What is the unemployment rate? The actual answer, in my opinion, is that you can answer this in multiple ways depending on the story you want to tell.
9.1% - this is the number that most commonly (and currently) makes the news. It is the U.S. 'macro'...
December 1st 2009 - our first Blog posting - and the topic was Ethics in the Search Field. This continues to be a topic of interest - and one that continues to surprise HR professionals when it sneaks up on them. It is...
About one year ago, I was attending an International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment conference in Philadelphia (see www.iacpr.org). The...
Subtitle: The Opposite of Post and Pray
Yet another post where someone will say, "wow - is he old" after they read it.
I remember, not so long ago, when applying for a posted or advertised position actually took some...
War for Talent – a term coined and researched by McKinsey & Company starting in 1997. The conclusion – key talent for many roles was going to be in short supply. Fast forward (there was certainly more in between) to 2003. A book was written, ...
I am resisting the strong desire to Blog more often than twice/month. I now have a Twitter account (follow me: @David_Magy), but this venue seems more appropriate for some things (anything longer than 140 characters).
Three Follow-Up Items:
Post and Pray...
It’s a typical Sunday evening – catching up on e-mails I missed since Friday when I left the office (I try to not access e-mails on Saturdays). Technology sure has made our life easier (or at least different) – we no longer have to be in the office to catch up on...
And the answer is . . . . . NO! Does that surprise you? The answer surprised us in some ways, but not in others. Let us explain.
65.5% - we counted!
We decided to look at every person in the last 4 years that interviewed any of our candidates for each and...
As part of some pre-work for a retained search industry conference I helped plan (conference was held at the end of April), I asked a few of our clients about their perspective on the market, and their workforce and succession planning plans. Each of the people on the...
We just encountered a position posting that included the terms (1) deep dive sourcing, (2) platinum level positions and (3) gated sourcing process. No - these are not futuristic terms (at least I don't think so).
We see terms like this in resumes and cover letters...