Category: Guest blogging
Over at Recruiter.com, Matthew Kosinski interviewed Meshworking’s James Ellis about new data and insights surrounding the changing world of recruiting: So it makes sense that job seekers are…
Over at ZoomForth’s blog, we posted about how competing on salary is a fool’s errand: Establishing meaningful value for the candidate will trump high salaries more often than…
From our post in EREmedia.net: Content is far more effective at encouraging applications for those with the most experience and helps entry-level applicants self-select out of the process….
Job descriptions, those horribly written, barely comprehensible strings of roughly 500 words of stuff that only barely resembles reality if you squint hard, are the coin of the…
It’s the end of the year and that means that if you aren’t thinking about the tactics for next year, you’re definitely reviewing the past year to see…
“2015 is the year content subsumes marketing and brands realize that content is the atomic particle of every aspect of marketing.”– Shane Snow, Contently It’s old hat to…
Now I believe in content, but I don’t believe it will cure baldness. It can help organizations tell their story and make a compelling case as to why…

A modern resume is like the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup, there for a recruiter or hiring manager to look at and discern the future. A resume is the loose collection of factoids of my career thus far, facts that I choose to show hiring managers trying to translate it into a useful understanding of who I am. That’s why I hate resumes. We pretend they are something they aren’t, and they end up being like kabuki theater: I show you what I think you want to see, and you look for what isn’t there.