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Myths That Need to be Busted
If there were two myths in hiring I’d say absolutely need to be busted, I’d say it’s these two: 1) Employees are a Cost. This is utter bullshit. In any exchange, it happens because of a reverse...
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Recruiter.com Reply
Since Recruiter.com keeps deleting my reply to Art on this article, I figured I’d post it here. Just got back from a Caribbean trip and catching up with work, missing the blue water. Reply to Art: I...
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Another Denied Comment
I like Recruiter.com, but they definitely seem to put a stranglehold on the comments to make sure everything is nice and shiny. Here’s an article they put up concerning dress code, and my response:...
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Article 5
I am preemptively posting this here since somewhere critical comments tend to disappear or not get posted on Recruiter.com. I have no idea if this is on purpose or just a glitch in their Disqus...
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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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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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More Corporate BS
Well, I’ve been absent for a while, the reason being I’m miserable and not in the mood to write much. My current job sucks, we get near zero off time, and what little we get, I needed to use for...
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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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Here’s the thing…
I’ve noticed something, something people don’t seem to get, and that is that there’s a compounding effect among the factors that make a bad job bad. Put another way, as jobs get worse, they tend to...
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… And Yet More “Recruiting is Sales!” Bullshit
Yet another article, again predictably on LinkedIn, claiming recruiting is sales. And yet another blog poster blaming HR for shitty results. Now, to be fair to the author, Lou Adler, I have found his...
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