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The $75K Mistake Your Referral Program Is Making Right Now

This article explores how the lack of communication and visibility impacts your company and how Boon solves this problem.
The $75K Mistake Your Referral Program Is Making Right Now

The $100B Shift: Why Talent Teams Are Becoming Revenue Drivers

From engineering to sales to customer success, great hires make everything run faster.
The $100B Shift: Why Talent Teams Are Becoming Revenue Drivers

Why Your Employee Experience Starts Before Day One (And How to Fix It)

Job seekers expect a seamless experience when they visit a company’s career page. Still, they often encounter outdated job listings, lengthy application forms, and little to no communication after applying.
Why Your Employee Experience Starts Before Day One (And How to Fix It)

Why Your Application Process Is Killing Your Talent Pipeline

This article explains why this happens, how it impacts your hiring success and practical ways to fix it based on what we've learned while working with hundreds of companies.
Why Your Application Process Is Killing Your Talent Pipeline

Why Your Referral Process Is Missing 70% of Top Talent — and How to Fix It

Most organizations struggle to reach over 70% of passive candidates who aren't actively searching for jobs but represent some of the best talent available.
Why Your Referral Process Is Missing 70% of Top Talent — and How to Fix It

The Path Problem: Building Recruitment Systems People Actually Use

The best recruitment tools adapt to natural behaviors, not rigid processes. To design systems that people will genuinely use, we can look to an unlikely source for inspiration: urban planning. Specifically, the European park design principle shows us how to build solutions that develop based on real-world patterns, not assumptions.
The Path Problem: Building Recruitment Systems People Actually Use

Resumes Are Dead: What’s Replacing Them?

Resumes often leave out important factors like a person’s network or real-world performance.
Resumes Are Dead: What’s Replacing Them?

Beyond Job Boards: Why Network Quality Beats Quantity in 2025

A well-connected referral carries more weight than a random application, leading to faster hires, stronger teams, and better retention.
Beyond Job Boards: Why Network Quality Beats Quantity in 2025

Your Resume Screening Is Broken: How AI Changes Everything

This article examines why resume screening consistently fails to identify great talent, explores the hidden biases in current evaluation methods, and introduces a better approach that balances technology with human judgment.
Your Resume Screening Is Broken: How AI Changes Everything

Why Direct Referrals Outperform Social Shares 4-to-1

In this article, we’ll explain why direct referrals outshine social shares 4-to-1 and how you can make the most of both to improve your recruitment efforts.
Why Direct Referrals Outperform Social Shares 4-to-1