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The leadership illusion
This is the leadership industry, a complex that now encompasses colleges, gurus, corporate departments, startups, foundations, c...
Questions to ask about your key recruitment metrics
Hiring metrics, reports and recruitment KPIs are only as useful as the questions they answer about your business. So, before we ...
Understanding the gig economy
The future of work is clouded by two contrasting visions. One is a daydream with a laptop and a sea view, where highly-skilled w...
How to scale your distributed team
Technology has advanced to the point that remote working no longer conjures the image of freelancers in pajamas. Thanks to high-...
HR terms: the plain-spoken glossary
We’ve been arguing for a while now that language matters in recruitment (and HR in general). We will keep doing so. To a casual ...
Die hard: the troubled history of the resume
The history of the resume traces back to Leonardo da Vinci's letter to the Duke of Milan. Evolving from personal details and for...
Fresh ideas for your employee referral program
If you don’t have a process for collecting candidate referrals, here’s how you can build one in five steps. If you do have an em...
Separating cult from culture
Cult-like behaviors, such as over-reliance on a charismatic leader or isolation from outside perspectives, can be detrimental to...
The future of work has been foretold
If you work at a technology company you could be forgiven for thinking that all offices are slowly transforming into one big fut...
Ending the phony war for talent
Like most truly bad ideas the “war for talent” has heritage, devotees and currency. It’s nearly 20 years since management consul...
The state of small business hiring in 2015
As Small Business Saturday draws near — a day when consumers are encouraged to shop small and shop local — we’re sharing an over...
HR Tech World takeaways: employer branding tools and international hiring tips
Did you miss Day One of #HRTechWorld? We’ve got you covered. From Day Two, we’ve sharing employer branding tools tha...