Anakin Skywalker’s career moves: a lesson learned for employers? As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I invite you to consider the story of young Anakin as a helpful step when building strategies for candidate experience and its carryover into employee engagement. I introduced this concept at the Leap HR Retail conference this month in Austin, TX. … read more

The picture has become a familiar one for US employers: there are more jobs to fill than there are quality workers to fill them. And it’s not just a hunch circulating among hiring managers: the chronic headache is proven by data from the US Department of Labor. We’ve now seen sixteen straight months in which the statistic is flipped compared to the preceding several years. The number of jobs available exceeds the sum of those looking for work. As the second quarter ended, that differential was 1.4 million more in the “help wanted” column than in the job-seeker one. … read more

As a Baltimore native, I was born with a love for Cal Ripken Jr., of our hometown team, the Orioles. Undeniably one of baseball’s greatest players, Ripken was a 19-time all star, two-time American League MVP, two-time Gold Glove Award winner … the achievements and accolades go on and on. … read more

Loyalty is perhaps one of the most fascinating dynamics in a relationship. It’s easy to imagine a human and a loyal pet dog, with the dog standing steadfast by its owner through thick and thin. … read more

Traitify was founded in 2011 after my co-founder had an awkward blind date. We realized just how much first interactions rely on intangibles like “chemistry” for conversation and relationship-building to occur. … read more