Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 19: Talent Mapping as a Strategic Weapon

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 19: Talent Mapping as a Strategic Weapon

Your vendor list is a museum of mediocrity. Same lazy process, same pathetic results. You’re paying top dollar for bottom-shelf recruiting and acting shocked when it blows up in your face.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 18: Acute Vendoritis

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 18: Acute Vendoritis

You think your “multi-vendor strategy” keeps you covered, but all it’s done is infect your organization with “Acute Vendoritis”—a real corporate disease masquerading as supplier optimization. It’s messy, it’s contagious, and it’s silently wrecking your hiring like a virulent management virus nobody admits to having.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 17: Culture Mirage

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 17: Culture Mirage

Transparent, evidence-based vetting means everyone expects reality, not shallow branding.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 16: Sourcing That Doesn’t Suck

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 16: Sourcing That Doesn’t Suck

Screwing up sourcing doesn't just waste money—it poisons your brand, demoralizes your team, and ensures top candidates run the other way, IF you even reach them (which you won’t be able to validate).

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 15: Candidate Qualification & Assessment

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 15: Candidate Qualification & Assessment

Ever wonder why your “shortlist” looks more like the clearance rack after Black Friday? Here’s the harsh truth: The way candidate qualification is handled in most orgs would make an airport baggage screener wince.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 14: Your Interview Process Is a Hostage Situation

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 14: Your Interview Process Is a Hostage Situation

Most companies treat interviews like endurance tests instead of evaluations. Panels stacked with unprepared interviewers, redundant questions, and multiple scheduling reschedules. By the time you offer, your top candidate’s already been hired by someone who acted like a grown-up.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 13: Reference Checks that Actually Matter

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 13: Reference Checks that Actually Matter

Reference checks: step behind the curtain, and it’s part Matrix, part Inception—reality bends, layers unfold, and the real story always hides deeper than the surface.

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Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 11: “Broken” Interview Panels

Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 11: “Broken” Interview Panels

If your interview process requires a Ouija board to figure out who’s on the panel and what they’re even assessing, congrats—you’ve built an unholy recruiting mess that only a horror director could love. Most companies treat interview teams like a surprise party no one wanted to be invited to.

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