The Secret to Getting Hired

Tim Sackett Always Be Closing, Audacious Ideas, HR, HR (& Life!) Advice, Making Offers, Recruiting, The HR Profession, Tim Sackett

I’ve never gotten a job by applying for a position through an Applicant Tracking System. Never. Ever. The reality is most positions in organizations are filled around the ATS. Most organizations’ number one source will always be referrals. Then, depending on the organization, it’s a combination of job boards (CB, Monster, LinkedIn), Indeed, college campus strategies, other recruitment marketing strategies, …

Bigfoot, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy and Passive Candidates

William Tincup Audacious Ideas, Candidate Pool, Hiring Bias, Hiring Managers, Recruiting, William Tincup

/begin rant/ We’ve been lied to. About all these things: Bigfoot was made up for a couple of reasons: (1) to create a missing link between gorillas and humans… for the evolutionists amongst us and (2) to get us to behave in the woods. Nothing terrifies little kids like the stories of some giant ape creature thingy. Behave, or Bigfoot will get …