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PSA: Your Vendors Work for You
I received an email just before 8am yesterday morning alerting me, and one of our division Chief People Officers, that a recruiting ad for one of our media properties had…
VIDEO: No Scrubs with Joe Gerstandt – Taking Employees’ Words at Face Value
Check out the latest episode of No Scrubs below, featuring host Dawn Burke and her guest Joe Gerstandt, a speaker, writer and consultant within the scope of diversity and inclusion. Together, Dawn and Joe dive in…
Would You Pay a Bonus to an Employee to Keep them Skinny?
The world of professional sports gives us this great microcosm of compensation philosophy. Within professional athlete contracts, we find all kinds of crazy stuff
Labor Market Novelty and Candidate Confidence
I started off my week yesterday reviewing the typical brilliance from fellow FOT contributor, Steve Boese, over at his personal site, Steve Boese’s HR Technology. Steve and I both enjoy…
MARCH MADNESS TALENT LESSONS: Slapping Players is Just Part of My Leadership Charm!
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So, Hiring Manager Hates Your Top Candidate: Eat a Chicken McNugget
My pal and FOT contributor, Tim Sackett, wrote a blog post called Sackett’s Top 10 Fast Food Foods Of All Time. It spoke to me
It Takes a Lot of Luck For Anyone to Really Win With an Online Job Ad
Here’s a confession: I hate online job ads, because they’re a crappy way to find the best candidates. On the one hand, my recruiter side loves the fact that a smart, well-focused…
Your HR Career Toolkit
I’ve never met an HR pro who isn’t looking for a toolkit to facilitate personal or professional change. Whether it’s a seven-part coaching curriculum or a facilitated day of discussion,…
Breaking Rules is Not a Bad Thing (Sometimes)
I break rules, more than I probably admit to. A couple of weeks ago I did a Selfie interview on my blog and then posted it on the #SHRM17 annual…
First In, First Out: Why Recruiters Need To Bear Down In A Bull Market
If talent acquisition is a leading economic indicator (and since job growth certainly is, one could argue so too is the state of our profession, by extension), then it seems…

