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The Black Hole
This would be a message to all ATS manufacturers. Both recruiters and candidates hate the black hole. Here’s how you avoid it, and here’s what recruiters need from the ATS system. One, there’s always...
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The! War! For! Talent!
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts prognosticating that 2015 is going to be The Year where everything turns around. Employees are in the driver’s seat! Salaries are going up! The economy is in real...
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New Year, Usual Shit
This past Friday I had a request from one of our clients for interview availability for two candidates. Dutifully, I got availability from both for Monday and Tuesday, and of course never heard back...
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A Recruiter.com Article I Commented On
There’s an article here at Recruiter.com that I decided to comment on. Here’s the comment: “‘It’s weird that we haven’t built any tools for team leaders at all,’ Buckingham says. ‘We have none – not...
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Good LinkedIn Post
Definitely worth reading this, I’ll comment on it later, but I wanted to get it up here when I saw it. Update: Ted makes some good points, but I think he misses the underlying problem: Sales! The...
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Get a Degree?
An interesting post on LinkedIn asked a question: why is there no recruiting degree? The reason is frighteningly simple: there’s no degree to be offered in bullshit this blatant. Let’s go through the...
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Another of Ted’s LinkedIn Posts
Another good post by this guy here, I have some comments to offer, with quotes extracted I will comment on, but the gist of the post is that productivity has gone up quite a bit from the 1950s, but...
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H1 B Article
This article is worth a read here. The author is right, and wrong. I’d say, in a free economy, come who may and work or not. The problem is we don’t live in a free economy, we live in a highly...
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Some Comments on a Recent Tom Woods Show
I’ve commented a few times on Tom Woods’ show. Now, to be straight, I like the guy. His political ideology more or less matches mine, but we came to it from two totally different starting points. He...
View ArticleInterviews, or How to Fuck Up Hiring
There’s a nice article here on interviewing, it’s short and sweet, but pretty much sums up my views on the matter entirely. The TLDR of it is, you’re wasting your time with interviews unless they are...
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