Recruiting

Dakota Younger, founder and CEO of Boon, explains the psychological barriers to building an effective referral program and how to overcome them.

Anyone involved in hiring knows that at its heart there is a painful process, repeated over and over. Rejection hurts on the receiving end, and it’s not all that fun to dish out every day, believe me. To reject someone is to disappoint them, which is not something we’re brought up to enjoy.

It has become abundantly clear that higher education is not effectively creating employees who are job-ready, according to business leaders anyway. Are we at a pivotal moment where the education model needs to fundamentally adjust to an ever-changing job market that requires new and different skills at a scary fast pace? How can big data help us create better job training models? How will new education solutions like Coursera, Udacity, and Codefights play out in the future? These questions are more on this episode of the Boon podcast.

As a recruiter, one of the main problems I face with prospective and actual clients is unrealistic expectations of who they can really hire.

Keith Halperin is a seasoned recruiting pro and contributing writer to ERE media. We discuss “Agile” recruiting, recruiting “supermodels” and managing client expectations, as well as how the role of the recruiter is changing due to emerging recruiting technologies.