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Date Published: October 2025 In my 20+ years as a recruiter I’ve spoken with many candidates who’ve found themselves unemployed at one point or another. Most of them did land jobs and continued their employment journey. I’ve always respected the companies who are willing to look beyond a candidate’s current
Date Published: August 2025 When you hear the phase Independent Mortgage Banker (IMB), you might think of them emerging in the last few decades. But here’s a surprise: IMBs have been around since the 1870s. That’s more than 150 years of navigating booms, busts and everything in between. And not only
Date Published: August 2025 A recent article in National Mortgage Professional isn’t mincing words. Instead of the usual verbiage of “Mortgage Lenders Might Want to Consider This or That”….: it instead calls out the industry for being woefully behind the times in Technology. We can confirm that in the recent
Date Published: July 2025 A couple of years ago, I noticed a trend: most leadership candidates I talked to were in their late 50s or early 60s. Turns out, it wasn’t just anecdotal. According to a 2023 MGIC survey, 55% of loan originators have over 21 years of experience, and
Published: July 2025 I recently came across an article titled “What to do when Someone Goes On the Defensive” and it caught my attention. Someone questioning a decision, your performance (especially if it’s a superior at the office or someone you admire) or asking why you did this or that
Let’s face it…Hiring is tough! And the challenges of turnover, short-staffing, and bad hires are real. But what if the key to finding great people lies in the candidate experience itself? This journey, from initial job posting to the final offer, is more critical than ever. CareerPlug’s research shows a
Employers are now rolling out artificial intelligence simulating live, two-way screener calls using synthetic voices. AI interviews over video. Job candidates converse with an AI “recruiter” that asks follow-up questions, probes key skills, and delivers structured feedback to hiring managers. The idea is to make interviewing more efficient for companies
In last month’s edition, we discussed the exodus of Loan Officers in 2024, and that we’re seeing an uptick in hiring so far in 2025. We continue to see that trend, particularly at the Executive level. If you’re an Executive thinking about your next role, or have already started your
As we reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic, governments’ responses continue to be a source of strong and varying opinions. It likely either affected you personally, your business, or both. Research is still being conducted, and it will likely be years before we fully understand the long-term effects of decisions made
According to a recent article by Malwarebytes, the Digital Security giant, a paradigm shift in technology is hurtling towards us, and it could change everything we know about cybersecurity. Uhh, again, that is. When ChatGPT was unveiled to the public in late 2022, security experts looked on with cautious optimism,
