The TRECQ blog
Notes on hiring, candidate experience, and getting your foot in the door.
- October 12, 2026
7 Things I learned examining 199 recruiting startups newly added to AngelList
Several times a week I get asked if I've heard of some new recruiting startup, and I jokingly respond that there is a new one started daily and it is…
Read → - August 26, 2026
Candidate Experience Part III – Tools
In the first two articles of this series we discussed the role of people and process in the success of the candidate experience. Without getting alignment…
Read → - August 18, 2026
Should you have Bar Raisers at your company?
'If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are,…
Read → - August 11, 2026
Candidate Experience Part II – The tip of the iceberg
Part I of this series focused on the people aspects that drive the Candidate experience. Now we will discuss the processes that drive the Candidate…
Read → - August 2, 2026
Candidate Experience – Do You Really Care?
Recently I met with the head of talent acquisition at a 200-person startup with about 40 open reqs and asked him how important the candidate experience was…
Read → - July 28, 2026
Don't hire bad hires
In my last article I wrote about four causes of bad hires that I've encountered in my career. Now I will discuss a few ways to avoid making a poor hiring…
Read → - July 21, 2026
5 reasons why it’s hard to solve the recruiting tools conundrum
There are hundreds (if not thousands) of recruiting tools to help improve the end-to-end recruiting process. The solutions are out there, but why does it…
Read → - July 11, 2026
The only two recruiting metrics that matter
It’s been over two years now since we started the company and since the beginning I have been bombarded with all the different ways to measure recruiting…
Read → - July 10, 2026
Eight things I learned analyzing the Glassdoor interview ratings of the Fortune 500
Over the past couple of years I have noticed a dramatic increase in the attention recruiters are placing on Glassdoor feedback. Some talent acquisition…
Read → - July 6, 2026
10 things I learned researching the ATS platforms used by the Fortune 100
Last week I decided to research the applicant tracking systems (ATS) used by the Fortune 100. The analysis was prompted by a fellow recruiting startup…
Read → - June 22, 2026
Four Sources of Bad Hires
Making a bad hire sucks. And usually you have no one to blame but yourself. In hindsight, 99% of the time, you could have figured it out before making the…
Read → - May 22, 2026
Four career paths to financial success
Recently I've been asked for career advice by both recent college graduates and experienced workers still in the early stages of their professional life.…
Read → - May 16, 2026
3 Steps to Systemically Build Your Company’s Candidate Experience Competency
Over the past couple of years I have spoken to many companies about their candidate experience efforts. When I ask them to describe their strategy, usually…
Read → - April 27, 2026
Recruiting Coordinators: The unsung heroes of talent acquisition
If you ask the average hiring manager what a recruiting coordinator (aka candidate success coordinator, talent acquisition operations specialist, etc.) is,…
Read → - March 13, 2026
Candidate Experience: The more we’re interested the better we treat you. Until we don’t.
We were a proud sponsor of the 2016 Talent Board North American Candidate Experience Awards Research Report. In the report, there are some excellent…
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