Announcing Beta Update to CareerXroads eXchanges
CareerXroads prides itself on over 20 years of listening to its members and delivering a premier community experience to talent acquisition professionals around the world. That’s why the team at CXR is especially excited about the beta upgrade to the popular CareerXroads eXchanges now available to current CareerXroads members. Nearly every feature of this upgrade is […]
Japan: Between A Rock and a Hard Place
The origin of idioms like ‘between a rock and a hard place’ are found as far back as Homer’s Odyssey where Odysseus must pass between Charybdis, a treacherous whirlpool, and Scylla, a cliff-dwelling, man-eating monster. Recruiting in Japan After our delegation’s sojourn this past week it seems to me that Japan faces similar, equally difficult choices in today’s […]
Konnichiwa
Setting off on our recruiting delegation to Japan I’m fascinated by how cultural differences play out in the workplace. Whether it’s the hiring process, a job or an entire career, there are undercurrents of culture that ebb and flow throughout- seldom discernible to anyone from the ‘outside’. In some way every person can be seen […]
CXR Pulse Survey: Recruiter Capacity
“How many requisitions do your recruiters manage monthly, on average? How many do they Close?” You might as well have asked, “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?“ No one even attempts to answer these questions without first stating, “It depends.” The number of variables that follow is infinite. […]
CareerXroads Backstory: 1996-2017
Our 100th CareerXroads Colloquium this past month was a special milestone and, in several ways, it was‘magical’. It was the 4th time Disney hosted our meeting for TA leaders during the last 15 years and, with 65 old and new friends and members in attendance, the event served to remind us all just how valuable […]
On The Horizon: Our 100th Colloquium Meeting (Leadership)
For over twenty years CareerXroads has created a fun community for talent acquisition and recruiting leaders from around the world to connect, collaborate, and even conspire, on recruiting-related topics that keep them up at night. And whether conversations with these leaders and influencers were taking place at live colloquium events, various conferences, over the phone, […]
