Sitemap - 2023 - Talent Rants and Sarcasm
How hard did VC funding fall off in 2023?
2 Hard Truths To Ruin Your Holiday Season
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.
What happened to efficient debriefing?
I'm so over "Entrepreneurial Mindset" in hiring
Onsite interviews are better**
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
Is remote work stifling our skill development?
As close as I come to Posting About Posting™️
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.
How are recruiting firms still alive?
Good talent will always need to be courted
Submission to Placement ratios are up 50%
Avoiding "The Latest Sales Trick"
Willpower Fatigue & The Case For Doing Less
The Great Resignation 2: Electric Boogaloo
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.
4 Things Everyone Keeps Screwing Up With Reference Checks
The trifecta: recognition, training, revenue
The next hiring boom is right around the corner
Why are internal and external recruiters sometimes adversaries?
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
Make your first job <gasp> an in office one
Where has marketing gone that recruiting should go next?
What happens when you go around the recruiter?
What does 'good' look like in recruiting?
That time Monster was going to take our jobs
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
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
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
The villain emerges: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Netflix gutted transparency entirely
How do crappy recruiting firms stay in business?
FTC realizes noncompetes are garbage