Author: Corey Wagner

Holiday peaks don’t just test your team, they reveal every weak spot in your hiring process. In retail and hospitality, demand can shift overnight while candidates expect instant responses and mobile convenience. Each year, U.S. retailers collectively add hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers, with some major brands hiring that many on their own. Yet…

In the world of hourly and frontline hiring, volume and velocity define success. You must attract, convert, and hire thousands of workers quickly, all while competing with other employers for the same limited pool of talent. Traditional approaches to recruitment marketing – post and pray – just don’t cut it anymore. The key differentiator today…

Source: Brandon Hall Group – https://brandonhall.com/when-rpo-providers-build-their-own-technology-the-nxtthing-story/ Most recruitment process outsourcing providers talk about partnership. NXTThing RPO actually built software to prove it works. After decades of managing hiring for companies, they’ve taken the unusual step of productizing their internal technology — creating Personegy, a high-volume hiring platform that combines AI automation with what they call “candidate care.”…

Disconnected recruiting systems slow everything down. Candidates drop off, hiring grinds to a halt, and new hires wait for access and answers. Personegy changes that. It unifies every step, from apply to onboard, so recruiters move faster, leaders see impact sooner, and new hires start strong. The case for one connected platform With talent moving…

The 2025 Recruiter Nation Report Is Here 1,200+ talent leaders just revealed what’s really happening inside recruiting today, and the findings show a market reshaping itself in real time.This year’s data uncovers the gap between what teams are trying to fix and where the real bottlenecks still live. What this year’s insights reveal Why it…

Every day a key role remains unfilled, your business carries hidden costs. Headcount gaps mean lost sales, overworked employees, stalled initiatives, and eroded customer satisfaction. On average, unfilled positions cost employers thousands per vacancy and across large organizations, the cumulative economic impact can reach millions. For example, the U.S. economy is estimated to lose more…

For many TA leaders, AI in recruiting still raises tough questions. They worry about fairness, accuracy, and losing visibility into how decisions are made. But when AI is applied with structure and clear guardrails, it transforms from a source of uncertainty into a strategic decision-making tool. TA leaders gain full visibility into how candidates are…

The moment a candidate clicks “Apply,” your hiring funnel is in full motion. Yet for most organizations, that’s where more than half of potential applicants disappear. In fact, some reports show more than 90% of candidates never finish the application process. That’s a massive leak in your recruiting funnel and one you can’t afford. Especially…

In today’s hiring war, your tech stack should be an asset not a liability. Yet many RPOs, talent teams, and high-volume hiring organizations find themselves hamstrung by disjointed tools, data silos, manual workarounds, and stale processes that slow everything down. Below are five warning signs that your stack is working against you and how Personegy’s…

Vacancies don’t just slow teams down, they stall revenue, service levels, and momentum. Yet for many employers, hiring still takes weeks. Industry benchmarks routinely put average time-to-hire in the 35-to-45-day range, and longer for technical roles – timelines that simply don’t fit frontline and high-volume environments. That lag shows up everywhere: managers backfilling shifts instead…