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Welcome to the latest episode of The New School Podcast, featuring host, Tim Sackett! In this episode, Tim talks to Paul DeBettignies, aka The Minnesota Headhunter, a Minnesota IT Recruiter with 17 years of experience building IT teams with startups & tech companies, and author of Minnesota Headhunter, the longest running regional recruiter blog (2005). The conversation is all about how the best …
GE’s comically awkward “What’s the Matter with Owen?” recruiting commercials hit the air last fall as one of the first tactics to recruit young people to join the company as industrial Internet developers. If you’re not familiar with the series, here’s a fan favorite (email subscribers may need to click through to view): The commercials proved to be wildly successful, …
On this episode of “No Scrubs,” Dawn Burke talks to industry legend Gerry Crispin about Candidate Experience – what it is and how you can apply the concept to your own recruiting shop – whether big or small. Oh yeah, Gerry has a new hat. It’s not a flat bill Yankees cap either – although that would have been cool as well… …
Crafting a good job posting is at the core of a successful recruitment process. Still, most organizations virtually ignore it when it comes to understanding the reasoning of why their process is failing. The normal mode of operation in crafting your job posting goes something like this: Ask hiring manager to send you something about what the job they are …
Sorda. I’m a generalist. I’m a grinder. I’m a leader. As a generalist at heart I do it all. Many of you do as well. So when I’m asked what is the most important function under the HR umbrella, I take a deep breath. I mean, picking the most important HR function is like: Saying your oldest child is the …
Welcome to our newest video series, Smashups, brought to you by the recruitment marketing pros at Smashfly! Each month, our host, Tim Sackett, will chat with a featured guest on ways you can better attract candidates and actually convert them into job applicants. Kinda important right? This month on Smashups, Tim talks to Ursula Mead, Founder and CEO of InHerSight, which tags itself as where …
If I’ve learned anything, anything at all, in my career in HR and Talent Acquisition it’s that HR and TA pros usually suck at being creative! The problem is, they think they’re REALLY creative! You’re not. Stop it. Here’s the main the problem, it’s not that you actually aren’t creative in real life, it’s that your need to be both …
A weird thing happens in most Talent Acquisition shops around the world. There is a love/hate relationship with candidates, and let’s face it, that relationship tends to stay on the hate side too much! The thing with candidates is they are the solution to our problem and our problem all at the same time! Everything you hear at conferences and read …
I’ve sat on the sidelines and watched “employer brand” turn from some meaningless buzzword and amorphous, largely theoretical construct into something of a cottage industry. I have no problem with this, of course – those who can’t do, recruit, and those who can’t recruit run employer Instagram accounts and branded Twitter chats. Which is cool, but as more practitioners hitch …
Welcome to our newest video series, Smashups, brought to you by the recruitment marketing pros at Smashfly! Each month, our host, Tim Sackett, will chat with a featured guest on ways you can better attract candidates and actually convert them into job applicants. Novel thoughts, rights? This month on Smashups, Tim talks to Tracey Parsons, Recruitment Marketing Practice Director at Smashfly, on what the …
