Mark Murphy

2 days ago | ere.net | Ron Thomas |Matt Lowney |Peter Crush |Mark Murphy

May 13, 2025 I recently came across a video that stopped me in my tracks. It featured children joyfully declaring what they wanted to be when they grew up—astronauts, dancers, scientists, and firefighters. There was no hesitation. Just vision. Just belief. It made me pause and ask: Why do we stop asking that question? Somewhere along the way, we swap childhood dreams for adult realities. Job descriptions replace curiosity. KPIs replace ambition.

1 month ago | ere.net | Matt Lowney |Raghav Singh |Mark Murphy |Peter Crush

I love working with highly skilled, committed recruiters. The recruiters who just get things done by focusing on outcomes, while managing the needed processes in the background. However, in times of rapid growth or project deployments recruiting leaders do not have the luxury of identifying, hiring, training, and developing recruiters to this level of expertise.

1 month ago | ere.net | Raghav Singh |Mark Murphy |Peter Crush |Rupert Morrison

Apr 8, 2025Despite significant progress, people with disabilities remain much less likely to be employed than their non-disabled peers. One key factor behind this inequality is unconscious bias — automatic judgments shaped by stereotypes and cultural conditioning, made without our conscious awareness. Research shows that over one-third of people perceive disabled individuals as less productive — a level of bias higher than what’s seen based on gender or race.

Dec 10, 2024 | tlnt.com | Mark Murphy

Dec 10, 2024Every HRD will have no-doubt heard employees, leaders, and even (or especially), executives utter something along the lines of: “That’s just how I am,” or “I can’t change,” or “I won’t change who I really am.”Such declarations might seem like steadfast affirmations of self-identity, but they often reveal deeper issues, like arrogance, fear of vulnerability, and a fixed mindset. At the core of these assertions could lie a profound fear of vulnerability.

Dec 3, 2024 | ere.net | Mark Murphy

Onboarding is Talent Acquisition’s (TA) and HR’s best opportunity to make a lasting impression on new hires—and too often, it’s a missed one. To be sure, some companies ace the process, but overall, myriad surveys find significant issues, including one in four new hires have cried within their first week on the job; nearly one-third of those who quit early report receiving little to no onboarding; only one in ten employees think their employer has done a great job bringing them onboard.