Mike Wolford
Mike Wolford has over 15 years of recruiting experience and is currently the Director of Analytics at Wilson HCG. He has worked with such companies as Allstate, Capital One, NPR and Twitter. Mike has also published 2 books titled “Becoming the Silver Bullet: Recruiting Strategies for connecting with Top Talent,” and “How to Find and Land your Dream Job: Insider tips from a Recruiter.” An active member of the recruiting community, In 2022 Mike spoke both at SourceCon and HRTX in an effort to help elevate the level of professional skills. Follow Mike on Twitter, or connect on LinkedIn.
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Content authored by Mike Wolford
The Best Sourcing Tool
I’m sure you have seen vendor sponsored white papers galore that claim that they have created the best sourcing tool ever known to humanity. It is AI powered, comes… Read more
3 Tools to Automate Your High Volume Recruiting
AI and Automation are all the rage right now and if you are working in a high volume recruiting environment look for automation to be a coming attraction at a… Read more
Recruiting Innovation: Programmatic Advertising and Marketing Automation
“80% and 95% of all prospective candidates who land on your careers page don’t actually fill out an application” The days of post and pray are coming to an… Read more
Not Another January AI Article
It is 2019 and we all are reading the articles about what is going to change this year. I have spoken to industry experts and listened to many… Read more
Email Outreach: You aren’t selling the job, you’re selling the conversation
Hi. My name is Mike Wolford and I’m a sourcer for an amazing company. I think you have great experience and I have a great job for you. We are… Read more
The 90/10 Rule of Networking, or the Story of Desert Pete
Did you know that 72 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot? You may not have heard that stat before but you probably have heard of the… Read more
A Guy Can Dream, Can’t He? Here’s My Ideal Talent Acquisition Process
It occurred to me recently that we look at the recruitment process in pieces and rarely as a whole. I can’t find any articles about what the dream process looks… Read more
3 Hot Technologies That Will Disrupt Recruiting in 2018
It’s that time of year again when we dust off our crystal ball and try to gaze into the future of recruiting. So after making my standard resolution to lose… Read more
Don’t Panic! A Brief But REALLY Useful Guide to Req Management
Have you been recruiting for more than 30 seconds? If you have, then you probably know the truth of recruiting. It’s this: Every req (also called “rec,” or the job… Read more
When It Comes to Recruiting, It’s Not About Effort, But About Value
Recruiting isn’t about how hard you work, or how many late night interviews you conduct, or how many weekend networking meetings you attend. Recruiting, like everything in business, isn’t about… Read more
#ICYMI, Here’s What Recruiters and TA Pros Really Need to Catch Up On
Did you miss me? Well I missed you, but even if you didn’t miss me, there may have been a few other major developments that you may have missed, better… Read more
The Short Term View of AI and Recruiting? Don’t Worry, Be Happy
If you’re like me, you may have been wondering about all the commotion surrounding AI and how it will impact your job. Opinions range from “move along, nothing to see… Read more
Say It Ain’t So! What You Just Can’t Ask During an Interview
I realize we live in a post PC world, filled with spectacle and alternative facts, and all over social media it looks as though civility has left the building. And… Read more
May the Source Be With You, Social Sourcing That Is
By Mike Wolford We have all seen the numbers. Facebook has nearly two billion unique monthly visitors. There were over 200 billion tweets in 2016. Six-hundred million people use Instagram… Read more
All That Junk: The Diminishing Returns of Recruiting Spam.
If you’ve ever been a recruiter, you’ve probably received that “we need to talk about this req” e-mail. You know the one – the one that puts you on notice… Read more
