In this monthly piece, Dr. Sullivan highlights 3 best practices that reveal the future of recruiting. The Benefits Of Adopting Best Practices From Other Firms The best way to rapidly improve your recruiting results involves borrowing and tweaking the best practices from other leading recruiting functions to fit your situation. …
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Restaurant Recruiting Solutions – Creative Tools That Work In Today’s Economy
Your restaurant is likely suffering the post-pandemic blues because of obsolete or overused recruiting tools. Fortunately, regardless of the industry you work in, there is a solution to this once-in-a-lifetime post-pandemic talent shortage. It is partially characterized by the rare combination of high employment and a dramatic shortage of job …
Read More »Proactive Referrals From Your Top Performers – The World’s Most Effective Recruiting Program
Employee referrals are the top hiring source, and among niche subprograms, proactive referrals from top performers are the best. So why not prioritize your top-performing employees as a primary source for referring additional exceptional candidates. All employee referrals are not equal. Because a referral from a top performer employee will …
Read More »Only Hire Self-Motivated People – The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Nothing eases a remote work team manager’s burden, where close supervision is difficult, more than only hiring self-motivated people. I recommend that during this troubled time when managers are so busy, recruiters commit to easing their burden by helping them hire technically qualified candidates who are also self-motivated.
Read More »Identify Fraud With Remote Hiring – Could Your New-Hire Be An Impersonator?
New-hire identity fraud is now more likely because of the shift to 100% remote hiring. Unfortunately, that could mean that the recently hired employee that you remotely interviewed and that you’ll now see only on a Zoom screen is really someone else.
Read More »Why Your No. 1 Recruiting Source Is Underperforming (Fully Explained)
Consistently, the top source for producing high-performing hires is an organization’s employee-referral program. Unfortunately, because most current programs were designed years ago based on a 20th-century ERP model, there is a high probability that your stale program is a prime contributing factor to your organization’s current talent and skills shortage. …
Read More »The Top 5 No-cost Sourcing Approaches — And Each Is Guaranteed to Work
Fortunately, the top five most effective recruiting tools are simple, logical, and intuitive. They also require no cash outlay, take little time, and work at a range of firms from Google down to small businesses.
Read More »20 HR Practices That Reduce the Effectiveness of Employee Referral Programs
The very best employee referral programs (ERPs) produce simply amazing results. But unfortunately, many corporate programs were designed years before we had so much data covering what makes the programs effective.
Read More »Top 10 Reasons Why Peer Interviews Are The No. 1 Candidate Selling Tool
For some unexplained reason, the sales component of recruiting is often ignored. Few recruiting leaders ever make a scientific assessment of the sales component of recruiting, but if they did, they would instantly become champions of peer interviews. Peer interviews (where a panel of team members conduct a candidate interview) …
Read More »End Your Seasonal Recruiting Problems — The Top 10 Proven Solutions
Why You Are Losing “The War For Seasonal Talent” Explained Managers who must recruit seasonal staff need to wake up and realize that the recruiting landscape has changed. Today’s managers must learn that recruiting is now much more difficult. In times of extremely low unemployment, individuals looking for seasonal work …
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