April 22, 2024

Competition for New Employees

What’s an Employer to Do? After decades working as a professional recruiter, it’s become abundantly clear that my clients are all in the same boat. Struggling […]
April 10, 2024

One-way Video Job Interviews

One-way video job interviews are gaining ground as today’s newest layer in the recruitment process. Billed as providing greater convenience for both employers and candidates, there […]
November 17, 2022

Quiet Quitting

The newest expression in the employment world seems to be “quiet quitting.”  While this isn’t actually anything new, it seems to have taken wings. Frustrated employees […]
December 17, 2020

Remote Work Pitfalls

Work from Home Pitfalls There are pitfalls to working from home that no one seems to be talking much about.  The focus seems to be on […]
March 10, 2020

Fumigating Your Co-workers

Options for Fumigation There are so many wonderful perfumes, colognes, body sprays, lotions, aftershaves, scented soaps, deodorants and powders on the market.  You can wear something […]
January 15, 2020

LinkedIn Recommendations

The Value of LinkedIn Recommendations What value does a LinkedIn recommendation add?  How much weight does it carry? I have a few recommendations.  All of these […]
March 22, 2019

A Different Kind of Recruiter

What Makes Me a Different Kind of Recruiter? I was talking with a friend yesterday about recruiting, networking, developing/ maintaining good working relationships.  She asked me […]
October 25, 2018

Lack of Candidates

Where are all the job candidates? Both active and passive job candidates are in short supply.  Combined with the unemployment rate being at an all-time low, […]
March 7, 2018

Cult of Personality Testing

I have just finished reading “The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves” […]