5 Reasons Why Recruiting Sucks

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5 Reasons Why Recruiting Sucks   Let’s face it recruiting sucks.  It’s difficult.  It’s time-consuming, and it’s expensive.  But it’s just recruiting?  Hiring good candidates couldn’t possibly be tough.  Let’s take a look at 5 reasons why recruiting really sucks. $$$$$. Recruiting candidates and advertising openings let alone the time it takes to interview and […]

Blog. Rinse. Repeat.

Changing HR and Recruiting one tweet, Facebook post, and blog at a time

For the past four years I have been blogging with a goal of 8 times a month and no regular schedule.  And that strategy has been good to me. But maybe it’s time to change. Over the last few months, I have been employing a more targeted blogging and SEO strategy including keywords like human […]

EEOC & Workplace Discrimination

EEOC, Social Media & Employment Discrimination

Who is Protected From Employment Discrimination? According to the EEOC: Applicants, employees and former employees are protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history). Applicants, employees and former employees are also protected […]

Social Media Discrimination & Social Media Recruiting

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Social Media Recruiting & Using Social Media Sites Companies are using social media sites as part of their recruiting and candidate selection process and even using social media in the workplace.  With more than 88 billion Google searches conducted monthly, chances are that either your HR team, recruiters, or managers are searching the interwebs for candidates. Maybe […]

Conversation Culture — Mothers at Work

Flexible work schedules for mothers

December 13, 2008 was the single most important day in my life.  It was the day my daughter, Ryleigh was born into the world.  I worked up until 2 days before her arrival as I had our Regional President was visiting the office and wanted to meet with me about the 2009 staffing and recruiting […]

Social Media for Colleges & Career Services

How to prepare your college students for career services

The last several years I have spoken at the Oklahoma Association for Career and Employers Conference called OkACE.  It’s a conference specifically for the college, career services, and for companies who aggressively recruit college students.  And this year, I’m a Lead Sponsor for the event on April 8th in Oklahoma City. Organizations like OkACE  and […]