Tech recruiter insights for resume writers and career coaches are far more valuable when they come directly from the rooms where recruiters and HR professionals are discussing what is changing.
Laura Hartnell of Brightside Careers has been intentionally entering those rooms as a listener, researcher, and career professional.
In this CDI member webinar, she shares what tech recruiters are saying right now and the repeatable niche research framework you can use to uncover equally valuable intelligence in any industry you serve.
Inside the Replay
You’ll discover:
- Why some tech recruiters are questioning the resume while simultaneously asking candidates for more proof of value.
- How AI-generated applications and concerns about candidate fraud are changing screening and interviewing.
- Why portfolios, work samples, case studies, and video submissions are gaining importance.
- What recruiters are seeing as critical gaps in communication, judgment, and professional presence.
- How candidates are being sourced through LinkedIn, referrals, direct applications, events, and their broader online presence.
- Why personal brand and visible professional engagement are becoming harder for candidates to ignore.
But the recruiter insights are only half of the opportunity.
Laura also reveals how attending industry events has helped her strengthen client guidance, create timely content, build credibility, receive recruiter referrals, and become known as a local career resource.
A Repeatable Niche Research Framework
Laura walks you through a practical five-step process you can adapt to your own specialty:
Identify. Discover. Attend. Synthesize. Follow Up.
You’ll learn how to identify the right people and questions, find the rooms where meaningful hiring conversations are happening, listen without selling, turn what you learn into client-relevant expertise, and follow up in ways that support genuine relationships and referrals.
This is how you move beyond repeating what everyone else is saying and start building authority from what is happening in the market right now.
🎁 Member Bonus Resource
Download Laura’s one-page companion guide below:
From the Field: A Framework for Turning Industry Events into Expertise and Referrals
Use it to plan your own niche research, capture meaningful intelligence, convert what you learn into content and client guidance, and build relationships with recruiters, HR professionals, and other potential referral sources.
About Laura Hartnell
Laura Hartnell is a career transition strategist, personal brand builder, and founder of Brightside Careers. Since 2017, she has helped hundreds of professionals, from new graduates to executives, navigate career change with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Through career coaching, personal branding, resume writing, LinkedIn strategy, interview preparation, and outplacement services, Laura helps clients uncover their value, tell their stories effectively, and pursue meaningful career opportunities.
She regularly attends HR, recruitment, tech, and professional community events to gain real-time insight into changing hiring practices and bring that intelligence back to her clients and community.
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