Tallmadge & Hill Blog
7 Ways To Reduce Hiring Time And Still Hire Top Talent
By Roberta Matuson, Forbes, November 18, 2025 Executives love to say, “We just can’t find good people.” But let’s be honest: the problem isn’t the labor market. It’s your talent strategy. U.S. job openings in some key areas remain high, time-to-fill is off the charts, and executives are convinced that there is always someone better just around the corner. Spoiler alert: good is good enough. Here’s how to significantly reduce your time to hire and fill jobs with great people. 1. Stop Writing Job Postings [...]
5 Ways To Turn A Layoff Into A Career Change Opportunity
By Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, October 28, 2025 The dreaded email arrives unexpectedly. Or maybe you saw it coming for weeks. With Amazon reportedly cutting 30,000 corporate jobs, Target announcing layoffs and similar headlines across industries, this reality is hitting professionals everywhere. Being laid off feels unsettling at best. But here's what many successful professionals have discovered: a layoff can be the catalyst for a career change that propels you toward work you actually love, rather than one you simply tolerate.The key is resilience—the ability to transform [...]
How to Handle a Job Market That’s Worse Than It Looks
by Callum Borchers, Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2025 The official story of the job market is finally catching up to the harsh reality. Job seekers have complained for some time now—to me, their friends, pets or anyone who will listen—that it is deceptively hard to get hired. Normal people don’t wear out the refresh button on BLS.gov when the federal government is about to drop new employment data, like I do. But they know in broad strokes that the numbers continued to look good long [...]
AI Is Forcing The Return Of The In-Person Interview
by Ray Smith, Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2025 Artificial intelligence has taken over so much of the job search that employers are resorting to a retro move: the in-person job interview. Virtual interviews have become the new normal in hiring in recent years, driven by the rise of remote work and companies’ desire to speed up hiring. Trouble is, more candidates are using AI tools to cheat by feeding them answers off screen, especially in technical interviews, recruiters say. In rarer cases, AI-enabled scammers are [...]
Three Ways To Mitigate Executive Turnover
by Alexander Kirss and Kate McLaren-Poole, Harvard Business Review, July 18, 2025 The past five years have proved a crucible moment for business leaders as volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) threatened not just organizational progress but outright viability. Having an experienced C-suite has been an essential driver of performance. An October 2024 Gartner survey of 200 C-suite executives found that companies where executives have an average tenure of five years or more outperformed on revenue, customer experience, and other key metrics, as compared to companies [...]
The Secret to Retaining the Best Employees: Ask Them These Four Questions
by Ethan Bernstein and Michael B. Horn, Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2025 Today’s playbook for retaining high-performing employees is pretty straightforward: more money, a fancier title, better benefits and a greater sense of “purpose.” The problem? It isn’t working. Individuals change jobs more than ever before—every 3.9 years, on average, globally, with younger generations moving even more often. Our research shows that their reasons for switching are more complex than the ones people consistently check off on surveys—such as better salaries and titles. After [...]
