Going to Jobg8 Nashville – see you there?
Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list - so I kind of thought I…
Why go to conferences? Plus: a guide
About a year ago, I offered a guide to conferences for recruitment marketing folks. Now I'm packing up to go to another conference, and it made me wonder: why go to conferences? Why not just stay home and keep working?…
AI, music, and AI: interesting new recruiting sites and services
Geez! I can't believe it's been almost a year since I did a round up of new recruiting sites and services! So many services have risen, fallen, and been renamed. Well, I'm still going to give it a shot -…
The million dollar question
Over the years I've worked with a number of clients who are thinking about the next step. Sometimes that meant an acquisition. Sometimes that meant new staff, or additional marketing. But it usually meant - at its core - growth. These…
Retention tension: is work forever or is it a gig?
If you read much recruiting and HR press (like I do), you inevitably run into something odd: do employers actually care about retention, or not? On the one hand, there are tons of articles extolling the gig economy (maybe it…
Solving problems for fame, fortune, and results
A long time ago (no, I'm not going to tell you how long), I was give some excellent advice. Before buying a tool/car/software/etc., determine what you hope to do with this product. If you're planning to write the great American novel, you…
5 reasons I ain’t gonna predict
Note: The Doctor's writing fingers are currently frozen in the deep freeze enveloping his home state...so here is a replay from March 2016. Enjoy! Seems like everyone and their donkey does a 'what's coming next' post around this time of…
Fad or fixture? Developments in recruitment marketing
If you read a lot of HR blogs and magazines - like I do - you will notice a lot of 'forecasts': '12 key trends in HR for 2017'; '6 technologies that will change recruiting'; and so on. Heck, I've…
Innovation and recruitment marketing
At the TAtech conference in Denver, I had a brief conversation with Joel Cheesman about innovation. He challenged me to come up with any job boards or companies in recruitment marketing that were 'innovative'. I fumbled for an answer (as…
Pick a strategy path: sourcing or advertising
Sometimes it's useful to step back and generalize a little. I believe the appropriate cliche is 'you can't see the forest for the trees'. Whatever. Let's just say that if you don't have a good guiding principle for what your…