I love to taking a look back at great things and trying to determine that one point in time where the path to greatness was started.  It happens all the time in sports with teams. It’s usually a great hire of a visionary coach or a draft pick of some player who ends up being an […]

It would be funny if it weren’t so awful. Earlier this week, the world series in professional baseball was lost in part due to a manager bending to the desires and whims of an employee.  Let’s get the rundown from Business Insider: “The New York Mets lost the World Series in heartbreaking fashion on Sunday […]

You probably have back pain. I don’t know math, but it feels like 100% of the people who work in HR have back pain. What’s up with you people? (Yes, you people.) If you work in HR or recruiting, your back hurts. Fine, okay, my back also hurts. Shut up. Here is what I’m thinking. […]

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a new local Military Officer Association of America (MOAA) Business & Networking Group this past week.  My task? Give the attendees an inside view of how to use LinkedIn for their job search. And also give them an idea into how a sourcer/recruiter thinks so not only can the attendees as job […]

SterlingBackcheck, one of the world’s largest background screening companies, announced today that it has acquired EmployeeScreenIQ, a global provider of employment background checks and substance abuse screening services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The world's largest professional network, LinkedIn, launched LinkedIn Placements in India on Wednesday, aimed at making graduating students across the country easily find their first job. "Our conversations with students, placement officers and …

Feeling anxious before, during, and after an interview is a miserable experience. Fortunately, there are a few things that you can do to mitigate those nerves and get through the interview process feeling as confident as possible.

LinkedIn's primary sources of revenue include Talent Solutions, Ads and Marketing and Premium Account Subscriptions, with Talent Solutions contributing more than 65% of its revenues in Q3 2015. We estimate Talent Solutions to constitute nearly 60% of …

“We send out regular surveys to take a tiny pulse of which things are important from an employee perspective,” she says, “because our team is our greatest asset.” Flexibility is another TopSpot tenet, which means it's able to accommodate a team member …

ADP says U.S. employers added 182,000 new private sector workers in October, the  fourth consecutive month of sub-200k job growth.

On Friday, right before the end of the business day, ESPN announced that it was shutting down its very popular site Grantland.  Grantland was a site started by sports author Bill Simmons, and it was purchased by ESPN a few years ago and Bill came over to ESPN to continue to run it successfully. Bill […]

Before you get all excited know this is NOT a post about “Smiling Bob” and Enzyte. This is a post about reframing a discussion around employees and their relationship with the organization. We all know that employee engagement is the new black. It’s also the new orange. It’s actually the whole rainbow of colors. If you’re […]

We all know them – those folks who pride themselves on “telling it like it is” and “not beating around the bush.” They are in our families, social circles, and at work. These folks value authenticity and transparency, and believe that sugar-coating responses winds up obfuscating the truth and leads to misunderstandings and unproductive dialogue. […]

BENGALURU: In an effort to make the process of campus placements smoother and more efficient not just for students but also for placement officers and recruiters, LinkedIn has launched a locally developed product called LinkedIn Placements. The mobile …