Tag: talent market
Talent Tip #174: Hiring Horror Stories
October 21, 2025
The Shape-Shifting Applicant
Once upon a dark, stormy job search, a candidate submitted six applications to different roles within 24 hours. His resume was consistent, showing a solid career in marketing, but his cover letters were like something out of a twisted AI experiment. One cover letter painted him as an expert in Congressional rules and procedures, while another claimed significant experience with foundation relations. Then there was the expert in employment law letter, the seasoned major gifts…
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Talent Tip #132: Seven Things Our Data Tell Us About Hiring in the Liberty Movement
February 17, 2021
This will shock no one to hear, but I’m a bit of a dork – A data dork, if you want to get specific. Give me a glass of red wine and a database and I could be happy for hours. Yes, I am the most fun at parties.
I love digging into the numbers, creating reports, and discovering new things. Specifically, I dork out on understanding what the numbers in Talent Market’s database are telling us and how we…
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Talent Market’s 10th Anniversary!
August 20, 2019
Can you believe it’s been a decade?
Yep. Ten years ago this month Talent Market launched.
In those 10 years, we’ve had a lot to celebrate. Here are some highlights:
We have assisted more than 200 free-market nonprofits through our consulting and talent search services.We have helped place more than 525 individuals in mission-critical roles in the free-market nonprofit sector. (A whopping 72% of whom came from outside the free-market nonprofit universe!)
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Talent Tip #114: A Lesson from Three’s Company: Eliminating Confusion About How Talent Market Can Help Your Nonprofit Find Talent
April 24, 2019
Did you ever watch the old sit-com Three’s Company?
At the risk of dating myself, I’ll confess that it was one of my favorite shows as a kid. (I watched it in syndication, of course.) By today’s standards, it would be considered insanely politically incorrect, but the shenanigans cracked me up.
If you ever tuned in, you know that the plot always revolved around some sort of misunderstanding. I distinctly remember being exasperated — and amused — as…
Read MoreTalent Tip #108: A Quiz To Test Your Knowledge of Talent Market
October 23, 2018
As Talent Market has recently expanded, I’m reminded that I’ve heard some amusing but wildly inaccurate things about Talent Market over the years. As such, I thought it might be fun to quiz readers about our work and set the record straight on some key items.
Don’t worry. It’s an easy true/false quiz, and no one will stop you from looking at the bottom to cheat (except maybe your conscience).
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Talent Tip #102: 5 Things You Should Know About Talent Market (That Will Help You Help Us Help You)
April 17, 2018
Talent Market is a nonprofit.
Yep. I know it’s a crazy concept, but it’s been working like a charm since 2009. Dont get me wrong — I’m a capitalist pig. But being a nonprofit helps Talent Market serve our clients better. Why? Because it allows us to focus on the long-term and not simply “filling a role and collecting the dough.” While there’s no “fee” at the end of the rainbow, there is something much more important on…
Talent Tip #76: Believe It or Not: Talent Market is a Nonprofit
March 1, 2016
Talent Tip #76: Believe It or Not: Talent Market is a Nonprofit
Let’s face it, some things are too good to be true. For example:
Sizzlean bacon Milli Vanilli 8-Minute Abs Flex Seal The Grapefruit DietBut some things are oh-so-good and also true. For instance:
Wine has health benefits Pets can lower your blood pressure Talent Market is a nonprofitYes, you read…
Read MoreTalent Tip #19: Free-Market Karma: A Lesson in Retaining (or Losing) Talent
March 15, 2011
A friend of mine who used to work for a prominent free-market nonprofit recently told me a disturbing story. After he was laid off, he worked diligently to find another job in the liberty movement. During his search, he was shocked by how he was treated by many of our own organizations. Two examples he cited:
He often never heard back from hiring managers after engaging in lengthy interview processes. Even after his own follow-up, he rarely got responses. He received… Read More