Prepping Candidates
I read an article on one of the FB groups this week where a recruiter was telling everyone that it was sacrilege to prep a candidate for an interview. This…
Retained vs. Contingent
Contingency can be extremely profitable. I promise. There are absolutely times when contingency work is more profitable than retained work. Personally, I fired a long term monthly retained client because the…
Contractor Classification for IRS
IRS changed the rules again. These new rules, effective from March, are particularly relevant to recruiters, as they influence hiring practices across various sectors.Key Determinants in Worker Classification:Duration of the…
Is Facebook Spying on You Via Your Microphone?
Like us, you’ve likely experienced something to cause you to believe this to be true. You’re having a conversation with your family about some weird topic, you step away, open…
Remote Work Data
There’s tremendous inequity around who can work from home and who has to go into a physical job. Recent studies show only 10% of jobs at 60K per year offer…
Work Less to Get More Done
It feels a bit counterintuitive, but the findings are in and important for us to acknowledge. Slack put out this article, and essentially it says this:Employees who log off after…
Email Deliverability Changes
New changes go into effect in February of 2024 in regard to Google and Yahoo email sending rules. Here’s what you need to know and action steps to take.Your Fun…
GPT Content Share
I did an interesting exercise this week. I had captured research around remote work and had been intending to write a piece for the Update, which could be sharable. Candidly,…
Navigating the New Norm: Strategic Hiring in the Evolving Workplace
Ah, the post-pandemic workplace – a landscape as unpredictable as a plot twist in a telenovela. As a hiring manager, you've likely seen it all: Zoom interviews that feel like…
Life Changing Events
It’s no secret I’m a big Tony Robbins fan. I’ve followed him for years, read his books, listened to his audio programs, and in 2017, I went to my first…
Fundamental Attribution Errors
Fundamental Attribution Errors are a classic cognitive bias we are all guilty of committing. Not just all of us as recruiters, all of us as humans. Imagine this scenario: You…
Market Conditions Aren’t Determined by Increased Inbound Candidate Calls
The phone rings, and you’re delighted to hear from an old candidate, an Accountant in Cincinnati working in retail. But they aren’t happy because they were just let go. You…