5 Signs You Should Not Make That Job Offer!

If I have learned anything at all in my HR/Recruiting career, it’s that everyone has an opinion on what makes a good hire. If you ask 100 people to give you one thing they focus on when deciding between candidates, you’ll get 100 different answers! I’ve got some of my own. They might be slightly different than yours, but I …

4 Strategies to Get Candidates to Open Your Emails!

I found some cool data that probably got overlooked a while back from CB Insights. Now, this data is from 2016, but it’s super relevant! CB Insights did some testing with their own email newsletter that went out to 175K+. A very big sample, and the reality is they have the exact same goal as we all do, Get Candidates to …

Talent Acquisition Trends with Friends! ATSs are buying ATSs and the Jobs Report!

By HRU President Tim Sackett Last week I sat down with two of the best in the business when it comes to TA knowledge, my partner in crime on HR Famous, Madeline Laurano, and our good friend, Kyle Lagunas. Jobvite acquired best-of-breed ATS Lever after acquiring a whole bunch of other great TA technologies over the past two years. This now gives …

DisruptHR Lansing 2.0 Call for Speakers is Open – Event Date – Sept 28th!

We’re hosting DisruptHR Lansing 2.0 on September 28th at the Lansing Brewing Company in downtown Lansing. What is DisruptHR Lansing? DisruptHR events are held in over 150 cities worldwide. It’s a two-hour event with 12-14 speakers, and each speaker only talks for 5-minutes! Big ideas in a short time brought to you in a unique format. Each speaker gets 20 …

7 Things a Tech Startup Can Teach You About Your Own Success!

By HRU President Tim Sackett My buddy John Hill works for Techstars as the VP of Network. Go connect with him, he’s completely an awesome guy who will sit down and have a beer with you and talk about how to change the world for hours!  Last week he got to meet the latest crop of Techstar startups and came away motivated with some great …

I’m back from London – What did I learn?

By Tim Sackett I was over in London during the 4th of July holiday. I hosted the DisruptHR London event and attended RecFest 2022. The weather was very un-London like in that it was amazing! This was my third time in London and every time I learn a little more: London – Still the best mass transit system around. Nothing …

What is the Health Insurance Design Impact to Employer Paid Abortions?

By HRU President Tim Sackett Obviously, we had major news recently around abortion rights in America. What I really want to talk about today is an amazingly quick response by organizations to immediately offer a new health benefit. Within hours of the announcement, we saw major employers come out publicly stating they would pay for the expense of their employees …

The birth of new recruiting tech for hourly hiring.

By HRU President Tim Sackett  I’m old. I mean, I don’t feel old. But in the world of recruiting technology, I’m old. I’ve been around long enough to see the birth of some pretty cool technological advances in talent acquisition. When I started recruiting, the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) was a green screen Rolodex (look it up kids!) akin to …

Is someone banking on you being lazy in your job?

I work in an industry where I’ve been told for a decade technology is going to take my job. The staffing industry is half a trillion-dollar industry worldwide. The entire industry is built on us banking on the fact that someone in corporate TA is going to be lazy. Ouch! That should sting a little! So, I don’t really bank …

The Baby Bonus Program You Never Knew You Needed!

In HR and Talent Acquisition, we tend to be in crisis mode constantly. We are some of the best firefighters are organization has! Our functions tend, by their very nature, to be short-termed focused. This month, this quarter, this year. Rarely are we able to think and plan further than twelve months ahead. The problem is, currently and in the …