In a recent Linkedin Talent Solutions blog post, Tamara E. Holmes shares “5 Steps to Making Skills-First Hiring Practices More Equitable.” The 5 steps are as follows: 1.Refine your definition of talent 2.De-emphasize formal education 3.Add assessments to the selection process 4.Focus on equity over equality 5.Get leadership buy-in Holmes… Read more »

The Women Business Collaborative has just released the results of an annual survey they host finding that “women are still underrepresented in top staffing industry leadership roles.” “Women represent only half of executive positions at staffing firms despite representing a median 66% of staffing firm internal workers. And women held… Read more »

A recent Hunt Scanlon Media article reports on “The Current State of Executive Recruiting.” Pulling from a recent report from Thrive, “despite search being down, the silver lining could be just ahead!” Learn more with the full article here!

In this week’s Increase Diversity Newsletter, Jenn Tardy discusses how to “Avoid These Common Hiring Biases with One Simple Strategy.” The strategy Tardy puts forth is interview feedback, which she breaks down into two scopes: Interview team’s feedback to the hiring manager Hiring manager’s feedback on their selection decision Learn… Read more »

We are back at our desks this Monday morning after last week’s retreat in Bradenton Beach, FL. What a fantastic time spent together as a team to close out a record breaking year!  Hunt Scanlon Media has just released their 2023 State of the Industry Study Part II which you… Read more »

In this week’s Increase Diversity newsletter, Jenn Tardy shares “The Downstream Implications of Unintentional Harm + 12 Actionable Steps to Mitigate it [Part II]” Harm, as defined in Part I of the newsletter, has a potential to demoralize a workplace. Tardy goes on to share exactly what a demoralized workplace… Read more »

In this week’s Increase Diversity newsletter, Jenn Tardy discusses “What is HARM and 13 Ways it Manifests in Diversity Recruiting [Part I]” In this two part article series, Tardy begins the conversation around harm in diversity recruiting by describing where harm begins and how it is overlooked. If we are… Read more »

Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, sat with Hunt Scanlon Media to discuss to “to examine the nuances that distinguish boutique search firms from their larger counterparts” in their recent piece, “Bigger is Not Always Better When Selecting a Search Firm.” You can read the full article with the link here!

MeeDerby Gives Thanks is our annual donation drive where we partner with our industry colleagues and friends whom we have made placements with over the last year by making a donation in their name to a charity of their choice.  This campaign initially began in 2020, when we were facing… Read more »

In the most recent episode of The Staffing Show by Staffing Hub, Keith Weightman, RVP at Bullhorn, “joins David Folwell to talk about his approach to creating engaging LinkedIn content that creates value for his audience.” Weightman provides thoughtful insight on how to better leverage Linkedin posting as a powerful… Read more »