A recent discussion…
A young recruiter with three years of corporate recruiting under the belt replied with a list of typical boards and employee referals when asked how she sourced talent. When asked about the quality of the talent, the reply was fair but hard to find. And when questioned on the number of offer rejects, […]

How many people know that what we call today the Internet was originally a top secret US Department of Defense project called ARPANET? By the way, who leaked it?
How come I can travel to anywhere in the world and get the same web site when calling up www.yahoo.com but if I go 2 cities […]

I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting Joel but, from talking to him on the phone, I can tell that he’s a very cool, accessible guy — although our initial conversation focused largely on professional development issues related to women (a topic that does not always engage everyone as much as it engages me!), […]

Imagine standing in mid-town Manhattan on a clear, blue sky day and not being able to get a cab because there aren’t enough cab drivers! That was my experience in June of 2005 as I waited over 40 minutes trying to get a cab to get to the other side of town for a […]

I know that when you read the title of this post, you **immediately** drew to your mind YOUR first introduction to Joel - which is just one more sign of the impact Joel has on each of us, and the industry in which we all participate.
Although I’ve been a fan for years, my first in-person […]

The talent composite of an organization is the current and potential capacity of the workforce to accomplish strategic business directives. If we assume there have also been intentional steps taken to map the potential capacity to the company’s long-range strategic plan then the attraction, acquisition and management of talent will more effectively support […]

Its 3am and I’m in the family room of my overly pimped out seventies bi-level. How that came to pass is a long story, but a much *shorter* one would be how my three-month-old son came to be. He is wide-awake and ready to party right now, and his crooked smile is giving […]

Okay, I know this is my first entry on Xtra Cheezhead and that I’m supposed to dazzle The Big Cheez’s loyal following with my brilliance (yuk!) on the topic of background checks and employment screening. However, rather than go the safe route and bore you with background checks 101, I thought it would make sense […]

I have spent some time pondering how I would write this historic post (historic being that Cheezhead is sharing his valuable real estate with others) and thought I would start at the beginning.
Cheese and I go back 10+ years in this business and have often shared long, philosophical discussions about the future of recruiting and […]