Why Business & Financial Acumen Is the Most Underrated Recruiting Skill

Spend a few minutes scrolling LinkedIn, and you’ll see no shortage of recruiting advice. How to source candidates. How to write better job descriptions. How to use AI more effectively. How to improve your Boolean searches. Yes, all of those things matter. But after more than two decades in talent acquisition, I’ve come to believe […]

The Rise of Candidate Fraud: Is Trust Becoming Recruiting’s Most Valuable Currency?

For the last several years, recruiting has been focused on removing friction. Make it easier to apply. Make interviews virtual. Automate screening. Reduce time to fill. Use AI to move candidates through the process faster. But somewhere along the way, we created a new problem: How do we know the person we’re interviewing is actually […]

Hiring Is Picking Up — But Smart Companies Are Slowing Down First

Hiring Is Picking Up — But Smart Companies Are Slowing Down First As we move into the early months of the year, hiring activity is gaining momentum. Budgets are opening up, roles are being approved, and teams are feeling pressure to move quickly. At the same time, we’re seeing something encouraging: more leaders are pausing […]