Posts by Paul Petrone

The mantra of any recruiter worth their salt is that people matter above all else — and that the key to building a lasting organization is continually hiring best-in-class talent. It makes perfect sense then that recruiting leaders really, really care about the people they hire to fill out their talent acquisition team. And they should, because hiring a great...

Based on the Quora thread: What is the toughest question ever asked in any interview? Obviously, interviewing is important. It’s your chance to get to know the candidate and really decide if they are what you’re looking for in the position. That said, some organizations have taken it too far, asking impossibly difficult questions to see how someone can handle...

My goal was to find the biggest challenges facing recruiters. My first instinct was to go to a bar recruiters frequent and see what they were commiserating about. With that, I discovered two things: 1) there aren’t a lot of recruiting-focused bars out there, and 2) when you go up to a person at a bar and ask them what their biggest problems are, rarely do they...