Category Archives: GenY
Frustrations: The “Future” of Recruiting and Lagging Education Practices
I love startups. I have attended two Startup Weekends, I have attended/volunteered at local Women 2.0 Founder Fridays, I have made myself knowledgable about the current industry and trends in the startup world. That being said, one of the trends in the Startup world is (in an effort to shake up the perceived status quo) …
Selling “Strategic” Opportunities to Candidates
This past weekend I was talking to a friend of mine that is an HR Manager at a tech company. We used to work together as recruiters, and she has moved on. She is currently looking at other opportunities, having been at her company about a year. It isn’t that she doesn’t like the people …
The Effects of Lazy Content Syndrome
In this digital age, I have been noticing a couple of trends that are frustrating. As an avid Twitter user, I know what it is like to try and compress a compelling concept into a 140-character tweet when dealing with branding or marketing, generating interest. But one of the upshots of our micro-messaging culture is …
Career Path – Crucial To Recruiting
I think most recruiters understand that candidates want to know about a career path beyond whatever requisition we are hiring them into, but it continues to surprise me how few recruiters partner with HR on issues like career trajectory, succession planning, and even the fundamentals of *understanding* the career path for any of the positions …
The Changing Candidate Profile
Part of it is the economy, part of it is GenY hitting the workforce and starting to attain “Senior” roles, but I see a definite change in the profile of the desirable candidate; I got into a friendly discussion over on LinkedIn with a Career Coach that disagrees with me. So what is this big …
"App For That" Erosion
I’m seeing an alarming trend in young colleagues that have grown up in the computer age. I think that this new generation of recruiters is so used to having tools and apps for everything that they haven’t learned the basics of our industry. I’ve seen it in other areas as well. A reliance on social …
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