Matt Luensmann Why Q4 Is the Smartest Time to Hire, and the Smartest Time to Keep Looking Q4 is one of the best times of the year to hire and to job hunt, because so many candidates and companies pause until January. At MJL Recruiting & Consulting we see the same pattern every year: the pe... Nov 5, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann The Contractor Bias: Why Filtering Out Contract Work Costs You Top Talent Contract work on a resume is often a deliberate career choice by highly skilled professionals, not a sign of instability or lack of commitment. At MJL Recruiting & Consulting we see companies that aut... Nov 2, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann What Does It Cost a Business Owner to Run a Hiring Search Themselves? Running a hiring search yourself costs a small business owner roughly 18 to 33 hours per hire, plus a vacancy that gets more expensive every week and a higher risk of a rushed, costly mis-hire. At MJL... Oct 29, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann How to Write a Job Description That Attracts the Right Candidates Faster An effective job description includes the salary range, describes outcomes instead of tasks, anchors requirements to the first 90 days, and is easy to scan in under two minutes. At MJL Recruiting & Co... Oct 26, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann Reference Checks That Actually Tell You Something (Plus the Questions to Ask) A useful reference check is a structured, roughly 20-minute phone call with at least three people who directly managed the candidate, using the same core questions for each and done before the final d... Oct 22, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann The Hiring Market Has Changed. Has Your Strategy? Today's hiring market requires proactive outreach, a role redefined for current conditions, and realistic expectations on timelines and compensation, because posting a job and waiting no longer produc... Oct 19, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann 3 Resume Myths: Keywords, ATS Formatting, and the One-Page Rule The three most repeated resume rules (stuff it with keywords, avoid formatting the ATS can't read, keep it to one page) all miss what actually decides whether a resume works: the six-second human scan... Oct 15, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann Why Your Seven-Step Interview Process Is Losing Top Candidates A long, multi-stage interview process loses top candidates because the best people have the most options and accept competing offers while they wait. At MJL Recruiting & Consulting we recommend a rigo... Oct 12, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann Did the ATS Really Reject You? What Actually Happens After You Hit "Apply" An applicant tracking system (ATS) rarely "rejects" you on its own; it's a filing cabinet with a search bar that applies filters people set up, and most silence comes from knockout questions, batch re... Oct 8, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann What Is Fractional Leadership? Executive Thinking Without Executive Overhead Fractional leadership means bringing in an experienced executive for part of their time to lead a function, giving you executive-level thinking without the overhead of a full-time salary or a permanen... Oct 5, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann The 2026 Job Market: Layoffs Have Slowed, Hiring Is Frozen, and AI Is the Wild Card The 2026 job market is mixed: layoffs have leveled off, but many business owners are frozen by uncertainty, and AI is making hiring decisions harder rather than easier. At MJL Recruiting & Consulting ... Oct 2, 2026 Our Blog
Matt Luensmann Why 40 Easy Applies a Week Isn't a Job Search (and What Works Instead) Applying to dozens of jobs a week with LinkedIn Easy Apply rarely works, because most submissions get filtered out by an applicant tracking system before a human ever sees them. At MJL Recruiting & Co... Sep 30, 2026 Our Blog
