Using Existing Contests, Challenges, and Awards Programs The first step is to ask your current top performers in each mission-critical job family what prominent awards and contests already exist in their field. Professional organizations tend to offer the most awards and contests, and could often use sponsors and judges. Focus …
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Contest Recruiting: There’s No Better Way to Find Elite Talent, Part 1
You may not have realized it, but a growing number of functional excellence awards programs are promoted, sponsored, and, in some cases, even organized by corporations. From math challenges to contests aimed at identifying the best customer service associate in a local geography, these events are quickly becoming a powerful …
Read More »Crowdsourcing: A Red-Balloon-Finding Contest Shows the Future of Recruiting
A Contest to Identify the Most Effective “Finding Tool” This story begins with a famous government agency, DARPA, wanting to test the effectiveness of the available tools/approaches to locate missing objects or individuals, i.e., pieces of downed aircraft, wanted criminals, or missing children. Because this task was so large in …
Read More »Need Exceptional Talent? Recruit Contest And Award Winners (Competition reveals exceptional talent)
Contests build your employer brand, attract top-tier talent, improve assessment, and yield solutions. The problem solvers who win these recruiting-related competitions are some of the most impactful of all hires. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Sourcing – Contests to attract/assess – How to – 7 min. read What exactly is “contest recruiting/sourcing?” …
Read More »Outrageous Recruiting Examples – Stretching Your Conservative Recruiting Boundaries
Recruiting is a risk-averse copycat function. However, to get creative prospects to notice you, having the courage to add boundary-stretching “outrageous recruiting” approaches is needed. Using even one will make your organization stand out. Outrageous Recruiting Sends Both An Employer Brand And A Recruiting Message Few recruiting leaders will publicly …
Read More »Wild, Crazy, and Bold Recruiting Allows You to Avoid The Competition
If you work in the conservative world of corporate or agency recruiting, it never hurts to occasionally take a quick look at the wild side of recruiting. Such a look is especially valuable if you’re looking for a competitive edge in recruiting (and who isn’t). You gain a competitive advantage …
Read More »Top 7 Reasons Why Recruiting AI Talent Is Critical To Your Firm’s Success
It’s hard to find a business or technology publication these days that don’t have an article covering the upcoming dominance of artificial intelligence or its more advanced cousin, machine learning. And artificial intelligence is even beginning to make inroads into the operations of the recruiting function itself. But unfortunately, many …
Read More »Recruiting’s Ugly Secret — You Know How Exciting It Is to Work at Your Firm, But No One Else Does
The recruiting leader’s guide to revealing the excitement of working at your firm Consider this sad but all-too-common recruiting scenario. Your firm is an exceptionally exciting place to work. You have great people, great leaders, great products, and to put it bluntly, every employee considers working there to be an …
Read More »These Are The Recruiting Trends You Can’t Afford To Ignore (And What to Do for Each)
It’s critical that leaders realize the world of recruiting is now changing at the fastest pace in its history. I estimate that in the past, a corporate recruiting function could go for nearly five years without a major transformation. Today, your corporate recruiting function could become obsolete within as few …
Read More »Want Diversity? Counter Unconscious Biases That Limit Your Diversity Recruiting
Other than the recent conscious discrimination that has seemingly been encouraged by Donald Trump, most discrimination in modern times is extremely subtle and often unconscious. And although unconscious bias training is all the rage, it is not sufficient on its own to increase diversity recruiting. As a result, if you …
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