The best candidates will only join a great team, and open houses excel at revealing why a team is amazing. They sell candidates on the team’s strengths even better than CEO calls and peer interviews. The Primary Goal Is To Sell The Attendees On The Team In today’s competitive talent …
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The Top 5 Boldest Recruiting Practices (For when you grow a pair!)
The demand for talent is at a record high, while aggressive recruiting is sadly at a 20-year low. Today, Successful Recruiting Leaders Need Bold And Aggressive Practices Yes, it’s sad to report that aggressive recruiting is fading into the past, just like rock ‘n’ roll. As a result, most corporate …
Read More »Use Candidate Friendly Interview Scheduling To Limit No-Shows (Also add outside of work hours interview times)
Making a candidate’s availability a primary decision factor may cut your interview no-shows by 1/3. Why? Because when you identify the root causes of interview turndowns and no-shows, you find that many occur because of the primary factor used in selecting the interview time and place. Was the hiring manager …
Read More »Prioritization Lets Recruiting Focus On High-Impact Jobs (Using high-impact, low-cost position prioritization)
Position prioritization allows the recruiting function to “do more with less” (with little effort). Illustrating The Dollar Impact Of Prioritizing Recruiting Normally, because of a shortage of recruiters. This corporation has a 30-day wait until a received requisition is actually acted on under its current date stamp rule. The req …
Read More »Boost Offer Acceptance With Expiring And Exploding Offers (A quick yes will prevent the finalist from getting another offer)
When you must fill a key job quickly, expiring/exploding offers will accelerate offer acceptance. How Expiring And Exploding Offers Will Improve Your Hiring Results There are two times when you need your offer to a finalist to be accepted quickly. Once when the position vacancy is so impactful, you need …
Read More »Excite Your Candidates – Show Them A Team Profile (A snapshot of who you’ll be working with)
Having great “co-workers” is a primary attraction factor for top candidates (Gallup research). Being viewed as a more transparent, welcoming, and inclusive company will also increase your applications and offer acceptance rate (especially among currently employed top candidates who can just stay where they are). What Exactly Is A Team …
Read More »Inflation Created… A Hidden Recruiting Opportunity (And a “Beating Inflation Strategy” allows you to meet this opportunity)
This Inflation Caused Recruiting Opportunity Explained Over the last few years, during the “great resignation,” recruiters have been blessed with the opportunity to pick from a large talent pool who were eager to quit for a better job after the frustrating Covid lockdown. However, over the last 2+ years, inflation …
Read More »Talent Management Lessons From The Olympics (Learn from the world’s greatest talent competition)
The Olympics produce the world’s greatest talent performances, so corp. leaders should learn why. In a world where the very future of a corporation may now be determined by its talent density in strategic areas like AI, Quantum Computing, data security, and technology development. Benchmarking against all industries and organizations …
Read More »HR, Clean-up On Aisle 3 – Under The Radar HR Processes That May Require A Clean-up (Revisit these high-impact but less glamorous HR processes)
After years of turmoil, it’s time for HR to revisit these high-impact but often ignored processes. My research has found that after years of focusing on strategic HR issues like COVID-19, remote work, DEI, AI, and recruiting/retention. It’s time for HR to revisit and “clean-up” several of their processes that …
Read More »You’ve Been Warned – Interviews Rarely Select The Best Candidate (New data reveals that flipping a coin is more accurate)
Newsflash: Powerful new data shows that interviews are horrible at identifying the best candidate! Where horrible is defined by interviews failing to select the best candidate over 90% of the time. However, you can dramatically lower this “ugly failure rate.” If you use data to restructure your interviews and then …
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