Posts by Paul Petrone

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...

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 great talent. Therefore, it makes perfect sense 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...

Actress, writer, producer, and entrepreneur Mindy Kaling — famous for her appearances in titles like The Office, The Mindy Project and, soon, Late Night — sat down with LinkedIn Head of Global Diversity Rosanna Durruthy Saturday in The LinkedIn Studio at South by Southwest in Austin. The fireside chat was signature Mindy, full of self-deprecating humor and...