Breaking the recruiting mold means a new approach altogether. It's hiring with intent - looking for ability over pedigree. It's a lesson I want to bring to Three Ears Media.

What IS the tangible difference between employer branding and recruitment marketing? The answer here in 2 min or less.

How do you think a kid who has used an iPhone since he was 3 is going to react to your clunky recruiting process?

The whole idea of culture is flawed, really.That culture is something you control, build or worse - "fix." But if you have to change your culture, read this.

Why A Talented Squad was created.

There’s this old saying about “when you see something, say something.” This is my personal story of why I wish you would.

A quick tutorial on CPM vs CPC for recruitment marketing with guidelines for selecting your buying strategy.

What if we stopped pretending work was perfect and started being honest? What if we use "no" as a recruitment marketing strategy?

Trust, more than anything, is the ultimate hack in recruiting. That and more from my interview on the NurtureIt show.

Conferences don't have to be an overwhelming experience with these networking hacks for introverts.

Bad recruiting outreach starts with a terrible subject line. Skip the headache. Here are 3 of my go-to subject line strategies to get candidates and leads to open my emails.

What words should we ban from job ads? Here's a start.

How do you translate employer values into action? Start with the posters on the wall.

What do you mean Facebook wants to be the blue-collar LinkedIn? My view on the trends that work against this theory.

Every recruitment marketing strategy should start with one thing: listening. Here's where you can find those conversations.

This is a borderline cheesy, with a side of feels, post. You've been warned.  Music has always been my outlet. Words when I had none. A guide when I was lost. The final straw to let out my "good cry." You know the feeling. That one song comes on or you pay attention just long […]

On taking a huge leap of faith, Three Ears Media and the life lesson that prompted my jump.

With over 9 million search results for employee engagement, what is your 2018 strategy? How will you compete? Hint: It's not about free lunches.

Remote work is trending. So why are companies fighting the future?

Everyone talks about management. Yet most managers are still terrible. Here are some simple guidelines to be a good boss.

We blame culture for the good and bad in our company but can we change it?

I'm hitting a landmark in my career. For 10 years now, I've been working "adult" jobs. I've also been known to call them big girl jobs - the kind that come after college and have benefits, regardless how terrible they are. It was a badge of pride to have one of these big girl jobs […]

I've been writing about recruiting so long that I can almost predict the next wave of posts I'll be reading. Actually, scratch that. I've been reading about recruiting and everything related to it for so long that you're all becoming a little predictable. Some recruiting blogs are like a dog with a bone - they […]

It is dangerous to everyone's success if leadership is too focused on action over listening.

An update on life.