What does it mean to truly workforce plan? | High Volume Hiring Podcast | ep129
Today’s guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is John Baldino, President at Humareso, a leading HR strategy and outsourced administrator for businesses of all types. He’s also the cohost of the But First, Coffee, a live, weekly, podcast. John and cohost Jackye Clayton bring candid, insightful conversations about the world of work, leadership, and […]
Using data to reach a passive or pre-passive audience | Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast | ep140
Today’s guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast holds a patent related to what we now know as programmatic job advertising. Jason S. Gorham is the co-founder of TalentXi-TalentXtended Intelligence, which is bringing consumer-style, true programmatic advertising to the world of job advertising. Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site […]
You are real. Now prove it.
By Jim Stroud Jake Moore built a woman out of software. She had a LinkedIn profile, a resume, a passport, and an Instagram feed with beach photos of her husband and dog. Her name was Jackie Morris. She applied for a marketing job paying about $40,000. Of 262 applicants, four got interviews. Jackie was one […]
The unqualified insider hire: What the 60 Minutes meltdown teaches you about how hiring really works
By Jim Stroud In May 2026, Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, who was hired in late 2025 with no television news experience herself, appointed Nick Bilton as the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. Bilton is a tech journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has never produced a television news broadcast. He has no […]
No internship? 12 ways to build career experience and land an entry-level job | From Dorms to Desks Podcast | ep102
If you didn’t land a big-name internship this summer, it is easy to feel like you are falling behind. But in 2026, waiting around for a corporate logo on your resume isn’t the only way to catch a recruiter’s eye. Employers are increasingly looking for “proof of work”—tangible evidence that you can solve problems and […]
Why so many early career professionals feel behind and how to stay on track
By Jasmine Escalera, PhD, career expert at MyPerfectResume You land your first job and feel like you’re doing everything right. You show up, work hard, and try to learn as much as you can. And still somehow it feels like you’re behind. You start comparing yourself to your friends and even your own expectations of […]
Beat the ‘Sunday Scaries’ of Fall: How to Reset Your Career Goals in August
August offers a strategic window to recalibrate professional objectives before the year’s final push begins. Career experts recommend a systematic approach to evaluating current progress and mapping out achievable goals for the remaining months. This guide presents five proven methods to assess performance, gather feedback, and create a concrete action plan that transforms end-of-year anxiety […]
From summer interns to September hires: The art of the early-career conversion offer
The real test of a summer internship program doesn’t happen during the daily stand-ups; it happens at the very end. Finding top-tier early-career talent is hard enough, but watching your best performers walk out the door in August—only to sign with a competitor in September—is a massive waste of time and resources. Many companies treat […]
Easing your early-career hires into your hybrid work environment
Bringing a new grad into a hybrid team is always a bit of a balancing act, but doing it during the high-pressure summer months adds a whole different layer of stress. When you’re splitting time between remote days and office days, it’s incredibly easy for a junior hire to feel lost at sea. They don’t […]
Your July playbook for preparing for and winning the fall campus recruitment game
When it comes to campus recruiting, September is no longer the starting line—it’s the bottleneck. Waiting until the fall semester begins to polish your resume and look for openings puts you at a massive disadvantage. By that point, university career centers are overwhelmed, recruiters’ inboxes are flooded, and the most prepared candidates have already spent […]