Talent Tips: Talent Market
Talent Tip #169: Talent Market Wrapped 2024
January 22, 2025
Welcome to 2025!
It’s shaping up to be quite an entertaining year, isn’t it? I mean, “Gulf of America” wasn’t exactly on your 2025 bingo card, was it?
As we bid farewell to 2024, let’s take a whimsical stroll down memory lane and revisit Talent Market’s escapades from the year gone by.
In 2024, Talent Market:
Placed 180 individuals in pivotal roles within the free-market movement – From entry-level to executive positions, we matched talent to… Read More
Talent Market Turns 15!
January 14, 2024
This year Talent Market turns 15!
We’re still not legal to drive, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting a lot done over the last 5,475 days!
Since 2009, Talent Market has:
Helped 240+ liberty-oriented nonprofits find the talent they need to be successful – Our clients include national policy and research organizations, state-based think tanks, education and talent development institutions, litigation centers, capacity building organizations, media organizations, and university centers. Placed more than 1,170 talented individuals in critical roles in… Read More
Talent Tip #159: Airing of Application Grievances: Holiday Lessons For Job Seekers
December 13, 2023
The Talent Market Team
Pour the eggnog and erect the Festivus pole – it’s time for our annual Airing of the Application Grievances!
Now, before we jump in, keep in mind that the ladies of Talent Market see a sleigh full of job applications each year (4,000+ this year!). That means we see thousands of reasons for people to land on Santa’s Nice List…and just as many (if not more) for them to end up on the Naughty…
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Congratulations to Talent Market’s 2023 Award Winners!
June 20, 2023
Talent Market was proud to sponsor the 2023 AF Annual Gala and Awards Showcase and we were thrilled to have presented two new awards during the event in May: The Secret Weapon Award and the Program of the Year Award.
We were incredibly impressed by the quality and quantity of nominees for both awards. Choosing the…
Read More1,000 Placements! Talent Market Celebrates a Milestone!
January 24, 2023
Talent Market is thrilled to announce our 1,000th placement!
You read that correctly. We’ve helped one thousand amazingly talented individuals land critical roles in the free-market movement.
We are both excited and humbled to hit this milestone. And to appreciate where we are now, you have to rewind 13 1/2 years.
In 2009, Tracie Sharp (President and CEO of State Policy Network) and the late Whitney Ball (then President and CEO of DonorsTrust) had an idea for…
Talent Tip #149: Hiring Horror Stories: (Just in Time for Halloween!)
October 25, 2022
Katelynn Barbosa, Stephanie Keaveney, Lydia Ocampo, Katy Gambella, Claire Kittle Dixon
In the spirit of Halloween, our team wanted to share our best hiring horror stories with you. Names and identities have been altered to protect the innocent (and the ghoulishly guilty!).
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When a Stranger Calls
Years ago I arranged a phone interview with a candidate for a search I was managing. I called at the time our interview was scheduled, but my call went directly to voicemail. I…
Talent Tip #147: Why is the Liberty Movement Liberty’s Best Kept Secret?
July 19, 2022
Claire Kittle Dixon
How in the $@&# does the government deserve this much of my income?
I still remember the seething anger I felt when my accountant told me how much I owed the government in quarterly taxes.
At 24, I had started my own little company and was a 1099 contract employee. Going from a W-2 employee to being self-employed meant no more income tax withholding. And that meant I acutely felt the pain of how much Uncle…
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Talent Tip #139: Hiring Horror Stories (Just in Time for Halloween!)
October 19, 2021
Katelynn Barbosa, Stephanie Keaveney, Claire Kittle Dixon
In the spirit of Halloween, our team wanted to share our best hiring horror stories with you. Names and identities have been changed to protect the innocent (and the ghoulishly guilty!).
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The Candidate Who Ghosted Us
A couple of years ago I was working with a nonprofit who wanted to hire for a senior level opening. We identified an impressive candidate who had worked for one of the…
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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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