2023?

2 Hard Truths To Ruin Your Holiday Season

Influencers just say stuff.

"You need to smile more"

The Mandela Effect & Imperfect Interviews

The effect of rising interest rates on recruiting, explained.

No, going remote doesn't boost sales by 20%

Throwing more recruiters at the problem doesn’t solve anything.

Remember feedback?

What happened to efficient debriefing?

I'm so over "Entrepreneurial Mindset" in hiring

Onsite interviews are better**

Talk to your team dum dum

Why The Perfect Hire Becomes the Sacrificial Lamb

86.5% increase in LinkedIn InMail responses

EQ and counterproductive metrics

Dubious Data: Remote Work Edition

Student Loan Assistance and State-Level Brain Drain

“We just need more candidates in the funnel.”

Why kindness matters more in the next 12 months

What does a rise in interim talent hiring mean?

The job market is improving. Maybe.

Recruiters have an active listening problem.

Relocation isn’t a repeatable hiring strategy.

Tech is back, but not all the way.

Learning & Development should be the #1 inhouse HR priority.

3 dumb things return to office companies screw up

How many meetings you got this week?

The LinkedIn "Other" Inbox Is Hysterical

Thoughts on AI and Interview Cheating

Time Value of Money > Time To Fill

Don't half ass your rejection calls

What's with all the job hopping

Self-learners > remote learning

"Are You Open To Feedback?"

Is remote work stifling our skill development?

As close as I come to Posting About Posting™️

The Riches Aren't In Niches

The dirty little secret of ghosting and half-assed feedback

How to not suck at networking events

4 ways to survive a turbulent recruiting market

Not everyone is hiring top talent.

Be Hungry, Not Thirsty

How are recruiting firms still alive?

Most podcasts are trash.

The Life Coach Effect

Good talent will always need to be courted

Act like an adult

Submission to Placement ratios are up 50%

The Correct Take on ChatGPT

Avoiding "The Latest Sales Trick"

Willpower Fatigue & The Case For Doing Less

The Great Resignation 2: Electric Boogaloo

Don't be an empty suit

2 things to cross off your hiring suck list

There's 2 types of remote work 'slackers'

Are You Trying To Find Something Wrong With People?

Why Hiring Managers & HR Aren’t Responding To Your Pitch

Anyone remember how LinkedIn started?

Salary bands haven't kept up with inflation

Stop talking features. Start talking benefits.

Why we're still stuck

4 Things Everyone Keeps Screwing Up With Reference Checks

How To Spot Fake Candidates

Candidates are weird

The trifecta: recognition, training, revenue

End Double Work In Recruiting

The next hiring boom is right around the corner

Why are internal and external recruiters sometimes adversaries?

Easy yes vs likely no

Software engineer salaries up 9% last quarter?

There's not enough tech savvy recruiters

External recruiters have it too easy

Measure dumb things. Get dumb results.

No’s don’t kill you. Maybe's do.

The "yell at the server" types

Recruit like it's 2021

Make your first job <gasp> an in office one

Where has marketing gone that recruiting should go next?

Log off LinkedIn

What happens when you go around the recruiter?

Is recruiting overpriced?

Choose door #3

Is ‘headhunting’ a bad word?

What does 'good' look like in recruiting?

That time Monster was going to take our jobs

It’s over. The bots have won.

Contingent recruiting & gambling idioms

Bear markets: when it's 100% about the money

“How do you find your candidates?”

Recruiting is on the path to gig work.

Wake me up when AI can cook a burger

Generalists Check More Boxes

Want to reduce the wage gap? Add paternity leave.

The dirty truth of broad based recruiting SLAs

Signs that you’re ageist in your hiring

How 4 day work weeks = 35% more revenue

Managing a thousand relationships at once

Some markets may never come back

2 more common mistakes companies make hiring new skill sets

3 Tips On Ageism When Job Seeking

You don't have to cut corners in hiring right now

Who's hiring? Let's look at the data

“When will hiring for internal recruiters pick up?”

HubSpot layoffs as content and that 517k jobs number

A 119% increase in job orders

What’s the upside of hiring right now?

Recruiters don't have a magic job wand

No, everyone shouldn't report to the CEO

ChatGPT as a stoned surfer bro

The best 2-3 month span to hire in the past 10 years

The Dirty Truth Behind Board-Based Recruiting SLAs

Why does working with a recruiter feel so inconsistent?

Contingent agencies view you as optional, too

"What's your best friend do?"

The villain emerges: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Netflix gutted transparency entirely

We're in an attention bubble

How do crappy recruiting firms stay in business?

FTC realizes noncompetes are garbage

Recruiting is soooo far behind marketing

What can recruiting do better in 2023?