Joel Lalgee

Linkedin is cringe But I’ve made $400k through my content alone the past few years. (*not selling courses - combination of brand deals and affiliate deals) It pays to be cringe.

2 truths we should all embrace: There's no such thing as a perfect candidate… There's no such thing as a perfect job. #recruitmenttruths

@ImSoSarah @Simon_Ingari The only other thing I learned is X is worse than linkedin for made up stories

@Simon_Ingari The only thing I learned from that entire post was that you had a really shitty recruiter, and we need to fire these type of recruiters and get them out of the profession

One of the best candidates I ever met had a 6-month gap on her resume. The recruiter flagged it. "No explanation. Just... gone for six months." They almost passed. In the interview, they asked about it. "I worked 90-hour weeks for four years. Missed my daughter's first steps. Her first words. Missed everything." Her voice cracked. "One morning, I collapsed in the parking lot. Woke up in the hospital. Doctor said my body was shutting down." The room went silent. "So I stopped. For six months, I just... stopped. Learned my daughter's favorite book. Made every soccer game. Remembered who I was before chasing job titles." The hiring manager leaned forward. "And now?" "Now I know the difference between working hard and killing yourself. I'll never confuse them again." They hired her that day. Three years later: She runs their biggest division. Highest margins. Lowest turnover. Never misses bedtime. Her secret? She only hires people with gaps. The mom who paused for her sick parent. The exec who chose rehab over revenue. The developer who picked mental health over sprints. "Broken people who heal don't break again," she says. "They've already paid the price others are still accumulating." Last quarter, her team outperformed every "safe" hire in the company. By 40%. Still think resume gaps are red flags? You're not screening for reliability. You're filtering out the only people who truly understand the cost of blind ambition. And those people? They're building empires at companies smart enough to hire them. While you're still wondering why your "perfect" candidates keep burning out.

Dear companies - Urgently hiring means you need someone quickly. Not that you want to do interviews over the next 9 months and then not hire anyone. Let's get our definitions aligned.

They robbed the Louvre in 7 minutes so you can make a hire without 6 months of interviews. Stop wasting peoples time.

@RosserJobs Recruiting is easy… Until you do it.

Multiple big accounts dabbled with starting recruiting firms. With a ton of followers, why not? A follower needs a new exec. Surely one of their other followers is qualified, in the right location, ready for a job change, in budget, etc?! None of them are still trying, that I’m aware of.

@BrianLaManna_ Don't apply to jobs… 🙄

If I was on the job market, I wouldn't apply to open roles. You essentially have 2 options and almost everyone tries option #1. Spoke with a Free Agent and gave them this counterintuitive advice. Option #1: Find open roles posted on career pages / LinkedIn and apply. I saw a job posting the other day that had 346 applicants. Not a fan of those odds. Option #2: Find a company you'd love to work for and break into it. You're in sales. You reach out to people all day that aren't actively looking when you reach out. No need for this to be any different. Except in this scenario, you are one of very few people reaching out. Most companies are still adding talent, just not as aggressively. Most orgs will still look to add an A player to their team. Worst case scenario in option #2 is they have zero capacity and the second they do, you could be on their short list. Other thoughts on this?

Funny how the people who judge the most when you start something are usually freinds and family. Let’s normalize supporting over judgment.

Check out Giorgio Benassi talent leader at @Sephora had to say about cabdidate relationships. Check out the latest episode of Recruiting is no joke here: open.spotify.com/episode/31yFI7… Please subscribe for more

Change or be changed.

New episode of the Recruiting is No Joke podcast From CVs to Gamified Assessments: The Future of Retail Hiring with Giorg... youtu.be/qwr3tXHxwxE?si…

What should recruiters be focusing on with AI? Jim Miller from @ashbyhq breaks it down. open.spotify.com/episode/20tfV2…

youtu.be/LQZczFXuSoE?si… Ai in recruiting.

Made in 2 whole years in business. Still going.

@JamesLafferty I'll film my toilet breaks for you

Things that annoy me in 2025 1) Social media ads that have fake text messages about a product 2) influencers constantly filming everything in their life 3) every tech product saying “ai powered” 4) everything requiring a subscription Did I miss anything?

Never again will I fly @SpiritAirlines . I've flown over 500,000 miles on Delta and have never in my life seen roaches on a plane this is crazy.

The 2025 conference strategy most brands are doing: Scan QR code, Send automated lazy email sequences… Good ROI 🤣

WE'RE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆

YNWA

@JesseTinsley Yeaaap

I've worked every day in 2025... Zero days off.