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December 11, 2025

2025 End-of-Year Hiring Checkup

This end-of-year hiring checklist is a strategic reset for teams preparing to grow in 2026. It walks leaders through eight essential steps from reassessing team priorities and evaluating this year’s roles to auditing the hiring funnel, identifying skills and system gaps, refreshing job descriptions, and reconnecting with strong past candidates. With a focus on clarity, alignment, and intentional planning, the guide helps founders and hiring teams enter the new year with a stronger foundation, a smarter roadmap, and the confidence that their next hire will truly move the business forward.

November 5, 2025

4 Reasons a Healthy HR team is Critical

The human resources function plays a critical role in any organization's success (or downfall). It's not simply a back-office support system for your business. HR is a key driver of growth for any company serious about its people, processes and production. So you know that a positive, engaging workplace culture benefits everyone involved ... but how do you create one? We've rounded up 4 key reasons why a healthy, robust and organized HR team is critical to organizational growth and success.

November 5, 2025

Best Practices for Candidate Engagement

In today’s talent-driven market, the ability to attract and engage qualified candidates isn’t just a function of good branding or a competitive salary—it’s about creating a thoughtful, responsive, and personalized candidate experience from the very first touchpoint.

November 5, 2025

7 Ways to Speed Up Your Hiring Process

In 2025, the average time to fill a position increased to 70 days, up from 66 last year. Greater time to fill causes lost productivity, team stress and greater difficulty in attracting top talent. The good news? You can leverage the following strategies (plus our support) to help reduce your time to fill without compromising quality. By optimizing your recruiting approach, you can engage candidates faster and stay competitive.

November 5, 2025

Quality vs. Quantity

2025 tech hiring is heating up, and emerging from a multi-year downturn, which means the balance is going to shift in favor of candidates as more opportunities hit the job market. Strong tech talent will be presented with more options and growth opportunities at other companies, so now is a good time to think about what they're being offered in their current role.

November 5, 2025

Master Interview Techniques to Identify Your Top Candidates

Finding the best talent goes beyond resumes—it’s about conducting interviews that reveal each candidate’s potential and fit within your team. Here are some effective interview techniques to help you identify your next great hires.

November 5, 2025

The Future of Talent Acquisition

While technology is crucial in modern recruitment, the human touch remains indispensable. Personalized candidate experiences are key—use data insights to tailor your communication and engagement strategies, ensuring each candidate feels valued and understood throughout the hiring process.

November 5, 2025

Common Questions From Our Clients

Here are the most common questions we are getting from our clients right now, and our suggestions to keep your hiring on the pulse of the latest trends.

November 5, 2025

5 Reasons Employees Quit Managers, Not Jobs

Attracting and retaining top talent goes beyond just offering competitive salaries and benefits. It involves an understanding of what drives employee satisfaction and engagement, particularly when it comes to management practices. A crucial realization is that employees often leave their positions not because of the job itself, but due to issues with their managers.

November 5, 2025

How to Attract Top Talent to Your Organization

In today’s competitive job market, attracting top-tier talent requires a strategic approach and a keen understanding of what highly skilled professionals seek in an employer. Here are 6 essential tips to help your company stand out and attract the best candidates.

January 17, 2024

Resume Q&A- answers to my most frequently asked questions

There are a lot of beautiful designs available with a simple Google search that you can use to create your resume. The biggest problem with most of these templates is that the graphics and tables in the formatting often cannot be read by the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) used by the employer. What this means is that while your resume may look beautiful, if the computer can’t scan it and decipher basic info like your name and contact info, the resume may never be viewed by a human.

January 17, 2024

How to Interview: Tips for Hiring Managers

As soon as you start searching for a new hire, you should create a well-defined skills rubric This is where you formalize a list of what you’re looking for including must-haves, nice to haves, must-not haves. This is the most critical step in inclusive hiring practices. This rubric is then shared with any others participating in the interview panel, and later becomes the guide for how conversations comparing candidates are framed.