We’ve all been impacted in one way or another during this pandemic, and the company I work for has been no exception. Although our company certainly recognizes that it is a privilege to remain open during this time and are very grateful for it, many sacrifices and...
If you work in recruiting, you know it’s a brutal market for finding and placing candidates right now. Record unemployment, demographic shifts and the skills gap make it especially difficult for us to land top talent. If we want to be successful as recruiters...
After 25 years in the business of talent acquisition and talent optimization I have heard a lot of negative feedback from hiring leaders regarding what’s NOT being taught in the classrooms. “New grads may have the book smarts, but they expect a trophy for...
Working from home is all the rage. You see employers offer it as a perk left and right, but I’ve been a skeptic ever since the trend reared its head. First, I need to say that I do have remote workers. One of the sayings we have at my company (and a value I instill...
Last week I had the privilege of giving a Keynote presentation at the annual Michigan SHRM conference in Grand Rapids. In my talk I presented the findings from marketplace research projects I’ve been working on for the past two years, in which we surveyed real...
The recent news of CTPartner’s bankruptcy might serve as a warning sign of things to come for retained and other traditional search firms in our industry. Though these types of firms have seemingly been around forever, that may be the very problem – many of these...
