Dr John Sullivan

Dr John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions to large corporations.

Being Strategic Requires Two Separate Recruiting Teams

Profile of the Two Teams Strategic recruiting team: It focuses on the very highest impact jobs, including mission critical jobs, senior execs, revenue producing jobs, jobs with a high consequence of an error, and "high value customer" impact jobs. These jobs require a firm to hire candidates who are in …

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18 Things Recruiters Can Do To Hire More Innovative People

As a talent management or recruiting professional, take the following steps to increase your success rate in hiring innovative individuals: Make hiring innovators a primary goal. Before you even begin the planning process, you must set as one of your primary goals and metrics in recruiting the increased hiring of …

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Valero Case Study — Simplified SLA Example

Staffing Department: Service Level Agreement Customer Commitment: Utilize the Manager Self Service (“MSS”) portal for all staffing resume reviews, request and applicant processing. Work with the recruiter to develop an effective online pre-screen questionnaire, screening processes, and interview strategy. Staffing Commitment: Post job within 48 hours of receiving approved job …

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A Profile of the World’s Most Aggressive Recruiter, Part 2

Questions and answers with Michael Lackaye (and some outrageous quotes!) I asked Michael to highlight some of the approaches he used at Quicken Loans and at other previous employers. What follows are his responses. I think you will agree that they are aggressive?and on the edge. What is your most/ …

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A Profile of the World’s Most Aggressive Recruiter, Part 1

Fast Company magazine once called me the Michael Jordan of recruiting, but I often call myself “the most aggressive recruiter on the planet.” Through my role as an advisor and speaker I meet thousands of recruiters, a few of which have made me feel like an amateur in the aggressiveness department. …

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12 Best Recruiting Practices to Copy

12 Best Practices I Would Emulate Valero's business-case model. Using basic statistical regression models, the recruiting function identified the gaps between what the business would need to continue operations and what talent they could bring in via their current model. They then converted that gap into a dollar impact and …

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Bio

Dr John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions to large corporations. He’s a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all areas of Talent Management. He has written over …

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