Executive Editor, @mediabistro | Editor, @ere_net | Gangsta. My views are my own. And they're snarky.
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“Nobody ever changed their mind or behavior based on data. The only way to create change is to tell stories, not cite statistics.” Data drives people forward, but storytelling changes minds #GoogleNext19
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People strategy works better when the people running it actually care about people, turns out.
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If you start forcing employees to telecommute as a temporary precaution, and they figure out they don’t have to actually go into an office to do their jobs, there’s probably no going back to regular commutes, cubes and conference rooms ever again. So there’s a silver lining.
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The recruiter and hiring manager relationship is the #1 indicator of talent acquisition performance. Tech helps, but trust is way more important when it comes to hiring. #Hire20
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Just met a 19 year old college dropout who decided to set up own exec search business 6 months ago with no recruiting experience. He’s already done over a million in placements. His secret: “I know how to use the internet.” Smart kid.
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Being back at the office is going to lose its novelty real quick. Everyone is just going to wonder why they just sat in traffic for an hour to sit in a cubicle that’s at least 6 feet away from their nearest coworkers. And there’s no good answer, honestly.
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The fact that HR is still talking about “The Cloud” is pretty solid proof that we’re not even close to AI being relevant in this industry. #UNLEASH18
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I love the NFL Draft. It’s annual proof that prior work experience, reference checks, background screening and preemployment assessments are terrible predictors of future performance or professional viability.
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"Recruiting can be the best job in the world. Recruiting can be the worst job in the world. Often, in the same day." #TrueStory #talentnet
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That’s what’s up.
NEWS: @SmartRecruiters Appoints @MattCharney as Head of Industry and Product Marketing: bit.ly/37KcLZ6
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The day I got headcount approved the perfect candidate contacted me with a resume asking to keep her in mind for opportunities. Good reminder that half of recruiting is luck and the other half is timing...
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I hate when people say “I’ll give you back 5 minutes of your day” when a meeting finishes early. It’s like, yeah, but you also just wasted almost an hour I’ll never get back, too...
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Employee engagement strategies are a good idea in theory, but in practice, there’s nothing worse than forced fun...
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You know, I’ve never seen “sit in pointless meetings all day” in a job description, and yet...
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I bet people would like “take your child to work day” better if it was “stay home from work with your child day” instead
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The best tech in the world won’t make you better hires if your hiring managers still suck. #fact
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The more I learn about tech the more I realize that 99.9% of the time in recruiting, it’s never actually a tech problem. It’s a process problem, but that’s way harder to sell product around. Unlike, say, AI.
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Candidate experience isn’t a technology, it’s a mindset. You can’t productize common sense. #HRTechConf
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The use of “unlimited PTO” to avoid having to pay out accruals during termination events was a really smart strategy for employers. The best part was they actually pretended it was a perk, and people actually believed it.
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Every speaker today has been talking about stuff like AI, predictive analytics and data mining, but we still can’t figure out how to accurately measure source of hire. So, there’s that. #Unleash19
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I just talked the head of talent at an enterprise employer out of buying a CRM and investing in recruiter training instead. Call it a random act of kindness.
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This is a great move and more proof total talent is really a thing. Unlike, say, employer branding. @google gets it. cnn.com/2019/04/02/tech/goog…
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1% of all applications end in hire. Direct sourced candidates? 5%. Referrals? 10%. No tech can ever replace relationships. #TalentInnovation
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I am glad Gen Z is a talent trend since all I have to do to write about it is using find and replace with the 10 years of “Millennial” content I’ve already published. 🤦♂️
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I wish someone would publish something about best practices for working virtually. It’s what our world needs at moments like this.
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It’s kind of sad it takes a possible pandemic for employers to have to remind their workers it’s OK to stay home when they’re sick...
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Someone get Jerry a job, he’s kind of the most badass HR executive ever.
Jerry Foxhoven, the director of Iowa's Department of Human Services, was told to resign for being an outspoken 2Pac fan.
Foxhoven regularly emailed employees inspirational 2Pac quotes and images: cmplx.co/gAmODRa
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Companies continue to gain payroll every month but it’s been over 3 years since the average worker got a raise. That’s a pretty long time to try to short the market. We should probably stop talking culture fit and start looking at compensation if talent truly matters.
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“We’ve made the recruiting process less about hiring the best person out there, and more about hiring the best person still standing at the end of our process.” @BillBoorman #Hire18
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I think if companies had loyalty programs like airlines or hotels, retention would be way easier. People really do crazy stuff to get and keep their status, and the amount of effort and time devoted to getting an upgrade proves it’s as powerful a motivator as money.
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I just spoke to a company that’s been around for a decade and every one of their engineering hires (ruby and react) are referrals. No job ads, no career site, no ATS, no sourcing tools, and no reqs. “When we find someone who we’d hire, we just kinda do it.” Awesome.
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The best candidate experience only happens when you stop thinking of them as “candidates” and to start treating them like people. #HCIevents
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90% of candidates who choose to do phone screens between 7 pm and midnight are black, Hispanic or women. That’s more proof the key to increasing diversity is an issue of equal access not equal opportunity #tatechaustin
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“The only thing worse than training an employee and having them leave is not training an employee and having them stay.” @BruceTalent #HireConf
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I don’t think our job as recruiters is building hiring manager capability, it’s building enough trust with them to have them trust ours. #HireConf
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Check out this job: Vice President, Talent Brand Management @WWE | officially the best HR job in the history of ever linkedin.com/jobs/view/15362…
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Just saw a demo of video conferencing tech that can track your retinas to make sure you’re actively engaged. I really hope that doesn’t catch on.
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If you truly care about diversity, you really can’t get upset when people have alternative opinions or different perspectives on D&I.
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So it turns out that billboards are about 8 times more effective as a source of hire for tech candidates than @LinkedIn recruiter. I wish that report wasn’t proprietary but thought that data point was worth sharing.
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Here’s my help with your cover letter: don’t bother, no one actually reads those things. Please stop asking for edits.
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The poll showing most employees blame their HR department for being underpaid is the first time I’ve ever heard this wacko conspiracy theory. This is a serious question: do people really think HR has any control over the biggest line item on every corporate budget?
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If you want to know what being a female in the tech industry feels like, try being a dude in HR. #TalentInnovation
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I’m spending my weekend working a phone bank because I just don’t get enough hang up calls during the week. And also because what’s not fake news is that Texas is definitely in play on Tuesday. I’m surprised as hell, too.
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I’ve been sprayed by a malfunctioning hotel toilet, ran into my ex and am now watching several hundred HR generalists do a Hamilton singalong. So I’m guessing you’re having a better day than me.
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Uh you know helping people find work isn’t being woke or socially responsible when you’re in recruiting. It’s your job, stop pretending you’re doing this for the greater good.
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20% of new hires leave within 45 days. That’s a pretty high failure rate for recruitment. #HRTechSummit
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I’m being profiled in a magazine and the first question the reporter asked was “so, tell me about yourself.” I asked what about me he wanted to know, and he said “whatever sells the most ads.” This is the best answer to this question ever.
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I really hope that sometime in the future of work, we’ll finally stop talking about Millennials. Really. Please, stop. #Influence19
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I’m a big fan of my coworking space. There’s an insurance agent sitting next to me cold calling for term life plans, and it’s kinda reassuring that it could always be worse.
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Me: “Wow, Tiger Woods’ 11 year old kid just shot an eagle.” My wife: “Oh my God, why? Is the eagle OK?” 💀
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The biggest inhibitor to internal mobility is that we make it easier for external candidates to apply than current employees. External candidates don’t have to have been in their current role for a year or have their managers’ approval before applying. #HireEU
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There is a special place in hell reserved for people who request read receipts on every email they send.
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Someone just said “recruiting is no longer about making hires.” Actually, that’s the entire point.
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To the person who left the review on my most recent webinar about it being hard to take someone in a hat and hoodie seriously, it’s hard for me to take someone whose LI title is “HR Superstar” and uses SHRM-CP after their name like an MD or CPA, but everyone has their own style.
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Chatbots are just the new version of automated phone operators. Once the novelty wears off everyone is just going to push 0 to talk to a real person, ultimately #recfest18
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For the first time in years, I have a call I'm actually really nervous about...one of those make or break career moments. Wish me luck...
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The best vendor gifts I’ve gotten in the mail as of today: personalized @MiamiHEAT jersey from @UltimateHCM, @beatsbydre from @CareerBuilder, Airpods from @SmartRecruiters, noise cancelling @Bose headphones from @octanner, and a cease and desist letter from @roberthalf.
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There sure are a lot of vendors giving away a lot of fancy stuff in exchange for visiting their #hrtechconf booths. If they spent as much on product development as event marketing it’d be a much more interesting trade show...
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Technology can’t fix candidate experience, but it sure can screw it up. #Unleash19
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“Your employees are everyone else’s candidates.” We forget this way too much. #SIOP2022
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I stuck a typo in a job description for a copy editor. Anyone worth hiring should call it out immediately. I hope...
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A huge thanks to the @DallasPD for finding my car within two hours of filing a report. Also these thieves fixed my front bumper and left a bottle of chocolate vodka so no idea WTF is going on
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When did we convince ourselves you have to be passionate about your job and love work? Because not only is it not realistic, we should really stop faking it, too. #TalentNet
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I was literally two minutes late for a Zoom call (literally - a call ran over by 90 seconds) and the person I was meeting with cancelled and left me an angry note about my tardiness being unprofessional. If everyone was that punctual I'd never actually have meetings.
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I’m so excited to join @RecruiterDotCom as Editor in Chief. Also, I have editorial control, so it’s going to be a lot of shit posting and a ton of fun…
Welcome to the team @mattcharney!
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“Top talent today doesn’t spend their time innovating, they spend it fighting against the 99% who refuse to do so.” Sounds, uh, familiar. #Unleash19
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Just saw two candidates I placed celebrate their 8 and 10 year work anniversaries on the same day today. Which makes me feel really good, and even more so, really old...
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I’m glad the money pit of having cooler office space with more onsite amenities and workplace perks than the competition worked out so well for everyone involved.
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I set off the metal detector. @TSA agent waved me through. “It don’t matter, we ain’t getting paid.” This shutdown was definitely a good move for national security...
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I got an email from a scheduling bot trying to set up time for a call to discuss bot strategy. The world is officially ending.
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I referred two TA leaders who ended up getting hired this week into Director level roles at enterprise orgs, and helping great recruiters find good jobs makes me feel professionally fulfilled in a way content never could, sadly.
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For an industry obsessed with diversity there seems to be a higher percentage of old white dudes at #HRTechConf than a Rush concert.
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“Recruiting is at the center of HR. Get talent acquisition right, everything else becomes easier.” @WilliamTincup #Fact #TATechConf
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I just was introduced as “the guy everyone knows for pissing people off all over the world.” I need to trademark that
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There are 7 million open jobs in the US and 4.5 million people in US prisons. So, maybe we rethink the whole background check thing?
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Anyone who actually believes remote work destroys productivity clearly has really good luck with traffic
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Well, there’s the technology adoption curve, then there’s the HR Technology adoption curve. Which is to say, we party like it’s 1999. #UNLEASH18
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Why in the actual hell would anyone assume the stranger sitting next to you on the plane wants to make small talk at 6:30 am? Seriously, not OK.
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“I got a list of 100 HR Influencers, but I’m vetting it personally since most people on it aren’t influencers. Are you an influencer?” No was apparently the right answer 😂 best cold call of the week
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I don’t understand when people ask, “can I be honest with you?” Why do you need permission, or have you just been lying the rest of the conversation?
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It’s amazing how much of an impact on applicant volume and quality you get from something as simple as switching an external job title from “content manager” to “writer.” Writers, turns out, are better writers than content managers.
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50% of American workers are hourly. You think hiring a software engineer is hard try getting an hourly worker to switch jobs for an identical position and then stick around for longer than 8 months... #hireminds
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I’m not sure how you can simultaneously eliminate bias in hiring yet still require reference checks.
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I’m putting on a suit and handing out 1 sheets, business cards and branded water bottles for Halloween. Nothing scarier than SaaS salesmen.
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One week ago today @JesseTinsley called me at like 10 at night and goes, “I’m going to buy TikTok.” My literal response was, “no, for real, what’s up?” Turns out he was serious, and also, batshit crazy and absolutely brilliant. How is this real life?
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The ultimate compliment is when someone I don’t know comes up and tells me I’m hilarious on Twitter. Happened twice today. Just wish my HRBP felt the same way...
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